Helen Scott: Live, Laugh, Lesbian

Navigating Life as a Lesbian in the 21st Century. UK 2023, 224 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jessica Kingsley
From strap-ons and Lesbian Bed Death to dealing with homophobic microaggressions in the workplace and finding your second family, Helen Scott, lesbian big sister and lipstick femme in chief is here to hold your hand as you travel your own unique path to Gay Town. Half memoir, half guide, and 100% big lesbian hug, plunge with Helen into the highs ... Weiterlesen

Yvette Taylor: Working-Class Queers : Time, Place and Politics

GB 2023, 208 pp., brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Pluto
Who cares about working-class queers in Britain today? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? Yvette Taylor critically engages with the experience of working-class queers through cycles of crisis, austerity, recession and migration to show how they have been underrepresented and demands that this changes. Drawing on growing academic and radical ... Weiterlesen

Hannah Gadsby: Ten Steps to Nanette

A Memoir Situation. UK 2023, 389 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Random House
Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. Gadsby's worldwide fame might have led some to believe she was an overnight sensation, but like everything else about her, the path from open mic to the global stage ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Davis / Laura Guy (ed.): Queer Print in Europe

GB 2022, 266 pp., brochure, € 49.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Bloomsbury
How have radical print cultures fostered and preserved queer lived experience from the 1960s to the present? What alternative stories about queer life across Europe can visual material reveal? »Queer Print in Europe« is the first book devoted to the exploration of queer print cultures in Europe, following the birth of an international gay rights movement in the late 1960s. ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Brazil: Whatever Happened to Gay Happiness?

UK 2022, 231 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cipher
In this highly accessible, entertaining and provocative work of non-fiction Kevin Brazil combines essay and memoir to ask one of the most pertinent questions of our current age: whatever happened to queer happiness? Exploring the lives of artists and writers from the past, current discourse around queerness and his own experiences, Brazil argues that art and literature needs to move ... Weiterlesen

Alexis Caught: Queer Up - An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health

UK 2022, 250 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Walker
In this empowering and uplifting book, award-winning podcaster Alexis Caught sets out to help queer and curious teenagers explore their LGBTQ+ identity and understanding. Alongside the author's personal experiences are first-hand stories from notable LGBTQ+ figures, providing a inclusive account of what it means to grow up queer. With chapters on questioning, coming out, friends and family, love, sex, shame, ... Weiterlesen

Li Kotomi: Solo Dance

UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
World Editions
Cho Norie is forced to keep her lesbian life hidden. She is 27 and originally from Taiwan, working an office job now in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden - especially her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to Japan. There ... Weiterlesen

Moisés Lino e Silva: Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. USA 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Chicago Press
A ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Liberalism mostly has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights-usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois - at the expense of marginalized groups, such as black people, children, lesbians, gays, transsexuals, and slum dwellers. ... Weiterlesen

Jack Guiness (ed.): The Queer Bible

UK 2021, 320 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Harper Collins
A collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye cast to Mae Martin on Tim Curry, today's queer heroes write about the icons that ... Weiterlesen

Diana Souhami: No Modernism Without Lesbians

UK 2021, 456 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Head of Zeus
This is the story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, between the wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein - a trailblazing publisher, a patron of artists, a society hostess, and a groundbreaking writer - they were all women who loved ... Weiterlesen

Joan E. Biren: Eye to Eye

Portraits of Lesbians. UK 2021, 80 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Thames and Hudson
In a work that was revolutionary for its era, JEB (Joan E. Biren) self-published this book in 1979. She made photographs of lesbians from different ages and backgrounds in their everyday lives - working, playing, raising families, and striving to remake their worlds. The photographs were accompanied by writings from acclaimed authors including Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Joan Nestle, and ... Weiterlesen
Bilder ansehen

Jen Jack Gieseking: A Queer New York

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers. USA 2020, 307 pp. with numerous illustrations, brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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

Orange Hippo: The Little Book of Pride

Quotes to live by. GB 2020, 192 pp., hardbound, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Welbeck
»The Little Book of Pride« is a collection of quotes that captures the voices of those who have played a key part in the long journey to a place of Pride - from the very first pioneers, to those who took the fight into the streets of the Stonewall riots, and right up to today's movers and shakers. More than ... Weiterlesen

Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2020, 320 pp., hardback, € 29.90
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Cambridge University Press
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories ... Weiterlesen

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Maysaloun Hamoud (R): In Between

ISRAEL 2016, hebr. OF, arab. SF, engl. UT, 99 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The film follows Layla, Salma and Nour, three Palestinian women living in the heart of Tel Aviv who lead complex lives while occupying an uneasy position within their predominantly Jewish society. Independent lawyer Layla refuses to compromise on her underground lifestyle, lesbian DJ Salma maintains a facade of propriety in the presence of her conservative Christian family and traditionally educated ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: Black Wave

USA 2017, 326 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
And Other Stories Publishing
It's 1999 in San Francisco, and as shockwaves of gentrification sweep through Michelle's formerly scruffy neighborhood, money troubles, drug-fueled mishaps, and a string of disastrous affairs send her into a tailspin. Desperate to save herself, Michelle sets out to seek a fresh start in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, climate-related disruptions and a string of extinctions are the background noise of impending ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: David Bowie Made Me Gay

100 Years of LBGT Music. UK 2017, 372 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance. LGBT messages are now brought to the forefront of popular music. This book covers the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the ... Weiterlesen