J.R. Wolfe: Deliberate Harm

D 2015, ca. 250 S., brochure, € 15.95
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Ylva Verlag
US soldiers Portia Marks and Imma Thoms found love during the second Iraq War, after Imma, a combat surgeon, saved Portia's life from a roadside bomb. Immediately inseparable, the two of them returned to civilian life engaged and followed Portia's postwar dreams to Zimbabwe, where they brought humanitarian aid to the struggling nation. But when Imma is arrested on false ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Snyder-Hill: Soldier of Change

From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement. USA 2014, 198 pp., hardcover, € 24.95
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University of Nebraska Press
When »Don't Ask, Don't Tell«, the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate (held two days after ... Weiterlesen

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

USA 2014, 280 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Totempole is Sanford Friedman's radical gay coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen's evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen's intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. ... Weiterlesen

Winston Gieseke (ed.): Out of Uniform

Gay Erotic Stories. D 2014, 204 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Bruno Gmünder - Gay Erotic Stories
Why do we go weak in the knees for a man in uniform? He could be a police officer, a military man, a fire fighter, or one of those guys in sexy brown pants who delivers nice packages (both in a box and in his pants) to your door - something about the uniform makes us stop and stare. A ... Weiterlesen

James Wharton: Out in the Army

My Life as a Gay Soldier. UK 2013, 342 pp. with colour photographs, hardbound, € 23.95
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Biteback
Seeking escape from the quiet countryside of North Wales, the young James Wharton joined the British Army with adventure on his mind. At basic training, boozing and brawling accompany the daily rigours of army life but all the while James faces a battle of his own: he is gay, and finding the courage to tell not only his family and ... Weiterlesen

David Margolick: Dreadful

The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns. USA, 2013, 382 pp, hardbound, € 28.95
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American author John Horne Burns led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa ... Weiterlesen

M. T. Pope: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

USA 2012, 482 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Urban
Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he's left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn't count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him. - After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the U.S. ... Weiterlesen

James Lord: My Queer War

USA 2011, 344 pp., brochure, € 15.99
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 1942, a timid, inexperienced 21-year-old James Lord reported to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces took him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnessed first-hand the ravages of total war on Europe's land and people. Along the way he ... Weiterlesen

Paul Jackson: One of the Boys

Homosexuality in the Military during World War II. CAN/UK/USA 2010, 338 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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Homosexuality and military service have made strange bedfellows over the last century. Military leaders have generally seen homosexuals as unmanly, immoral, and - according to the U.S. military - a threat to unit cohesion, a claim that continues to prop up the controversial »don't ask, don't tell« policy. Struggles for equal rights have not been limited to the USA: during ... Weiterlesen

Bret Yerlac: Virgin Army Boy Deflowered

USA 2009, 149 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Michael Hunt was still a virgin at 20. He knew he wasn't attracted to women at all and had strong feelings for men, but had never allowed himself to partake in any experimenting with that forbidden sin of the flesh because of strict religious beliefs. So, Michael figured the solution to all his frustrations was to volunteer for the draft ... Weiterlesen

Robert Roper: Now the Drum of War

Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War. USA 2009, 423 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Walt Whitman's work as a nurse in the Civil War profoundly affected his worldview as well as his poetry. Much less well known is the extraordinary war record of his brother George W. Whitman, who led his men in 21 battles, from Antietam to the Wilderness. At the center of the book, Roper focuses on Whitman's emotional relations with the ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Littell: The Kindly Ones

Transl. by Charlotte Mandell. UK 2009, 984 pp., brochure, € 21.60
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»Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.« So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is a gay intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Rice: Blind Fall

USA 2009, 302pp., brochure, € 13.59
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John Houck became a Marine to become a hero. But his life changed when he failed to notice an explosive device that ended up maiming the captain of his Force Recon Company, a respected Marine who nearly sacrificed himself to save John's life. Home from Iraq, John pays a visit to his former captain, only to discover the captain has ... Weiterlesen

Reichen Lehmkuhl: Here's What We'll Say

Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. USA 2007, 346 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Reichen Lehmkuhl tried to find success acting in film and TV. However, he played the biggest role of his life long before his professional acting debut , when he was forced to hide his sexuality to comply with the Air Force's »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« policy. Reichen tells his story of what happens when cadets who are committed to serving ... Weiterlesen

Reichen Lehmkuhl: Here's What He'll Say

USA 2007, 346 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Reichen Lehmkuhl tried to find success acting in film and TV. However, he played the biggest role of his life long before his professional acting debut , when he was forced to hide his sexuality to comply with the Air Force's »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« policy. Reichen tells his story of what happens when cadets who are committed to serving ... Weiterlesen

Max Egremont: Siegfried Sassoon

UK 2006, 639 pp., brochure, € 18.98
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Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 into a comfortable and prosperous household in Kent, and began writing poetry as a boy. He confronted the terrible realities of WWI on the battlefield, in verse, and finally, in 1917, by announcing his opposition to the war. By 1918 Sassoon found himself one of the most famous young writers of the time, admired ... Weiterlesen

Rich Merritt: Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star

USA 2005, 468 pp., brochure, € 14.59
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Rich Marritt - the good son, the teacher's pet, Southern gentleman, model Christian student, Marine officer, and the not-so-anonymous poster boy for a »New York Times Magazine« article on gays in the military - tells the story of his complicated sexual past that caused an international scandal when »The Advocate« outed him as »The Marine Who Did Gay Porn«, putting ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: Conduct Unbecoming

USA 2005, 813 pp., brochure, € 19.39
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Randy Shilts, author of the classic documentary history of the AIDS epidemic, investigated the situation of lesbians und gays in the military by interviewing hundreds of servicepeople at all levels of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Shilts' collage of historical research, interviews, and U.S. military documents (both public and confidential) portrays in detail the vital role ... Weiterlesen