C.A. Tripp: The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln

USA 2006, 345 pp., brochure, € 0.00
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Was Lincoln gay? The sex researcher and chronicler of the gay rights movement Tripp, who died in 2003, makes the case. So his book is already getting noticed. The author (who worked with Alfred Kinsey) contends that Lincoln had erotic attractions and attachments to men throughout his life, from his youth to his presidency. His relationships with women were either ... Weiterlesen
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Florian Mildenberger: Beispiel: Peter Schult

D 2006, 208 S., Broschur, € 14.39
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Männerschwarm - Bibliothek rosa Winkel 40
Anhand des biografischen Beispiels von Peter Schult (1928 - 1984) verdeutlicht der Medizinhistoriker Florian Mildenberger im 40. Band aus der Bibliothek rosa Winkel den Umgang der Gesellschaft mit den Themen Päderastie und Pädophilie - ein heißes Eisen, denn heute - nachdem Pädophilie grundsätzlich als Missbrauch interpretiert wird - findet eine Debatte darüber nicht mehr statt. Noch in den 70er Jahren ... Weiterlesen

Charles Winecoff: Anthony Perkins

USA 2006, 449 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Paramount groomed him to replace James Dean and become Hollywood's hottest hertthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's »Psycho« killed that - and spawned an image of Anthony »Tony« Perkins that eerily paralleled his conflicted, fractured off-screen life. These performances overwhelmed Perkins's career - increasingly during the decades leading up to his death from AIDS at ... Weiterlesen

Charlotte Chandler: Bette Davis

USA 2006, 348 pp., hardback, € 24.89
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Bette Davis was a major force in Hollywood. Her distinctive voice, her remarkable eyes, her astonishing range and depth of caharcterization were qualities to make her one of the finest performers in film history. Drawing on extensive conversations with Bette Davis during the last decade of her life, the biographer let the great actress speak for herself. Though she owed ... Weiterlesen

Julia Briggs: Virginia Woolf

UK 2006, 528 pp., brochure, € 17.89
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Virginia Woolf is the greatest of all British women writers and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century writing. She was a novelist utterly immersed in books, wholly original, passionate, vivid and with a steely dedication to her art. Yet given that what we value about Woolf's life is her great novels, most writing about her still tends to ... Weiterlesen

Wolfram Setz (Hg.): Jacques d`Adelswärd-Fersen. Dandy und Poet

D 2006, 320 S., geb., € 20.60
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Männerschwarm - Bibliothek rosa Winkel 38
1959 veröffentlichte Roger Peyrefitte seine Roman-Biografie »Exil in Capri«, in dem er das skandalumwitterte Leben des Jacques d'Adelswärd schilderte. Nachdem er 1903 wegen unsittlicher Handlungen mit Jungs bei erotischen Tableaux vivants verurteilt worden war, ging d'Adelswärd nach Capri und ließ sich dort die »Villa lysis« bauen, ein Tempel für sein exaltiertes, offen schwules Leben als Dandy. Zwar hatte Peyrefitte für ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Man Who Knew Too Much

USA 2006, 319 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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One of the most important openings to the modern computer was made by Alan Turing - remarkably while he was solving an entirely different problem. Shy and insecure about his middle-class origins, Turing could show those close to him sly humor and bracing candor - even about his homosexuality. He also had one of the keenest minds of the 20th ... Weiterlesen

Carolyn Soutar: The Real Nureyev

USA 2006, 192pp., hardback, € 22.99
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This backstage memoir takes an intimate look at the complicated life and outrageous times of ballet's greatest hero Rudolf Nureyev. The biographer, who worked with Nureyev in London during the 1980s, focuses on a period of Nureyev's life when his career was drawing to a close and this once phenomenal dancer began to call himself »Old Galoshes«, in recognition of ... Weiterlesen

Robert Hofler: The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson

The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson. USA 2005, 468 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors ... Weiterlesen

