Michael Sappol: Queer Anatomies - Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900

UK 2025, 280 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Bloomsbury
In centuries past, sexual body parts and same sex desire were unmentionables debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline - anatomy - had license to represent and narrate the intimate details of the human body - anus and genitals included. Figured within the frame of an anatomical plate, presentations of dissected bodies and bodyparts were often ... Weiterlesen

Seema Yasmin: The ABCs of Queer History

USA 2024, 64 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Workman
In a beautiful picture book brimming with P for Pride, writer and poet Seema Yasmin and illustrator Lucy Kirk celebrate all the joys and challenges of queer history in the United States through lively, rhyming verse and bright, colorful illustrations. This is a book of people, of ideas, of accomplishments and events. It's a book about Allies and Ancestors, about ... Weiterlesen

Peter Parker (ed.): Some Men in London Vol. 2

Queer Life 1960 - 1967. UK 2024, 410 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Penguin UK
The second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967. It is rich with letters, diaries, psychological textbooks, novels, films, plays and police records, covering a wide range of viewpoints, from those who deplored homosexuality to those who campaigned for ... Weiterlesen

Peter Parker (ed.): Some Men in London Vol. 1

Queer Life 1945 - 1959. UK 2024, 458 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Penguin UK
In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated.- In a major new anthology, Peter Parker explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period, whether they were well-known figures such ... Weiterlesen

Bethany Montagano (ed.): Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagination

USA 2024, 176 pp., hardbound, € 59.95
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Inventory Press
Science fiction and occult communities helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ movement by providing a place for individuals to meet, imagine, and create a life less restricted by societal norms. Focusing on Los Angeles from the late 1930s through the 1950s, this reader follows the lives of artists, writers, publishers, early sci-fi enthusiasts, and progressive communities, from Kenneth Anger, ... Weiterlesen

Páraic Kerrigan: Reeling in the Queers

Tales of Ireland\'s LGBTQ Past. UK 2024, 256 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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New Island
Marking 50 years of the founding of an LGBTQ rights movement in Ireland, this book explores the lesser-known stories of the fight for LGBTQ rights since 1974, beyond decriminalisation and Marriage Equality. From 1990s boy bands to the AIDS priest, Fr Bernárd Lynch, from the Belfast Lesbian Line to proud parenting, from the earliest Pride events to the last days ... Weiterlesen

Jon Savage: The Secret Public

How LGBTQ Performers shaped public culture (1955-1979). UK 2024, 769 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Faber and Faber
This history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture is an account of key moment in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979. From the secret sexuality of stars such as Little Richard in the 1950s through the ambiguity of David Bowie, glam rock and Sylvester's »You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)«, Jons Savage reflects on the figurws and ... Weiterlesen

Lambda Legal (eds.): Making the Case for Equality

50 Years of Legal Milestones in LGBTQ History. CAN 2024, 240 pp., hardbound, € 69.95
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Phaidon
Over 30 landmark legal cases, from 1973 to 2023, that mark the most impactful and significant milestones in LGBTQ history. Lambda Legal, the pioneering non-profit legal organization, is opening its archives for the first time to create a book commemorating their 50th anniversary. The most important, »game-changing« legal cases for the civil rights of the LGBTQ community are presented here ... Weiterlesen

David Evans Frantz / Christina Linden / Chris E. V: Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

D 2024, 288 S. mit zahlreichen Farbabb., Broschur, € 41.10
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Hirmer
Dieser Band stellt eine breit gefächerte Auswahl von Kunstwerken und Artefakten aus mehr als vier Jahrhunderten vor, die sich aus der oft vernachlässigten Geschichte transsexueller und nichtbinärer Gemeinschaften schöpfen. Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Autorinnen und Autoren, Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler thematisieren in ihren Beiträgen die historische Verschleierung und eröffnen künftige Transperspektiven. Anhand einer Vielzahl von Kunstwerken und Artefakten entfaltet ... Weiterlesen

Roland Betancourt: Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

USA 2023, 296 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Princeton University Press
While the term »intersectionality« was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. »Byzantine Intersectionality« reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized minorities. Roland Betancourt explores these issues in the ... Weiterlesen

Diarmuid Hester: Nothing Ever Just Disappears

UK 2023, 358 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Allen Lane
Nothing Ever Just Disappears retraces the footsteps of some of the twentieth century's most remarkable queer writers and artists. Moving through their homes and haunts, it explores the deep connections between where they lived, who they were and the iconoclastic art and literature they created. In search of a new history of queer culture, Diarmuid Hester travels from Cambridge's ancient ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

UK 2023, 350 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Omnibus Press
From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience. Queer ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: The Velvet Mafia

The Gay Men Who Ran The Swinging Sixties. UK 2023, 348 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Omnibus Press
Concentrating on the friendship between impresario Larry Parnes, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, and showbiz solicitor David Jacobs, the book details how they shaped the Swinging 60s, along with their associates including songwriter Lionel Bart (author of the hit musical Oliver! ), record producer Joe Meek, Sir Joseph Lockwood (the head of EMI), Vicki Wickham (manager of Dusty Springfield and assistant ... Weiterlesen

Dan Glass: Queer Foot Prints

A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History. UK 2023, 350 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Pluto
This guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as those who marched in London's first Pride parade in 1972 or witnessed the 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho. Accompanied by a chorus of voices of both iconic ... Weiterlesen

Kit Heyam: Before We Were Trans

A New History of Gender. UK 2023, 343 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Basic
»Before We Were Trans« invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways, rather than contracting them and policing their borders. The book celebrates trans history, whilst acknowledging the reality of what it means to live within our community with joy and kindness. Trans people have a rich history - but one that ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Rottmann: Queer Lives across the Wall

Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970. UK 2023, 266 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of Toronto Press
Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces - including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons - facilitated and restricted queer lives in ... Weiterlesen

Rustam Alexander: Red Closet

The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR. UK 2023, 288 pp., hardbound, € 37.95
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Manchester University Press
In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive Scottish journalist based in Moscow who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

D.K. Publishing: The LGBTQ + History Book

UK 2023, 336 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Dorling Kindersley
Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in lesbian, gay, queer, bi and transsexual history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to Kinsey's modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures ... Weiterlesen