Isabelle Bonnet: Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968

UK 2024, 480 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Thames and Hudson
A wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs to create an enduring account of America's first-known trans network, Casa Susanna. In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women, gender nonconforming people, and men who dressed as women found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills, New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided ... Weiterlesen

Greggor Mattson: Who Needs Gay Bars?

Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places. USA 2024, 434 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Stanford University Press
Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. This book considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some ... Weiterlesen

Ivana Marjanovic: QueerBeograd Cabaret

A Shared Space Between Queer, Anti-Fascism and No Borders Politics. D 2024, 300 pp., brochure, € 46.30
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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The clandestine festival QueerBeograd created spaces of critique and transformation in order to foster a politics of interconnectedness. Ivana Marjanovi explores the transnational activist cabaret between 2006 and 2008, which was devised, directed and produced by Jet Moon, a founding member of the QueerBeograd collective. This pioneering study demonstrates how the process of staging QueerBeograd Cabaret created a shared space ... Weiterlesen

James Cahill: Tiepolo Blue

UK 2023, 342 pp, brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sceptre
Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed. But his epiphany is also a ... Weiterlesen
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Isaac Julien (R): Young Soul Rebels

UK/F/D/Spanien 1991, engl. OF, dt. UT, 105 min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
London im Sommer 1977. Während sich die Stadt gerade auf die Feierlichkeiten zum silbernen Thronjubiläum der Queen vorbereitet, basteln die schwulen Soul Boys und Piraten-DJs Chris und Caz an ihrem Radioprogramm, dass sie von einer Garage heraus senden. Tagsüber müssen sie sich mit den lokalen Skinheads herumschlagen, abends gehen sie mit Chris' kesser Schwester in die queeren Clubs tanzen. Doch ... Weiterlesen

Ron Peck / Paul Hallam (R): Nighthawks

UK 1978, engl. OF, dt. UT, 113 min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber - gay classics
Dieser Klassiker des britischen queeren Kinos aus den späten 1970ern erscheint nun in einer digital restaurierten Fassung auf DVD und schrieb seinerzeit Filmgeschichte als erster Schwulenfilm, der ein Doppelleben zwischen homophober Umwelt und Londoner Gay Scene - an Originalschauplätzen gedreht - thematisiert.- London, Mitte der 1970er Jahre: Tagsüber arbeitet Jim als ungeouteter Lehrer in einer Schule. Dort weiß niemand von ... Weiterlesen

Dan Glass: Queer Foot Prints

A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History. UK 2023, 350 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Kanchi Wichmann (R): Break My Fall (Redux)

UK 2011 (Version 2021), engl. OF, dt. UT, 90 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber - gay classics (lesbian)
Musikerin Liza hat Stress mit ihrer Partnerin Sally, und die erhoffte Bandkarriere will sich auch partout nicht einstellen. Sally schlägt sich mit einem öden Aushilfsjob durch und muss die Avancen von Kumpel Vin abwehren, der nicht ganz heimlich in sie verliebt ist. Und der schwule Barmann Jamie sehnt sich danach, endlich einen bodenständigen Partner zu finden. Drei Tage und Nächte ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Benderson: User

UK 2023, 228 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Muswell Press
A New York City hustler with a special gift for reeling in customers, Apollo, »a pale skinned mulatto with a mournful mouth« strips at a gay sex theatre in Times Square. He is one of the most seductive and disturbing creations in recent American fiction. Unflinchingly describing the lives of hustlers, pimps, drug-addicts and transsexuals in 1990s Times Square, User ... Weiterlesen

Ronald Weitzer: Sex For Sale

Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing. UK 2022, 434 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Routledge
This fully updated edition of »Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing« presents an innovative, in-depth, and nuanced analysis of sex work, its risks, and benefits, and pays attention to newer and everchanging types of sex work and its actors, as well as public policies and laws that govern its trade. Now in its third edition, this volume includes ... Weiterlesen

William Talsman: The Gaudy Image

UK 2022, 252 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Muswell Press
One of the most important »lost« gay novels. Set in New Orleans and featuring a colourful cast of louche but loveable characters, the story follows Titania aka Thomas Schwartz through the backstreets, bars and club of the French Quarter in search of the perfect lover ? the Gaudy Image. A beautifully written story that is both elegant and caustically humorous, ... Weiterlesen

Zak Salih: Let's Get Back to the Party

USA 2022, 304 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Algonquin
Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian - both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence - spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other. 2015, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling: ... Weiterlesen

Jack Parlett: Fire Island

A Queer History. UK 2023, 272 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books
Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O'Hara's poetry - the bars where Patricia Highsmith got drunk - ... Weiterlesen

Nicola White: The Burning Boy

UK 2022, 325 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Whitehead
Dublin, 1986. The murder of an off-duty officer in Phoenix Park should have brought down the full power of the Dublin police force. But Kieran Lynch was found in a notorious gay cruising ground, so even as the press revels in the scandal, some of the Murder Squad are reluctant to investigate. Only Detectives Vincent Swan and Gina Considine are ... Weiterlesen

Michal Witkowski: Eleven-Inch

USA 2022, 295 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Seagull Books
Western Europe, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Two queer teens from Eastern Europe journey to Vienna, then Zurich, in search of a better life as sex workers. They couldn't be more different from each other. Milan, aka Dianka, a dreamy, passive naïf from Slovakia, drifts haplessly from one abusive sugar daddy to the next, whereas Michal, a ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Atherton Lin: Gay Bar

UK 2022, 306 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books
In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, »Gay Bar« takes us on a time-traveling, transatlantic bar hop through pulsing nightclubs, after-work dives, hardcore leather bars, gay cafes, and saunas, asking what these places meant to their ... Weiterlesen

Alim Kheraj / Tim Boddy: Queer London

UK 2021, 162 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Acc Art Books
A guide to queer culture in London, past and present - Bars, clubs, shops, Pride events, charities and more. »Queer London« is a timely and accessible introduction to the city through a lesbian, gay, trans, inter, queer lens, and will appeal to anyone with an interest in London's thriving queer landscape. Celebrating the diversity and innovation of queer individuals in ... Weiterlesen

Anthony Meindl (R): Pulse - Schlag gegen die Freiheit

USA/FRA/UK 2019, engl./ span./ frz. OF, dt. / niederl. / engl. UT, 90 min., € 16.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pro-fun
Drei Terrorakte stören das Leben gewöhnlicher Menschen.- In »Orlando« besuchen der durchtrainierte Ricky und sein junger Liebhaber Raul eines Abends den schwulen Nachtclub »Pulse« und ahnen nicht, dass sie in einer chaotischen Nacht des Terrors ums Überleben kämpfen müssen.- In »Paris« haben Adele und Mathilde gerade eine heiße Affäre am Laufen. Adeles gefühlskalter Ehemann Francois verkompliziert allerdings die Situation merklich. ... Weiterlesen