Johnette Howard: The Rivals

USA 2005, 297 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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For 16 years, Evert and Navratilova faced each other on the tennis court many times in finals. The author tells the story of how these two women came together from disparate worlds and founded a complicated though lasting friendship. Evert, the charming, ponytailed daughter of a middle-class, all-American family, captured many fans' hearts when she arrived on the scene at ... Weiterlesen

Joshua Gamson: The Fabulous Sylvester

USA 2005, 306 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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In the world of that most disparaged of musical genres - disco - the subject of this biography commanded respect. By conventional standards, Sylvester James was an outsider - he was an out, gay, African-American who dressed in drag and sang with a thundering falsetto but he found mainstream success in the late 1970s and early '80s with three Top ... Weiterlesen

Danny Danziger, Nicholas Purcell: Hadrian's Empire

USA 2005, 302 pp., hardback, € 34.99
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Hadrian's Wall - it has stood for nearly two millennia as a monument to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Hadrian was not in the usual mould of Roman Emperors. He was Spanish and a restless, inquiring intellectual, a homosexual who identified with Greek culture and ideals. He travelled constantly and spent much time in Athens ... Weiterlesen

Jörg Aufenanger: Silbermanns Reise um die Welt in neunzig Jahren

D 2005, 204 S., geb., € 20.35
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Alfred Silbermanns Lebenswerk ist fast nur Opernkennern geläufig, noch weniger bekannt ist sein spannender, von zahlreichen politischen Krisen bestimmter Lebensweg. Geboren 1915 in Berlin, flüchtete er vor den Nazis nach Paris und wurde in Frankreich interniert. Er kam frei und floh über Beirut, Port Said, Djibouti, Indochina, Shanghai und Japan nach Buenos Aires, wo er endlich sicher leben konnte. Erst ... Weiterlesen

Uwe Naumann (Hg.): Die Kinder der Manns

D 2005, 339 S., Broschur, € 20.46
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In Klaus Manns Tagebüchern findet sich ein bemerkenswerter Eintrag: »Was für eine sonderbare FAMILIE sind wir! Man wird später Bücher über UNS - nicht nur über einzelne von uns - schreiben«. Golo Mann fand, dass aus ihm sicherlich etwas Besseres geworden wäre, hätte man ihn als Baby im Krankenhaus verwechselt und hätte man ihn in einem durchschnittlichen bürgerlichen Haus aufwachsen ... Weiterlesen

Francine Prose: Caravaggio - Painter of Miracles

USA 2010, 149 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed - street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged - was a profound and revolutionary innovation that lefts its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on ... Weiterlesen

Wolfgang v. Wangenheim: Der verworfene Stein

Winckelmanns Leben. D 2005, 332 S., geb., € 27.65
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann stand als Begründer der klassischen Archäologie und Kunstwissenschaftler am epochalen Stilumbruch vom Barock zum Klassizismus. Seine bahnbrechende Arbeit zur Kunst in der griechischen Antike hat an Gültigkeit bis heute nichts eingebüßt. Aus bis heute nicht geklärten Gründen fiel Winckelmann auf einer Italienreise 1768 einem Mordanschlag zum Opfer. Wangenheim deutet dieses erstaunliche Leben und Wirken, indem er Winckelmanns ... Weiterlesen

Gerald Clarke: Capote

USA 2005, 636 pp., brochure, € 18.49
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The new major motion picture dealing with Capote is based on this biography of the gay author of »In Cold Blood« and »Breakfast at Tiffany's«. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Capote as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York ... Weiterlesen

James Robert Parish: Katharine Hepburn - The Untold Story

USA 2005, 328 pp., hardcover, € 25.30
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One of the most singular performers of the 20th century, Hepburn was known as a no-nonsense woman who flouted the rules of stardom. Yet her biographer believes her mannish attitudes, attire, and manners were far more indicative of her sexual nature than a reflection of her role as a pioneering feminist. According to the biographer, Hepburn's offstage image as a ... Weiterlesen