Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in �Awkward and Definition�, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years. During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California, Ariel wrote a comic book about her experiences, which she would then photocopy and sell around school. ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan: Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List

USA 2008, 230 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Naomi loves Ely. And she's kinda in love with him. Ely loves Naomi. But he prefers to be in love with boys. Naomi and Ely have been inseparable since childhood - partially because they've grown up across the hall from each other in the same Manhattan apartment building, and also because they're best friends. Soul mates. Or are they? Just ... Weiterlesen

Michael Harmon: The Last Exit to Normal

USA 2008, 275 pp., hardback, € 12.99
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It's true: After 14-year-old Ben's father announces he's gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. Three years, countless joints, and one arrest later Ben finds himself yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad and ... Weiterlesen

Susan Driver (ed.): Queer Youth Cultures

USA 2008, 307 pp., brochure, € 29.20
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Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing resistance, the essays explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. ... Weiterlesen

Laurent Achard (R): The Last of the Crazy People

Le dernier des fous. F 2007, frz.OF, engl.UT, 95 min., € 19.99
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Martin is not like other children. Neglected by his parents, he watches the extraordinary events that occur in and around the family home from a distance. His mother is crazy, his father is absent nearly all the time, and his much older, gay brother suffers from depressive moods. When Martin's brother Didier discovers that his lover will marry a local ... Weiterlesen

C.J. Pascoe: Dude, You're a Fag

Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. USA 2007, 228 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are explored in this incisive ethnography. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, this book plumbs the dynamics of masculinity among high school boys and sheds new light on the complex interplay of masculinity, homophobia, sexuality, and the body, compelling us to rethink ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Friendly Fire

UK 2006, 342 pp., pb, € 17.95
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Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in this wonderful novel as told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Sophie is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children's home. Her life is transformed when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey P. Dennis: Queering Teen Culture

USA 2006, 221 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over teenage girls. But �Queering Teen Culture� analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to ... Weiterlesen

Kate Bornstein: Hello Cruel World

USA 2006, 233 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Transgender trailblazer Kate Bornstein has ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Kate shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, this book offers 101 alternatives to suicide for teens, freaks ... Weiterlesen

Kim Wallace: Erik & Isabelle - Junior Year at Foresthill High

USA 2006, 232 pp., brochure, € 11.99
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Anyone who says that youth is wasted on the young never met Erik and Isabelle. The 3rd book in this series about gay and lesbian youth catapults readers into the middle of Erik's and Isabelle's junior year. Eccentric Isabelle returns to her artistic roots and creates a compelling public art project that forces open Foresthill's eyes. Yet, these aren't the ... Weiterlesen

Ritch C. Savin-Williams: The New Gay Teenager

USA 2006, 288 pp., cloth, € 16.59
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Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, the author argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers - as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal - may have been exaggerated even ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Holleran, Donald Weise: Fresh Men 2

USA 2005, 358 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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The new book in the LAMBDA Award-winning series �Fresh Men 2 - New Voices in Gay Fiction�, brings together the very best stories of emerging gay authors. With equal parts sensitivity and irreverence, this collection of homosexual stories speaks to a broad range of gay experiences. From coming-out to coming-of-age, from finding love to living in a post-gay world - ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Lions and Shadows

USA 2000, 313 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, �Lions and Shadows�. In this book, Isherwood evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as only he knew it, describing his life as a tutor, medical student, and struggling writer. The result is a captivating account of a young novelist's development in the burgeoning literary culture of the ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy

UK 2020, 316 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

Set in the mannered, lush world of upper middle class Tamils in Sri Lanka, this deeply moving first novel, though not autobiographical, draws on Selvadurai's experience of being gay in Sri Lanka and growing up during the escalating violence between the Buddhist Sinhala majority and Hindu Tamil minority in the 1970s and early 1980s. Arjie Chelvaratnam, at the age of ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Inhabiting Shadows

UK 1990, 112 pp., pb., € 27.90
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Reed has been cited as the most outstanding poet of his generation, as well as one of the most prolific. In this third novel, he writes of a group of self-admiring adolescents meeting in a seaside town in their last summer before joining the adult world. Here they come to terms with their sexual proclivities (and with tragedy) when one ... Weiterlesen

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