Rustam Alexander: Red Closet

The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR. UK 2023, 288 pp., hardbound, € 37.95
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Manchester University Press
In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive Scottish journalist based in Moscow who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

W. Jake Newsome: Pink Triangle Legacies

Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust. USA 2022, 286 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Cornell University Press
»Pink Triangle Legacies« traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. The author provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ people and details queer survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ ... Weiterlesen

Samuel Clowes Huneke: States of Liberation

Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. UK 2022, 380 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Toronto Press
States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two ... Weiterlesen

David Hewson: The Garden of Angels

UK 2022, 320 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Canongate
When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and ... Weiterlesen

James Kirchick: Secret City

The Hidden History of Gay Washington. USA 2022, 848 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Henry Holt
For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere ... Weiterlesen

Bethan Roberts: My Policeman

UK 2022 (Tie-in edition), 342 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
Now in the cinemas: In the 1950s' Brighton - at a time when homosexuality in the UK was still illegal - Marion first catches sight of Tom. He's her best friend's hunky brother. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is absolutely smitten - determined her love will be enough for both of them. ... Weiterlesen
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Meredith Batt / Dusty Green: Len & Cub - A Queer History

UK 2022, 192 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Goose Lane Editions
Leonard »Len« Keith and Joseph »Cub« Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock (Australia) in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly developed an inseparable relationship. Len was an amateur photographer and automobile enthusiast who went on to own a local garage and poolhall after serving in the First World War. Cub ... Weiterlesen
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Nathan Harris: The Sweetness of Water

USA 2021, 368 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
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Headline
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry - freed by the Emancipation Proclamation - seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. ... Weiterlesen

James Polchin: Indecent Advances

A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall. UK 2019, 256 pp., hardback, € 29.95
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In his skillful hybrid of true crime and cultural history, James Polchin looks at how popular culture, the media, and the psychological profession forcefully portrayed gay men as the perpetrators of the same violence they suffered. He traces how the press depicted the murder of men by other men from the end of World War I to the Stonewall ... Weiterlesen

Robert W. Fieseler: Tinderbox

The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. USA 2019, 384 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, the author chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of gay men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented ... Weiterlesen

Fergus O'Brien: Against the Law

UK 2017, engl. OF, 81 Min., € 18.99
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Biographical drama directed by Fergus O'Brien: Journalist Peter Wildeblood's affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly during the time homosexuality was a crime and the devastating consequences of their relationship. But Peter Wildeblood was one of the first people in Britain to publicly declare his homosexuality. Living in the 1950s when homosexuality was illegal, Wildeblood and his partner ... Weiterlesen

Elizabeth Day: Paradise City

UK 2015, 354 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Harper Collins
Beatrice Kizza, a lesbian woman who fled Uganda where homosexuality is illegal, comes to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Carol Hetherington, recently ... Weiterlesen

David Lagercrantz: Fall of Man in Wilmslow

The Life and Death of Alan Turing: A Novel. UK 2015, 367 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Quercus
This thriller opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and a young (homophobic) detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. In 1954, several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing, ... 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

Carrie L. Buist / Emily Lenning: Queer Criminology

UK 2015, 144 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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Taylor and Francis
In this book, Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning reflect on the origins of Queer Criminology, survey the foundational research and scholarship in this emerging field, and offer suggestions for the future. Covering topics such as the criminalization of queerness; the policing of Queer communities; Queer experiences in the courtroom; and the correctional control of Queer people, »Queer Criminology« synthesizes ... Weiterlesen

William Cross: The Abergavenny Witch Hunt

An Account of the Prosecution of Over Twenty Homosexuals in a Small Welsh Town in 1942. UK 2014, 250 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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In 1942, the Welsh town of Abergavenny was scandalised by disclosures after the arrest of over twenty youths and men on charges relating to homosexual activity and corrupting boys. George Rowe, the 40-year-old manager of Abergavenny's Coliseum cinema was at the centre of a Police enquiry after one of the page-boys complained about being molested. The boy's complaint turned into ... Weiterlesen

Anthony Summers: Official + Confidential

The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. UK 2012, 602 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 12.79
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Ebury
Now the subject of a major Hollywood movie, Hoover was at the summit of power in the U.S. for almost 50 years. He created the FBI and ran it unchecked until his death. The biographer demoklishes the epic myth to reveal a racist, blackmailer and deceiver, a puppet-master who manipulated many of the key events in modern American history. He ... Weiterlesen

Patrice Corriveau: Judging Homosexuals

A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France. CAN 2011, 226 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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University of British Columbia
In 2004, the first same-sex couple legally married in Quebec. How did homosexuality - an act that had for centuries been defined as abominable and criminal - come to be sanctioned by law? »Judging Homosexuals« finds answers in a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec, places that share a common culture but have diverging legal traditions. In ... Weiterlesen