Craig Boreham (R): Lonesome

AUS 2022, engl. OF, dt., engl. UT, 95 min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pro-fun
Casey, ein junger schwuler Mann vom Land, der vor einem Kleinstadtskandal davonläuft, findet sich in der quirligen großen Metropole Sydney wieder. Als er Tib trifft, einen jungen Stadtburschen, der mit seinen eigenen Narben der Isoliertheit zu kämpfen hat, stimmt die Chemie sofort und das nicht nur sexuell, sondern auch emotional. In ihrer intimen Bindung finden die beiden unnahbaren jungen Männer ... Weiterlesen

Alice Winn: In Memoriam

UK 2023, 380 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Viking
It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes ... Weiterlesen

Tom Crewe: The New Life

UK 2023, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
London, 1894. After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they ... Weiterlesen

Eugen Jebeleanu (R): Poppy Field

RO 2022, rumän. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 81 min., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Romanian gay drama directed by Eugen Jebeleanu. The film follows closeted police officer Cristi as he welcomes his French boyfriend Hadi to Bucharest for the weekend. While Hadi clashes with Cristi's sister Catalina, Cristi continues to work and finds himself involved in a volatile protest taking place at a local arthouse cinema.

Pajtim Statovci: Bolla

UK 2023, 240 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Douglas Stuart: Young Mungo

UK 2023, 392 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in the hyper-masculine and violently sectarian world of Glasgow's housing estates. They should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As ... Weiterlesen

David Berry (R): Something like Summer

USA 2017, engl. OF, dt. UT, 115 Min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pro-fun
Ben ist 17, schwul und hat an seiner Highschool in Houston, Texas, nicht sehr viele Freunde. Doch plötzlich taucht da Tim auf, ein gutaussehender, beliebter - und ganz offensichtlich heterosexueller - Newcomer. Als die beiden sich durch einen nicht ganz unbeabsichtigten Unfall näher kommen, entwickelt sich, allen Widerständen zum Trotz, eine anfangs zwar geheime, aber dadurch umso intensivere Liebesgeschichte. - ... Weiterlesen

Tomasz Jedrowski: Swimming in the Dark

USA 2020, 208 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Taieb (R): Stand

RUS 2014, russ.OF, engl.UT, 87 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
TLA Releasing
Anton and Vlad are a handsome, happy couple living in modern day Russia - peacefully making a life for themselves in the comfortable privacy of their Moscow apartment. But everything is about to change. After witnessing a brutal homophobic attack that leaves the victim critically ill in hospital, Anton and Vlad set out to find those responsible. Set against the ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Harvard Square

USA 2013, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton
1977: amid the lovely streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ... Weiterlesen

Patricia Highsmith: Carol

UK 2010, 311 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love. Carol is a sophisticated, bored ... Weiterlesen

David Pratt: Bob the Book

UK 2010, 189 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Chelsea Station
Just what is a »gay book«? - A book attracted to books of the same gender! Meet »Bob the Book«, a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But a freak accident separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Mallon: Fellow Travelers

USA 2008, 368 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Knopf
A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. - a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy - and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak: In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter ... Weiterlesen

Scott and Scott: Nothing Personal

USA 2005, 229 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The gay marriage ban is nothing personal, unless you are a Cuban-American gay man in the heart of red-state America. Carlo Batista takes on longtime conservative Tall Tony Scipione in a race for state representative. And he takes on a mystery man Brian Gallagher in the race for his heart. Breaking all the rules of polite society, Carlo proves that ... Weiterlesen

Christine Geraghty: My Beautiful Laundrette

UK 2005, 108 pp., brochure, € 18.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»My Beautiful Laundrette« is a phenomenon, a small TV film which became a political and social landmark, a classic which speaks to audiences today. It is a gay romance, a lesson in ethnic diversity, a riposte to Thatcherite principles and a celebration of the edgy possibilities of London in the 1980s. A crucial film for director Stephen Frears and writer ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room

USA 2000, 159 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Page Turner

UK 1999, 244 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Abacus
18-year-old Paul Porterfield hopes for a career as a classical pianist and is thrilled to achieve his »debut« turning pages for his idol, Richard Kennington. This would be the only intersection of their careers were it not for a coincidental encounter later that summer in Rome, where Paul and his philistine mother, Pamela, are on vacation. Mutually infatuated, Paul and ... Weiterlesen

Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness

UK 2014, 530 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career. The story follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose »sexual inversion« (that is, homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. ... Weiterlesen