Darryl W. Bullock: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

UK 2023, 350 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Omnibus Press
From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience. Queer ... 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

Dooney, Phyllis: Gravity Is Stronger Here

D 2016, 200 pp., hardbound, € 51.30
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Kehrer
Die Fotografin Phyllis B. Dooney hat fünf Jahre lang den Alltag einer lesbischen Tochter in einer konservativen Familie aus Mississippi dokumentiert. Angeführt von ihrer offen lesbischen Tochter Halea träumt die Familie Brown, während sie gegen den stillen Sog der Armut und der sich stets wiederholenden häuslichen Abläufe ankämpfen. Berauscht von der Luft des Mississippi-Deltas, behaupten die Südstaatler, hier sei die ... Weiterlesen

Adrian Brooks: The Right Side of History

100 Years of LGBTQI Activism. USA 2015, 242 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis
How queer activists changed the United States of America, before, during and after Stonewall. Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as »willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed«, »On The Right Side of History« sets itself apart from oral histories by pinpointing how LGBTQ folk have been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States, bringing attention ... Weiterlesen

Kerry Eleveld: Don't Tell Me to Wait

How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama's Presidency. USA 2015, 368 pp., hardbound, € 27.99
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Perseus Group
Gay rights has been a defining progressive issue of Barack Obama's presidency: Congress repealed »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« in 2010 with his strong support, and in 2011, he instructed his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, helping to pave the way for a series of Supreme Court decisions that ultimately legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. This succession ... Weiterlesen

Joseph P. Lash: Eleanor: The Years Alone

USA 2014, 352 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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W. W. Norton
Joseph P. Lash picks up where »Eleanor and Franklin« ended, tracing Mrs. Roosevelt's 17 years of life after FDR's death in 1945. Combining meticulous research with riveting anecdote, he examines the humanitarian work that earned Eleanor the title of »First Lady of the World«. Compared to »Eleanor & Franklin«, »Eleanor: The Years Alone« is tedious with a lot of minutae ... Weiterlesen

Paulette Callen: Charity

D 2013, 337 pp, brochure, € 14.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Charity Series 1
The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Backwards to Oregon

D 2013, 521 pp, brochure, € 19.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 1
»Luke« Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

USA 2011, 345 pp. illustr., brochure, € 13.20
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Picador
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Michael Bronski: A Queer History of the United States

USA 2011, 287 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. In the mid-19th century, actress Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publized ... Weiterlesen

Vicki L. Eaklor: Queer America

A People's GLBT History of the United States. USA 2011, 274pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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This narrative history of the U.S. places GLBT people at the center of the story. It brings vividly to life the people whose work helped change the course of the 20th century. From organizing personal lives in the 19th century and constructing the medical model of homosexuality, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, and the New Deal, the queer situation during ... Weiterlesen

Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock: Queer (In)Justice

The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. USA 2011, 216pp., hardbound, € 31.99
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In March 2003 - more than three decades after Stonewall - police stormed the Power Plant, a private Detroit club frequented by African American LGBT people. Over 350 people were handcuffed and subjected to homophobic slurs. Some were hit on the head and back. Others were slammed into walls. Their supposed crime was later chalked up to a bizarre infraction: ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

An Extraordinary Marriage. USA 2010, 345pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Carlos A. Ball: From the Closet to the Courtroom

Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. USA 2010, 286pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small - on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case in a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his long-time ... Weiterlesen

Nancy D. Polikoff: Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

Valuing All Families under the Law. USA 2009, 259 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Nancy Polikoff asserts that, in American law, marriage is the dividing line between those relationships that matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for 9 months receives Social Security benefits when he dies. A woman living for 19 years with a man or woman to whom she isn't married receives no government support. This book reframes ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: Valencia

USA 2008, 216 pp., pb., € 16.96
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»Valencia« is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex, Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend, Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from ... Weiterlesen

Amin Ghaziani: The Dividends of Dissent

USA 2008, 419 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women's rights, civil rights, and anti-war movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there, and while these marches were some of the largest of their time, they have been sorely overlooked. Drawing on ... Weiterlesen

Dagmar Herzog: Sex in Crisis

USA 2008, 249 pp., hardbound, € 21.39
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The religious right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evengelical christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is definitively no. Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, Americans appear ... Weiterlesen