Paulette Callen: Charity

D 2013, 337 pp, brochure, € 14.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Charity Series 1
The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Backwards to Oregon

D 2013, 521 pp, brochure, € 19.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 1
»Luke« Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Dreher: Stoner McTavish

Dt. v. E. Laudan u. M. Grundmann. D 2013 (Neuaufl.), 357 S., Pb, € 13.36
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Argument Verlag - Ariadne Krimi
Anstrengend und öde - mehr kann Stoner McTavish ihren Leben nicht abgewinnen. Das heimatliche Boston leidet unter einer Hitzewelle. In der ganzen Stadt herrscht tote Hose. Auf Stoners Schreibtisch türmt sich unerledigte Arbeit. Und ihre Geschäftspartnerin quillt förmlich über vor lauter schrägen Einfällen. Da kommt der neue Auftrag gerade recht: die junge, hübsche Gwen befürchtet, dass ihr Mann sie auf ... Weiterlesen

Björn Klein: »First, unshackle ourselves from fear, for it alone is our omnipresent enemy«

Homosexualität in den USA 1948-1963. D 2012, 112 S., Broschur, € 20.46
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LIT Verlag
Die 1950er Jahre sind in den USA das Zeitalter der Angst. Die Angst vor kommunistischer Unterwanderung wird augenscheinlich nur noch übertroffen von der Angst vor Homosexuellen. Aber was macht diese Angst eigentlich aus? Ist Angst eine Emotion, ein Affekt oder eine Technologie des Selbst? Mit diesen Fragen analysiert die vorliegende Arbeit zum ersten Mal homophile Gruppen wie die »Mattachine Society« ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

USA 2011, 345 pp. illustr., brochure, € 13.20
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Picador
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Michael Bronski: A Queer History of the United States

USA 2011, 287 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. In the mid-19th century, actress Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publized ... Weiterlesen

Vicki L. Eaklor: Queer America

A People's GLBT History of the United States. USA 2011, 274pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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This narrative history of the U.S. places GLBT people at the center of the story. It brings vividly to life the people whose work helped change the course of the 20th century. From organizing personal lives in the 19th century and constructing the medical model of homosexuality, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, and the New Deal, the queer situation during ... Weiterlesen

Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock: Queer (In)Justice

The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. USA 2011, 216pp., hardbound, € 31.99
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In March 2003 - more than three decades after Stonewall - police stormed the Power Plant, a private Detroit club frequented by African American LGBT people. Over 350 people were handcuffed and subjected to homophobic slurs. Some were hit on the head and back. Others were slammed into walls. Their supposed crime was later chalked up to a bizarre infraction: ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

An Extraordinary Marriage. USA 2010, 345pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Carlos A. Ball: From the Closet to the Courtroom

Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. USA 2010, 286pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small - on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case in a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his long-time ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: Valencia

Dt. v. N.A.d. Flers & K. Langmair. Ö 2010, 269 S., Broschur, € 14.95
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Zaglossus
Tea, ein Kind der Beat-Generation, entpuppt sich als eine Art Botschafter der Popkultur für das San Francisco der frühen 90er Jahre, das von tätowierten, gepiercten, hoch politisierten und sexradikalen Queer-Grrrls bevölkert wird. In diesem ihren zweiten Roman erfasst sie stilsicher die Hoffnungen und Verletzungen, das Leiden und die Ambitionen junger Lesben, die sich im Mission District auf die Suche nach ... Weiterlesen

Nancy D. Polikoff: Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

Valuing All Families under the Law. USA 2009, 259 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Nancy Polikoff asserts that, in American law, marriage is the dividing line between those relationships that matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for 9 months receives Social Security benefits when he dies. A woman living for 19 years with a man or woman to whom she isn't married receives no government support. This book reframes ... Weiterlesen

Percy Adlon (R): Salmonberries

D 2008, dt. OF, dt. UT, 91 Min., € 14.99
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Arthaus
Im fernen Alaska treffen zwei gegensätzliche Frauentypen aufeinander. Die eine ist das Findelkind Kotzebue, das wie ein Junge aussieht, die andere Roswitha, deren Mann einst bei einem Fluchtversuch aus der DDR erschossen wurde und die nun in der Abgeschiedenheit Alaskas zur Ruhe kommen will. Zwischen den beiden entwickelt sich eine innige Liebesbeziehung und eines Tages beschließen sie, sich endlich den ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: Valencia

USA 2008, 216 pp., pb., € 16.96
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»Valencia« is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex, Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend, Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from ... Weiterlesen

Amin Ghaziani: The Dividends of Dissent

USA 2008, 419 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women's rights, civil rights, and anti-war movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there, and while these marches were some of the largest of their time, they have been sorely overlooked. Drawing on ... Weiterlesen

Dagmar Herzog: Sex in Crisis

USA 2008, 249 pp., hardbound, € 21.39
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The religious right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evengelical christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is definitively no. Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, Americans appear ... Weiterlesen

amnesty international (Hg.): Das Recht, anders zu sein

D 2007, 196 S., Broschur, € 15.32
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Querverlag
Bedroht, kriminalisiert, verfolgt, misshandelt, gefoltert - noch immer können nicht alle Menschen in Frieden leben, wenn anders aussehen oder anders leben als die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung. Dokumentierte Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Lesben, Schwulen und Transgenderpersonen in aller Welt werden in diesem Buch thematisiert, das von Mitgliedern der MERSI-Gruppe (»Menschenrechte und sexuelle Identität«) von amnesty international nun neu herausgegeben wird. Das Thema hat ... Weiterlesen

Cynthia Tyler: Shadow Work

USA 2006, 193 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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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