Michelle Tea: Valencia

USA 2008, 216 pp., pb., € 16.96
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»Valencia« is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex, Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend, Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from ... Weiterlesen

Amin Ghaziani: The Dividends of Dissent

USA 2008, 419 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women's rights, civil rights, and anti-war movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there, and while these marches were some of the largest of their time, they have been sorely overlooked. Drawing on ... Weiterlesen

Dagmar Herzog: Sex in Crisis

USA 2008, 249 pp., hardbound, € 21.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Armistead Maupin: Babycakes

UK 1984 (Reissue 2007), 316 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 4
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier »Tales of the City« books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: Exiles in America

USA 2007, 371 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Zack Knowles and Daniel Wexler have been together for 21 years, Zack is a psychiatrist, Daniel an art teacher at a college in Virginia. In the fall of 2002, a few months before the Iraq War, a new artist in residence, Abbas Rohani, arrives with his Russian wife, Elena, and their two children. But Abbas is not quite what he ... Weiterlesen
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Cynthia Tyler: Shadow Work

USA 2006, 193 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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Chris Cameron, a psychotherapist, moves forward after she has overcome the grief of losing her life partner to murder. Now she finds herself simultaneously falling for a cop named Linda Vasquez, facing new challenges at work, and coming to terms with a world where bigger, better, shinier, louder - the shorthand for the Orwellian superficiality of the new millenium - ... Weiterlesen

Gavin Morris: Virginia Bedfellows

USA 2006, 276 pp., brochure, € 16.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Two men - Lance Morley and Adam Bradley - living as lovers in 18th-century America face fear, prejudice, and death. Banished from England and forced to work as indentured servants in colonial Virginia, these men share a secret. They find love, passion, and pleasure on the Ashley Landing plantation, building a life together that's immoral in the eyes of society ... Weiterlesen

C.A. Tripp: The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln

USA 2006, 345 pp., brochure, € 0.00
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Was Lincoln gay? The sex researcher and chronicler of the gay rights movement Tripp, who died in 2003, makes the case. So his book is already getting noticed. The author (who worked with Alfred Kinsey) contends that Lincoln had erotic attractions and attachments to men throughout his life, from his youth to his presidency. His relationships with women were either ... Weiterlesen
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Chris Packard: Queer Cowboys

USA 2006, 144 pp., brochure, € 12.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ang Lee's Film »Brokeback Mountain« exploded the myth of the American Cowboy as a tough, gruff and grizzled loner. This book exposes, through legendary Western Writers such as Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and Owen Wister, how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before »Brokeback's« 1960s West, and well before the word »homosexual« was even ... Weiterlesen

Roderick A. Ferguson: Aberrations in Black

Toward a Queer of Color Critique. USA 2004, 175 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Minnesota Press
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture - sexual difference - can be as instructive as what is present. In this work, the author reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. ... Weiterlesen

Greg Herren: Bourbon Street Blues

USA 2003, 278 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The French Quarter: the smell of fried fish and fresh coffee - lazy days, wild nights, and hot muscle boys stuffing 5$ bills into your thong. Welcome to New Orleans, Scotty Bradley style. Native boy Scotty knows how to bend his hometown's every unwritten rule. It doesn't hurt that he's buff, boyish, and completely irresistible, with a job by day ... Weiterlesen

Thomas J. Linneman: Weathering Change

Gays and Lesbians, Christian Conservatives, and Everyday Hostilities. USA 2003, 267 pp., brochure, € 22.99
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This is the tale of two Northwestern cities: Seattle, well known nationally for its liberalism, and Spokane, its conservative counsin to the east. The book characterizes the way these liberal and conservative environments translate into hostility and hospitality for the Christian conservatives, gay men, and lesbians who live within them. Linneman gives a firsthand account of how people from both ... Weiterlesen

Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton, Mark Huppi: Sexual Rights in America

USA 2003, 227 pp., cloth, € 33.20
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The U.S. Constitution guarantess certain fundamental rights, such as the freedoms of speech and religious expression. But what guarantees our sexual freedoms? The text of the Constitution makes no reference to sex, family, or procreation, despite the fact that the Founding Fathers recognized and embraced the importance of these core aspects of our personal lives. The authors present a bold ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Rice: A Density of Souls

USA 2002, 275 pp., Pb, € 0.00
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In New Orleans, three formerly inseparable friends are drawn back together. New facts about their mutual past are revealed: Meredith, Brandon, Stephen and Greg used to stick together until Greg's little brother was killed in a car-accident and grief drove his mother to madness. After the litte boy's funeral Greg was found shot dead. Was it suicide or an accident? ... Weiterlesen
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Andrew Holleran: Dancer From the Dance

USA 2001, 205 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: The Coming of the Night

USA 2000, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Publishers Group West
John Rechy's novel »The Coming of the Night« is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling »City of Night« and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world - gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Sure of You

UK 1991, 284 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 6
In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, a fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, »Sure of You« is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Further Tales of the City

UK 1989, 271 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 3
The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to »Tales of the City« and »More Tales of the City«. DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom, and Armistead Maupin is in ... Weiterlesen