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

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

Samuel Clowes Huneke: States of Liberation

Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. UK 2022, 380 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Toronto Press

States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two ... Weiterlesen

Norman Scott: An Accidental Icon

UK 2022, 336 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Hodder and Stoughton

In October 1975 an assassin tried to murder Norman Scott on Exmoor but the trigger failed and he only succeeded in shooting Scott's beloved dog. Scott subsequently found himself at the centre of a major political scandal and became an unlikely queer icon. But this was never his intention. - He was born in 1940 into a poor, dysfunctional and ... Weiterlesen

John-Pierre Joyce: Odd Men out

Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation. UK 2022, 368 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.99
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Manchester University Press

�Odd Men out� examines the transformation of homosexual men from odd to normal during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Using new and original research, John-Pierre Joyce explores contemporary attitudes to gay men and the development of a gay identity. He considers the extent and limits of homosexual repression and liberation, and analyses the dilemmas posed by the ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Castellani: Leading Men

USA 2020, 358 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin USA

In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Bloom, a mysterious young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed ... Weiterlesen

Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language. UK 2020, 320 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 19.95
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Reaktion

Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the 20th century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied -from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' slang - and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters ... 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

Russell T. Davies (R): A Very English Scandal

UK 2018, OF, engl. UT, 168 Min., € 17.99
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Sony

Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw star in this three-part drama based on the book �A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment� by John Preston. Up-and-coming politican Jeremy Thorpe (Grant) is vying for the position of leader of his Liberal Party but with his homosexuality threatening to make the headlines, he makes ... Weiterlesen

John Preston: A Very English Scandal

Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment. UK 2016, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Penguin UK

Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalized, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal Party, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his beautiful, unstable lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant ... Weiterlesen

John Hopkins: The Tangier Diaries

UK 2015, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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I.B. Tauris

This portrait of Tangier takes you on a wild ride with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles through the world's most exotic literary scene. Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s was a fabled place. This edge city, the �Interzone�, became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites (many of them, gay or bisexual). There, they ... Weiterlesen

Bernard Cooper: My Avant-Garde Education

A Memoir. USA 2015, 251 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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W. W. Norton

Growing up in the suburbs - confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother - Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Cook: Kitty Genovese

The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America. USA 2015,242 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 15.95
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W. W. Norton

New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop - a murder the New York Times called �a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change�. The victim, Catherine �Kitty� Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of 38 neighbors who �didn't want to get involved�. Her sensational case ... Weiterlesen

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

USA 2014, 280 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Totempole is Sanford Friedman's radical gay coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen's evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen's intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. ... Weiterlesen

David Plante: Becoming a Londoner

UK 2014, 533 pp. with numerous colour + b/w illustrations, brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury

�Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it's known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don't apply. It is as if all the conventions of sex and clothes and ... Weiterlesen

Robert Hofler: Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to �A Clockwork Orange�

How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos. USA 2014, 344 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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The years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before, and likely ever since. Film, literature, theater and music simultaneously broke through barriers previously unimagined, giving birth to what we still consider to be the height of sexual expression. In �Sexplosion�, Robert Hofler weaves a lively narrative linking many of the writers, producers, and actors responsible ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: City of Night

UK 2009, 384 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Grove Press

When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later (2013), it ... 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

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