Chris Glaser: As My Own Soul

The Blessing of Same-Gender Marriage. USA 2009, 150 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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Ever wonder why marriage for same-gender couples generates such passion? Why is it so important to gay people? And why is it felt as an attack on »traditional« marriage by others? Writing accessibly for the general reader, the author narrows it down - first to taboos around sexuality, then to taboos around the sacred. Glaser presents the many contexts in ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Reborn

Early Diaries 1947-1963. UK 2009, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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This first volume of Sontag's private journals is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontag's writing - extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity. At 15, when these journals began, Sontag already displayed her ferocious intellect and hunger for experience and culture, though we're watching Sontag grow into one of the century's leading minds. Sontag details her ... Weiterlesen

David M. Halperin, Valerie Traub (eds.): Gay Shame

USA 2009, 395 pp. + DVD »Gay Shame«, brochure , € 79.95
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For half a century, »gay pride« has been the rallying cry of the lesbian and gay rights movement. But has something been lost in the drive to transform homosexuality from a perversion to an identity - the sort of identity that decent people can be proud of? Has homosexuality become too respectable for its own good? This book seeks to ... Weiterlesen

Heather Love: Feeling Backward

Loss and the Politics of Queer History. USA/UK 2009, 196 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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Harvard University Press
Now that, in the latest twist of tolerance, gays are required to flaunt their well-adjustedness, this book may feel backward indeed as it cotemplates the pain, anger, isolation, and sheer crankiness prominent in literary figures of our queer past. It weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Ching, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor (eds.): The Scandal of Susan Sontag

USA 2009, 264 pp., brochure, € 33.95
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature - the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects - theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness - and courted celebrity and ... Weiterlesen

Kate Clinton: I Told You so

USA 2009, 189 pp., hardbound, € 19.99
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This is a hilarious, bittersweet and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the island. Clinton's new collection spans topics like: ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: At the Same Time

USA 2008, 256 pp., pb., € 22.95
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Penguin UK
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. »At the Same Time« gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the ... Weiterlesen

Dagmar Herzog: Sex in Crisis

USA 2008, 249 pp., hardbound, € 21.39
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The religious right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evengelical christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is definitively no. Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, Americans appear ... Weiterlesen

Ellen DeGeneres: My Point ... and I Do Have One

USA 2007, 211 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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New edition of this classic book (1996) out of the hand of the world's #1 lesbian comedian: Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles - including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we're so scared of the boogeyman - to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen's ... Weiterlesen

Reichen Lehmkuhl: Here's What We'll Say

Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. USA 2007, 346 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Reichen Lehmkuhl tried to find success acting in film and TV. However, he played the biggest role of his life long before his professional acting debut , when he was forced to hide his sexuality to comply with the Air Force's »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« policy. Reichen tells his story of what happens when cadets who are committed to serving ... Weiterlesen

Reichen Lehmkuhl: Here's What He'll Say

USA 2007, 346 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Reichen Lehmkuhl tried to find success acting in film and TV. However, he played the biggest role of his life long before his professional acting debut , when he was forced to hide his sexuality to comply with the Air Force's »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« policy. Reichen tells his story of what happens when cadets who are committed to serving ... Weiterlesen

Wayne R. Besen: Bashing Back

USA 2007, 208 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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In »Bashing Back« the outspoken author and activist Wayne Besen delivers a »left hook« to the conservative spin on culture, politics, and people. Funny, provocative, and informative, this compilation of 72 columns puts a progressive spin on hot-button topics in the political, cultural, and social arenas. It presents an A-to-Z look at Besen's worldview, including AIDS, Bill O'Reilly, »Brokeback Mountain«, ... Weiterlesen

Jennifer Baumgardner: Look Both Ways

USA 2007, 244 pp., hardback, € 23.95
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Bisexuality has always been more than »the sexual non-preference of the '90s«. In her book, the author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner takes a close look at gay and bisexual people on the national cultural stage and the issues their growing visibility raises, particularly for younger women navigating the murky waters of identity. In a society supposedly grown more open and ... Weiterlesen

Clayton Sullivan: Rescuing Sex From the Christians

USA 2006, 132 pp., brochure, € 19.39
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Why has the church over that centuries exhibited a hostile attitude toward sex? Sullivan argues that early Christian theologians failed to understand the mythic characted of Adam and Eve. Too often these religious thinkers depicted the soul and body as constantly at war with one another, portraying the body as evil and disgusting. In his typical fiery fashion, Sullivan blames ... Weiterlesen

Keith Boykin: Beyond the Down Low

USA 2006, 311 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Writer and activist Boykin addresses what he sees as the implicitly racist and homophobic undertones of the media's coverage. He offers a point-by-point refutation of King's take »On the Down Low«, Boykin accuses King of serving up another »stereotypical image of black men as pathological liars, surreptitiously satisfying their primitive sexual cravings by cheating on their wives«. Boykin details how ... Weiterlesen

Kenji Yoshino: Covering

The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. USA 2010, 285 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, melds autobiography and legal scholarship in this book, marking a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics. In questioning the phenomenon of »covering«, a term used for the coerced hiding of crucial aspects of one's self, Yoshino thrusts the ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: In a Queer Time & Place

USA 2005, 213 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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In her first book since the critically acclaimed »Female Masculinity«, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms - especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and ... Weiterlesen

Jimmy Carter: Our Endangered Values

America's Moral Crisis. USA 2005, 213 pp., cloth, € 23.95
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Jimmy Carter - the 39th president of the United States and a »born again« evangelical Christian - offers in this book a personal consideration of »moral values« as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the U.S. is heading as the ... Weiterlesen