Seán Hewitt: All Down Darkness Wide

UK 2023, 234 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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Vintage
When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs ... Weiterlesen

Judith Butler: What World Is This?

A Pandemic Phenomenology. USA 2022, 144 pp., brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Columbia University Press
The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can ... Weiterlesen

Adam Silvera: The First to Die at the End

UK 2022, 571 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Simon and Schuster
In this prequel to »They Both Die at the End«, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for ... Weiterlesen

Mike Doyle (R): Almost Love

USA 2019, engl. OF, dt. UT, 92 min., € 17.99
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Pro-fun
Das verflixte siebte Jahr kommt bei dem schwulen Paar Adam und Marklin Jahre zu früh. Adam steht als »Geistermaler« bei einer Künstlerin unter Vertrag, während Marklin als erfolgreicher Blogger für Männermode arbeitet. Hat ihre Beziehung ein Verfallsdatum? Dieser Frage müssen sich die beiden stellen, nachdem ihre fünfjährige Beziehung zu kriseln begonnen hat. In ihrer Clique sind sie damit nicht die ... Weiterlesen

Marion Hill (R): Ma Belle, My Beauty

USA 2021, engl.-frz. OF, dt. UT, 82 min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber
Lane liebte Bertie, Bertie liebte Lane - und auch Fred. In New Orleans hatten die beiden Frauen und Fred einst eine Dreierbeziehung geführt, bis diese irgendwann nicht mehr funktioniert hat und Lane aus dem gemeinsamen Leben verschwunden ist. Zwei Jahre später haben Bertie und Fred geheiratet und sind zusammen nach Südfrankreich gezogen. Um seine Frau aus ihrer Kreativkrise als Sängerin ... Weiterlesen

Richard Coles: The Madness of Grief

A Memoir of Love and Loss. UK 2022, 192 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife with parishioners or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles' routine. But since his partner the Reverend David Coles died in December, much about death has taken Coles by surprise. David's death at the age of 42 was unexpected ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Cancer Journals

UK 2020, 71 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by ... Weiterlesen

Simon Amstell (R): Benjamin

UK 2019, engl. OF, dt. UT, 85 Min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
Sieben Jahre hat der ambitionierte Nachwuchsregisseur Benjamin an seinem zweiten Spielfilm gearbeitet und dem Projekt alles andere untergeordnet. »Kein Selbst« ist ein autobiografisches Drama über Liebe und Einsamkeit, in dem er selbst die Hauptrolle spielt. Am Vorabend der Premiere lernt er in einer Bar den charismatischen französischen Sänger Noah kennen und fühlt sich wie magisch zu ihm hingezogen. Doch als ... Weiterlesen

Chantal Akerman: My Mother Laughs

UK 2019, 230 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Silver
In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she ... Weiterlesen

Michael Ausiello: Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies

USA 2018, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Atria
For the past decade, TV fans have counted upon Michael Ausiello's insider knowledge to get the scoop on their favorite shows and stars. From his time at »Soaps in Depth« and »Entertainment Tonight« to his influential stints at »TV Guide« and »Entertainment Weekly« to his current role as co-founder of the wildly popular website TVLine.com, Michael has established himself as ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Take Nothing With You

UK 2019, 352 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
Fifty-something Eustace, a gay Londoner of leisure, realizes in the same week that he has fallen hopelessly in love with a man he has yet to meet in the flesh, and that he has cancer of the thyroid. While being given radioactive iodine therapy, which involves spending a little over 24 hours in a lead-lined hospital suite wearing only disposable ... Weiterlesen

Adam Silvera: They Both Die at the End

UK 2017, 373 pp., brochure, € 11.95
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Simon and Schuster
When Mateo receives the dreaded call from Death-Cast, informing him that today will be his last, he doesn't know where to begin. Quiet and shy, Mateo is devastated at the thought of leaving behind his hospitalized father, and his best friend and her baby girl. But he knows that he has to make the most of this day, it's his ... Weiterlesen

Ariel Levy: The Rules Do Not Apply

USA 2017, 210 pp., hardbound, € 18.50
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Random House
When 38-year-old New Yorker lesbian writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true. Levy hurls you through the story of how she built an unconventional life and then watched it fall apart with astonishing speed. Like ... Weiterlesen

Adam Silvera: More Happy Than Not

Happiness Shouldn't Be This Hard. USA 2016, 300 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Soho Press
In the months after his father's suicide, it's been tough for 16-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again - but he's still gunning for it. With the support of his girlfriend Genevieve and his overworked mom, he's slowly remembering what that might feel like. But grief and the smile-shaped scar on his wrist prevent him from forgetting completely. When Genevieve ... Weiterlesen

Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History

USA 2016, 296 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corsair
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, »The Angel of History« follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco ... Weiterlesen

Tom Mendicino: Probation

USA 2010, 340 pp., brochure, € 14.99
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All it took to destroy Andy Nocera's seemingly perfect life was an anonymous tryst at an Interstate rest area. Sentenced to probation and thrown out by his wife, he spends his week as a travelling salesman, and his weekends at his mother's house where no questions are asked - and no explanations are offered. To clear the record, the State ... Weiterlesen

Patrice Chéreau (R): Son frère

F 2002, fr. OF, engl. UT, 88 min., € 19.99
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Brothers Thomas and Luc have an estranged relationship. One day, Thomas comes to Luc's apartment explaining that he is ill and asks if Luc will accompany him to the hospital. Thomas has an undetermined platelet disorder which is treated with cortisone and splenectomy - neither help. Luc, who happens to be gay, and is in a relationship with Vincent, is ... Weiterlesen