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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

Sean Straub: Body Counts

Sean Straub: Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival. USA 2014, 420 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 28.99
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Scribner
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in ... Weiterlesen

Tom Spanbauer: I Love You More

Tom Spanbauer: I Love You More

USA 2014, 468 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In New York, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil, Hank. Years later in Portland, a now ill Ben falls for Ruth, who provides the care and devotion he needs, though they cannot find true happiness together. Then Hank reappears and meets Ruth, and real trouble starts. Set against a world of struggling artists, the ... Weiterlesen

Larry Kramer: The Normal Heart

Larry Kramer: The Normal Heart

UK 2021 (Reprint), 79 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Nick Hern
Larry Kramer's drama is a polemical, argumentative, witty and contentious play about the political and emotional consequences of the AIDS crisis. It is set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It follows the efforts of one man, while his friends are dying around him, to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2011, 564 pp., brochure, € 14.60
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In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her ... Weiterlesen

Tristan Garcia: Hate

Tristan Garcia: Hate

A Romance. Transl. by M. Duvert & L. Stein. UK 2010, 273 pp., brochure, € 15.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Paris in the 80s. Four friends. Three men and one woman. Two affairs that destroy a life. In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, the author uses sex, friendships and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals - Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

CAN 2007, 274 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life »before« when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans ... Weiterlesen
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Armistead Maupin: Babycakes

Armistead Maupin: Babycakes

UK 1984 (Reissue 2007), 316 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 4
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier »Tales of the City« books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring ... Weiterlesen

Nicolas Hytner (R): History Boys

Nicolas Hytner (R): History Boys

UK 2006, OF, engl. UT, 107 min., € 15.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Set in a grey and grim Northern Grammar school in the 1980s, this British comedy follows the fortunes of an unruly bunch of bright 6th form boys in pursuit of a place at Oxbridge. However, their loyalties to the popular, eccentric and poetry-spouting English teacher, Hector, and the dry, prim history mistress, Mrs Linnott, are torn when a young, highly ... Weiterlesen

Dale Peck: Martin and John

Dale Peck: Martin and John

USA 2006, 228 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Reprint of a classic coming-of-age tale that is also a haunting love story set in the very near past. New York, 1982: John is a hustler and falls in love with Martin, who becomes ill with AIDS. Martin dies two years later. To order his new existence without Martin, John starts to keep a journal and then to write stories. ... Weiterlesen

Duncan Roy (R): a.k.a.

Duncan Roy (R): a.k.a.

UK 2005, engl. OF, 235 min., € 29.99
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Set in Maggie Thatcher's Britain during the 80s, this British feature film tells the story of Dean, a shy, 18-year-old working-class lad from Romford who has been kicked out by his abusive father. He heads for London and meets up with the gallery owner and society hostess Lady Gryffoyn. However, after being expelled from the Gryffoyn household, Dean assumes the ... Weiterlesen

Christine Geraghty: My Beautiful Laundrette

Christine Geraghty: My Beautiful Laundrette

UK 2005, 108 pp., brochure, € 18.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»My Beautiful Laundrette« is a phenomenon, a small TV film which became a political and social landmark, a classic which speaks to audiences today. It is a gay romance, a lesson in ethnic diversity, a riposte to Thatcherite principles and a celebration of the edgy possibilities of London in the 1980s. A crucial film for director Stephen Frears and writer ... Weiterlesen

Tom Spanbauer: In the City of Shy Hunters

Tom Spanbauer: In the City of Shy Hunters

USA 2002, 512 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»In the City of Shy Hunters« is a portrait of New York in the 1980s. Shy, gay and afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape the provincial western towns where he grew up. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for the first time by people who understand and celebrate ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: The Coming of the Night

John Rechy: The Coming of the Night

USA 2000, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Publishers Group West
John Rechy's novel »The Coming of the Night« is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling »City of Night« and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world - gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: Like People in History

Felice Picano: Like People in History

USA 1995, 512 pp., brochure, € 18.00
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Abacus
Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as 19-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay - identity. Through the lens of their complex, tumultuous, yet ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Sure of You

Armistead Maupin: Sure of You

UK 1991, 284 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 6
In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, a fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, »Sure of You« is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively ... Weiterlesen

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