Andrew Haigh (R): Looking - Die komplette Serie - Season 1 und 2 - und der Film

USA 2014-2016, engl. OF, dt. SF, 5 DVDs, 626 min., € 24.95
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HBO
Im Mittelpunkt der beiden Staffeln der schwulen US-Serie steht eine Clique schwuler Freunde: Patrick, Agustín und Dom lieben und leben im heutigen San Francisco. Ihre Geschichten verweben sich bei ihrer Suche nach Lebensglück und Intimität in einer Epoche, die Schwulen Rechte und Möglichkeiten bietet wie nie zuvor. Das entscheidende Fundament dieses Serienmix besteht in der progressiven, unberechenbaren, sexuell freizügigen Kultur ... Weiterlesen

Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls

UK 2016, 274 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Serpent´s Tail
In this autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in anaudacious voice, made vivid and immediate in a lyrical language, »Chelsea Girls« cobbles together memories of Myles' 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed »lesbianity«, and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with ... Weiterlesen

Krista Beinstein: Sinfonie des Lebens

D 2016, 200 S., S/W, Broschur, € 25.65
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konkursbuch
In ihren neuen erotischen Fotoserien beschäftigt sich die provokante Künstlerin - wie schon seit den 1980er Jahren - unbeirrt mit weiblicher Lust. Diese limitierte Specialausgabe enthält auch ein Interview über ihr Leben und die Lust, sowie einer Auswahl ihrer allerersten Arbeiten über «Obszöne Frauen«. Fotografische Erzählungen von Leben und Tod, Spiegeln und Fetisch, Körper- und Geschlechterbildern zwischen Mensch und Tier, ... Weiterlesen

Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Tree

UK 2016, 336 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Granta Books
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does - born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. When their lesbian love is discovered, Ijeoma learns ... Weiterlesen

Jemimah Steinfeld: Little Emperors and Material Girls

Sex and Youth in Modern China. UK 2015, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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I.B. Tauris
Behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place in the bars, cafes and streets of China's mega-cities. The author meets the young people behind the world's fastest-moving nation to unveil their attitudes towards love, life and sexuality. Young Chinese have new words to describe the world they live in: »little emperors« - bossy and selfish single ... Weiterlesen

Ali Smith: Free Love and Other Stories

UK 1995, 150 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in these stories still find connections, words blowing in the street, and love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break ... Weiterlesen

Deutsches Historisches Museum / Schwules Museum (e: Homosexualität_en

Companion volume to the exhibitions at Deutsches Historisches Museum and Schwules Museum Berlin. D 2015, 224 pp., brochure, € 25.70
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Sandstein
The Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Schwules Museum present the exhibition »Homosexuality_ies« from 26 June to 1 December 2015. »Homosexuality_ies« documents 150 years of the history, politics and culture of homosexual women and men in Germany. The exhibition shows how same-sex sexuality and non-conformist gender identities have been criminalized through legislation, pathologized in medicine and excluded from society. It traces ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Cook: Kitty Genovese

The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America. USA 2015,242 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 15.95
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W. W. Norton
New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop - a murder the New York Times called »a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change«. The victim, Catherine »Kitty« Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of 38 neighbors who »didn't want to get involved«. Her sensational case ... Weiterlesen

Jin Haritaworn / Adi Kuntsman / Silvia Posocco (ed: Queer Necropolitics

UK 2015, 222 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Taylor and Francis
This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect. Moving between diverse geopolitical contexts - the US and the UK, Guatemala and Palestine, ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: The Days of Anna Madrigal

USA 2015, 270 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Black Swan
Anna Madrigal, the transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, is one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters. Now a fragile ninety-two and committed to the notion of »leaving like a lady«, Anna has seemingly found peace in the bosom of her logical family in San Francisco. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the other-worldly landscape of ... Weiterlesen

Bruno Barreto (R): Reaching for the Moon

Brasilien 2013, portug. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 118 Min., € 19.99
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Biopic about the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate, real-life love affair with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the bestselling novel »Rare and Commonplace Flowers«, the film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling ... Weiterlesen

Ellen DeGeneres: Seriously ... I'm Kidding

USA 2013, 243 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Hachette
The much-loved entertainer opens up about her personal life, her talk show, and joining the judges' table of »American Idol«. DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in »Mr. Wrong«, appeared in »EDtv« and »The Love Letter«, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film »Finding Nemo«, ... Weiterlesen

Violette Leduc: Thérèse and Isabelle

UK 2012, 134 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Charged with metaphors, alternating with precise descriptions of sensations and lesbian relationships, »Thérèse and Isabelle« was censored by its publisher in France in 1954, first published in a truncated version in 1966 and not until 2000 in its uncensored edition, as Violette Leduc intended. »I'm trying to express as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love. There's ... Weiterlesen

Craig M. Loftin (ed.): Letters to ONE

Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s. USA 2012, 238 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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SUNY
Long before the Stonewall riots, ONE magazine - the first openly gay magazine in the United States - offered a positive viewpoint of homosexuality and encouraged gay people to resist discrimination and persecution. Despite a limited monthly circulation of only a few thousand, the magazine influenced the substance, character, and tone of the early American gay rights movement. This book ... Weiterlesen

fiber (Hg.): Rampenfiber - feministisches Musikfestival

Ö 2012, OF, 2 DVDs (1: Der Film + 2: Die Konzerte), € 8.00
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fiber
Rampenfiber ist ein queer-feministisches Musikfestival, das sich aus dem Umfeld der Zeitschriftenkollektivs fiber (Werkstoff für Feminismus und Popkultur) entwickelt hat. Es hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, dem männlich dominierten, heteronormativen Mainstream im Musikbusiness etwas entgegenzustellen. Ende September 2009 fand Rampenfiber zum 2. Mal statt und bot ein dichtes Programm aus Diskussionen, Workshops, Filmen sowie abendlichen Konzerten und Performances. Es bot ... Weiterlesen

Lisa L. Moore: Sister Arts

The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. USA 2011, 244 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.95
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
In the great age of English garden design, 18th-century women working in the »sister arts« of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and ... Weiterlesen

David A. Gerstner (ed.): Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

UK/USA 2011, 720 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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Taylor and Francis
This encyclopedia covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject. The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of dance, education, film, health, homophobia, the Internet, literature, music, performance, and politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a ... Weiterlesen

Moe Meyer: An Archaeology of Posing

Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. USA 2010, 221pp., brochure, € 28.69
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book compiles two decades of new and previously published writing on gay culture by one of the field's most provocative and outspoken critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most queer theory, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear. He explores a variety of topics - ... Weiterlesen