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

Larry Kramer: The Normal Heart

UK 2021 (Reprint), 79 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Nick Hern
Larry Kramer's drama is a polemical, argumentative, witty and contentious play about the political and emotional consequences of the AIDS crisis. It is set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It follows the efforts of one man, while his friends are dying around him, to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from ... Weiterlesen

Susan Knabe and Wendy G. Pearson: Zero Patience

CAN 2011, 183pp. with b&w film stills, brochure, € 15.99
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient Zero, the male flight attendant accused in Randy Shilts' book »And the Band Played on« of bringing the AIDS crisis to North America. This book provides a guided tour of the ... Weiterlesen

Hervé Guibert: Photographien

D 2011, 224 S., Schwarzweiß, geb., € 41.00
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Schirmer/Mosel
Als 7jähriger begann Hervé Guibert mit dem Fotografieren. 1977 fing er an, in »Le Monde« eine Serie von Texten zur Fotografie zu veröffentlichen. Wort und Bild, Schreiben und Fotografieren war für ihn zeitlebens untrennbar miteinander verbunden. Beide Disziplinen waren für ihn gleichwertig und wirkten auf ihn wechselseitig inspirierend. Anlässlich einer Retrospektive in Paris, wurden die schönsten Bilder des mit 35 ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Kicking the Pricks

USA 2010, 251 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 16.95
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University of Minnesota Press
The provocative title of the 4th volume of Jarman's journals suggests a look back in anger and defiance of the conventional. It is, but it is also rich in wit, intellect, and a clearly articulated aesthetic. Written while editing his film »The Last of England« and originally entitled that in Britain, this 1st American edition goes by the uncompromising title ... Weiterlesen

Tristan Garcia: Hate

A Romance. Transl. by M. Duvert & L. Stein. UK 2010, 273 pp., brochure, € 15.20
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Paris in the 80s. Four friends. Three men and one woman. Two affairs that destroy a life. In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, the author uses sex, friendships and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals - Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: City Boy

My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. UK/D/USA/AUS 2010, 297pp., Pb, € 19.95
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When Edmund White left the Midwest after college he had an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. Instead, he followed a lover to New York City. There he arrives broke and unknown, struggling to express himself as a gay man even as he holds out hope of being »cured«. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, White witnesses the ... Weiterlesen