Concentrating on the friendship between impresario Larry Parnes, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, and showbiz solicitor David Jacobs, the book details how they shaped the Swinging 60s, along with their associates including songwriter Lionel Bart (author of the hit musical Oliver! ), record producer Joe Meek, Sir Joseph Lockwood (the head of EMI), Vicki Wickham (manager of Dusty Springfield and assistant ... Weiterlesen

Dan Glass: Queer Foot Prints

A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History. UK 2023, 350 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Pluto

This guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as those who marched in London's first Pride parade in 1972 or witnessed the 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho. Accompanied by a chorus of voices of both iconic ... Weiterlesen

D.K. Publishing: The LGBTQ + History Book

UK 2023, 336 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Dorling Kindersley

Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in lesbian, gay, queer, bi and transsexual history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to Kinsey's modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures ... 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

Jessica Kingsley (ed.): The Big Book of Pride Flags

UK 2022, 48 pp., colour, hardback, € 24.95
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Jessica Kingsley

Celebrate and learn about the LGBTQIA+ community with this colourful book of Pride flags! Featuring all the colours of the rainbow, this book teaches children about LGBTQIA+ identities through 17 different Pride flags. With fun facts, simple explanations and a short history of each flag accompanying beautiful illustrations, children will uncover the history of Pride and be introduced to different ... 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

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

GB 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

Jonathan Bazzi: Fever

English by Alice Whitmore. UK 2022, 343 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Scribe

Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn't go away - it's constant, low-level, and exhausting. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his illness, he finally sees a doctor. ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: Pride, Pop and Politics

UK 2022, 352 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Omnibus Press

50 years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the performing arts have played an influential role in each great stride made. With new interviews with musicians and DJs, performers and activists, including Andy Bell, Jayne County, John Grant, Horse McDonald ... Weiterlesen

Matteo Haitzmann: Those We Lost Audiobook

AudioCD mit 11 Tracks inkl. Booklet, € 22.99
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Paper Affairs Publishers

�Someday, the AIDS crisis will be over, remember that. And when that day comes - when that day has come and gone, there'll be people alive on this Earth - gay people and straight people, men and women, black and white, who will hear the story that once there was a terrible disease in this country and all over the ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Marhoefer: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love. CAN 2022, 320 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Toronto Press

In 1931 Magnus Hirschfeld arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a Li Shiu Tong, medical student - Magnus Hirschfeld fell in love with him. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour around the world. �Racism and the Making of Gay Rights� shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay ... Weiterlesen

John-Pierre Joyce: Odd Men out

Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation. UK 2022, 368 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.99
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Manchester University Press

�Odd Men out� examines the transformation of homosexual men from odd to normal during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Using new and original research, John-Pierre Joyce explores contemporary attitudes to gay men and the development of a gay identity. He considers the extent and limits of homosexual repression and liberation, and analyses the dilemmas posed by the ... Weiterlesen

Alim Kheraj / Tim Boddy: Queer London

UK 2021, 162 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Acc Art Books

A guide to queer culture in London, past and present - Bars, clubs, shops, Pride events, charities and more. �Queer London� is a timely and accessible introduction to the city through a lesbian, gay, trans, inter, queer lens, and will appeal to anyone with an interest in London's thriving queer landscape. Celebrating the diversity and innovation of queer individuals in ... Weiterlesen

Derek Frost: Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

A Memoir. UK 2021, 288 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Watkins

This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more than 40 years ago. In the early 1980s their friends began to get sick and die - ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: Let The Record Show : A Political History of ACT UP, New York, 1987-1993

USA 2021, 736 pp., hardbound, € 44.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment ... Weiterlesen

Javier Samper Vendrell: The Seduction of Youth

Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic. USA 2020, 280 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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University of Toronto Press

A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany's first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the ... Weiterlesen

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Chicago Press

By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the �Pearl of the Danube,� it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... Weiterlesen

Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language. UK 2020, 320 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 19.95
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Reaktion

Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the 20th century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied -from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' slang - and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters ... Weiterlesen

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