David Leavitt: Shelter in Place

UK 2020, 369 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Bloomsbury
It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Barry: A Thousand Moons

USA 2020, 272 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Faber and Faber
Narrated by Winona - the young Lakota orphan adopted by gay soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole in »Days Without End« - »A Thousand Moons« continues Sebastian Barry's extraordinary fictional exploration of late nineteenth century America. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, educated and loved, Winona is employed by the lawyer Briscoe in ... Weiterlesen

Casey McQuiston: Red, White and Royal Blue

USA 2019, 421 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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SMP
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President of the United States, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius - his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an ... Weiterlesen

Rebecca Makkai: The Great Believers

USA 2020, 422 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Fleet
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after ... Weiterlesen

Dustin Lance Black: Mama's Boy

A Story From Our Americas. UK 2019, 416 pp., hardback, € 19.95
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Hodder and Stoughton
From the screenwriter (»Milk«), political activist and husband of Olympic diver Tom Daley, a memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all odds. Black helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage »Proposition 8«, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins. Raised in ... Weiterlesen

Robert W. Fieseler: Tinderbox

The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. USA 2019, 384 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, the author chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of gay men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented ... Weiterlesen

Jason Bauman (ed.): Love and Resistance

Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era. USA 2019, 224 pp. with numerous photographs, hardcover, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
A ragtag group of women behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, »Hi Mom, Guess What!« at an LGBT rights rally. Two lovers kissing under a tree. These images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin ... Weiterlesen

Jedidiah Jenkins: To Shake the Sleeping Self

A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret. USA 2018, 333 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Penguin USA
On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In ... Weiterlesen

Joshua Whitehead: Jonny Appleseed

USA 2018, 223 pp., pb., € 17.95
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»You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine« is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer, repeats to himself. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, ... Weiterlesen

Joshua Whitehead: Full-Metal Indigiqueer

USA 2017, 119 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Using binary code and texts from classics of the English language such as Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Joshua Whitehead unravels the coded »I« to trace the formation of a colonized self and reclaim representations of Indigenous texts. - Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of the Peguis First Nation.

Dooney, Phyllis: Gravity Is Stronger Here

D 2016, 200 pp., hardbound, € 51.30
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Kehrer
Die Fotografin Phyllis B. Dooney hat fünf Jahre lang den Alltag einer lesbischen Tochter in einer konservativen Familie aus Mississippi dokumentiert. Angeführt von ihrer offen lesbischen Tochter Halea träumt die Familie Brown, während sie gegen den stillen Sog der Armut und der sich stets wiederholenden häuslichen Abläufe ankämpfen. Berauscht von der Luft des Mississippi-Deltas, behaupten die Südstaatler, hier sei die ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: Boys of Life

USA 2016, 322 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis
Discover a compelling novel of innocence, betrayal, redemption and revenge in this re-publishing of »Boys of Life«. Tony is a young gay country boy with big dreams who's utterly bored with the tedium of Kentucky life. So it's no wonder he's seduced by the smooth-talking Carlos Reichart, who convinces the young man to run away with him to New York ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Barry: Days Without End

USA 2016, 259 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Discovering the love they share for each other they start a life together. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days of war to be vivid ... Weiterlesen

David Treuer: Prudence

USA 2016, 253 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Penguin USA
In August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, heading for Europe. Awaiting him are his hovering mother, his distant father, the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own, and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has ... Weiterlesen

Adrian Brooks: The Right Side of History

100 Years of LGBTQI Activism. USA 2015, 242 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis
How queer activists changed the United States of America, before, during and after Stonewall. Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as »willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed«, »On The Right Side of History« sets itself apart from oral histories by pinpointing how LGBTQ folk have been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States, bringing attention ... 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

Langdon Hammer: James Merrill

Life and Art. USA 2015, 944 pp., hardback, € 39.99
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Knopf
American poet James Merrill was born to high privilege and high expectations. Wounded by his parents' bitter divorce, he was the child of a broken home, looking for repair in poetry and love. He was a gay man inventing his identity against the grain of American society during the eras of the closet, gay liberation, and AIDS. Above all, he ... Weiterlesen

Larry Kramer: Search for My Heart, No.1

USA 2015, 800 pp., hardback, € 39.99
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Forty years in the making, »The American People« embodies Larry Kramer's vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of »Faggots« and »The Normal Heart«, Kramer has affected American lives and letters. Here he tells the heroic story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease yet host ... Weiterlesen