Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

UK 2010, 501 pp., pb, € 14.95
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In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at 20 to 9. Its ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man

Film Tie-in. UK 2010, 152 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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In this novel, a middle-aged professor living in Southern California is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. When the novel was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on ... Weiterlesen
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Dian Hanson: Bob's World

D 2009, 285 S., geb, € 295.95
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Taschen Verlag
Mit den Fotos und Filmen, die er 48 Jahre lang für seine Athletic Model Guild schuf und mit Physique Pictorial, Amerikas erstem und sich am offensten zu schwuler Sexualität bekennenden Magazin für Körperkultur, das er 41 Jahre lang publizierte, erlangte Bob Mizer Berühmtheit. Seine Tagebücher, die er seit seinem achten Lebensjahr führte, lassen in aller Deutlichkeit erkennen, dass er sich ... Weiterlesen

Fiona Shaw: Tell It to the Bees

A Secret Love Which Has a Whole Town Talking. UK 2009, 336 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Serpent´s Tail
A spellbinding story of forbidden lesbian love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger: it's about a secret love which has a whole town talking - and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

UK 2008, 233 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Faber and Faber
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. Her husband Holland and this man have had a gay relationship ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Mallon: Fellow Travelers

USA 2008, 368 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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Knopf
A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. - a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy - and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak: In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter ... Weiterlesen

Samuel M. Steward: Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks. USA/UK 2008, 204 pp., brochure, € 64.95
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Routledge
Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos! In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English - a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder - abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). »Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos« tells ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: My Lives

UK 2006, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to »cure« homosexuality, he ... Weiterlesen

Jenny Olson (R): Homo Promo

UK 2006, engl. OF, 90 min., € 29.99
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This collection of vintage queer movie trailers offers a crash course in lesbian, gay, bi and transgender movie history. The DVD collection catalogues virtually every mainstream queer-themed film produced between 1953 and 1977. It starts with the famous underground smash »Glen or Glenda (I Changed My Sex)«, progressing through to »The Boys in the Band«, and ending with the drag ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: The Night Watch

USA 2006, 473 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - drawn with the absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching... Helen - clever, sweet, a much loved, ... Weiterlesen

Robert Hofler: The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson

The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson. USA 2005, 468 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors ... Weiterlesen

Vern L. Bullough (Ed.): Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context

UK 2002, 464 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Routledge
Explore the early history of the gay rights movement In the words of editor Vern L. Bullough: »Although there was no single leader in the gay and lesbian community who achieved the fame and reputation of Martin Luther King, there were a large number of activists who put their careers and reputations on the line. It was a motley crew ... Weiterlesen

Carmen L. Oliveira: Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares

UK 2002, 2018 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography ? brilliantly researched, and written in a lively, novelistic style ? follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil. ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room

USA 2000, 159 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Penguin USA
Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: Like People in History

USA 1995, 512 pp., brochure, € 18.00
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Abacus
Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as 19-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay - identity. Through the lens of their complex, tumultuous, yet ... Weiterlesen

Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Catch Trap

USA 1984, 688 pp., pb, € 12.95
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A magnificent, colorful novel of the circus world of the 1940s and 1950s, rich in detail, bursting with power and emotion. Mario Santelli, a member of the famous flying Santelli family, is a great trapeze artist. Tommy Zane is his protege. As naturally and gracefully as they soar through the air, the two flyers find themselves falling in love. Mario ... Weiterlesen
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Andrew Hodges: Alan Turing - The Enigma

The Book That Inspired the Film »The Imitation Game« USA 2014, 768 pp., pb., € 12.95
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The Biography of the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of ghe German Enigma code and indeed was the father of the modern computer. Sentenced for gay activities he committed suicide. This book is a first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind. Andrew Hodges was uniquely qualified to write a biography of Alan Turing on at ... Weiterlesen