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

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

My Years in Paris. UK 2015, 263 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

UK 2015, 505 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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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

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

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

USA 2014, 468 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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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

A Memoir of My Father. UK 2014, 272 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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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

UK 2013, 374 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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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

UK 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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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

A Gay History. D 2013, 224 S. mit zahlreichen S/W- u. farb. Abb., engl./dt. Text, geb., € 40.99
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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

UK 2013, 623 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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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

J. H. Trumble: Just Between Us

USA 2012, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Kensington
17-year-old Luke Chesser is trying to forget his spectacular failure of a love life. He practices marching band moves for hours in the hot Texan sun, deals with his disapproving father, and slyly checks out the new band field tech, Curtis Cameron. Before long, Luke is falling harder than he knew he could. And this time, he intends to play ... Weiterlesen

Trebor Healey: A Horse Named Sorrow

USA 2012, 275 pp, hardbound, € 29.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the strong and self-possessed Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may finally be taking a turn for the better. But the ensuing romance proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 392 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not the way he would like them to be. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for. The other men he takes to bed never stay for long. Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to ... Weiterlesen

Lesley-A. Jones: Mercury

An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury. USA 2012, 352pp. with numerous b/w + colour photographs, hardbound, € 24.39
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Touchstone
As lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's unmatched skills as a songwriter and his flamboyant showmanship made him a superstar and Queen a household name. But despite his worldwide fame, few people ever glimpsed the man behind the glittering facade. Now, more than 20 years after his death, those closest to Mercury are finally opening up ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 393 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
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

Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World

UK 2012, 344 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Michael Cunningham's celebrated novel is the story two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself, and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father ... Weiterlesen