Viggo Mortensen (R): Falling

CAN/UK/DK 2019, engl. OF, dt. SF, engl. / dt. UT, 108 min. + 80 min. Extras, € 17.99
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Eurovideo
Die Lebensrealitäten von John und seinem Vater Willis könnten kaum unterschiedlicher sein: Einst versuchte Willis, seinen Sohn im konservativen Mittleren Westen der USA zu einem echten Mann zu erziehen - doch als Erwachsener entschied sich John für ein liberales, weltoffenes Leben in Kalifornien. Als Willis mit einer beginnenden Demenz kämpft, ist er zunehmend auf die Fürsorge seines Sohnes angewiesen. Mit ... Weiterlesen

Chantal Akerman: My Mother Laughs

UK 2019, 230 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Silver
In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she ... Weiterlesen

Telaina Eriksen: Unconditional

A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child. USA 2017, 244 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Mango
Looking for LGBTQ books that offer guidance on providing loving support to gay children? This gay children guidance provides parents of a LGBTQ child with a framework for helping their LGBTQ child navigate through a world that isn't always welcoming. The author explains what she and her husband have learned through experience, including how to: - deal with gay children ... Weiterlesen

Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo: This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids

A Question and Answer Guide to Everyday Life. USA/UK 2014, 240 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Chronicle
Written in an accessible Q+A format, here, finally, is the go-to resource for parents hoping to understand and communicate with their gay child. Through their LGBTQ-oriented site, the authors are uniquely experienced to answer parents' many questions and share insight and guidance on both emotional and practical topics. Is it a choice? Do I have to be concerned about the ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Theall: Teaching the Cat to Sit

A Memoir. USA 2014, 275 pp., hardbound, € 24.99
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Simon and Schuster
Even when society, friends, the legal system, and the Pope himself swing toward acceptance of the once unacceptable, Michelle Theall still waits for the one blessing that has always mattered to her the most: her mother's. Michelle grew up in the conservative Texas Bible Belt, bullied by her classmates and abandoned by her evangelical best friend before she'd ever even ... Weiterlesen

Lori Duron: Raising My Rainbow

Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son. USA 2013, 278 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Random House
»Raising My Rainbow« is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree

Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. USA 2012, 976 S., brochure, € 18.50
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Simon and Schuster
In »Far from the Tree«, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon's startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are ... Weiterlesen

John Schwartz: Oddly Normal

One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality. USA 2012, 290 pp., hardbound, € 23.49
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Penguin USA
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for »The New York Times«, got a call that every parent hopes never to receive: his 13-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Pepper (ed.): Transitions of the Heart

Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children. USA 2012, 204 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis
This is the first collection to invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children to tell their own stories. Often »transitioning« socially and emotionally alongside their children, parents have their own parallel process to work through, and few resources to depend on. The editor has gathered voices of women from all walks of life, with children ranging in age from ... Weiterlesen

Fiona Shaw: Tell It to the Bees

A Secret Love Which Has a Whole Town Talking. UK 2009, 336 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Serpent´s Tail
A spellbinding story of forbidden lesbian love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger: it's about a secret love which has a whole town talking - and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean ... Weiterlesen

Duncan Tucker (R): Transamerica

USA 2005, engl.OF, engl.UT, 99 min., € 18.99
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Pathé
Comedy drama starring Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree. One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and in trouble with the law. Bree helps her son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), who believes that she is simply a do-gooder. She buys a car and the two take a road ... Weiterlesen