Rhys Ernst (R): Adam

USA 2019, OF, dt. UT, 95 Min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber - gay classics (lesbian)
Der 16-jährige Adam besucht seine lesbische Schwester in New York und hat große Erwartungen: Er will sich das erste Mal verlieben oder zumindest endlich Sex haben! Auf einer queeren Party funkt es zwischen ihm und der Studentin Gillian. Doch die glaubt, dass er ein Transmann ist. Und Adam traut sich einfach nicht, das Missverständnis aufzuklären. Eine packende Komödie der Irrungen, ... Weiterlesen

Adib Khorram: Darius the Great Is not Okay

USA 2019, 321 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Dial
Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian - half, his mom's side - and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. ... Weiterlesen

Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys

UK 2019, 211 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Little Brown
The story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis - abandoned by his parents - is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the ... Weiterlesen

Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

USA 2020, 256 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Vintage
Brilliant, heart-breaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her gay son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. ... Weiterlesen

Tan France: Naturally Tan

UK 2020, 267 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's Emmy award-winning »Queer Eye«, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few people of colour in South Yorkshire. He illuminates ... Weiterlesen

Rebekah Fortune (R): Einfach Charlie

UK 2017, engl. OF, dt. UT, 99 min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber - gay classics
Charlie ist 14 und liebt es, Fußball zu spielen. Gerade hat er das Angebot bekommen, in die Jugendabteilung eines Clubs in der ersten Liga aufgenommen zu werden. Sein Vater platzt fast vor Stolz, auch weil es einst selbst Profifußballer werden wollte. Für Charlie ist die Aussicht aber ein einziger Albtraum, denn er ist eigentlich ein Mädchen, geboren im Körper eines ... Weiterlesen

Alice Oseman: Heartstopper Vol. One

Boy Meets Boy. UK 2019, 288 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton - Heartstopper 1
Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore, and he's sort of got a boyfriend, even if he's kind of mean ... 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

David Small: Home After Dark

USA 2018, 400 pp., b/w, hardcover, € 23.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Liveright
Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, »Home After Dark« is a literary tour-de-force graphic novel that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking such classics as »The Lord of the Flies«. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles ... Weiterlesen

Luca Guadagnigno (R): Call Me by Your Name

Frankreich/Italien/USA/Brasilien 2017, engl. OF, engl. UT, 127 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sony
They spend a summer together cycling in the sunshine, playing music and attending to their sophisticated mutual interests, and Elio considers his sexuality while devoting himself to winning Oliver's affections. Elio Perlman is a young man who lives with his parents in their villa in Italy. When Oliver, a graduate student comes to stay with Elio's father, a professor, he ... Weiterlesen

Brontez Purnell: Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger

USA 2017, 166 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
A dirty cult-classic put out in a small batch by an underground publisher (Rudos and Rubes) in 2015, »Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger« recounts the life of an artist and »old school homosexual« who bears a big resemblance to author Brontez Purnell. Our hero doesn't trust the new breed of fags taking over San Francisco, ... Weiterlesen
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I. W. Gregorio: None of the Above

USA 2017, 328 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
This relatable story for the LGBTQ audience is about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex , and what happens when her secret is revealed in school. When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into place. She's madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact, she's ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

USA 2017, 452 pp., hardbound, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Everything is about to change. Until this moment, Sal has always been certain of his place with his adoptive gay father and their loving Mexican-American family. But now his own history unexpectedly haunts him, and life-altering events force him and his best friend, Samantha, to confront issues of faith, loss, and grief. Suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and ... Weiterlesen

Rahul Mehta: No Other World

USA 2018, 304 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
12-year-old Kiran Shah, the American-born son of Indian immigrants, longingly observes his prototypically American neighbors, the Bells. He's powerfully drawn - in a way he does not yet understand - to Kelly Bell's charismatic father, Chris. Kiran is close to his older sister, Preeti - until an unfathomable betrayal drive a wedge between them that will reverberate through their lives. ... Weiterlesen

Edouard Louis: The End of Eddy

Translated by Michael Lucey. UK 2017, 208 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Random House
»Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust from my family and others around me. The only option I had was to get away somehow. This ... Weiterlesen

Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys

UK 2017, 643 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Scribner
Set in Dublin and its near surround the novel follows the year to Easter 1916, the time of Ireland's brave but fractured uprising against British rule. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, the dark rough diamond son of Mr ... Weiterlesen

David Levithan: Hold Me Closer

The Tiny Cooper Story. USA 2016, 200 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Penguin USA
It's Tiny Cooper's turn in the spotlight in this companion novel to New York Times bestseller »Will Grayson, Will Grayson«. Jazz hands at the ready! Tiny Cooper (»the world's largest person who is also really, really gay«) stole readers' hearts when he was introduced to the world in the New York Times bestselling book »Will Grayson, Will Grayson«, co-authored by ... Weiterlesen

Aravind Adiga: Selection Day

UK 2017, 320 pp., pb., € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Macmillan
Manju is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented brother and is fascinated by CSI and curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that ... Weiterlesen