Darryl W. Bullock: The Velvet Mafia

The Gay Men Who Ran The Swinging Sixties. UK 2023, 348 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Omnibus Press
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

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

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

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

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

Matthew Todd: Pride

The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement. UK 2022 (revised), 384 pp., b/w, colour illustrations, hardback, € 39.95
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Andre Deutsch
In June 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. »Pride« charts that historic event, the rioting that followed, the radicalization and organization of the LGBTQ+ community worldwide, and the activism that has taken place in the 50 years since. It documents the milestones in the fight for equality between genders and sexualities, from early ... Weiterlesen

New York Public Library (ed.): The Stonewall Reader

USA/CAN 2019, 304 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA
June 28, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, »The Stonewall Reader« is a collection of firsthand accounts, diaries, periodic literature and articles from LGBTQ magazines ... Weiterlesen

Wim Peumans: Queer Muslims in Europe : Sexuality, Religion and Migration in Belgium

UK 2019, 304 pp., pb., € 49.95
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I.B. Tauris
Belgium was the second country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage. It has an elaborate legal system for protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual individuals in general and queer asylum seekers in particular. At the same time, since 2015 the country has become known as the »jihadi centre of Europe« and criticized for its »homonationalism« where ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan D. Luthor / Jennifer U. Loh (eds.): Queer Asia

Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender. USA 2019, 288 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Zed
Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalization of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens. Building on ... Weiterlesen

Jason Bauman (ed.): Love and Resistance

Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era. USA 2019, 224 pp. with numerous photographs, hardcover, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
A ragtag group of women behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, »Hi Mom, Guess What!« at an LGBT rights rally. Two lovers kissing under a tree. These images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin ... Weiterlesen

Conor O'Dwyer: Coming Out of Communism

The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe. USA 2018, 333 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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New York University Press
While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in the region, LGBT individuals in other post-communist countries also suffer from discriminatory laws and prejudiced social institutions. Combining an historical overview with interviews and case studies in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Escoffier: American Homo

Community and Perversity. UK 2018, 288 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Verso
An account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society. The author tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism coursing through American culture and the virulent periodic outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success enables a new disciplinary ... Weiterlesen

Martin Duberman: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

USA 2018, 247 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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University of California Press
The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the US and the West. Yet the extent of this progress has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, Duberman reviews the period since Stonewall. ... Weiterlesen

Frédéric Martel: Global Gay

How Gay Culture Is Changing the World. USA 2018, 296 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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MIT Press
In »Global Gay«, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel finds that although the »gay American way of ... Weiterlesen

Marion Kraft: Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde

D 2018, 120 pp., brochure, € 13.20
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Unrast
A hommage to the great Afroamerican lesbian poet and feminist Audre Lorde. Her works were essential for liberation movements in many countries and are still up to date today. She as a person gave the new Black movement in Germany during the 1980s direction. Marion Kraft was a personal friend of Audre Lorde. She uses essays, speeches and interviews of ... Weiterlesen

Chavoya Frantz: Axis Mundo

Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. USA 2018, 413 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.99
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Prestel
The powerful work of queer Chicano artists in Los Angeles is explored in this book. Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and reveals networks of collaboration and exchange that resulted ... Weiterlesen