Diarmuid Hester: Nothing Ever Just Disappears

UK 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

Darryl W. Bullock: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

UK 2023, 350 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Omnibus Press
From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience. Queer ... Weiterlesen

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

Kit Heyam: Before We Were Trans

A New History of Gender. UK 2023, 343 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Basic
»Before We Were Trans« invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways, rather than contracting them and policing their borders. The book celebrates trans history, whilst acknowledging the reality of what it means to live within our community with joy and kindness. Trans people have a rich history - but one that ... Weiterlesen

David Evans Frantz / Christina Linden / Chris E. V: Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

D 2023, 288 S. mit zahlreichen Farbabb., geb., € 41.10
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Hirmer
Dieser Band stellt eine breit gefächerte Auswahl von Kunstwerken und Artefakten aus mehr als vier Jahrhunderten vor, die sich aus der oft vernachlässigten Geschichte transsexueller und nichtbinärer Gemeinschaften schöpfen. Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Autorinnen und Autoren, Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler thematisieren in ihren Beiträgen die historische Verschleierung und eröffnen künftige Transperspektiven. Anhand einer Vielzahl von Kunstwerken und Artefakten entfaltet ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Rottmann: Queer Lives across the Wall

Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970. UK 2023, 266 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of Toronto Press
Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces - including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons - facilitated and restricted queer lives in ... Weiterlesen

Rustam Alexander: Red Closet

The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR. UK 2023, 288 pp., hardbound, € 37.95
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Manchester University Press
In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive Scottish journalist based in Moscow who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution, and ... 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

James Kirchick: Secret City

The Hidden History of Gay Washington. USA 2022, 848 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Henry Holt
For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere ... Weiterlesen

Olga Petri: Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

UK 2022, 254 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
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Cornell University Press
»Places of Tenderness and Heat« is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity. Focusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile ... 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

Jack Parlett: Fire Island

A Queer History. UK 2023, 272 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Granta Books
Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O'Hara's poetry - the bars where Patricia Highsmith got drunk - ... 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

Adam Zmith: Deep Sniff

A History of Poppers and Queer Futures. UK 2021, 180 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Watkins
3, 2, 1... inhale, deep. From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all. This is the intriguing story of how poppers wafted out of the lab and into gay bars, corner shops, bedrooms and porn supercuts. Blending historical research with wry observation, Adam Zmith explores the cultural ... 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