Harry Nicholas: A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar

A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery. UK 2023, 224 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Jessica Kingsley
After his relationship with his girlfriend of five years ended, Harry realised he was a single adult for the first time - not only that, but a single, transmasculine and newly out gay man. Despite knowing it was the right decision, the reality of his new situation was terrifying. How could he be a gay man, when he was still ... Weiterlesen

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

UK 2023, 208 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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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

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

UK 2022, 266 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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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
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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
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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

Moisés Lino e Silva: Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. USA 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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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
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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

Orange Hippo: The Little Book of Pride

Quotes to live by. UK 2020, 192 pp., hardbound, € 12.95
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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

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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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

RuPaul: GuRu

USA 2018, 208 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 34.95
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Harper Collins
A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the worlds most famous shape-shifter drag queen RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty years. »GuRu« is packed with more than 80 beautiful photographs that illustrate the concept of building the life you want from the outside in and the inside out. »You're born naked ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: David Bowie Made Me Gay

100 Years of LBGT Music. UK 2017, 372 pp., pb., € 19.95
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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

Andrew Haigh (R): Looking - Die komplette Serie - Season 1 und 2 - und der Film

USA 2014-2016, engl. OF, dt. SF, 5 DVDs, 626 min., € 24.95
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HBO
Im Mittelpunkt der beiden Staffeln der schwulen US-Serie steht eine Clique schwuler Freunde: Patrick, Agustín und Dom lieben und leben im heutigen San Francisco. Ihre Geschichten verweben sich bei ihrer Suche nach Lebensglück und Intimität in einer Epoche, die Schwulen Rechte und Möglichkeiten bietet wie nie zuvor. Das entscheidende Fundament dieses Serienmix besteht in der progressiven, unberechenbaren, sexuell freizügigen Kultur ... Weiterlesen

Deutsches Historisches Museum / Schwules Museum (e: Homosexualität_en

Companion volume to the exhibitions at Deutsches Historisches Museum and Schwules Museum Berlin. D 2015, 224 pp., brochure, € 25.70
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Sandstein
The Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Schwules Museum present the exhibition »Homosexuality_ies« from 26 June to 1 December 2015. »Homosexuality_ies« documents 150 years of the history, politics and culture of homosexual women and men in Germany. The exhibition shows how same-sex sexuality and non-conformist gender identities have been criminalized through legislation, pathologized in medicine and excluded from society. It traces ... Weiterlesen

Jin Haritaworn / Adi Kuntsman / Silvia Posocco (ed: Queer Necropolitics

UK 2015, 222 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Taylor and Francis
This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect. Moving between diverse geopolitical contexts - the US and the UK, Guatemala and Palestine, ... Weiterlesen

Dan Savage: American Savage

Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics. USA 2014, 297 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin USA
Now available as a paperback. Author, activist, and provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on such diverse issues as parenthood, monogamy, gun control, and marriage equality with his characteristic straight talk and humor. He has never been shy about expressing his opinions on controversial topics - political or otherwise. Thanks to his syndicated sex-advice column, »Savage Love«, he has gained a ... Weiterlesen

Noelle M. Stout: After Love

Queer Intimacy and Erotic Encounters in Post-Soviet Cuba. USA 2014, 272 pp. with photographs, brochure, € 34.95
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Duke University Press
The anthropologist author arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and »travesties«. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The ... Weiterlesen

Margret Grebowicz: Why Internet Porn Matters

USA 2013, 135 pp., brochure, € 17.99
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Stanford University Press
Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Grebowicz in this philosophical analysis of Internet porn, in her account, are symptoms of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In ... Weiterlesen

David A. Gerstner (ed.): Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

UK/USA 2011, 720 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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Taylor and Francis
This encyclopedia covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject. The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of dance, education, film, health, homophobia, the Internet, literature, music, performance, and politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a ... Weiterlesen