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
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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
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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

Bruce Benderson: User

UK 2023, 228 pp., pb., € 17.95
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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

Jude Gorini: The Colourblind Grief

UK 2023, 202 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Experiments in Fiction
London 2011, the year before the Olympics. The city is buzzing, and Daniel is just starting his journey into living a gay life of short-term sex-dates as his only remaining option. Sex, drugs and rock & roll are his sustenance. His mental health issues warp his life. 10 years later, everything has changed. Was it just a lie created by ... Weiterlesen

Tom Crewe: The New Life

UK 2023, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
London, 1894. After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they ... Weiterlesen

William Keeling: Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle

UK 2022, 288 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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Envelope Books - The Gay Street Chronicles 1
When Gaia Champion's souffle fails to rise in 1830s Bath, it sets off a chain of events that overthrows the settled order. Centred on the personality of local councillor and gay bachelor extraordinaire Bellerophon »Belle« Nash, this first volume of »The Gay Street Chronicles« engages with social issues that were emerging in the early days of Queen Victoria's reign and ... Weiterlesen

Júlia Braga Neves: London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst

D 2022, 300 pp., brochure, € 61.70
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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Queer spaces are crucial for the construction of LGBTQ+ communities, as they constitute places where queer subjects can create political, social, and affective alliances. Júlia Braga Neves shows how these spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in the fictional works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and ... Weiterlesen

Alim Kheraj / Tim Boddy: Queer London

UK 2021, 162 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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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

Fergus O'Brien: Against the Law

UK 2017, engl. OF, 81 Min., € 18.99
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Biographical drama directed by Fergus O'Brien: Journalist Peter Wildeblood's affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly during the time homosexuality was a crime and the devastating consequences of their relationship. But Peter Wildeblood was one of the first people in Britain to publicly declare his homosexuality. Living in the 1950s when homosexuality was illegal, Wildeblood and his partner ... Weiterlesen

Peter Ackroyd: Queer City

Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day. UK 2018, 262 pp., pb.,, € 19.95
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Chatto and Windus
Peter Ackroyd looks at the city in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay community. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality could be found at public pleasure houses, brothels and hot baths. Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops and clergy, monks and missionaries. His rule was accompanied by the ... Weiterlesen

Elizabeth Day: Paradise City

UK 2015, 354 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Harper Collins
Beatrice Kizza, a lesbian woman who fled Uganda where homosexuality is illegal, comes to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Carol Hetherington, recently ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: The Dilly : A History of the Piccadilly Rent Boy Scene

UK 2014, 240 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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A previously undocumented slice of London's underground sexual history, and its influence upon artists from Oscar Wilde to Francis Bacon and the Stones to Morrissey, Piccadilly Circus has long been London's principal location for selling sex and this is the first book to really explore the history of male prostitution at »The Dilly.« Dating from Oscar Wilde's notorious use of ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Here Comes the Nice

UK 2011, 279 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»Here Comes the Nice« is novel as time-machine, taking the reader back to the raw early gigs of the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Small Faces, and behind the scenes to a secret that will make the sixties of the first-wave Mods live forever - somewhere. Elegiac and thrilling, »Here Comes the Nice« is a paean to the power of ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: The King of Carnaby Street: A Life of John Stephen

USA 2010, 264 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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In 1956 John Stephen took a lease on the newly available 5 Carnaby Street - he was to remark later, »If I hadn't had a very understanding landlord, that would have been the end of me. But he led me around the corner to Carnaby Street, showed me a shop and suggested I got to work right away.« Before long ... Weiterlesen

Paul Burston (ed.): Time Out Gay + Lesbian London

UK 2008, 272 pp., brochure, € 16.39
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The publishers of the Time Out Guides issued a special edition of the London Guide for the gay and lesbian community. The past 10 years have seen the gay scene in London grow at an unprecedented rate. London has seen the explosion of pubs and clubs in gay Soho, the sudden development of the Vauxhall gay village, and the arrival ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Friendly Young Ladies

UK 2005, 312 pp., brochure, € 15.79
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Elsie, sheltered and naive, is 17 and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets: Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her sister Leonora, who escaped years earlier. But there are ... Weiterlesen