Constantine Giannaris (R): North of Vortex / Caught Looking

UK 1991-1992, engl. OF, dt. UT, 94 min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber - gay classics
In »North of Vortex« reist ein schwuler Dichter mit seinem Cabrio von New York nach Westen. Auf dem Weg nimmt er einen muskelbepackten Matrosen mit, später steigt eine Kellnerin zu. Der Dichter ist scharf auf den Matrosen, der Matrose auf die Kellnerin, die Kellnerin auf den Dichter. Eine erotische Reise durch Wüstenlandschaften und Städte beginnt - voll sexueller Spannungen, Eifersucht ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Brennan: Loose Lips

USA 2023, 288 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hard Crossing Press
Dockyard mansex adventurer Olli Turner has stowed away on the biggest ship the world has ever known, forced to set sail incomplete. Built up rivet by rivet through his formative years, RMS Queen Elizabeth watched over Olli's sexual awakening. Staying with her seems to promise passage to a new world of landed men. Yet in March 1940 war is churning. ... Weiterlesen

Jean Genet: Querelle de Brest

UK 2019, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon. He is coveted, too, by a corrupt policeman, Mario, and gives himself freely both to brothel-keeper Madame Lysiane and to her husband. But Querelle is a thief and a murderer - not a man to be ... Weiterlesen

Ian McGuire: The North Water

USA 2016, 326 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Scribner
A ship sets sail with a killer on board in 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered ... Weiterlesen

Linda Kay Silva: Just Killing Time

USA 2012, 204 S., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Spinsters Ink - Across Time 4
Witches, female pirates, spirits, and the mighty Bian Sidhe abound in this fourth installment of the time travel quests of Jessie Ferguson. Duncan's son is missing and there is a warrant signed by Queen Elizabeth herself for his death. Spencer and Duncan must face the queen's seamen whose orders include both kidnapping and murder. The beheading of Mary, Queen of ... Weiterlesen

Neil Plakcy (ed.): Sexy Sailors

Gay Erotic Stories. USA 2012, 207 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis - Gay Erotic Stories
Sex ahoy! Who hasn't admired a naval officer coming ashore in his dress whites or a hard-musckled young man climbing up a mast and grinding winches to set sail? Whether they are commanding navy ships or 8-foot dinghies, the gorgeous guys of »Sexy Sailors« sure know how to cruise. A grizzled traveler looking for a quick hookup aboard a Greek ... Weiterlesen

Linda Kay Silva: Second Time Around

USA 2009, 219 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Spinsters Ink - Across Time 2
Jessie, who first stumbled upon a portal to the past in »Across Time«, reluctantly answers a call from an altogether different place and time - Elizabethan England - and to her consternation, she emerges to find herself incarnated as a male! She is Captain Spencer Morgan, trolling the seas in search of the same mysterious chest, unearthed from its Druid ... Weiterlesen

David McConnell: The Silver Hearted

USA 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Set against a background of revolution and profiteering of an unnamed port town, the story's unnamed narrator is hired to protect a vast sum of money a cabal of shadowy investors has entrusted to him. Literally chests of silver coins, this fortune must be protected at all costs. The nervous guardian turns for assistance to a naïve sailor, beautiful and ... Weiterlesen

Alex Beecroft: False Colors

USA 2009, 335 pp., brochure, € 12.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
For his first command, John Cavendish is given both a ship - the HMS Meteor - and a crew in need of repair. He's determined to make a success of their first mission, though, and hopes the well-liked Lieutenant »Alfie« Donwell will stand by his side as he leads his new crew into battle: stopping the slave trade off the ... Weiterlesen

Pierre et Gilles: Sailors and Sea

D 2005, 192 S., Farbe, geb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Taschen Verlag
Süßer als eine Zuckerwatte, verführerischer als Pralinen und bunter als so manches Bonbon: Willkommen zum Farbenfest der schwulen Ikonografie zwischen Kunst und Kitsch. Jeder, der die Banalität des Alltags vergessen will, hat nun die Möglichkeit seine persönliche kleine Flucht im handlichen Format immer im Gepäck zu haben: »Sailors and Sea« von Pierre et Gilles - voller lasziver Matrosen, mystisch verklärter ... Weiterlesen
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Paul Baker, Jo Stanley: Hello Sailor!

The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea. UK/USA/AUS 2003, 272 pp., pb., € 49.95
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When homosexuality was illegal and gay men were closeted there were few safe places to be. Apart from the theatre, passenger ships provided the only space where gay men could be not only out, but outrageously camp. Efficient, able-bodied seamen by day, queens and butches strutted their stuff below deck at night, dressed up as their favourite Hollywood stars. »Hello ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: Hold Tight

USA 1989, 282 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Plume
Hank Fayette, Seaman Second Class, had enlisted in his Texas hometown, used his shore leave to visit a movie house on 42nd Street, and ended up in a gay brothel near Manhattan's West piers. It was the wrong place to be at the wrong time. When this big, lanky blond with a country boy's drawl - and a country boy's ... Weiterlesen

Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

UK 1997, 410 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Oxford University Press
»Billy Budd« is among the greatest of Melville's gay works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, »Billy Budd, Sailor« is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, ... Weiterlesen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (R): Querelle (Blu-ray)

D/F 1982, engl./dt./frz. OF, engl.UT, 104 min., € 29.99
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Artificial Eye
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's legendary film in a restored and remastered version. On leave in the Port of Brest, a bisexual sailor (Brad Davis) stabs and kills his drug-smuggling partner and fellow seaman, following an argument. He seeks shelter in a nearby notorious brothel, where he gives full vent to his homosexual desires. There he befriends the predatory madam, Lysiane (Jeanne ... Weiterlesen