Stuart Feather: Blowing the Lid

Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens. USA 2016, 565 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people's movement for ... Weiterlesen

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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Little Brown
This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series »When We Rise« from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

Judy Linn: Patti Smith 1969-1976

D 2011, 144 S., S/W-Fotos, geb., € 25.65
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Knesebeck
1969 - noch bevor Patti Smith die Bühne des Rock 'n' Roll betrat und als sie nicht mehr als eine aufstrebende Poetin war, wurde sie von der Fotografin Judy Linn als Modell entdeckt. Sieben Jahre lang arbeiteten die beiden Frauen immer wieder zusammen. Durch die Zusammenarbeit entstand eine visionäre Freundschaft zwischen den beiden. Die sensiblen, atmosphärisch aufgeladenen Fotos aus diesen ... Weiterlesen

Tommi Avicolli Mecca (ed.): Smash the Church, Smash the State!

The Early Years of Gay Liberation. USA 2009, 304 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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From the first high heel thrown at Stonewall to the last performance of the drag burlesque group The Cockettes, enter the wild days of the late 1960s and the early 1970s with the individuals who lived them! Celebrating 40 years since the June 1969 Stonewall Riots, the essays, manifestos, artwork and photos in this anthology represent a group of radical ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

UK 2007, 278 pp., brochure, € 18.79
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As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one last duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of 20 photographs which between them tell a tragic family history. At the centre ... Weiterlesen