In his defining novel of the AIDS era, first published in 1993, Christopher Coe evokes a lost world of gay pleasure and privilege in the 1970s and early 1980s, juxtaposed with the tragic years of loss afterwards. Over the course of Jasper and Timothy's 20-year relationship, Coe crafts a deeply moving work that elegantly, indelibly evokes a lost paradise and ... Weiterlesen

Michael Nott: Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life

UK 2024, 720 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Faber and Faber

»Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life« is a landmark study of one of England's - and America's - most innovative and revolutionary poets. Michael Nott chronicles, for the first time, Gunn's largely undocumented life: his childhood in Kent and London, his mother's suicide, and his mind-opening education at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne, wrote his first book, ... Weiterlesen

Jill Nalder: Love From The Pink Palace

UK 2023, 300 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Wildfire

When Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends - of which many were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own - she grabbed London by the partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, hosting cabarets at ... Weiterlesen

Nan Goldin: The Other Side

D 2023, 192 pp., hardbound, € 49.40
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Steidl

This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin's seminal book »The Other Side«, originally published in 1993. There will be a revised introduction by Goldin, and for the first time the voices of those whose stories are represented. Now being released at a time when the discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving, »The Other Side« traces ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Holleran: The Kingdom of Sand

UK 2023, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, the novel's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few. His world is ageing, and the memories of another time flash, then fade - visions of parties filled with handsome young men, the parents whom he chose to spend his life ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Bazzi: Fever

English by Alice Whitmore. UK 2022, 343 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Scribe

Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn't go away - it's constant, low-level, and exhausting. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his illness, he finally sees a doctor. ... Weiterlesen

Matteo Haitzmann: Those We Lost Audiobook

AudioCD mit 11 Tracks inkl. Booklet, € 22.99
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Paper Affairs Publishers

»Someday, the AIDS crisis will be over, remember that. And when that day comes - when that day has come and gone, there'll be people alive on this Earth - gay people and straight people, men and women, black and white, who will hear the story that once there was a terrible disease in this country and all over the ... Weiterlesen

Hervé Guibert: To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

Transl. by Linda Coverdale. UK 2021, 265 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Serpent´s Tail

With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White. After being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays ... Weiterlesen

Thom Gunn: Selected Poems

UK 2021, 284 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Faber and Faber

Thom Gunn has been described as one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century. This »Selected Poems,« compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn's inimitable career. The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime, and at ... Weiterlesen

Lou Sullivan: Youngman. We Both Laughed in Pleasure

Selected Diaries 1961-91. UK 2021,433 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. Through these extracts, we hear Lou's life in his own words: from »playing boys« in his childhood in Wisconsin, to cruising San Francisco's gay bars for handsome »youngmen« - from first hearing about gender non-conforming communities, to becoming a vital part of them as an activist, author, and archivist. Lou navigated ... Weiterlesen

Derek Frost: Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

A Memoir. UK 2021, 288 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Watkins

This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more than 40 years ago. In the early 1980s their friends began to get sick and die - ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: Let The Record Show : A Political History of ACT UP, New York, 1987-1993

USA 2021, 736 pp., hardbound, € 44.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment ... Weiterlesen

Russell T. Davies (R): It's a Sin

UK 2021, engl. OF, 221 Min., € 34.99
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The Red Production

British drama miniseries set in London during the 1980s at the onset of the AIDS crisis. Three young gay men, Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Roscoe (Omari Douglas) and Colin (Callum Scott Howells), newly moved to London rent a flat together that they subsequently dub the Pink Palace. However, as a mystery illness gathers pace they each suffer identity crises as they ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: And the Band Played on

Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. UK 2021 (Reprint), 630 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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It was the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examined the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first 5 years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, that he claims cut funding, ... Weiterlesen

Matthew López: The Inheritance

UK 2020, 297 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Faber and Faber

Inspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, »The Inheritance« wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation's responsibilities may be to the next. Matthew Lopez's »The Inheritance« premiered ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: People in Trouble

UK 2019, 268 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away. It's the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan with her husband Peter. She's having an affair with Molly, a younger lesbian who ... Weiterlesen

Rebecca Makkai: The Great Believers

USA 2020, 422 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Fleet

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Cassara: The House of Impossible Beauties

UK/AUS 2018, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
One World

New York City, 1980: nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where 17-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with ... Weiterlesen

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