Lou Sullivan: Youngman. We Both Laughed in Pleasure

Selected Diaries 1961-91. UK 2021,433 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. Through these extracts, we hear Lou's life in his own words: from »playing boys« in his childhood in Wisconsin, to cruising San Francisco's gay bars for handsome »youngmen« - from first hearing about gender non-conforming communities, to becoming a vital part of them as an activist, author, and archivist. Lou navigated ... 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

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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Little Brown
This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series »When We Rise« from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Dorian

UK 2009, 278 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Set against the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, Will Self's »Dorian« is a shameless reworking of our most significant myth of shamelessness. It is the summer of 1981 and Henry Wotton, uneasily gay, egregiously drug addicted, and queasily snobbish, is at the center of a Chelsea clique dedicated to timeless dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, a sometime Warhol ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver Lives

UK 2008, 335 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in the classic »Tales of the City« series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost 20 years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Having survived the plague that took so many of his ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: And the Band Played on

Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. USA 2007 (Reprint), 630 pp., brochure, € 22.99
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It was the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examined the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first 5 years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, that he claims cut funding, ... Weiterlesen

Greg Louganis: Breaking the Surface

USA 2006, 306 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Revised update of the 1995 bestselling autobiography of athlete, four-time Olympic gold medalist, and gay role model, Greg Louganis: he won back-to-back double gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, and his amazing physique and handsome face should have made him a media superstar. Yet Louganis's struggles with self-doubt lack of confidence held him back personally and professionally. He ... Weiterlesen

David Feinberg: Eighty-Sixed

USA 2002, 326 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Gay classic dealing with the onslaught of AIDS now available again! In 1980, B.J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically - his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Picador
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote »Illness as Metaphor«, a classic work described by Newsweek as »one of the most liberating books of its time«. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper ... Weiterlesen

Various Artists: Red Hot + Rio 2

2 CDs mit insg. 20 Tracks, € 21.95
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Das Motto von Red Hot + Rio 2 ist wie auch im Fall von RH+R 1 »Proteja se« - sich beim Sex mit Kondomen schützen! Also die zentrale Botschaft der Aidsprävention - heute so wichtig wie immer! Ein Teil der Erlöse aus dem Verkauf der CDs gehen an internationale Aidshilfeorganisationen. Musikalisch ist Red Hot + Rio 2 ein stark modernisiertes ... Weiterlesen