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

Kevin Guyan: Queer Data

Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action. UK 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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Bloomsbury

Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This book is the first to look at �queer data� - defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current ... Weiterlesen

David K. Johnson: Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement

USA 2019, 328 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Columbia University Press

In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands: the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served as an initiation into gay culture. The publishers behind them ... Weiterlesen

Schwules Museum Berlin (Hg.): Rainbow Arcade

Over 30 Years of Queer Video Game History. D 2019, 166 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 37.50
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Winterwork

Video games are an integral part of 20th- and 21st-century cultural history. Although their reception has changed a lot in the last decade, they often are still perceived as non-historical and non-political media. Museums and cultural institutions are slowly beginning to approach video games both as a cultural phenomenon and an art form, but their socio-political importance such as their ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Wexelbaum (ed): Queers Online

LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives and Museums. USA 2016, 240 pp., brochure, € 39.99
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In the 21st century, there are more LGBT information resources than ever before. The challenges that arise both from the explosion of born-digital materials and the transformation of materials from physical to electronic formats has implications for access to these resources for future generations. Along with preservation concerns, making these digital LGBT resources available to users becomes more difficult when ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Pullen, Margaret Cooper (eds.): LGBT Identity and Online New Media

USA/UK 2010, 312 pp., brochure, € 44.69
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Taylor and Francis

What is new about new media for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people? The authors' importnat new contribution to existing scholarship on LGBT representation suggests quite a lot. Its chapters critcially engage with queer identities, place, and community in the digital world. New generations of LGBT people are coming out, finding love, and making communities within a world of seemingly ... Weiterlesen

Samuel A. Chambers: The Queer Politics of Television

UK 2009, 256 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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I.B. Tauris

This book brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - including �Six Feet Under�, �Buffy�, �Desperate Housewives�, �The L Word�, and �Big Love� - as serious, important texts and reading them in detail ... Weiterlesen

W.C. Harris: Queer Externalities

Hazardous Encounters in American Culture. USA 2009, 251 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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In TV shows such as �Queer Eye for the Straight Guy�, and movies like �Brokeback Mountain�, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer people - including the outing of several prominent Republicans - queer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of ... Weiterlesen

Rodger Streitmatter: From �Perverts� to �Fab Five�

The Media's Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians. UK/USA 2009, 222 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book tracks the dramatic change in how the American media have depicted gay people over the last 50 years. Each chapter illuminates a particular media product that served as a milestone on the media's journey from demonizing homosexuals some 50 years ago to celebrating gay people - or at least some categories of gay people - today. The media ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Davis, Gary Needham: Queer TV

Theories, Histories, Politics. UK/USA/CAN 2009, 190 pp., brochure, € 34.99
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Taylor and Francis

How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? An introductory chapter by the editors charts the key debates and issues addressed within the book: �theories and approaches�, �histories and genres�, and �television itself�. Individual essays examine the relationships between ... Weiterlesen

Keith Boykin: Beyond the Down Low

USA 2006, 311 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Writer and activist Boykin addresses what he sees as the implicitly racist and homophobic undertones of the media's coverage. He offers a point-by-point refutation of King's take �On the Down Low�, Boykin accuses King of serving up another �stereotypical image of black men as pathological liars, surreptitiously satisfying their primitive sexual cravings by cheating on their wives�. Boykin details how ... Weiterlesen

Gavin Butt: Between You And Me

USA 2005, 210 pp., brochure, € 20.95
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In the decades preceding the Stonewall-riots discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossip and rumor. This book explores this informal, everyday talk and how it shaped artists' hives, their work and its reception. Revealing the �trivial and unserious� aspects of the postwar art scene as key to understanding queer subjectivity the author argues for ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Magical Thinking

USA 2004, 268 pp., pb, € 11.59
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From the number-one bestselling author of �Running with Scissors� and �Dry� comes Augusten Burrough's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention. A contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. A ... Weiterlesen

Larry Gross: Up from Invisibility

USA 2001, 295 pp., brochure, € 25.99
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Half a century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of ... Weiterlesen