Merlin Holland: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

USA 2004, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's most explosive love affairs with Lord Alfred »Bosie« Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Club addressed to »Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite«. With Bosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess for libel. He not only lost but he was tried twice for »gross indecency« and ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

UK/USA 2004, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
Set in San Francisco a hundred years ago, it is the story of a man who suffers from a rare medical condition and, in a sense, lives life backwards. Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Master

UK 2004, 360 pp., pb, € 14.95
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»The Master« is a conundrum about Henry James. He was such a master of insight into the human heart but appeared to be so divorced from his own. The man who wrote so movingly about women seemed not to have more than friendships with them. James was exquisitely sensitive and kind, but both his New England upbringing and his homosexuality ... Weiterlesen

Graham Robb: Strangers

USA 2004, 341 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Uncovering the real story of male and female homosexuality in the Victorian era, award-winning author Graham Robb tells a tale that is in part familiar, and in part extremely suprising - a story of oppression and secrecy, but also of unexpected tolerance and familiarity. As Robb unearths elements from legislature, literature, medicine and day-to-day life, he begins to discover a ... Weiterlesen

David Chapman: Victor Victorians

Südafrika 2004, 96 S., geb., € 0.00
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Autor David Chapman (bekannt durch Bildbände mit historischer Männerfotografie wie »Adonis«, »Mountain Men« oder »Retro Stud«) hat für »Victor Victorians« frühe Aufnahmen muskulöser Männer zusammengetragen. Das Fotomaterial reicht von akademischen Körperstudien und lebenden »Statuen« über Fotos von Athleten, Gewichthebern und Schaustellern bis hin zu Abbildungen aus der FKK-Bewegung. Es ging darum die Erfolge der neuen Körperlichkeit für die Nachwelt abzulichten. ... Weiterlesen

Richard Godbeer: Sexual Revolution in Early America

USA 2004, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.30
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This absorbing history overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, legal records, and official documents, the author uncovers a persistent struggle between moral authority and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the 18th century ... Weiterlesen

Geoffrey Sax (R): Tipping the Velvet

UK 2002, OF, engl. UT, 176 min., € 14.99
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The complete three-part BBC drama set amidst the lesbian subculture of 1890s England. The series follows heroine Nan Astley, who meets and falls for male impersonator Kitty Butler. Nan moves to London and begins an affair with Kitty while also joining her music hall act. When she discovers an unwelcome truth Nan begins a voyage into the capital's sexual underworld ... Weiterlesen

Kathleen Wilson: The Island Race

UK/USA 2002, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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In the rapidly expanding 18th-century world, English perceptions of origin and heritage became altered - the question of national identity emerging as a particularly troubled and ambiguous issue. Wilson bases her analysis on a wide range of case studies drawn both from Britain and from across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Creating a colorful and original colonial landscape, she considers ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: The Notorious Dr. August

USA 2001, 498 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Spanning more than sixty years from the Civil War to the early 1920s, and moving from the battlefields of the South to New York City, through Paris, London, Constantinople, and Coney Island, »The Notorious Dr. August« features Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, an improvisational pianist who believes his music is sometimes inspired by the spirit world. He is in ... Weiterlesen
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Sarah Waters: Affinity

UK 2000, 352 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Margaret Prior is a prison visitor in the 1870s. Set in and around Milbank, one of London's most notorious gaols for women, the story is both a both a ghost story and an intriguing lesbian literary mystery tale.

Oscar Wilde: De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings

UK 1999, 296 pp.,brochure, € 12.95
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Wordsworth
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Folding Star

UK 1995, 422 pp., pb, € 17.95
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Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst. A most artistic gay novel.

Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness

UK 2014, 530 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career. The story follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose »sexual inversion« (that is, homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men

Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. USA 1979, 496 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Womens Press
A quietly revolutionary book which reconstructs a lost history of women loving women. Here the author explores the different forms which that love has taken over the years, from the elaborate deceptions of Deborah Sampson, soldier of the American Revolution, to the genteel Ladies of Llangollen and the notorious »Boston marriages« of the 19th century. Drawing on a rich variety ... Weiterlesen