Kerry Eleveld: Don't Tell Me to Wait

How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama's Presidency. USA 2015, 368 pp., hardbound, € 27.99
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Perseus Group
Gay rights has been a defining progressive issue of Barack Obama's presidency: Congress repealed »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« in 2010 with his strong support, and in 2011, he instructed his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, helping to pave the way for a series of Supreme Court decisions that ultimately legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. This succession ... Weiterlesen

Michelangelo Signorile: It's Not Over

Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality. USA 2015, 272 pp., hardback, € 27.99
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory is now inevitable, the author marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. ... Weiterlesen

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists

UK 2014, 52 pp., pb., € 8.95
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What does »feminism« mean today? That is the question at the heart of »We Should All Be Feminists«, a personal, eloquently-argued essay - adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of »Americanah« and »Half of a Yellow Sun«. With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition ... Weiterlesen

John D'Emilio: In a New Century

Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life. USA 2014, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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A pioneering scholar of gay history, John D'Emilio reflects in this wide-ranging collection of essays upon the social, cultural, and political changes provoked by LGBT activism. He offers provocative questions and historical analyses: What can we learn from a life-long activist like Bayard Rustin, who questioned the wisdom of »identity politics«? Was Richard Nixon a »gay liberationist«? How can knowing ... Weiterlesen

Gayletter

Zeitschrift, halbjährlich, € 24.99
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Lifestyle - photography - art - opinion.

Joel Derfner: Lawfully Wedded Husband

How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family. USA 2013, 248 pp., hardback, € 26.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly, however, and before long the two were on what they expected to be a rollicking journey to married bliss. What they didn't realize was that, along the way, they would confront not just the dilemmas every couple faces on the ... Weiterlesen

Julia Serano: Excluded

USA 2013, 327 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of lesbians and gay men dismissing bisexuals, transgender people, and other gender and sexual minorities. In each case, exclusion is based on the premise ... Weiterlesen

John Corvino: What's Wrong with Homosexuality?

USA 2013, 170 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Oxford University Press
Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the bible condemn it? Does it matter whether gay people are »born this way«? The author has traversed the country responding to such questions. In this book, he makes the case for the moral value of same-sex relationships while offering insight into the ongoing culture wars. Many opponents object that same-sex relionships were morally wrong, or ... Weiterlesen

Shiri Eisner: Bi

Notes for a Bisexual Revolution. USA 2013, 345 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Seal
Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. In this forward-thinking and eye-opening examination, feminist bisexual and genderqueer activist Shiri Eisner takes readers on a journey through the many aspects of the meanings and politics of bisexuality. Informed by feminist, transgender, and queer theory, as well as ... Weiterlesen

Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor (eds.): The Marrying Kind?

Debating Same-Sex Marriage Within the Lesbian and Gay Movement. USA 2013, 416 pp., brochure, € 34.99
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University of Minnesota Press
As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely debated within the LGBT community. This book draws on empirical research to examine these debates and how they are affecting marriage equality campaigns. The essays in this volume analyze the rhetoric, strategies, ... 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

Jeff Chu: Does Jesus Really Love Me?

A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. USA 2013, 353 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Harper Collins
When Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his devout Christian mother cried. Every time she looked at him. For months. As a journalist and a believer, Chu knew that he had to get to the heart of a question that had been haunting him for years: does Jesus really love me? The quest to find ... Weiterlesen

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.): Why Are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots?

Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform. USA 2012, 212 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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AK Press
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into ... Weiterlesen

Justin Lee: Unconditional

Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs-Christians Debate. UK 2012, 234 pp., brochure, € 18.99
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Hodder and Stoughton
Justin Lee is the founder and executive director of »The Gay Christian Network« (GCN), a non-profit, interdenominational organisation working to increase dialogue between gays and Christians and support people on both sides wrestling with related issues. As a passionate Christian from a conservative evangelical Bible Belt background, Justin thought he knew everything there was to know about the Christian approach ... Weiterlesen

Stephanie Staal: Reading Women

How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life. USA 2011, 278 pp., brochure, € 15.39
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The first time Stephanie Staal read feminist authors like Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, she was a 19-year-old student taking a Feminism 101 class, her eyes as wide as the horizon of limitless possibility that stretched in front of her. A decade later, Stephanie is a wife and mother who has traded the stability and independence of full-time work ... Weiterlesen

Geoffrey Robertson: The Case of the Pope

Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse. UK/USA 2010, 228pp., brochure, € 5.99
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This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy ... 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

Susan S. Douglas: Enlightened Sexism

The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done. USA 2010, 355 pp., hardbound, € 21.59
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This look at our pop-culture icons reveals the unfinished business of the women's movement. Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must be either strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. This book takes readers on a journey through TV Programs, popular songs, movies, and news coverage ... Weiterlesen