Jon Davies: »Trash«

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2009, 175 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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The 1970 film »Trash« was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey and producer Andy Warhol, and a moment of shining glory for their superstars Joe Dallesandro and Holly Woodlawn. It is a satirical melodrama about a decidedly down- and-out couple: Joe, the hunky but impotent junkie, and Holly, his feisty, sexually frustrated girlfriend. While a depleted Joe passively ... Weiterlesen

Ladelle McWhorter: Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America

A Genealogy. USA 2009, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, the author reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to ... Weiterlesen

Rinaldo Hopf, Axel Schock (Hg.): Mein schwules Auge 6

D 2009, 320 S. mit zahlr. Abb., Broschur, € 16.00
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Konkursbuchverlag - Mein schwules Auge 6
Wie immer erotisch, exotisch, pornografisch, unterhaltsam und anregend kommt auch der 6. Band aus der Reihe »Mein schwules Auge« daher. Diesmal stehen alle Text- und Bildbeiträge unter einem besonders faszinierenden Themenkreis: die schwule Lust am Reisen und die Faszination des Fremden. 88 internationale Autoren, Künstler und Fotografen (darunter Bruce LaBruce, Nan Goldin, Slava Mogutin, Christoph Geiser, Ralf König, Elmar Kraushaar ... Weiterlesen

John Evans (ed.): Journeying Boy

The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. UK 2009, 576 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Britten documented his childhood and adolescence in a daily journal he kept for a decade. From his arrival as a boarder at Gresham's School and his private lessons in London with Frank Bridge, to his student days at the Royal College of Music and apprenticeship in London, we trace the progress of a journeying boy. The 1930s brought successful collaborations ... Weiterlesen

Lynne Huffer: Mad for Foucault

Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory. USA 2009, 344pp., brochure, € 37.95
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Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman, Stuart Timmons: Gay L.A.

A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. USA 2009, 431 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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This social, political and cultural history of lesbian and gay life in Los Angeles by two seasoned historians is easily the subject's definitive work. Presenting a wealth of fact and analysis, the authors breeze through the highlights of L.A. gay history. They begin with the suppression of Native Americans' sexual and gender expression by 16th-century Spanish missionaries, before exploring how ... Weiterlesen

Bob Smith: Selfish & Perverse

USA 2009, 376pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Nelson Kunker is a TV script supervisor whose life in L.A. has come to a halt because he's unable to finish the novel he's writing, doesn't have a boyfriend, and at the pivotal age of 34 has reached the juncture where he has to decide whether he's really talented of just gay. Then one day he meets Roy Briggs, a ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: You Better Not Cry

True Stories for Christmas. USA 2009, 206 pp., brochure, € 13.50
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Of course you've eaten too much chocolate at Christmas, but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot stuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses, but have you ever made your own gingerbread block of flats? You've woken up lying next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection of true ... Weiterlesen