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Andrea Rottmann: Queer Lives across the Wall

Andrea Rottmann: Queer Lives across the Wall

Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970. UK 2023, 266 pp., brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Toronto Press
Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces - including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons - facilitated and restricted queer lives in ... Weiterlesen

Todd Haynes (R): Dem Himmel so fern

Todd Haynes (R): Dem Himmel so fern

USA 2002, engl. OF, dt. SF, 100 min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Alive
Cathy Whitaker lebt mit ihrem Ehemann Frank und den gemeinsamen Kindern in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt gegen Ende der 1950er Jahre. Das Leben wirkt perfekt mit Heim und Herd, doch hinter dem äußeren Schein läuft es weder privat noch beruflich rund. Cathy fühlt sich zu ihrem schwarzen Gärtner hingezogen, und Frank geht seinen homosexuellen Neigungen nach. Dramatische Spannungen bahnen sich an.

Samuel Clowes Huneke: States of Liberation

Samuel Clowes Huneke: States of Liberation

Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. UK 2022, 380 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Toronto Press
States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Seabrook: Private Worlds : Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain

Jeremy Seabrook: Private Worlds : Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain

GB 2022, 224 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pluto
»All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities. « In 1950s suburban England, a friendship bloomed between Jeremy Seabrook and Michael O'Neill - both gay men coming of age ... Weiterlesen

Bethan Roberts: My Policeman

Bethan Roberts: My Policeman

UK 2022 (Tie-in edition), 342 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
Now in the cinemas: In the 1950s' Brighton - at a time when homosexuality in the UK was still illegal - Marion first catches sight of Tom. He's her best friend's hunky brother. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is absolutely smitten - determined her love will be enough for both of them. ... Weiterlesen
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John-Pierre Joyce: Odd Men out

John-Pierre Joyce: Odd Men out

Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation. UK 2022, 368 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.99
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Manchester University Press
»Odd Men out« examines the transformation of homosexual men from odd to normal during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Using new and original research, John-Pierre Joyce explores contemporary attitudes to gay men and the development of a gay identity. He considers the extent and limits of homosexual repression and liberation, and analyses the dilemmas posed by the ... Weiterlesen

Malinda Lo: Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo: Last Night at the Telegraph Club

USA 2021, 409 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens ... Weiterlesen

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Chicago Press
By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the »Pearl of the Danube,« it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Castellani: Leading Men

Christopher Castellani: Leading Men

USA 2020, 358 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Bloom, a mysterious young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed ... Weiterlesen

David K. Johnson: Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement

David K. Johnson: Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement

USA 2019, 328 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Columbia University Press
In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands: the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served as an initiation into gay culture. The publishers behind them ... Weiterlesen

David Small: Home After Dark

David Small: Home After Dark

USA 2018, 400 pp., b/w, hardcover, € 23.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Liveright
Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, »Home After Dark« is a literary tour-de-force graphic novel that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking such classics as »The Lord of the Flies«. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles ... Weiterlesen

Fergus O'Brien: Against the Law

Fergus O'Brien: Against the Law

GB 2017, engl. OF, 81 Min., € 18.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Biographical drama directed by Fergus O'Brien: Journalist Peter Wildeblood's affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly during the time homosexuality was a crime and the devastating consequences of their relationship. But Peter Wildeblood was one of the first people in Britain to publicly declare his homosexuality. Living in the 1950s when homosexuality was illegal, Wildeblood and his partner ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Cosmopolitans

Sarah Schulman: The Cosmopolitans

USA 2016, 296 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
A modern retelling of Balzac's classic »Cousin Bette« by one of America's most prolific lesbian writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story

Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story

UK 2016, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, »A Boy's Own Story« became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality and gay life in American fiction. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library

UK 2015, 415 pp.,brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Katie Gilmartin: Blackmail, My Love

Katie Gilmartin: Blackmail, My Love

A Murder Mystery. USA 2014, 312 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis
San Francisco, 1951. Josie O'Conner's gay brother is nowhere to be found. His friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community's nascent resistance to raids, graft and brutality. What's a loving sister to do? Josie sets off to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the mounting ... Weiterlesen

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

USA 2014, 280 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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

Neil Bartlett: The Disappearance Boy

Neil Bartlett: The Disappearance Boy

UK 2014, 288 pp., hardback, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Bloomsbury
23-year-old gay Reggie Rainbow is a stagehand living at the heart of the performance. He's found the perfect profession for someone who likes to keep himself to himself. It's his job to make sure that some things stay out of sight and out of mind. He's an angry gay young man who treads the backstage corridors of down-at-heel theatres for ... Weiterlesen

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