In his salty, laugh-out-loud memoir, gay and precocious Kirk Read will show you how it's done. It's about growing up gay in the Reagan-era South. Read comes of age in Pat Robertson's hometown as the youngest son in a large military family. Even at his most rebellious, he keeps both his tart sense of humor and dignity intact while embracing ... Weiterlesen

Tom Spanbauer: In the City of Shy Hunters

USA 2002, 512 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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»In the City of Shy Hunters« is a portrait of New York in the 1980s. Shy, gay and afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape the provincial western towns where he grew up. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for the first time by people who understand and celebrate ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: The Coming of the Night

USA 2000, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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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

Felice Picano: Like People in History

USA 1995, 512 pp., brochure, € 18.00
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Abacus

Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as 19-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay - identity. Through the lens of their complex, tumultuous, yet ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Sure of You

UK 1991, 284 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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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: Significant Others

UK 1989, 316 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 5

»Significant Others«, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the »Tales of the City« saga, is a cunningly observed class comedy that's sure to be relished by the cognoscenti and by new readers alike. A holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close to each other for comfort. Among those entangled in the mayhem ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Further Tales of the City

UK 1989, 271 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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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

Armistead Maupin: More Tales of the City

UK 1989, 288 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 2

The divinely human comedy that began with »Tales of the City« rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams.

Alexander Ziegler: Die Konsequenz

Der dokumentarische Roman zu dem aufsehenerregenden Film. D 1985, 254 S., Pb, € 13.40
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ANTIQUARISCH

»Die Konsequenz« ist ein kontroversielles Buch über eine verbotene schwule Liebesbeziehung und ein auf persönlichen Erfahrungen des Autors basierende Leidensgeschichte. Der Film - der auf diesem Buch beruht - war einer der ersten, der sich im deutschsprachigen Bereich mit dem Tabuthema Homosexualität auf realistische Weise beschäftigte. Der Tatsachenroman schildert die Geschichte einer Liebe zwischen zwei Männern, die voller Hoffnung im ... Weiterlesen

John Fox: The Boys on the Rock

USA 1984, 146 pp., brochure, € 17.99
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St. Martin's Press

Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, who in his 16th year has to face the fact that he's a little different from everyone else, a little »weird«. Though he's sort of going steady with a girl and ... Weiterlesen

Alexander Ziegler: Labyrinth

Report eines Außenseiters. D 1982, 256 S., Pb, € 13.40
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S. Fischer

Alexander Ziegler, der es als Schauspieler und Schriftsteller zu einigem Erfolg gebracht hat, schreibt in der Gefängniszelle über sein Leben in einer Welt, die ihm zum Gefängnis geworden ist. Sein Bericht ist keine Fiktion, sondern auch die Geschichte eines exemplarischen schwulen Schicksals der Nachkriegszeit. In der Untersuchungshaft notiert Ziegler seinen authentischen schonungslosen Report , der zu einer harten Anklage gegen ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Tales of the City

USA 1989, 269 pp., pb, € 13.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 1

San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin.

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