Jove Belle: Love and Devotion

USA 2013, 233 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bold Strokes
KC Hall loves her family, her small town, and her best friend, Emma Reynolds. All of that takes a backseat when her lover beckons. Lonnie is blond, beautiful, and willing. She's also married and a lifelong friend of KC's mama. KC knows the affair is a bad idea, but she just can't help herself. When presented with the lush landscape ... Weiterlesen

Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Uk 1987, 505 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
»The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. You could get eggs, grits, bacon, ham, coffee and a smile for 25 cents. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And ... Weiterlesen

Emily M. Danforth: The Miseducation of Cameron Post

USA 2012, 473 pp., hardbound, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
When Cameron Post's parents die in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief - relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point ... Weiterlesen

Cristy C. Road: Spit and Passion

USA 2012, 160 pp., b/w, brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
At its core, »Spit and Passion« is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At 12 years old, Cristy C. Road is trying to balance the values of a Cuban catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. In ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

UK 2012, 230 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, »Oranges Are not the Only Fruit«, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's silent ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Spangler: The Long Way Home

USA 2010, 249 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bold Strokes
Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at 17. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine is forced to accept a job ... Weiterlesen

Jan Dunn (R): Gypo

UK 2007, OF, engl. UT, 100 Min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
British drama documenting the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence: Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change; while Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cart (ed.): How Beautiful the Ordinary

USA 2009, 368 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had »an accidental ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte: Taking Woodstock

A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life. USA 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Before there ws a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' upstate New York motel. The Jewish clientele who had frequented the Catskills had discovered Florida, and the upstate tourist business was dying. To save his family's livelihood, Elliot put on plays and local festivals. In the process, he became the area's issuer ... Weiterlesen

Robin Reardon: Thinking Straight

USA 2008, 295 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Taylor Adams comes out, his parents ship him off to »Straight to God«, a camp for those who have gone astray. The nightmarish camp seeks to exorcise the satanic influence from its charges, some of whom are gay, and some of whom are petty criminals or drug addicts. The camp's strict guidelines include no speaking for newbies (who wear ... Weiterlesen

Ski Hunter: Coming Out and Disclosures

USA 2007, 219 pp., brochure, € 22.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This book is a one-of-a-kind guide to the coming-out process for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, how to prepare for disclosure, and how disclosure is received in various groups. It also examines sexual orientation and identities, developmental models of coming out, disclosure in adolescence, midlife, or later, coming out to parents and family members, and disclosure to non-family. Moreover, ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

UK 2007, 278 pp., brochure, € 18.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one last duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of 20 photographs which between them tell a tragic family history. At the centre ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: Fun Home

USA 2007, 234 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This breakout memoir from a cult favorite comic artist is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a highschool English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is ... Weiterlesen

Cynthia Tyler: Shadow Work

USA 2006, 193 pp., brochure, € 15.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Chris Cameron, a psychotherapist, moves forward after she has overcome the grief of losing her life partner to murder. Now she finds herself simultaneously falling for a cop named Linda Vasquez, facing new challenges at work, and coming to terms with a world where bigger, better, shinier, louder - the shorthand for the Orwellian superficiality of the new millenium - ... Weiterlesen

Heidi J. Schmidt: The Bride of Catastrophe

USA 2004, 442 pp., brochur, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»The Bride of Catastrophe« is the story of Beatrice Wolfe's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and find an authentic identity of her own. Leaving the confines of the farm where she grew up, Beatrice falls under the spell of her college literature tutor, an exuberant lesbian called Phillipa, who will have a greater influence on her ... Weiterlesen

Beeban Kidron (R): Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

UK 2003, engl. OF, 165 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jess is the adopted daughter of a strict evangelist. Her adopted mam thinks she's the chosen one from God. With an upbringing spent learning the bible and praying for »heathens in hot countries« she unnerves both classmates and teachers when she begins school. But she fancies girls. And an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Later in life she ... Weiterlesen

Mariana Romo-Carmona: Conversaciones: Relatos por padres y madres de hijas lesbianas e hijos gay

USA 2001, 166 S., brochure, € 20.35
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Dieses Buch in spanischer Sprache richtet sich vor allem an spanischsprechende amerikanische Eltern schwuler Söhne und lesbischer Töchter. Es zeigt Perspektiven auf, wie innerhalb einer kulturellen bzw. sprachlichen Minderheit, die noch zudem von traditionellen religiösen Vorstellungen geprägt ist, Akzeptanz und Gemeinschaft mit Schwulen und Lesben möglich ist.

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

USA 1985, 182 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Grove Press
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with lesbian (that is: unorthodox) sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing ... Weiterlesen