Darryl W. Bullock: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

UK 2023, 350 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Omnibus Press
From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience. Queer ... Weiterlesen

Meredith Batt / Dusty Green: Len & Cub - A Queer History

UK 2022, 192 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Goose Lane Editions
Leonard »Len« Keith and Joseph »Cub« Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock (Australia) in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly developed an inseparable relationship. Len was an amateur photographer and automobile enthusiast who went on to own a local garage and poolhall after serving in the First World War. Cub ... Weiterlesen
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Patrick Gale: Mother's Boy

UK 2022, 416 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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Headline
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Marhoefer: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love. CAN 2022, 320 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Toronto Press
In 1931 Magnus Hirschfeld arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a Li Shiu Tong, medical student - Magnus Hirschfeld fell in love with him. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour around the world. »Racism and the Making of Gay Rights« shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay ... Weiterlesen

Diana Souhami: No Modernism Without Lesbians

UK 2021, 456 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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Head of Zeus
This is the story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, between the wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein - a trailblazing publisher, a patron of artists, a society hostess, and a groundbreaking writer - they were all women who loved ... Weiterlesen

Erik S. Meyers: Caged Time

USA 2021, 188 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Mirador
In 1930s New York, David Tarniss leads a quiet life as a cab driver - too quiet - in reality he is hiding a dark secret, his homosexuality, something for which he will pay dearly due to the unique circumstances of the time. A fascinating, if disturbing, story about the challenges that confronted gays (and Jews) in 1930s New York.

Nancy Meckler (R): Sister My Sister

UK 1994, engl. OF, dt. UT, 90 Min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics (lesbian)
Frankreich 1933. Christine und ihre jüngere Schwester Lea arbeiten als Dienerinnen bei Madame Danzard und ihrer unverheirateten Tochter Isabelle. Die Regeln sind klar verteilt: die Schwestern erledigen wortlos alle Aufgaben, Fehler werden nicht geduldet und frei ist nur der halbe Sonntag. Christine und Lea ertragen alle Demütigungen, weil sie sich auf diese Weise ganz nah sein können. In der Zurückgezogenheit ... Weiterlesen

Javier Samper Vendrell: The Seduction of Youth

Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic. USA 2020, 280 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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University of Toronto Press
A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany's first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the ... 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

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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SMP
»When Brooklyn Was Queer« is an exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in ... Weiterlesen

Ferzan Özpetek (R): Harem Suare

I/F 2007, ital./franz. OF, engl. UT, 110 Min., € 24.99
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Atatürk steht vor der Stadt, das Osmanische Reich vor dem Untergang. In dieser Situation ist der Harem in heller Aufregung - und so wird der Obereunuche gerufen, den Damen des Harems eine Geschichte zu erzählen, um sie zu beruhigen. Er erzählt die Geschichte der Favoritin des letzten Sultans, die das Opfer einer Palastintrige wurde und es entspinnt sich eine orientalisch ... Weiterlesen

Claudio Macor: The Tailor-Made Man

A Play. UK 2017, 111 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Oberon
William »Billy« Haines was a popular silent screen MGM movie star who was fired by Louis B. Mayer because he was gay and refused to give up his lifelong partner, Jimmie Shields, and to marry the silent screen vamp Pola Negri. As punishment, his films were removed from release and sealed in the MGM vaults never to be seen again, ... Weiterlesen

Joe Okonkwo: Jazz Moon

USA 2017, 351 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Kensington
On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy doorways. Ben Charles is among the locals crammed into a basement club to hear jazz and drink bootleg liquor. For aspiring poet Ben, the swirling, ... Weiterlesen

Meg Harrington: The Lavender List

D 2016, 249 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Ylva Verlag
After the Second World War, Amelia Maldonado opts to live a quiet life bussing tables at a diner during the day and going out for auditions at night. The one bright spot is her friendship with the charming Laura Wright, a well-heeled woman with a mysterious war-related past. When Laura shows up outside the diner barely conscious and spitting lousy ... Weiterlesen

Ellen Simpson: The Light of the World

D 2015, 357 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Ylva Verlag
At the back of her grandmother's closet lies a mystery. After her grandmother's death, Eva finds a series of diaries detailing the life of a girl caught up in the magic of the Roaring 20s. She cannot reconcile the young woman in these diaries with the miserable old woman she loved so fiercely. What happened to change her grandmother so ... Weiterlesen

Robert Beachy: Gay Berlin

Birthplace of a Modern Identity. USA 2015, 305 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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Vintage
A book about the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its »warm brothers«, Berlin, before the turn of the 20th century, became a place where scholars, activists, and medical ... Weiterlesen

Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

UK 2015, 152 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Wer Paul Baileys schwulen Bestseller »Sugar Cane« aus dem Jahr 1993 kennt (heute auf Deutsch erhältlich unter dem Titel »Auf Tour«) und sich sein neues Buch »The Prince's Boy« vornimmt (erstmals 2013 und bisher nur auf Englisch erschienen), wird schnell feststellen, dass sich der Autor deutlich weiterentwickelt hat. Es gibt Parallelen zwischen den beiden Büchern. In beiden Büchern spielen männliche ... Weiterlesen
(Jürgen empfiehlt - Frühlingskatalog 2015)

Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

UK 2014, 576 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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Little Brown
Der Erste Weltkrieg hat die britische Gesellschaft schwer erschüttert, die Jahre nach dem eigentlich gewonnenen Krieg bringen den Niedergang vieler vormals fest in der Oberschicht etablierter Familien, sei es alter Geburts- oder städtischer Geldadel. So hat es auch die Wrays getroffen, die verwitwete alte Mrs Wray und ihre 25jährige ledige Tochter Frances bewohnen zwar noch das eigene Haus in einem ... Weiterlesen
(Veit empfiehlt - Frühlingskatalog 2015)