Marco P. Valli / Anna Adamo: Bakeca

I 2018, 112 S., Broschur, € 44.95
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Cesura Publishing
Eine fotografische Reportage über Exhibitionismus als einer Form sexueller Selbstdarstellung aus den Jahren 2014 bis 2016. Marco P. Valli and Anna Adamo porträtieren ihre Akteure, die sie über Online-Plattformen fanden und zeigen ihre Sexualität, die sie bis dahin nur in halbprivaten Internet-Kontakten und an Orten pflegten, die für diese Freizügkeit einschlägig bekannt waren.

Chavoya Frantz: Axis Mundo

Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. USA 2018, 413 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.99
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Prestel
The powerful work of queer Chicano artists in Los Angeles is explored in this book. Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and reveals networks of collaboration and exchange that resulted ... Weiterlesen

Rusty Barrett: From Drag Queens to Leathermen

Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures. UK 2017, 251 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Oxford University Press
This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of these subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of gender are intimately linked to other forms of ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Wexelbaum (ed): Queers Online

LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives and Museums. USA 2016, 240 pp., brochure, € 39.99
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In the 21st century, there are more LGBT information resources than ever before. The challenges that arise both from the explosion of born-digital materials and the transformation of materials from physical to electronic formats has implications for access to these resources for future generations. Along with preservation concerns, making these digital LGBT resources available to users becomes more difficult when ... Weiterlesen

Lilian Faderman: The Gay Revolution

The Story of a Struggle. USA 2016, 795 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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Simon and Schuster
The story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights from the 1950s to the present is based on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights - the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the ... Weiterlesen

Alvin Baltrop: The Piers

USA 2015, 128 pp., hardbound, € 69.95
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TF Editors
Powerful, lyrical and controversial, Alvin Baltrop's photographs are a groundbreaking exploration of clandestine gay culture in New York in the 1970s and 80s. During that era, the derelict warehouses beneath Manhattan's West Side piers became a lawless, forgotten part of the city that played host to gay cruising, drug smuggling, prostitution and suicides. Baltrop documented this scene, unflinchingly and obsessively ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library

UK 2015, 415 pp.,brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, »The Swimming-Pool Library« is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything, it focuses on the friendship of ... Weiterlesen

Carrie L. Buist / Emily Lenning: Queer Criminology

UK 2015, 144 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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Taylor and Francis
In this book, Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning reflect on the origins of Queer Criminology, survey the foundational research and scholarship in this emerging field, and offer suggestions for the future. Covering topics such as the criminalization of queerness; the policing of Queer communities; Queer experiences in the courtroom; and the correctional control of Queer people, »Queer Criminology« synthesizes ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: The Dilly : A History of the Piccadilly Rent Boy Scene

UK 2014, 240 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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A previously undocumented slice of London's underground sexual history, and its influence upon artists from Oscar Wilde to Francis Bacon and the Stones to Morrissey, Piccadilly Circus has long been London's principal location for selling sex and this is the first book to really explore the history of male prostitution at »The Dilly.« Dating from Oscar Wilde's notorious use of ... Weiterlesen

Filip Noterdaeme: The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart

UK 2012, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Outpost19
Using Gertrude Stein's »The Authobiography of Alice B. Toklas« as a template, Filip Noterdaeme's »The Autobiography of Daniel Isengart« tells the story of two eccentric expatriates who find love in New York City and carve out a delirious, dadaesque life on the margins of the contemporary art world. A lovely romp with the absurd, beguilingly ironic about art and social ... Weiterlesen

St. Sukie de la Croix: Chicago Whispers

A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. USA 2012, 326 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. The author reclaims Chicago's LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Included here are Jane Adams, the pioneer of American ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Pullen, Margaret Cooper (eds.): LGBT Identity and Online New Media

USA/UK 2010, 312 pp., brochure, € 44.69
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Taylor and Francis
What is new about new media for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people? The authors' importnat new contribution to existing scholarship on LGBT representation suggests quite a lot. Its chapters critcially engage with queer identities, place, and community in the digital world. New generations of LGBT people are coming out, finding love, and making communities within a world of seemingly ... Weiterlesen

Alex Espinoza: Cruising

An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. USA 2009, 237 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Publishers Group West
From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr, Oscar Wilde to George Michael, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale - one in which men of all races and classes interact, even in the shadow of repressive governments. ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman, Stuart Timmons: Gay L.A.

A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. USA 2009, 431 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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This social, political and cultural history of lesbian and gay life in Los Angeles by two seasoned historians is easily the subject's definitive work. Presenting a wealth of fact and analysis, the authors breeze through the highlights of L.A. gay history. They begin with the suppression of Native Americans' sexual and gender expression by 16th-century Spanish missionaries, before exploring how ... Weiterlesen

Laud Humphreys: Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places

USA 2008, 238 pp., pb., € 69.95
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From the time of its first publication, »Tearoom Trade« engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of »deviant« sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in ... Weiterlesen

Mickey Weems: The Fierce Tribe

Masculine Identity and Performance in the Circuit. USA 2008, 272 pp., hardback, € 30.99
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The author applies an overtly interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. In a kind of ethnography the book documents the folk nature of popular culture. »The Circuit«, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events (gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals). Music and dance drive a complex, shared performance at these events?electronic house music ... Weiterlesen

Geoff Mains: Urban Aboriginals

A Celebration of Leather Sexuality. With an Introduction by Mark Thompson. USA 2002, 191 pp. with b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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Daedalus
A subculture of gay men participate in a radical form of sexuality and community known as leather. Through intimate forms of encounter, using such tools as pain-pleasure, bondage, and role-play, leather can bring a shift of conciousness and a new vision of the self. The book pioneered in sensitively exploring and celebrating leathersexuality. As relevant today as when it was ... Weiterlesen

Lee Walzer: Between Sodom and Eden

A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel. USA 2000, 368 pp., brochure, € 36.99
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Columbia University Press
Astonishingly, Israeli lesbians and gays have been able to achieve many political goals that still elude America's gay community. Israel's Supreme Court has mandated same-sex spousal benefits; the military, which never barred gays to begin with, has removed its last official restrictions; Israel's parliament boasts a Subcommittee for the Prevention of Sexual Orientation Discrimination; and school curricula are gay-friendly--all of ... Weiterlesen