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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Michelangelo Signorile: Hitting Hard

USA 2005, 309 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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Signorile pursues controversy with verve in this briskly penned collection of essays and columns, many of which originally appeared in Out Magazine or The Advocate. Most important are his essays on same-sex couples in the South, the difficulties of the gay rights movement in Italy, the eventful lives of gay male truckers, and a tough-minded high school student in Fayetteville, ... Weiterlesen

Kate Clinton: What the L?

USA 2005, 264 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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This essay collection chronicles what happened to lots of Ls: lesbians, liberals, leftists, lawyers, Ellen, lifestylists, leaders, lords, liars, lapsed catholics, lovers and losers in the reign of W II. These essays are written from the perspective of, to paraphrase a certain former governor of New Jersey, a Lesbian American. Kate Clinton is a very popular lesbian comic living under ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: Beneath the Skin

USA 2004, 305 pp., brochure, € 17.49
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A boost in Rechy's literary visibility following the 2002 biography »Outlaw« makes the time ripe for this career-spanning collection of essays. The anthology organizes its pieces generally by decade with occasional afterthoughts. One of the goals is to demonstrate Rechy's versatility beyond the homosexual themes (from AIDS to homosexuality in film) that made him famous. The anthology includes a reportage ... Weiterlesen

Richard Goldstein: Homocons

The Rise of the Gay Right. UK/USA 2003, 113 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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This book rages against the move towards the conservative, assimilationist politics promoted by some gay men and lesbians - whom Goldstein has named »homocons« - and embraced by a liberal media all too eager to erase the progressive roots of the gay liberation movement. Besides its sheer cogency, the most notable thing about »Homocons« is, surprisingly, the generous patience with ... Weiterlesen

Mark D. Jordan: Telling Truths in Church

USA 2003, 121 pp., cloth, € 22.49
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The ongoing crisis in the Catholic church has revealed certain truths: truths in the memories of abused children and adolescents, and truths about the church's response - or lack of response - to evidence about the behavior of some of its priests. But Mark Jordan - the author of »The Silence of Sodom« - argues that for true reform to ... Weiterlesen

Eugene Kennedy: The Unhealed Wound

USA 2001, 214 pp., pb, € 15.84
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The leaders of the Catholic Church have failed to understand and embrace human sexuality. This dismissive, even condemnatory, attitude toward sex has caused great pain in millions of believers and has led to a church that is out of touch with its true spirituality and the spirituality of its people.