Diarmuid Hester: Nothing Ever Just Disappears

GB 2023, 358 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Allen Lane
Nothing Ever Just Disappears retraces the footsteps of some of the twentieth century's most remarkable queer writers and artists. Moving through their homes and haunts, it explores the deep connections between where they lived, who they were and the iconoclastic art and literature they created. In search of a new history of queer culture, Diarmuid Hester travels from Cambridge's ancient ... Weiterlesen

Tom of Finland: An Imaginary Sketchbook

UK 2022, 128 pp., b/w, brochure, € 44.95
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Thames and Hudson
Tom of Finland undoubtedly counts among the great and truly influential artists of the latter 20th century. Through his iconic images, he almost single-handedly changed the way gay men were perceived by society, and - maybe even more important - how gay men perceived themselves. The massive ?uvre that he produced over the course of a career spanning nearly six ... Weiterlesen

Harvey Fierstein: I Was Better Last Night

A Memoir. UK 2022, 386 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, hardbound, € 39.95
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Knopf
A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright, revealing never-before-told stories of his personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, and of his fabled career. Harvey Fierstein's legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of Hollywood ... 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

Huw Lemmey / Ben Miller: Bad Gays

A Homosexual History. UK 2022, 288 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Verso
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as the authors argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those »bad gays« whose unexemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? Part-revisionist history, part-historical biography and ... Weiterlesen

Kodo Nishimura: This Monk Wears Heels

Be Who You Are. UK 2022, 256 pp., hardback, € 23.95
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Watkins
His wide smile, however, hid a painful past. The book starts with Kodo's childhood in Japan, playing dress up as Little Mermaid, and his lonely adolescence when, although born into a family of priests, all he wanted to do was wear pretty dresses and become a princess. Growing up an outsider in a society that celebrates uniformity, Kodo's time in ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman (R): Wittgenstein

UK 1993, OF, dt. SF, dt. UT, 75 Min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
Geistreich und witzig, konzentriert und bunt - eine philosophische Abhandlung und gleichzeitig eine spannende Biographie. Derek Jarman erzählt die Geschichte von Ludwig Wittgenstein: Wiener Millionärssohn, Schullehrer, Krankenhauspförtner, Gärtner, Cambridge-Dozent, Kriegsoffizier, Kommunist und schwul. - Wittgenstein, exzentrischer Philosoph, für viele nur »der verrückte Ludwig«, war ein leidenschaftlicher Kämpfer für die Wahrheit - nicht nur in der Logik, sondern auch im Leben. ... Weiterlesen

Allen Ellenzweig: George Platt Lynes - The Daring Eye

USA 2022, 664 pp., hardbound, € 59.95
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Oxford University Press
The life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Intending to pursue a literary and small press publishing career, ... Weiterlesen

Sara Gay Forden: House of Gucci

A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. UK 2021, 533 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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William Morrow
A world-famous luxury brand, financial skullduggery, vicious family quarrels ending in a sensational murder: the Gucci story just couldn't be juicier, and the author does full justice to its gossipy appeal. Guccio Gucci opened his first leather-goods store in Florence in 1921, but it was his son Aldo who expanded the company overseas and made products like the Gucci loafer ... Weiterlesen

Billie Jean King: All in

An Autobiography. USA 2021, 484 pp. with numerous colour photographies, hardbound, € 29.95
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Viking
In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career - six years as the top-ranked woman in the world. She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profound impact on her worldview from the women's movement, the assassinations and anti-war protests of the 1960s, ... Weiterlesen

Elliot James: The Importance of Happiness

Noël Coward and the Actors' Orphanage. UK 2021, 212 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Troubadour
The Actors' Orphanage was a home for the abandoned children of struggling or incapacitated actors. In 1934 it was a harsh and brutal institution. Meanwhile however, the gay playwright and cultural phenomenon, Noël Coward, was looking for more meaning in his life. After success after success, he would always ask ... »What now?« In »The Importance of Happiness«, this little ... Weiterlesen

Alice B. Toklas: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

UK 2021, 368 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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HarperPerennial
When Alice B. Toklas was asked to write a memoir, she initially refused. Instead, she wrote »The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book«, a sharply written, deliciously rich cookbook memorializing meals and recipes shared by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso - and of course by Alice and Gertrude themselves. While »The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas« - penned by ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Moser: Sontag

Her Life and Work. USA 2020, 815 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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Ecco
The portrait of one of the America's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of ... Weiterlesen

Blake Gopnik: Warhol

UK 2020, 961 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin UK
To this day, mention the name »Andy Warhol« to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. In »Warhol«, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes ... Weiterlesen

Yuval Taylor: Zora and Langston

A Story of Friendship and Betrayal. USA 2019, 304 pp. with several b/w photographs, hardcover, € 23.95
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W. W. Norton
Zora Hurston and the gay Langston Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance, were best friends - until they weren't. Hurston and Hughes were collaborators, literary gadflies, and close companions. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play »Mule Bone«, and wrote scores of loving letters to each other. They even ... Weiterlesen

Paul Warchol / Page Powell (Hg.): Warhol on Basquiat

The Famous Relationship Told in Andy Warhol's Words and Pictures. D 2019, 240 S., geb., € 50.00
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Taschen Verlag
Dieser in Zusammenarbeit mit der Andy Warhol Foundation und den Nachlassverwaltern von Jean-Michel Basquiat entstandene Band spürt der komplexen persönlichen und beruflichen Beziehung der beiden Künstler nach - anhand von Hunderten von Fotos, die Warhol von Basquiat machte, Auszügen aus den legendären Tagebüchern von Warhol und Beispielen ihrer künstlerischen Kollaboration. Aus dem, wie Warhol Basquiat sah, ergibt sich ein faszinierendes ... Weiterlesen

Marina Kostalevsky: The Tchaikovsky Papers

GB 2018, 296 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
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Yale University Press
This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they reveal the composer's daily concerns, private thoughts, and playful sense of humor. Often intimate and sometimes bawdy, these texts also offer ... Weiterlesen

Boel Westin: Tove Jansson - Life, Art, Words

The Authorised Biography. UK 2018, 523 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 22.95
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Profile
The Finnish-Swedish lesbian writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to ... Weiterlesen