Laura A. Jacobs (ed.): Surviving Transphobia

UK 2023, 224 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Jessica Kingsley
The transgender and gender nonbinary community is forever under siege. Institutional transphobia is enacted by those who would return them to the shadows, the closets, or worse. »Surviving Transphobia« is an anthology by transgender and gender nonbinary celebrities and experts on endurance during times of severe hostility. They share the moments when they were vulnerable, were bullied, had needs dismissed, ... Weiterlesen

Tom Crewe: The New Life

UK 2023, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
London, 1894. After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they ... Weiterlesen

Kim Hye-jin: Concerning My Daughter

Transl. by Jamie Chang. UK 2022, 163 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Picador
When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend Lane in tow, her mother is unprepared ... 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

Ryan Douglass: The Taking of Jake Livingston

UK 2022, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Andersen Press
16-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St Clair Pre. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. ... Weiterlesen

Matthew Todd: Straight Jacket

USA 2020, 382 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Black Swan
»Straight Jacket« is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the whole community of gays, lesbians, bi- and transsexuals, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the shiny facade of contemporary gay culture and asks if gay people are as happy as they could be - and if not, why not? Meticulously researched, courageous and ... Weiterlesen

James Polchin: Indecent Advances

A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall. UK 2019, 256 pp., hardback, € 29.95
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Icon
In his skillful hybrid of true crime and cultural history, James Polchin looks at how popular culture, the media, and the psychological profession forcefully portrayed gay men as the perpetrators of the same violence they suffered. He traces how the press depicted the murder of men by other men from the end of World War I to the Stonewall ... Weiterlesen

Édouard Louis: Who Killed My Father

Transl. by Lorin Stein. USA 2019, 87 pp., hardbound, € 16.95
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New Directions
This nonfiction book by the French young literary star Édouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. »Who Killed My Father« rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum ... Weiterlesen

Frédéric Martel: In the Closet of the Vatican

Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy. UK 2019, 555 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
The celibacy of priests, the condemnation of the use of contraceptives, the cover up of countless cases of sexual abuse, the resignation of Benedict XVI, misogyny among the clergy, the dramatic fall in Europe of the number of vocations to the priesthood, the plotting against Pope Francis - all these issues are clouded in mystery and secrecy. This book reveals ... Weiterlesen

Édouard Louis: History of Violence

Transl. by Lorin Stein. UK 2018, 199 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK
»History of Violence« retraces the story of Christmas Eve 2012, when the gay narrator met Reda, a migrant, on the street. They spend a night together when Reda pulls out a gun and says that he is going to kill the narrator. Reda insults the narrator, strangles and rapes him. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings begin. The ... Weiterlesen

Garrard Conley: Boy Erased

UK 2018, 340 pp., Pb, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
William Collins
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. As a 19-year-old college student, Garrard was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to ... Weiterlesen
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Edouard Louis: The End of Eddy

Translated by Michael Lucey. UK 2017, 208 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Random House
»Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust from my family and others around me. The only option I had was to get away somehow. This ... Weiterlesen

Emer O'Sullivan: The Fall of the House of Wilde

Oscar Wilde and His Family. UK 2017, 512 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist. She passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily. His father was ... Weiterlesen

Peter Sollett (R): Freeheld

USA 2015, engl. OF, dt. SF, engl., dt. UT, 103 Min., € 14.99
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Universum Film
Laurel Hester lebt seit über 20 Jahren für ihren Job als Polizeikommissarin, ein Privatleben findet bei ihr nicht statt. Dies ändert sich schlagartig, als sie die junge Mechanikerin Stacie Andree kennenlernt. Die beiden verlieben sich aller Unterschiede zum Trotz ineinander und bauen sich eine gemeinsame Zukunft auf. Dazu gehören das eigene Haus mit Garten und Hund und schließlich sogar die ... Weiterlesen

Josef Winkler: Graveyard of Bitter Oranges

Transl. by Adrian Nathan West. USA/UK/AUS 2015, 465 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Contra Mundum Press
In 1979, Carinthian author Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decade's end, ... Weiterlesen

David Lagercrantz: Fall of Man in Wilmslow

The Life and Death of Alan Turing: A Novel. UK 2015, 367 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Quercus
This thriller opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and a young (homophobic) detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. In 1954, several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing, ... Weiterlesen

Kimberley Peirce (R): Boys Don't Cry

USA 1999, engl. OF, 90 Min., € 19.99
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In Falls City, Nebraska, Brandon Teena arrives to start a new future for himself. The local community falls for his charms and everyone becomes drawn to his innocence and wit. However, behind the charming persona is a totally different person - Brandon is actually a woman. After falling for a local karaoke singer, Brandon moves in with her family and ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Taieb (R): Stand

RUS 2014, russ.OF, engl.UT, 87 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
TLA Releasing
Anton and Vlad are a handsome, happy couple living in modern day Russia - peacefully making a life for themselves in the comfortable privacy of their Moscow apartment. But everything is about to change. After witnessing a brutal homophobic attack that leaves the victim critically ill in hospital, Anton and Vlad set out to find those responsible. Set against the ... Weiterlesen