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Georgia Oakley (R): Blue Jean

Georgia Oakley (R): Blue Jean

UK 2022, engl. OF, dt. UT, 97 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber
Nordengland, 1988: Die Sportlehrerin Jean sieht sich zu einem Doppelleben gezwungen: Margaret Thatcher hat mit ihrer konservativen Parlamentsmehrheit gerade Section 28 verabschiedet - ein homophobes Gesetz, das »die Förderung von Homosexualität« verbietet. Deswegen darf in der Schule niemand wissen, dass Jean lesbisch ist - andernfalls könnte sie ihren Job verlieren. An den Wochenenden taucht die Lehrerin mit ihrer kämpferischen Partnerin ... Weiterlesen
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Gary Indiana: Rent Boy

Gary Indiana: Rent Boy

USA 2023, 128 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
McNally Editions
It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the »downtown« writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does the thing with the broken plates. Everyone, that is, except ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: Pride, Pop and Politics

Darryl W. Bullock: Pride, Pop and Politics

UK 2022, 352 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Omnibus Press
50 years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the performing arts have played an influential role in each great stride made. With new interviews with musicians and DJs, performers and activists, including Andy Bell, Jayne County, John Grant, Horse McDonald ... Weiterlesen

Nicola White: The Burning Boy

Nicola White: The Burning Boy

UK 2022, 325 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Whitehead
Dublin, 1986. The murder of an off-duty officer in Phoenix Park should have brought down the full power of the Dublin police force. But Kieran Lynch was found in a notorious gay cruising ground, so even as the press revels in the scandal, some of the Murder Squad are reluctant to investigate. Only Detectives Vincent Swan and Gina Considine are ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: Let The Record Show : A Political History of ACT UP, New York, 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman: Let The Record Show : A Political History of ACT UP, New York, 1987-1993

USA 2021, 736 pp., hardbound, € 44.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment ... Weiterlesen

Russell T. Davies (R): It's a Sin

Russell T. Davies (R): It's a Sin

UK 2021, engl. OF, 221 Min., € 34.99
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The Red Production
British drama miniseries set in London during the 1980s at the onset of the AIDS crisis. Three young gay men, Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Roscoe (Omari Douglas) and Colin (Callum Scott Howells), newly moved to London rent a flat together that they subsequently dub the Pink Palace. However, as a mystery illness gathers pace they each suffer identity crises as they ... Weiterlesen

Oliver Hermanus (R): Moffie

Oliver Hermanus (R): Moffie

ZA 2019, OF in Afrikaans und Englisch, dt. UT, 103 min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber - gay classics
Südafrika 1981, zur Zeit der Apartheid: Wie alle weißen jungen Männer muss auch Nicholas Van der Swart einen zweijährigen Militärdienst leisten, um das Regime vor der Bedrohung durch den Kommunismus und die »Schwarze Gefahr« zu verteidigen. Dass Nicholas schwul ist, darf niemand wissen, denn wer in der Truppe als »Moffie« erkannt ist, wird brutal schikaniert und gequält. Doch dann verliebt ... Weiterlesen
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Sarah Schulman: People in Trouble

Sarah Schulman: People in Trouble

UK 2019, 268 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away. It's the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan with her husband Peter. She's having an affair with Molly, a younger lesbian who ... Weiterlesen

Philippe Besson: Lie with Me

Philippe Besson: Lie with Me

Transl. by Molly Ringwald. USA 2019, 148 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
The bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France. Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he's never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during ... Weiterlesen

Rebecca Makkai: The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai: The Great Believers

USA 2020, 422 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Fleet
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Cassara: The House of Impossible Beauties

Joseph Cassara: The House of Impossible Beauties

UK/AUS 2018, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
One World
New York City, 1980: nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where 17-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with ... Weiterlesen

Qiu Miaojin: Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin: Notes of a Crocodile

USA 2017, 242 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
NYRB
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, »Notes of a Crocodile« depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash ... Weiterlesen

Bei Tong: Beijing Comrades

Bei Tong: Beijing Comrades

USA 2017, 388 pp.,pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architectural student the attraction is all consuming. Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly submits. Despite divergent lives, the two men spend their nights together, establishing a deep connection. When loyalties are tested, Handong is left questioning his secrets, ... Weiterlesen

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series »When We Rise« from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

Brad Gooch: Smash Cut

Brad Gooch: Smash Cut

A Memoir of Howard and Art and the 70s and the 80s. USA 2015, 239 pp., hardback, € 27.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Harper Collins
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. At the center of this memoir is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply of emotions, from blazing ecstasy to bleakest despair. Gooch and Brookner's intense relationship is haunted by the specter ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

UK 2015, 505 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Summer 1983: the young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens - Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine, the critic and rebel of the ... Weiterlesen

Soundtrack: Pride

Soundtrack: Pride

UK 2014, 2CDs mit insgesamt 42 Tracks, € 21.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Der Soundtrack zum bewegenden Film über Schwule und Lesben im Großbritannien unter Margaret Thatcher, die mit ihrem Engagement für die streikenden walisischen Bergarbeiter den Grundstein für die Antidiskriminierungspolitik der 1990er Jahre legten. Ein großes Beispiel für Bündnisse, Weitsicht - und Spaß an gesellschaftlicher Veränderung. Der Soundtrack ist voller Wiederbegegnungen mit der typischen Musik der 1980er Jahre: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ... Weiterlesen

Martin Duberman: Hold Tight Gently

Martin Duberman: Hold Tight Gently

Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS. USA/UK 2014, 356 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
New Press
In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence. For others, it was too late. In the U.S. alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications - among them the singer Michael Callen and the ... Weiterlesen

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