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

Martin Sixsmith: Philomena

UK 2009, 452 pp. pb, € 10.40
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Being a pregnant teenager Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and ... Weiterlesen

Tim Dean: Unlimited Intimacy

Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. USA 2009, 237 pp., brochure, € 31.95
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Barebacking (when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex) has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Dorian

UK 2009, 278 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Set against the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, Will Self's »Dorian« is a shameless reworking of our most significant myth of shamelessness. It is the summer of 1981 and Henry Wotton, uneasily gay, egregiously drug addicted, and queasily snobbish, is at the center of a Chelsea clique dedicated to timeless dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, a sometime Warhol ... Weiterlesen

Ken Nielsen: Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Uk 2008, 136 pp., brochure, € 19.49
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»Angels in America« paved a new way for American theatre in its combination of heightened theatricality and politics. Tony Kushner has emerged as one of the American theatre's leading playwrights and productions worldwide have meant the play has become recognised as the most important American play in decades. With the scope of characters' sexual, class and religious affiliations in the ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver Lives

UK 2008, 335 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in the classic »Tales of the City« series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost 20 years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Having survived the plague that took so many of his ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: And the Band Played on

Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. USA 2007 (Reprint), 630 pp., brochure, € 22.99
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It was the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examined the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first 5 years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, that he claims cut funding, ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Conigrave: Holding the Man

USA 2007, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Sometimes there are second acts, when Timothy Conigrave falls in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo, the two embark on a passionate journey of love, betrayal and forgiveness that was meant to last 15 years. With honesty and insight, »Holding the Man« explores the highs and lows of their life partnership: the intimacy, constraints, temptations, and ... Weiterlesen

Rock Hudson, Sara Davidson: Rock Hudson: His Story

USA 2007, 234 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Throughout his career, Rock Hudson kept his private life private. However, when it became known in 1985 that he had AIDS, his first concern was that the public know the real story of his life. Drawing on interviews with Rock Hudson, his letters, photographs, documents (including his 30 years' worth of scrapbooks kept by his mother), and unlimited access to ... Weiterlesen

Peter Gill: Body Count

Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe. USA 2006, 217 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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25 years. 25 million dead. 40 million infected. AIDS is the world's most catastrophic epidemic. This book explains how millions could have been saved if the world had responded properly to the crisis. Politicians and religious leaders in both the rich and poor countries have failed to protect their people from the disease. Simple messages about safe sex and condoms ... Weiterlesen

Dale Peck: Martin and John

USA 2006, 228 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Reprint of a classic coming-of-age tale that is also a haunting love story set in the very near past. New York, 1982: John is a hustler and falls in love with Martin, who becomes ill with AIDS. Martin dies two years later. To order his new existence without Martin, John starts to keep a journal and then to write stories. ... Weiterlesen

Greg Louganis: Breaking the Surface

USA 2006, 306 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Revised update of the 1995 bestselling autobiography of athlete, four-time Olympic gold medalist, and gay role model, Greg Louganis: he won back-to-back double gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, and his amazing physique and handsome face should have made him a media superstar. Yet Louganis's struggles with self-doubt lack of confidence held him back personally and professionally. He ... Weiterlesen

Mike Nichols (R): Angels in America

Screenplay by Tony Kushner. TV Mini Series. USA 2003, engl. OF, engl./schwed./portug./hebr. UT, 337 min., € 14.99
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HBO
HBO's highly acclaimed heavyweight six-hour TV drama, adapted from two Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway plays by Tony Kushner, »The Millennium Approaches« and »Perestroika«. Kushner also wrote the screenplay for the TV adaptation, which stars Hollywood stalwarts Al Pacino and Meryl Streep alongside British actors Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow. Set in a turbulent New York City in the mid-1980s, ... Weiterlesen