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Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls

UK 2017, 317 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Serpent´s Tail
Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of 20th- century. In »Before Night Falls«, Arenas tells of his odyssey from young rebel ... Weiterlesen

Tim Murphy: Christodora

Tim Murphy: Christodora

USA 2017, 432 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Picador
The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbour, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly's and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, the couple's adopted son, Mateo, grows to appreciate the ... Weiterlesen

Avram Finkelstein: After Silence

Avram Finkelstein: After Silence

A History of AIDS Through Its Images. USA 2017, 248 pp. illustrated, hardcover, € 27.95
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University of California Press
Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words »Silence = Death«. The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used to brand the entire movement. Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how ... Weiterlesen

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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Little Brown
This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series »When We Rise« from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

Jonas Gardell (R): Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves

Jonas Gardell (R): Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves

SE 2013, engl. SF, engl. UT, 300 Min., € 19.99
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Three-part Swedish drama about a young gay couple living in the 1980s and the impact AIDS has on their lives. After moving to Stockholm for university, 19-year-old Rasmus explores the local gay scene and eventually meets Benjamin, a Jehovah's Witness who is having trouble dealing with his homosexuality. The two fall for each other and start living together but Rasmus ... Weiterlesen
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Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss. UK 2015, 200 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Taylor and Francis
This book discusses the significance of late 20th century and early 21st century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the ... Weiterlesen

Larry Kramer: Search for My Heart, No.1

Larry Kramer: Search for My Heart, No.1

USA 2015, 800 pp., hardback, € 39.99
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Forty years in the making, »The American People« embodies Larry Kramer's vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of »Faggots« and »The Normal Heart«, Kramer has affected American lives and letters. Here he tells the heroic story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease yet host ... Weiterlesen

Brad Gooch: Smash Cut

Brad Gooch: Smash Cut

A Memoir of Howard and Art and the 70s and the 80s. USA 2015, 239 pp., hardback, € 27.99
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Harper Collins
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. At the center of this memoir is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply of emotions, from blazing ecstasy to bleakest despair. Gooch and Brookner's intense relationship is haunted by the specter ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Inside a Pearl

Edmund White: Inside a Pearl

My Years in Paris. UK 2015, 263 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was 43 years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

UK 2015, 505 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Summer 1983: the young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens - Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine, the critic and rebel of the ... Weiterlesen

Martin Duberman: Hold Tight Gently

Martin Duberman: Hold Tight Gently

Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS. USA/UK 2014, 356 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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New Press
In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence. For others, it was too late. In the U.S. alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications - among them the singer Michael Callen and the ... Weiterlesen

Sean Straub: Body Counts

Sean Straub: Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival. USA 2014, 420 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 28.99
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Scribner
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in ... Weiterlesen

Tom Spanbauer: I Love You More

Tom Spanbauer: I Love You More

USA 2014, 468 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In New York, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil, Hank. Years later in Portland, a now ill Ben falls for Ruth, who provides the care and devotion he needs, though they cannot find true happiness together. Then Hank reappears and meets Ruth, and real trouble starts. Set against a world of struggling artists, the ... Weiterlesen

Alysia Abbott: Fairyland

Alysia Abbott: Fairyland

A Memoir of My Father. UK 2014, 272 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton
After his wife's death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott came out of the closet and moved, with his three-year-old daughter, to San Francisco. There they discover a city bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom have responsibility for a child. Steve throws himself into the city's vibrant poetry scene performing, publishing and building ... Weiterlesen

Guillaume Dustan: The Works Volume 1: Novels: In My Room, I'm Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me

Guillaume Dustan: The Works Volume 1: Novels: In My Room, I'm Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me

UK 2013, 374 pp., brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
semiotext(e)
Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS. This volume collects a suite of three wildly entertaining and trailblazing short novels by the legendary French anti-assimilationist gay writer Guillaume Dustan. Published sequentially in France between 1996 and 1998, the three novels are exuberant and ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

UK 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
It's 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any other time but this one: she has lost her beloved gay twin brother, Felix, to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and cannot seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggests an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into her relationship, her conflicting ... Weiterlesen

Paul Schulz und Christian Lütjens: Positive Pictures

Paul Schulz und Christian Lütjens: Positive Pictures

A Gay History. D 2013, 224 S. mit zahlreichen S/W- u. farb. Abb., engl./dt. Text, geb., € 40.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Bruno Gmünder
Aids ist eine Krankheit, ein Schock, ein Tabu - doch dieses Buch gibt Aids nun viele Gesichter und zeigt eine - unsere - Kultur, die sich um den Umgang mit der Krankheit gebildet hat. Im Lauf der Jahrzehnte wurden Entwicklungen deutlich: wie ging Gay Porn mit Aids um? Wie setzten sich Künstler und Filmemacher mit der Krankheit auseinander? Wie stellten ... Weiterlesen
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John Irving: In One Person

John Irving: In One Person

UK 2013, 623 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan
John Irving's 13th novel tells the outrageous story of bisexual novelist Billy Abbott, who comes of age in the uptight 1950s and explores his sexuality through the decades into the plague-ridden 1980s and finally to a more positive present day. Sexual confusion sets in early for Billy, simultaneously attracted to both the female librarian and golden boy wrestler Jacques Kittredge, ... Weiterlesen

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