Moisés Lino e Silva: Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. USA 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of Chicago Press
A ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Liberalism mostly has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights-usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois - at the expense of marginalized groups, such as black people, children, lesbians, gays, transsexuals, and slum dwellers. ... Weiterlesen

Omar Zuniga Hidalgo (R): The Strong Ones

ES 2020, span. OF, engl. UT, 95 Min., € 19.99
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Matchbox
Chilean gay-themed drama written and directed by Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo. Before leaving Santiago to study architecture in Montreal, Lucas (Samuel González) travels down to the fishing village of Niebla to stay with his sister, Catalina (Marcela Salinas). A passionate romance blossoms between Lucas and boatswain Antonio (Antonio Altamirano), despite Lucas knowing that he must soon leave the country.

Raí Gandra / Helio Ronyvon: Bixinho

D 2019, 200 S., geb., € 25.70
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Iwalewa
Mit Bildern der Fotografen Raí Gandra, Helio Ronyvon, Roberta de Oliveira and Fernando Donato ist »Bixinho« eine visuelle Kartographie queerer (»cuir-er«) Subjektivitäten und ihres Widerstands gegen heteronormative Vorstellungen von Leben, Familie und Liebe in Brasilien. Vor allem aber eröffnen der Begriff »Bixinho«, den man mit im Deutschen "Zuneigung" wiedergeben könnte, ebenso wie die Bilder selbst einen Raum um über vielfältige ... Weiterlesen
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Jedidiah Jenkins: To Shake the Sleeping Self

A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret. USA 2018, 333 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Penguin USA
On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Condor and the Cows

A South American Travel Diary. USA 2013, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and his lover Bill Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Isherwood's account of this journey, The Condor and the Cows, is one of very few classic travel books on South America and was among the books Isherwood considered ... Weiterlesen

Bruno Barreto (R): Reaching for the Moon

Brasilien 2013, portug. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 118 Min., € 19.99
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Biopic about the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate, real-life love affair with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the bestselling novel »Rare and Commonplace Flowers«, the film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling ... Weiterlesen

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Story of the Night

USA 2017, 400 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin UK
In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his homosexuality from her and from society. Stifled by his job, Richard is willing to take chances, both sexually and professionally. But Argentina is changing, and as his country edges toward ... Weiterlesen

Federico G. Carvajal: Butterflies Will Burn

USA 2003, 310 pp., brochure, € 33.99
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As Spain consolidated its Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or »vir« went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the »abominable crime and sin against nature« - sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

Carmen L. Oliveira: Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares

UK 2002, 2018 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography ? brilliantly researched, and written in a lively, novelistic style ? follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil. ... Weiterlesen

James Green: Beyond Carnival

USA 2001, 408 pp., brochure, € 33.99
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This sweeping history of male homosexuality in 20th-century Brazil reveals men struggling to cope with societal resistance to their lifestyles, creating vibrant subcultures, and finding their way in a society that is not so accepting of them as the hedonistic sexual displays of the annual Carnival might suggest. Drawing on oral histories, archival sources, materials from the mainstream and alternative ... Weiterlesen

Jaime Manrique: Eminent Maricones

Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me. USA/UK 1999, 116 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
For the first time, in riveting and eloquent detail, Jaime Manrique describes the final days of his mentors, Manuel Puig and Reinaldo Arenas, both of whom died in tragic circumstances due to AIDS. Manrique also reveals Federico Garcia Lorca's struggle with homophobia and that poet's relationship with an American boyfriend.

Elliot Goldenthal: Frida OST

CD mit 24 Tracks, € 11.95
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Universal
Zu der fulminanten Verfilmung der bisexuellen mexikanischen Künstler Frida Kahlo gehört untrennbar ein grandioser Soundtrack. Die Auswahl der Tracks kann sehr wohl auch für sich bestehen: eindrucksvolle, stimmungsvolle, südamerikanische Lieder gehen eine eigenwillige Synthese mit modernen soundtracktypischen Klangteppichen ein. Dem surrealen Wahnwitz der Bilder von Frida Kahlo steht eine irrwitzige Musikauswahl gegenüber, die die Wirkung des Filmes über weite Strecken ... Weiterlesen