Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them about their gender identity. These phrases have stayed with them over the years. Some are deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or offensive, some celebratory; sentences that have impacted them for better and for worse; sentences that speak to the broader issues raised by a world that insists that gender must ... Weiterlesen

Amelia Abraham (ed.): We Can Do Better Than This

Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights. UK 2022, 333 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage

How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Shon Faye and more share their stories and visions for the future. In �We Can Do Better Than This�, 35 voices - actors, musicians, writers, artists and activists - answer this vital question, at a time when the queer community continues to suffer ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Brazil: Whatever Happened to Gay Happiness?

UK 2022, 231 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Cipher

In this highly accessible, entertaining and provocative work of non-fiction Kevin Brazil combines essay and memoir to ask one of the most pertinent questions of our current age: whatever happened to queer happiness? Exploring the lives of artists and writers from the past, current discourse around queerness and his own experiences, Brazil argues that art and literature needs to move ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Fussell: Sink the Pink's Manifesto for Misfits

UK 2022, 176 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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White Lion Publishing

�Sink the Pink's Manifesto for Misfits� is dedicated to you: from finding your power to dreaming big, owning your space to chasing your joy, embracing your uniqueness to broadening your narrative, each cis-tem-crashing chapter will revolutionise how you see yourself, no matter where you are on your journey. Discover within thinkpieces, reflective exercises and living testimony from a brave community ... Weiterlesen

Shon Faye: The Transgender Issue

An Argument for Justice. UK 2021, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Penguin UK

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war �issue�. Despite making up less than one per cent of UK's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized �debate� which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which ... Weiterlesen

Jos� Esteban Munoz: Cruising Utopia

USA 2019, 253 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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New York University Press

�Cruising Utopia� arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Jos� Esteban Munoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the ... Weiterlesen

Amelia Abraham: Queer Intentions

A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture. UK 2019, 326 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Picador

Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it's cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren't so advanced? ... Weiterlesen

Juno Roche: Trans Power

Own Your Gender. UK 2019, 256 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Jessica Kingsley

�I feel trans.� - In this radical and emotionally raw book, Juno Roche pushes the boundaries of trans representation by redefining �trans� as an identity with its own power and strength, that goes beyond the gender binary. Through intimate conversations with leading and influential figures in the trans community, such as Kate Bornstein, Travis Alabanza, Josephine Jones, Glamrou and E-J ... Weiterlesen

Niharika Banerjea / Kath Browne / Eduarda Ferreira: Lesbian Feminism

Essays Opposing the Global Heteropatriarchy. USA 2019, 332 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Zed

Drawing on the wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist. These ... Weiterlesen

Pam Mitchell (ed.): Pink Triangles

Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation. UK 2018, 192 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Verso

�To link socialism and lesbianism is to link the unpopular with the taboo� - Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across this spectacularly wide ranging collection, each essay shares two fundamental premises. First, that the oppression of gays and lesbians is not an isolated case, and therefore their ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Escoffier: American Homo

Community and Perversity. UK 2018, 288 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Verso

An account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society. The author tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism coursing through American culture and the virulent periodic outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success enables a new disciplinary ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

USA 2017, 144 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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ixia press

Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to ... Weiterlesen

James Martin: Building a Bridge

How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. USA 2017, 150 pp., hardbound, € 19.99
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Harper Collins

On the day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, the author posted a video on Facebook in which he called for solidarity with our LGBT brothers and sisters. A powerful call for tolerance, acceptance, and support - and a reminder of Jesus' message for anyone to love one another - Father Martin's post went viral. Now, Martin expands on his reflections, ... Weiterlesen

Mona Eltahawy: Headscarves and Hymens

Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. UK 2016, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson

�Headscarves and Hymens� explodes the myth that we should stand back and watch while women are disempowered and abused in the name of religion. In this laceratingly honest account, Eltahawy takes aim both at attitudes in the Middle East and at the western liberals who mistake misogyny for cultural difference. Her argument is clear: unless political revolution in the Arab ... Weiterlesen

Kerry Eleveld: Don't Tell Me to Wait

How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama's Presidency. USA 2015, 368 pp., hardbound, € 27.99
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Perseus Group

Gay rights has been a defining progressive issue of Barack Obama's presidency: Congress repealed �Don't Ask, Don't Tell� in 2010 with his strong support, and in 2011, he instructed his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, helping to pave the way for a series of Supreme Court decisions that ultimately legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. This succession ... Weiterlesen

Michelangelo Signorile: It's Not Over

Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality. USA 2015, 272 pp., hardback, € 27.99
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory is now inevitable, the author marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. ... Weiterlesen

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists

UK 2014, 52 pp., pb., € 8.95
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What does �feminism� mean today? That is the question at the heart of �We Should All Be Feminists�, a personal, eloquently-argued essay - adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of �Americanah� and �Half of a Yellow Sun�. With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition ... Weiterlesen

John D'Emilio: In a New Century

Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life. USA 2014, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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A pioneering scholar of gay history, John D'Emilio reflects in this wide-ranging collection of essays upon the social, cultural, and political changes provoked by LGBT activism. He offers provocative questions and historical analyses: What can we learn from a life-long activist like Bayard Rustin, who questioned the wisdom of �identity politics�? Was Richard Nixon a �gay liberationist�? How can knowing ... Weiterlesen

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