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

GB 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

GB 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

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.

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

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
In May 1927, 19-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, has just arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life. An innocent in a new city, Dinu is secretly drawn to the Bains du ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

USA 2013, 200 pp., hardback, € 26.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, »Maurice«, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story »A Visit to Priapus« was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains

UK 2013, 200 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

UK 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
It's 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any other time but this one: she has lost her beloved gay twin brother, Felix, to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and cannot seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggests an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into her relationship, her conflicting ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: A Heaven of Words

Last Journals, 1956-1984. USA 2013, 306 pp, brochure, € 24.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
From humble beginnings on a poor Wisconsin farm, Wescott eventually emerged as an influential poet and novelist. A major figure in the American literary expatriate community in Paris during the 1920s and a prominent American novelist in the years leading up to World War II, he spent a decade living abroad before relocating permanently to New York and New Jersey ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Memorial

UK 2012, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
With »The Memorial«, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, »The Memorial« portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life ... Weiterlesen