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

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

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

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

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

Pauli Murray: Song in a Weary Throat

Memoir of an American Pilgrimage. USA 2018, 624 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Liveright

Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against �Jane Crow� sexism. Orphaned at early age, she was sent from Baltimore to segregated Durham, N.C., to ... Weiterlesen

Amy Bloom: White Houses

UK 2018, 256 pp., brochure, € 16.99
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Granta Books

In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate lesbian relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, �White Houses� is the story ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Cook: Kitty Genovese

The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America. USA 2015,242 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 15.95
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W. W. Norton

New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop - a murder the New York Times called �a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change�. The victim, Catherine �Kitty� Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of 38 neighbors who �didn't want to get involved�. Her sensational case ... Weiterlesen

Joseph P. Lash: Eleanor: The Years Alone

USA 2014, 352 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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W. W. Norton

Joseph P. Lash picks up where �Eleanor and Franklin� ended, tracing Mrs. Roosevelt's 17 years of life after FDR's death in 1945. Combining meticulous research with riveting anecdote, he examines the humanitarian work that earned Eleanor the title of �First Lady of the World�. Compared to �Eleanor & Franklin�, �Eleanor: The Years Alone� is tedious with a lot of minutae ... Weiterlesen

Conchita Wurst: Being Conchita

UK 2015, 208 pp., hardback, € 15.99
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With the song �Rise Like a Phoenix�, Thomas Neuwirth - better known to the world as Conchita Wurst - stormed to victory in 2014's Eurovision Song Contest. The bearded drag queen's winning words, �We are unity and we are unstoppable�, were a pointed riposte to overt Russian hostility and Eastern European homophobia, and a watershed moment for LGBT campaigners. Her ... Weiterlesen

Robert Aldrich: Gay Life Stories

UK 2023, 336 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Thames and Hudson

A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time and across the globe whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture, this book gives a voice to more than 80 people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, ... Weiterlesen

Franny Moyle: Constance

The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde. UK 2012, 374 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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John Murray

In the spring of 1895 Constance Wilde - popular children's author, fashion icon and leading campaigner for women's rights - found her life changed beyond all recognition. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she as part of a gilded couple had held a privileged position in society. A founding member of the magical society the ... Weiterlesen

M.G. Lord: The Accidental Feminist

How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. USA 2012, 213 pp., hardbound, € 21.49
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Walker

Countless books have chronicled the life of Elizabeth Taylor, but rarely has her career been examined from the point of view of her on-screen persona. That persona has repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas. In her breakout film, �National Velvet�, Taylor's character challenges gender discrimination: forbidden because she is a girl to ride her beloved horse in an ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

USA 2011, 345 pp. illustr., brochure, € 13.20
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Picador

Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Richard Dellamora: Radclyffe Hall

A Life in the Writing. USA 2011, 319 pp., hardbound, € 28.59
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�The Well of Loneliness� is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author, Radclyffe Hall, was already well-known ... Weiterlesen

Donald Bogle: Heat Wave

The Life and Career of Ethel Waters. USA 2011, 624 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 23.95
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Almost no other star of the 20th century reimagined herself with such audacity and durable talent as did Ethel Waters. This biography sheds new light on the tumultuous twists and turns of the career of this astonishing woman, which began in Black vaudeville and reached new heights in the steamy nightclubs of 1920s Harlem. It traces Waters' life from the ... Weiterlesen

Donald Spoto: Possessed

The Life of Joan Crawford. USA 2010, 336 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 13.49
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Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. The biographer here goes beyond the popular caricature - the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, �Mommie Dearest� - to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman, her dazzling career, ... Weiterlesen

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