For cynical 23-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And ... Weiterlesen

Rachael Sommers: Never Say Never

D 2021, 220 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Ylva Verlag

An age-gap, opposites-attract lesbian romance between a nanny and her career-climbing boss that ends in a puddle of melted ice queen. -Ambitious corporate shark Camila Evans might have just lost her marriage but she decides she doesn't need love to build a TV empire and raise her young son alone. What she does need is a nanny, but the incompetent ... Weiterlesen

Jen Jack Gieseking: A Queer New York

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers. USA 2020, 307 pp. with numerous illustrations, brochure, € 39.95
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New York University Press

The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City. Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ community. In �A Queer New York�, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping ... Weiterlesen

Jenna Laurenzo (R): L Bomb

USA 2018, engl. OF, dt. UT, 90 Min., € 14.99
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Pro-fun

Lauren und Hailey sind verliebt wie am ersten Tag und f�hren ein romantisches Leben in Brooklyn. Die traute Zweisamkeit ist nahezu perfekt, daran kann selbst der gemeinsame Mitbewohner Austin nicht r�tteln. Nur eine Sache steht noch aus, als Sahneh�ubchen auf dem gemeinsamen Gl�ck: Das Coming-Out vor Laurens Familie! Und daf�r wird es sogar h�chste Zeit, denn Laurens Mutter will endlich ... Weiterlesen

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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SMP

�When Brooklyn Was Queer� is an exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: People in Trouble

UK 2019, 268 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away. It's the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan with her husband Peter. She's having an affair with Molly, a younger lesbian who ... Weiterlesen

Jason Bauman (ed.): Love and Resistance

Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era. USA 2019, 224 pp. with numerous photographs, hardcover, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton

A ragtag group of women behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, �Hi Mom, Guess What!� at an LGBT rights rally. Two lovers kissing under a tree. These images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin ... Weiterlesen

Camille Perri: When Katie Met Cassidy

UK 2018, 264 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Piatkus

Katie Daniels is a perfection-seeking 28-year-old lawyer living the New York dream. She's engaged to an art curator, has successfully made her way up the ladder at a multinational law firm, and has a hold on apartments in Soho and the West Village. Suffice it to say, she has come a long way from her Kentucky upbringing. But the rug ... Weiterlesen

Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls

UK 2016, 274 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Serpent�s Tail

In this autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in anaudacious voice, made vivid and immediate in a lyrical language, �Chelsea Girls� cobbles together memories of Myles' 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed �lesbianity�, and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with ... Weiterlesen

Elana Dykewomon: Beyond the Pale

USA 2008, 406 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Set in the early 20th century, this classic follows the lives of Chava and Gutke, two women born in a Russian-Jewish settlement who ultimately immigrate to New York's Lower East Side with its teeming crowds, its sweatshops, the Henry Street Settlement House, and events like the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. Chava becomes active in the Women's League and is confronted ... Weiterlesen

Karin Kallmaker: 18th & Castro

USA 2006, 208 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Take an erotic journey with Karin Kallmaker in this follow-up to �All the Wrong Places�: this latest novel is set almost entirely on Halloween Night in San Francisco's Castro, with costumed women coming and going from an apartment building inhabited entirely by dykes. Some have lovers, some want lovers, some favor the frilly look, some love leathers - and all ... Weiterlesen