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

Bill Clegg: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

USA 2010, 222 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Conigrave: Holding the Man

USA 2010, 308 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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When Timothy Conigrave falls in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo, at their Catholic all-boys school in Melbourne, the two embark on a passionate journey of love, betrayal and forgiveness. This bestselling true story is at once sexy, romantic, funny and sad - a masterpiece of authentic emotion that you won't forget. Winner of the United ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Dancing Ledge

USA 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Minnesota Press

From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. Accompanied by nearly one hundred photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in �Dancing Ledge� provide intimate and incredibly vivid glimpses ... Weiterlesen

Staceyann Chin: The Other Side of Paradise

A Memoir. USA 2010, 282 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Scribner

No one knew Steceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house. Staceyann's mother didn't want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy

UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton

Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family, and this is his memoir of growing up gypsy and gay. Gypsies live in secluded communities and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows too ... Weiterlesen

George Seaton: Big Diehl - The Road Home

USA 2010, 409 pp., brochure, € 13.29
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Diehl's return to Wyoming from six years of service to his country - including combat in Iraq - is colored with a dark intent to even the score with his father, who stole Diehl's innocence when he was twelve. Wyoming also embraces Diehl's �adopted� family on a ranch in Casper. But before he can get rid of the heavy burden ... Weiterlesen

James Hannaham: God Says No

USA 2010, 305pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are both 19, god-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. This is his testimony - the story of a young ... Weiterlesen

Martin Sixsmith: Philomena

UK 2009, 452 pp. pb, € 10.40
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Being a pregnant teenager Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and ... Weiterlesen

Julia Serano: Whipping Girl

A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. USA 2007, 390 pp., pb., € 24.95
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A provocative manifesto, �Whipping Girl� tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations ? both pre- and post-transition ? to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

UK 2007, 278 pp., brochure, € 18.79
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As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one last duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of 20 photographs which between them tell a tragic family history. At the centre ... Weiterlesen

Jack Gold (R): The Naked Civil Servant

UK 1975, OF, 77 Min., € 14.99
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The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant gay man, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England. A classic film starring John Hurt as Quentin Crisp.

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