Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, �Maurice�, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story �A Visit to Priapus� was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried in Wescott's massive archive of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

M. T. Pope: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

USA 2012, 482 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Urban

Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he's left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn't count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him. - After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the U.S. ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 392 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury

Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not the way he would like them to be. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for. The other men he takes to bed never stay for long. Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to ... Weiterlesen

Charles Rowan Beye: My Husband and My Wives

A Gay Man's Odyssey. USA 2012, 257 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

This is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications brought on by the discovery, during adolescence, of his attraction to other men. The ordeal of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in the midst of a disapproving and sometimes hostile society, is one side of his story. Another is ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Mo: Pure

UK 2012, 388 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Turnaround

Anglo-Chinese author Timothy Mo - with a string of Booker Prize nominations - slipped off the radar when he moved to the Far East and started to self-publish his work. �Pure� - his new book - is a morally ambiguous romp about Islamic jihad in South East Asia as seen through the eyes of a rumbustious Thai ladyboy. Snooky, a ... Weiterlesen

Christine Benvenuto: Sex Changes

A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving on. USA 2013, 295 pp., brochure, € 15.99
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SMP

What do you do when the other woman is your husband? Christine and her husband had been married for 20 years and we raising their three children in a beautiful New England town. One night in bed he turned to her and said, �I'm thinking constantly about my gender�, adding that he was unhappy in his body and wanted to ... Weiterlesen

Joy Landin: Through the Door of Life

A Jewish Journey Between Genders. USA 2012, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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University of Wisconsin Press - Living Out

Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned after a year of �involuntary research leave� to the orthodox Jewish campus as a woman - Joy Ladin. In this book, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 393 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury

Edmund White's �A Boy's Own Story� was the first gay book I've ever read as such. And to be honest I didn't like it much. Even though I grew up in a comparably provincial surrounding as the young guy in �A Boy's Own Story� does (well, not the American Midwest but rural Bavaria - which is certainly close) it was ... Weiterlesen

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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Vintage

264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the �netsuke�, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy on the Run

UK 2011, 306 pp, pb, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton

The sequel to Mikey Walsh's coming-of-age novel �Gypsy Boy�: Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a heartbreaking decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Tiber: Palm Trees on the Hudson

A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland and Interior Decorating. USA 2011, 183 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Square One

�Palm Trees on the Hudson� is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber's bestseller �Taking Woodstock.� Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan s leading interior designers. Then Elliot's career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob: Elliot's glamorous society event turned ... Weiterlesen

James C. Hormel and Erin Martin: Fit to Serve

Reflections on a Secret Life. USA 2011, 288 pp., illustrated, hardbound, € 22.95
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Skyhorse

James Hormel - a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family built the SPAM meatpacking �empire� and lived in the only mansion in his small Midwestern town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not mentioned, never mind accepted. Outwardly, he tried to live up to the life his parents wanted for ... Weiterlesen

Scott Pasfield: Gay in America

USA 2011, 224 pp. with colour photographs, hardbound, € 44.95
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In this photographic survey of gay men in America, stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary gay life is revealed through personal portraits and narratives. Photographer Scott Pasfield traveled 54,000 miles across all 50 states over a 3-year span gathering stories and documenting the lives of 140 gay men from all walks of life. At ... Weiterlesen

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