Armistead Maupin: The Days of Anna Madrigal

USA 2015, 270 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Black Swan
Anna Madrigal, the transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, is one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters. Now a fragile ninety-two and committed to the notion of »leaving like a lady«, Anna has seemingly found peace in the bosom of her logical family in San Francisco. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the other-worldly landscape of ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: States of Desire Revisited

Travels in Gay America. USA 2014, 348 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
»States of Desire Revisited« looks back from the 21st century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS. Edmund White traveled America, recording impressions of gay individuals and communities that remain perceptive and captivating today. He noted ... Weiterlesen

Joseph P. Lash: Eleanor: The Years Alone

USA 2014, 352 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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W. W. Norton
Joseph P. Lash picks up where »Eleanor and Franklin« ended, tracing Mrs. Roosevelt's 17 years of life after FDR's death in 1945. Combining meticulous research with riveting anecdote, he examines the humanitarian work that earned Eleanor the title of »First Lady of the World«. Compared to »Eleanor & Franklin«, »Eleanor: The Years Alone« is tedious with a lot of minutae ... Weiterlesen

Sean Straub: Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival. USA 2014, 420 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 28.99
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Scribner
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in ... Weiterlesen

Paulette Callen: Charity

D 2013, 337 pp, brochure, € 14.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Charity Series 1
The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Backwards to Oregon

D 2013, 521 pp, brochure, € 19.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 1
»Luke« Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet ... Weiterlesen

Dale Carpenter: Flagrant Conduct

How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans. USA 2012, 347 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, hardbound, € 29.95
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W. W. Norton
No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in the judicial system and challenging the traditional conception of what makes a family. »Lawrence ... Weiterlesen

Scott Pasfield: Gay in America

USA 2011, 224 pp. with colour photographs, hardbound, € 44.95
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In this photographic survey of gay men in America, stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary gay life is revealed through personal portraits and narratives. Photographer Scott Pasfield traveled 54,000 miles across all 50 states over a 3-year span gathering stories and documenting the lives of 140 gay men from all walks of life. At ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

USA 2011, 345 pp. illustr., brochure, € 13.20
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Picador
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Michael Bronski: A Queer History of the United States

USA 2011, 287 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. In the mid-19th century, actress Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publized ... Weiterlesen

Vicki L. Eaklor: Queer America

A People's GLBT History of the United States. USA 2011, 274pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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This narrative history of the U.S. places GLBT people at the center of the story. It brings vividly to life the people whose work helped change the course of the 20th century. From organizing personal lives in the 19th century and constructing the medical model of homosexuality, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, and the New Deal, the queer situation during ... Weiterlesen

Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock: Queer (In)Justice

The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. USA 2011, 216pp., hardbound, € 31.99
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In March 2003 - more than three decades after Stonewall - police stormed the Power Plant, a private Detroit club frequented by African American LGBT people. Over 350 people were handcuffed and subjected to homophobic slurs. Some were hit on the head and back. Others were slammed into walls. Their supposed crime was later chalked up to a bizarre infraction: ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

An Extraordinary Marriage. USA 2010, 345pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Carlos A. Ball: From the Closet to the Courtroom

Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. USA 2010, 286pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small - on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case in a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his long-time ... Weiterlesen

Joe R. Lansdale: Vanilla Ride

A Hap and Leonard Novel 7. USA 2010, 243 pp., brochure, € 14.49
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In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine - best friends, freelance trouble-makers, and tough guys with good intentions - find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia. Hap is an East Texas smart mouth with a weakness for southern women. Leonard is a gay, black veteran pining for a lost love. They're not the makings of your ... Weiterlesen

David Ebershoff: The 19th Wife

USA 2009, 527 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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It's 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the U.S. A rich account of her family's polygamous history is revealed, including how bith she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon ... Weiterlesen

Nancy D. Polikoff: Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

Valuing All Families under the Law. USA 2009, 259 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Nancy Polikoff asserts that, in American law, marriage is the dividing line between those relationships that matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for 9 months receives Social Security benefits when he dies. A woman living for 19 years with a man or woman to whom she isn't married receives no government support. This book reframes ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Mallon: Fellow Travelers

USA 2008, 368 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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Knopf
A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. - a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy - and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak: In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter ... Weiterlesen