Timothy Conigrave: Holding the Man

USA 2007, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Mart Crowley: The Band Plays

USA 2003, 249 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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In 1968 the most famous play ever written about homosexuality, »The Boys in the Band«, made its stage debut, turning playwright Mart Crowley into an instant legend. More than three decades later, the characters from »The Boys in the Band« took the stage again in »The Men from the Boys«. In this sequel, Crowley's infamous circle of gay friends (minus ... Weiterlesen

Tom Spanbauer: In the City of Shy Hunters

USA 2002, 512 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»In the City of Shy Hunters« is a portrait of New York in the 1980s. Shy, gay and afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape the provincial western towns where he grew up. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for the first time by people who understand and celebrate ... Weiterlesen

David Feinberg: Eighty-Sixed

USA 2002, 326 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Gay classic dealing with the onslaught of AIDS now available again! In 1980, B.J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically - his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire ... Weiterlesen

Bill Sherwood (R): Parting Glances

USA 1986, engl. OF, 90 min., € 29.99
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First Run
The story concerns two gay men, Michael and Robert, who have been lovers for years. Robert is being transferred out of the country to work for an international organization in Africa for two years, leaving his lover Michael behind. Michael has now to take care of his former lover Nick on his own. Nick is dying of AIDS. So begins ... Weiterlesen

Tony Kushner: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer

USA 1995, 224 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Theatre Communications Group
In this first collection of writings by Tony Kushner, including his play »Slavs!«, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright grapples with the timeless issues of bigotry, war, faith, love, as well as tackling the contemporary topics as AIDS, gay rights and the moral horrors of the Gulf War.

Tony Kushner: Angels in America - Millenium Approaches - Perestroika

USA 1995, 289 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. Both parts (»Millenium Approaches« and »Perestroika« in one paperback volume) of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in the 1980s. A vast, miraculous play, provocative, witty and deeply upsetting. A searching and radical rethinking of American political drama, wrote Frank Rich in »The New York Times«. HBO Films present Angels in America, directed by Mike ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Derek Jarman's Garden

With photographs by Howard Sooley. UK 1995, 144 pp., hardcover, € 29.95
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Thames and Hudson
»Derek Jarman's Garden« is the last book Jarman ever wrote. It is a fitting memorial to a brilliant and greatly loved artist and film maker who, against all odds, made a breathtakingly beautiful garden in the most inhospitable of places - the flat, bleak, often desolate expanse of shingle overlooked by the Dungeness nuclear power station. Here is Jarman's own ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Picador
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote »Illness as Metaphor«, a classic work described by Newsweek as »one of the most liberating books of its time«. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman (R): The Garden

UK 1990, OF, 86 Min., € 29.99
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Derek Jarman's »The Garden« is a collection of images dealing with homosexuality and Christianity in experimental fashion, with Jarman's own presence integral to the film. At its heart is a passion play. Themes such as AIDS, repression, police brutality and the end of the world are also explored.

John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts

CD mit 11 Tracks, € 19.99
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Bella Union
John Grant ist ein schwuler, HIV positiver und vielseitig begabter Songwriter aus Denver, Colorado. Sein zweites Soloalbum hat er auf Island produziert - um nebenbei Isländisch zu lernen und seine Bewunderung für isländische Musikkünstler damit auszudrücken. Auch versuchte er seine Depressionen in den Griff zu bekommen, die er darauf zurückführt, dass man ihm eingeimpft hat, dass Schwulsein etwas Schlechtes und ... Weiterlesen

Various Artists: Red Hot + Rio 2

2 CDs mit insg. 20 Tracks, € 21.95
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Das Motto von Red Hot + Rio 2 ist wie auch im Fall von RH+R 1 »Proteja se« - sich beim Sex mit Kondomen schützen! Also die zentrale Botschaft der Aidsprävention - heute so wichtig wie immer! Ein Teil der Erlöse aus dem Verkauf der CDs gehen an internationale Aidshilfeorganisationen. Musikalisch ist Red Hot + Rio 2 ein stark modernisiertes ... Weiterlesen

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman (R): Common Threads

Stories from the Quilt. USA 1989, OF, 79 min. + Bonusmat. 52 min. , € 19.99
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Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman created this documentary with the cumulative emotional impact of great tragedy - narrated by Dustin Hoffman and featuring the original score composed and performed by Bobby McFerrin. In the late 1970s, a mysterious new disease began infecting and killing gay men. »Common Threads« tells the story of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, as ... Weiterlesen