An epic true story of a Jewish gay man's extraordinary life, from escaping Nazi oppression in Austria - saving his family via a winning lottery ticket - to finding refuge of sorts in Japan before finally settling down to a quiet life back in Vienna after the war. Paul Patek witnessed some of the 20th century's most traumatic events with ... Weiterlesen

David Ebershoff: The Danish Girl

UK 2000, 336 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Copenhagen, 1925, the studio of American painter Greta Waud, anxious to put the finishing touches to her latest portrait. But her diva subject has cancelled yet another sitting - how is Greta ever going to get it done? A sudden glint in her eye, and she calls to her husband Einar. And so, late on an April afternoon, in a ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Page McBee: Amateur

A True Story about What Makes a Man. UK 2018, 204 pp., hardbound, € 17.95
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Canongate

The author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back - wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym - confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee ... Weiterlesen

John Boyne: The Heart's Invisible Furies

UK 2017, 720 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Penguin UK

A gay man is finding his way in post-war Ireland. The story begins in 1945 when a baby is born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural community. The baby is adopted as Cyril Avery by a middle-class Dublin couple and befriends a more confident, glamorous boy, Julian Woodbead, who provides a dubious anchor through ... Weiterlesen

Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History

USA 2016, 296 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corsair

Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, �The Angel of History� follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco ... 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

Eben Venter: Wolf, Wolf

UK 2015, 272 pp., hardback, € 16.95
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How should a man be? Mattie Duiker is trying very hard to live up to his dying father's wishes. He is putting aside childish things, starting his first business. His Pa is proud. At the same time, Mattie is pulled toward an altogether other version of masculinity, in which oiled and toned bodies cavort for him at the click of ... Weiterlesen

Ellen Simpson: The Light of the World

D 2015, 357 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Ylva Verlag

At the back of her grandmother's closet lies a mystery. After her grandmother's death, Eva finds a series of diaries detailing the life of a girl caught up in the magic of the Roaring 20s. She cannot reconcile the young woman in these diaries with the miserable old woman she loved so fiercely. What happened to change her grandmother so ... 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

Alysia Abbott: Fairyland

A Memoir of My Father. UK 2014, 272 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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W. W. Norton

After his wife's death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott came out of the closet and moved, with his three-year-old daughter, to San Francisco. There they discover a city bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom have responsibility for a child. Steve throws himself into the city's vibrant poetry scene performing, publishing and building ... Weiterlesen

Bill Clegg: Ninety Days

USA 2013, 195 pp., pb., € 17.95
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The goal is ninety - just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. Six weeks out of his most recent rehab, Clegg returns to New York and starts attending two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential new allies including Polly, ... Weiterlesen

Didier Eribon: Returning to Reims

Transl. by Michael Lucey. USA 2013, 240 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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MIT Press - Semiotext(e)

�On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my personal trajectory with my shutting myself up inside what I might call a class closet.� - from �Returning to Reims�. After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

USA 2013, 200 pp., hardback, € 26.95
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University of Wisconsin Press

Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, �Maurice�, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story �A Visit to Priapus� was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes ... Weiterlesen

Joel Derfner: Lawfully Wedded Husband

How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family. USA 2013, 248 pp., hardback, € 26.95
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University of Wisconsin Press

When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly, however, and before long the two were on what they expected to be a rollicking journey to married bliss. What they didn't realize was that, along the way, they would confront not just the dilemmas every couple faces on the ... Weiterlesen

James McCourt: Lasting City

The Anatomy of Nostalgia. USA/UK 2014, 323 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Liveright

Enjoined by his dying mother to �tell everything�, James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. �Lasting City� is an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy's funny, gutter-snipe precocity and hardly innocent coming-of-age in the 1940s and 1950s. A literary outlaw in the poetic tradition of Verlaine and ... 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

Scott Thorson: Behind the Candelabra

Outrageous True Story of Life with Liberace. UK 2013, 239 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Head of Zeus

As in the movie, this book tells the story of Scott Thorson who lived with and worked for Liberace. Scott Thorson, a poor boy from a succession of foster homes, met Liberace when he was just 16 years old. Liberace, aged 57, took Scott under his wing as �the son he'd never had�. By the time Scott was 17, he ... Weiterlesen

Zach Wahls with Bruce Littlefield: My Two Moms

Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family. USA 2013, 236 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 16.99
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Penguin USA

On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing regarding a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa. The then 19-year-old son of a lesbian couple proudly proclaimed: �The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.� Hours later, his speech was posted on ... Weiterlesen

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