Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens ... Weiterlesen

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Chicago Press

By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the �Pearl of the Danube,� it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Cosmopolitans

USA 2016, 296 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
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Feminist Press

A modern retelling of Balzac's classic �Cousin Bette� by one of America's most prolific lesbian writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York ... Weiterlesen

Katie Gilmartin: Blackmail, My Love

A Murder Mystery. USA 2014, 312 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Cleis

San Francisco, 1951. Josie O'Conner's gay brother is nowhere to be found. His friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community's nascent resistance to raids, graft and brutality. What's a loving sister to do? Josie sets off to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the mounting ... Weiterlesen

Bruno Barreto (R): Reaching for the Moon

Brasilien 2013, portug. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 118 Min., € 19.99
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Biopic about the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate, real-life love affair with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the bestselling novel �Rare and Commonplace Flowers�, the film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling ... Weiterlesen

Violette Leduc: Th�r�se and Isabelle

UK 2012, 134 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Charged with metaphors, alternating with precise descriptions of sensations and lesbian relationships, �Th�r�se and Isabelle� was censored by its publisher in France in 1954, first published in a truncated version in 1966 and not until 2000 in its uncensored edition, as Violette Leduc intended. �I'm trying to express as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love. There's ... Weiterlesen

Patricia Highsmith: Carol

UK 2010, 311 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love. Carol is a sophisticated, bored ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

UK 2010, 501 pp., pb, € 14.95
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In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at 20 to 9. Its ... 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

Sarah Waters: The Night Watch

USA 2006, 473 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - drawn with the absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching... Helen - clever, sweet, a much loved, ... Weiterlesen

Vern L. Bullough (Ed.): Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context

UK 2002, 464 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Routledge

Explore the early history of the gay rights movement In the words of editor Vern L. Bullough: �Although there was no single leader in the gay and lesbian community who achieved the fame and reputation of Martin Luther King, there were a large number of activists who put their careers and reputations on the line. It was a motley crew ... Weiterlesen

Carmen L. Oliveira: Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares

UK 2002, 2018 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography ? brilliantly researched, and written in a lively, novelistic style ? follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil. ... Weiterlesen