Donald Albrecht: Gay Gotham

Art and Underground Culture in New York. USA 2016, 304 pp., hardbound, € 66.90
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Rizzoli
»Gay Gotham« brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images - both works of art, such as paintings and photographs, as well as letters, snapshots, and ephemera - illuminate their personal bonds, scandal-provoking secrets at the time ... Weiterlesen

Alvin Baltrop: The Piers

USA 2015, 128 pp., hardbound, € 69.95
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TF Editors
Powerful, lyrical and controversial, Alvin Baltrop's photographs are a groundbreaking exploration of clandestine gay culture in New York in the 1970s and 80s. During that era, the derelict warehouses beneath Manhattan's West Side piers became a lawless, forgotten part of the city that played host to gay cruising, drug smuggling, prostitution and suicides. Baltrop documented this scene, unflinchingly and obsessively ... Weiterlesen

Filip Noterdaeme: The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart

UK 2012, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Outpost19
Using Gertrude Stein's »The Authobiography of Alice B. Toklas« as a template, Filip Noterdaeme's »The Autobiography of Daniel Isengart« tells the story of two eccentric expatriates who find love in New York City and carve out a delirious, dadaesque life on the margins of the contemporary art world. A lovely romp with the absurd, beguilingly ironic about art and social ... Weiterlesen

Kai Wright: Drifting Toward Love

USA 2008, 224 pp., hardcover, € 21.20
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This is the story of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains and passions that are typical of any young person coming of ... Weiterlesen

Tom Cardamone: The Werewolves of Central Park

USA 2007, 225 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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Imagine New York City as part of Faery Land, populated with mythological creatures with wanton sexual desires and willing participants. Drink too much, and you wake up with a hangover and find yourself half man half horse - a centaur. Live another year and you transform from faun to stud. Go to a basement sex club and find it run ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: Art and Sex in Greenwich Village

USA 2007, 265 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Almost a decade after the Stonewall rebellion lit the political fuse of Gay Liberation in 1969, its impact on the arts remained minimal. While a handful of gay plays, films, and a small number of gay-themed books were available, few of these reflected the new, out-of-the-closet realities of the post-Stonewall scene. That landscape began to change in 1977, when Felice ... Weiterlesen

Dale Peck: Martin and John

USA 2006, 228 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Reprint of a classic coming-of-age tale that is also a haunting love story set in the very near past. New York, 1982: John is a hustler and falls in love with Martin, who becomes ill with AIDS. Martin dies two years later. To order his new existence without Martin, John starts to keep a journal and then to write stories. ... Weiterlesen

Arthur Wooten: On Picking Fruit

USA 2005,159 pp., brochure, € 15.89
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Although he was born gay, Curtis Jenkins has trouble picking fruit. Now a successful middle-aged New York City writer, he is still searching for the man of his dreams. Unfortunately, Chris has already formed a self-destructive pattern of choosing all the wrong men in all the wrong places. After a bizarre yet comical attempt at suicide Curtis becomes a reluctant ... Weiterlesen

James McCourt: Queer Street

USA/UK 2004, 578 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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The author captures the voices of a mad, bygone era with philosophical reflections, forensic anecdotes, and a hailstorm of one-liners. Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York and barreling through four decades of crisis and triumph up to the floodtide of AIDS, »Queer Street« positions McCourt's own exhilarating experience against the whirlwind history of the era. ... Weiterlesen

Bill Sherwood (R): Parting Glances

USA 1986, engl. OF, 90 min., € 29.99
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First Run
The story concerns two gay men, Michael and Robert, who have been lovers for years. Robert is being transferred out of the country to work for an international organization in Africa for two years, leaving his lover Michael behind. Michael has now to take care of his former lover Nick on his own. Nick is dying of AIDS. So begins ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: Der Köder

D 1999, 475 S., Pb., € 19.95
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Bruno Gmünder
Als Noel Cummings Zeuge eines brutalen Mordes wird, gerät er unfreiwillig als Köder der Polizei in die Subkultur Manhattans. Noel ist zunächst neugierig, dann fasziniert und entdeckt nach und nach das pulsierende Leben der Ostküsten-Metropole und vor allem seine eigene, wahre Sexualität. Letztlich wird Noel sogar zu einer Schlüsselfigur im Kampf zwischen einer mafiaähnlichen Organisation und der New Yorker Schwulenszene.