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Thema: »San Francisco«



Elska Magazine: elska SAN FRANCISCO California

Elska Magazine: elska SAN FRANCISCO California

UK 2023, 185 pp., brochure, € 19.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Liam Campbell - ELSKA 41
This issue was made in San Francisco, arguably the world’s most legendary gay city, which at last gets the Elska treatment. That means introducing a cross-section of ordinary guys from this city’s diverse LGBTQ community and presenting them through a combination of honest, intimate photography and personal storytelling. Whatever you know or think you know about queer life in San ... Weiterlesen

Monika Treut (R): Genderation

Monika Treut (R): Genderation

D 2021, engl. OF, dt., engl. UT, 88 Min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber
Über zwei Jahrzehnte nach »Gendernauts« (1999) kehrt Monika Treut nach Kalifornien zurück, um die Protagonist*innen ihres bahnbrechenden queeren Filmklassikers wiederzutreffen. Sandy Stone, Susan Stryker, Stafford und Max Wolf Valerio waren einst die jungen Pionier*innen der Transbewegung und lebten fast alle in der damaligen Außenseitermetropole San Francisco. Heute sind sie zwischen 58 und 84 Jahre alt, und kaum eine*r kann es ... Weiterlesen
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Lou Sullivan: Youngman. We Both Laughed in Pleasure

Lou Sullivan: Youngman. We Both Laughed in Pleasure

Selected Diaries 1961-91. UK 2021,433 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Stephen McCauley: My Ex-Life

Stephen McCauley: My Ex-Life

USA 2019, 324 pp., pb. , € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Flatiron
David Hedges's life is coming apart at the seams. His job helping San Francisco rich kids get into the colleges of their (parents') choice is exasperating. His younger boyfriend has left him. The last person he expects to hear from is Julie Fiske. It's been decades since they've spoken, and he's relieved to hear she's recovered from her brief, misguided ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Aus dem Gleichgewicht

Jae: Aus dem Gleichgewicht

D 2018, 378 S., Broschur, € 20.60
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Ylva Verlag
Kate Winthrop ist die einzige Tochter eines reichen Reeders. Ihre Eltern haben ihr Leben schon geplant: sie soll einen wohlhabenden Mann heiraten und den Erben des Winthrop-Imperiums gebähren. Doch ihre wahre Leidenschaft gilt der Fotografie - und den Frauen. Nach dem Tod ihres Bruders ist die sizilianische Immigrantin Giuliana Russo völlig auf sich gestellt und nimmt eine Stelle als Dienstmädchen ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: Black Wave

Michelle Tea: Black Wave

USA 2017, 326 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
And Other Stories Publishing
It's 1999 in San Francisco, and as shockwaves of gentrification sweep through Michelle's formerly scruffy neighborhood, money troubles, drug-fueled mishaps, and a string of disastrous affairs send her into a tailspin. Desperate to save herself, Michelle sets out to seek a fresh start in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, climate-related disruptions and a string of extinctions are the background noise of impending ... Weiterlesen

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

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

Armistead Maupin: Logical Family

Armistead Maupin: Logical Family

A Memoir. USA 2018, 289 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Harper Collins
The author of the bestselling »Tales of the City« series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer. Many straight Americans first learned of the San Francisco gay scene in the 1980's from »Tales of the City«, either the San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaper ... Weiterlesen

Dan Nicoletta (ed.): LGBT San Francisco

Dan Nicoletta (ed.): LGBT San Francisco

The Daniel Nicoletta Photographs. USA 2017, 304 pp. illustrated, hardback, € 59.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Dan Nicoletta has been a leading chronicler of the LGBT civil rights movement in San Francisco over the last 40 years. This is the first book dedicated to his powerful photographs documenting the journey of the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s through to the present. Nicoletta is best known for his iconic images of Harvey ... Weiterlesen
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Milena Moser: Flowers in Your Hair

Milena Moser: Flowers in Your Hair

Wie man in San Francisco glücklich wird. D 2008, 286 S., geb. , € 18.45
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Blessing
Die Autorin von »Die Putzfraueninsel« und »Das Schlampenbuch« nimmt ihre Leser mit auf eine Reise nach San Francisco. Selbstverständlich traf sie dort auch auf viele Schwule, Lesben, Bisexuelle und Transgenderpersonen - etwas, das im Epizentrum globaler Homo-Kultur - dem Castro Bezirk - so gut wie nicht zu vermeiden ist, selbst wenn man es wollte. Dort lernte die Autorin einige Lektionen ... Weiterlesen

Katherine V. Forrest, Jim van Buskirk (eds.): Love, Castro Street

Katherine V. Forrest, Jim van Buskirk (eds.): Love, Castro Street

USA 2007, 288 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Because San Francisco has seemingly always been a leading city for both cultural and societal change, it's only natural that there is good literature about the gay scene there. Castro Street has always played a major role in the shaping of gay identity - it's as mythological as it's real. Castro Street has always been a home - both ideological ... Weiterlesen

M. Christian: The Very Bloody Marys

M. Christian: The Very Bloody Marys

USA 2007, 172 pp., brochure, € 12.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A gang of Vespa-riding vampires are killing San Franciscans so indiscriminately they threaten to not only drain the city dry but risk the discovery of vampires everywhere. Gay vampire cop Valentino is called upon to stop the group calling themselves »The Very Bloody Marys« before the situation gets worse. Unfortunately, it already has. You see, Valentino is still only a ... Weiterlesen

William Lipsky: Gay and Lesbian San Francisco

William Lipsky: Gay and Lesbian San Francisco

USA 2006, 127 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In modern times, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and ongoing struggles for this community's civil rights from the 1950s to the present are well documented, but queer culture itself goes back much further than that, ... Weiterlesen

Jack Fritscher: Some Dance to Remember

Jack Fritscher: Some Dance to Remember

USA 2005, 439 pp., brochure, € 26.70
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
This memoir novel of San Francisco in the 1970s and the early 1980s is one classic of gay literature, seen from the perspective of an eyewitness. This epic of San Francisco's Castro seethes with sex, drugs, panic, and passionate characters: a gay writer, a drop-dead gorgeous bodybuilder, a cabaret singer, a Vietnam vet, a Hollywood bitch, and a rough-trade porn ... Weiterlesen

Billy Weber / David Weissman: The Cockettes

Billy Weber / David Weissman: The Cockettes

USA 2004, OF, 100 Min., € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Founded on New Year's Eve, 1969 by George Harris, aka »Hibiscus«, the Cockettes were a troupe of flamboyant hippy drag performers who took San Francisco by storm. Over the next two and a half years they created 20 outrageous and colourful shows (with titles like »A Crab on Uranus Means You're Loved«) and several films, culminating in an off-Broadway show ... Weiterlesen

Strange de Jim: San Francisco's Castro

Strange de Jim: San Francisco's Castro

UK 2004, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Nestled in the Eureka Valley area, the Castro is arguably the most well-known of San Francisco's neighborhoods, having been the epicenter of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. This new collection of photographs shows the area's growth from a smattering of Victorian houses built for working-class families in the 1870s to the flood of young gay men who settled ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Bentley: Wild Animals I Have Known

Kevin Bentley: Wild Animals I Have Known

USA 2002, 270 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In the late 70s there was a massive migration of young gay men to San Francisco. They left home in droves, traveling by plane, bus, Pinto or Volkswagen towards a life free from discrimination. Struggling to make ends meet, many worked in bookstores and restaurants, all the while taking advantage of a scene of sexual hedonism. The author is both ... Weiterlesen

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