Adam Eli: The New Queer Conscience

UK 2020, 64 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Penguin UK - Pocket Change Collective
Activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility - that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere. Adam Eli offers a candid and compassionate introduction to queer responsibility. Eli calls on his Jewish faith to underline how kindness and support within the queer community can lead to a stronger global consciousness. More importantly, he reassures us that we're ... Weiterlesen

José Esteban Munoz: Cruising Utopia

USA 2019, 253 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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New York University Press
»Cruising Utopia« arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Munoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the ... Weiterlesen

Amelia Abraham: Queer Intentions

A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture. UK 2019, 326 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Picador
Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it's cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren't so advanced? ... Weiterlesen

Juno Roche: Trans Power

Own Your Gender. UK 2019, 256 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Jessica Kingsley
»I feel trans.« - In this radical and emotionally raw book, Juno Roche pushes the boundaries of trans representation by redefining »trans« as an identity with its own power and strength, that goes beyond the gender binary. Through intimate conversations with leading and influential figures in the trans community, such as Kate Bornstein, Travis Alabanza, Josephine Jones, Glamrou and E-J ... Weiterlesen

Niharika Banerjea / Kath Browne / Eduarda Ferreira: Lesbian Feminism

Essays Opposing the Global Heteropatriarchy. USA 2019, 332 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Zed
Drawing on the wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist. These ... Weiterlesen

Pam Mitchell (ed.): Pink Triangles

Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation. UK 2018, 192 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Verso
»To link socialism and lesbianism is to link the unpopular with the taboo« - Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across this spectacularly wide ranging collection, each essay shares two fundamental premises. First, that the oppression of gays and lesbians is not an isolated case, and therefore their ... Weiterlesen

Aubrey Walter (ed.): Come Together

Years of Gay Liberation. UK 2018, 224 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Verso
On the origins of European queer politics, »Come Together« tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices it gave rise to across the United Kingdom. Before marriage equality or military service, »Come Together« reminds us of paths forged but not ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Escoffier: American Homo

Community and Perversity. UK 2018, 288 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Verso
An account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society. The author tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism coursing through American culture and the virulent periodic outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success enables a new disciplinary ... Weiterlesen

Mario Mieli: Towards a Gay Communism

Elements of a Homosexual Critique. UK 2018, 272 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Pluto
First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's book is a landmark of revolutionary queer theory. Among the most important works ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia and capitalism, Mieli's essay continues to pose a radical challenge to today's dominant queer theory and politics. With extraordinary prescience, Mieli exposes the efficiency with which capitalism co-opts »perversions« which are ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

USA 2017, 144 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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ixia press
Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to ... Weiterlesen

James Martin: Building a Bridge

How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. USA 2017, 150 pp., hardbound, € 19.99
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Harper Collins
On the day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, the author posted a video on Facebook in which he called for solidarity with our LGBT brothers and sisters. A powerful call for tolerance, acceptance, and support - and a reminder of Jesus' message for anyone to love one another - Father Martin's post went viral. Now, Martin expands on his reflections, ... Weiterlesen

Mona Eltahawy: Headscarves and Hymens

Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. UK 2016, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson
»Headscarves and Hymens« explodes the myth that we should stand back and watch while women are disempowered and abused in the name of religion. In this laceratingly honest account, Eltahawy takes aim both at attitudes in the Middle East and at the western liberals who mistake misogyny for cultural difference. Her argument is clear: unless political revolution in the Arab ... Weiterlesen

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