Todd Haynes (R): Dem Himmel so fern

USA 2002, engl. OF, dt. SF, 100 min., € 17.99
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Alive
Cathy Whitaker lebt mit ihrem Ehemann Frank und den gemeinsamen Kindern in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt gegen Ende der 1950er Jahre. Das Leben wirkt perfekt mit Heim und Herd, doch hinter dem äußeren Schein läuft es weder privat noch beruflich rund. Cathy fühlt sich zu ihrem schwarzen Gärtner hingezogen, und Frank geht seinen homosexuellen Neigungen nach. Dramatische Spannungen bahnen sich an.

Pajtim Statovci: Bolla

UK 2023, 240 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
Kosovo is a country on the brink of a dreadful war. Arsim is twenty-two, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Until he encounters Milos, a Serb, and begins a life in secret. »Bolla« is the story of what happens when passion and history collide ... Weiterlesen

Saleem Haddad: Guapa

UK 2019, 300 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Random House
Set over the course of 24 hours, »Guapa« follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. ... Weiterlesen
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Claudio Macor: The Tailor-Made Man

A Play. UK 2017, 111 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Oberon
William »Billy« Haines was a popular silent screen MGM movie star who was fired by Louis B. Mayer because he was gay and refused to give up his lifelong partner, Jimmie Shields, and to marry the silent screen vamp Pola Negri. As punishment, his films were removed from release and sealed in the MGM vaults never to be seen again, ... Weiterlesen

James Lear: While My Wife's Away

USA 2017, 240 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Cleis
To all appearances, Joe Heath is a typical straight married man, living with his wife and two teenage children, commuting to work, playing sports, enjoying a beer and a barbecue. But there are things about Joe that his friends don't know. For one thing, his relationship with his wife has deteriorated to the point that they're sleeping in separate bedrooms. ... Weiterlesen

Marta Kauffman: Grace and Frankie: Season 1

USA 2015, engl. OF, 2 DVDs, 390 min., € 45.99
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Lionsgate
All 13 episodes from the first season of the American comedy starring Jane Fonda and power lesbian Lily Tomlin as Grace and Frankie, two polar opposites who are dismayed to discover their husbands and law firm partners Robert and Sol have been in a gay relationship for the last 20 years and want to divorce their wives. Now Grace, a ... Weiterlesen

Mark Merlis: JD

USA 2015, 272 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
When a would-be biographer approaches Ascher's widow Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband's papers and all the secrets that come tumbling out of them. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, then recount Ascher's sexual adventures in the pre-Stonewall gay underground and the ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: A Place Called Winter

UK 2015, 368 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Hachette
A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, gay Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair with another handsome man do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry ... Weiterlesen

Allan Gurganus: Decoy

USA 2015, 171 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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W. W. Norton
»Decoy«, the concluding novella of Allan Gurganus's »Local Souls«, was hailed as the standout of that work. Critics called it »humane, profound, hilarious, nostalgic, the literary equivalent of a bare-knuckled knockout punch«. It is a haunting lyrical portrayal of a life half-led. Set in mythical Falls, North Carolina, this mysterious and compelling tale maps the lifelong eroticized friendship between two ... Weiterlesen

Tom Spanbauer: I Love You More

USA 2014, 468 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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In New York, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil, Hank. Years later in Portland, a now ill Ben falls for Ruth, who provides the care and devotion he needs, though they cannot find true happiness together. Then Hank reappears and meets Ruth, and real trouble starts. Set against a world of struggling artists, the ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Coral Glynn

USA 2013, 210 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Picador
Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion deep in the English countryside early in the very wet spring of 1950 to nurse the elderly Edith Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to endure his thwarted life. When ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 392 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not the way he would like them to be. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for. The other men he takes to bed never stay for long. Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to ... Weiterlesen

Charles Rowan Beye: My Husband and My Wives

A Gay Man's Odyssey. USA 2012, 257 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications brought on by the discovery, during adolescence, of his attraction to other men. The ordeal of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in the midst of a disapproving and sometimes hostile society, is one side of his story. Another is ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 393 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
Edmund White's »A Boy's Own Story« was the first gay book I've ever read as such. And to be honest I didn't like it much. Even though I grew up in a comparably provincial surrounding as the young guy in »A Boy's Own Story« does (well, not the American Midwest but rural Bavaria - which is certainly close) it was ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World

UK 2012, 344 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Michael Cunningham's celebrated novel is the story two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself, and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father ... Weiterlesen

Martha Edens Clark: Coming Out Together

The Journey of a Gay Minister's Wife Through Love, Divorce, and Remarriage. USA 2011, 115 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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AuthorHouse
This is the story of a young woman (the author) who knew next to nothing about homosexuality, and a young minister (Maurice) who suppressed his homosexuality for 55 years. It is about their friendship, love, marriage, and eventual revelation of his homosexuality. It is told in chapters which answer questions that the author has been asked as she began to ... Weiterlesen

James C. Hormel and Erin Martin: Fit to Serve

Reflections on a Secret Life. USA 2011, 288 pp., illustrated, hardbound, € 22.95
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Skyhorse
James Hormel - a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family built the SPAM meatpacking »empire« and lived in the only mansion in his small Midwestern town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not mentioned, never mind accepted. Outwardly, he tried to live up to the life his parents wanted for ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall

USA 2011, 228 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Picador
Peter and Rebecca Harris: midforties denizens of Manhattan's Soho, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts - he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in ... Weiterlesen