Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree

Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. USA 2012, 976 S., brochure, € 18.50
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Simon and Schuster
In »Far from the Tree«, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon's startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: This is How

USA 2012, 230 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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SMP
If you are fat and fail every diet, if you are thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy on the Run

UK 2011, 306 pp, pb, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton
The sequel to Mikey Walsh's coming-of-age novel »Gypsy Boy«: Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a heartbreaking decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy

UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton
Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family, and this is his memoir of growing up gypsy and gay. Gypsies live in secluded communities and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows too ... Weiterlesen

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2009, 247 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as »The Nun«) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

USA 2009, 229 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Though he's been accepted by Brown University, James Sveck isn't sure he wants to go to college. He's a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. He's the 18-year-old son of divorced parents living in Manhattan, articulate, sensitive, and cynical. He rejects all of the assumptions that govern ... Weiterlesen

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.): That's Revolting!

Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. USA 2008 (Rev., expanded edition), 350 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Publishers Group West
As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack. Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. »That's Revolting!« offers a bracing tonic to these trends. ... Weiterlesen

James St. James: Freak Show

USA 2008, 298 pp., brochure, € 8.79
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Meet Billy Bloom, a new student at the ultra-white, ultra-rich, ultra-conservative Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy. To call Billy a drag queen is much too simple. Billy would describe himself in many ways: Twinkle Queen. Glitteroid. Gender Obscurist. Billy's not your usual kind and not your usual drag queen, either. Life isn't going to be easy for him at his new ... Weiterlesen

Peter Hennen: Faeries, Bears and Leathermen

Men in Community Queering the Masculine. USA 2008, 243 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous. The author contends that this stigma of effeminacy exerts a powerful influence on gay subcultures. Through a comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities, he explores the surprising ways that conventional masculinity is being collectively challenged, subverted, or perpetuated in contemporary gay male culture: the radical Faeries, who ... Weiterlesen

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2008, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as »The Nun«) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

James St. James: Freakshow

USA 2007, 298 pp, hardback, € 17.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Meet Billy Bloom, a new student at the ultra-white, ultra-rich, ultra-conservative Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy. To call Billy a drag queen is much too simple. Billy would describe himself in many ways: Twinkle Queen. Glitteroid. Gender Obscurist. Billy's not your usual kind and not your usual drag queen, either. Life isn't going to be easy for him at his new ... Weiterlesen

Wade Rouse: America's Boy

USA 2007, 341 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Growing up gay in the Missouri Ozarks in the 60s and 70s, the author was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Wade was hopelessly out of step with the ... Weiterlesen

Graeme Aitken: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

AUS 2006, 241 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Sweet, fat, theatrical Billy-Boy was never cut out to be a farmer, but as his father's only son he's obliged to try. The cows are wayward and the chores are gruelling. But Billy finds escape in a fantasy world where the turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape, a lavender bed jacket a slinky space suit, a cow's tail a head ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Kendall, Wayne Martino (eds.): Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws

USA 2006, 180 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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This book explores the impact and effects of sexual oppression and power relationships within the gay male community. It features essays from authors, educators, and activists who challenge the stigmatization and issues of power they face as gay men who don't fit the masculine mold formed by the gay porn industry and the media. They try to reveal the sting ... Weiterlesen

Paul Magrs: Strange Boy

UK 2002, 289 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Come back to the north east of England, and meet David. Some would say he's a strange boy. David's an outsider. He's smart, sensitive and convinced he has secret super-powers. Life for him and his brother is a constant whirl of would-be step-families and overbearing friends and relations. And even aged ten, he's finding he's not sure what he thinks ... Weiterlesen

José Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process »disidentification«, and through a ... Weiterlesen