William E. Jones: Halsted Plays Himself

USA 2011, 216 pp. with numerous b/w + color photographs, hardbound, € 39.95
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MIT Press - Semiotext(e)
Fred Halsted's »L.A. Plays Itself« (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering »new information for me«. Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished L.A. that harbored a long-gone gay lifestyle at a volatile point in time ... Weiterlesen

Will Aitken: Death in Venice

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2011, 189 pp. with b&w filmstills, brochure, € 13.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel, about a middle-aged heterosexual artist (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes the film's cultural impact and provides a vivid ... Weiterlesen

Neil Plakcy (ed.): Model Men

USA 2011, 230 pp., brochure, € 13.59
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Cleis - Gay Erotic Stories
What happens when the most beautiful man in the world wants you? Whether gazing at a billboard or flipping through the pages of a magazine, who hasn't felt a jolt of longing for the stunning male model who gazes back? From fresh-faced twenty-somethings to well-muscled daddies, »Model Men« is a tribute to the glory of the male form in all ... Weiterlesen

Lisa L. Moore: Sister Arts

The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. USA 2011, 244 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.95
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
In the great age of English garden design, 18th-century women working in the »sister arts« of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Angles: Writing the Love of Boys

Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature. USA 2011, 303 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siècle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. This book looks at the response to this mindset during the critical era of cultural ferment between the two world wars. The author focuses on key writers, examining how they experimented with new ... Weiterlesen

Scott Sherman: Second You Sin

USA 2011, 314 pp., brochure, € 13.69
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Kensington - Kevin Connor Mystery 2
Someone is killing New York City's hottest male prostitutes, and it's up to full-time call boy, part-time sleuth Kevin Connor to find out who. With his spectacular boy-next-door looks, quick wit, and ability to role-play even the most outrageous scenarios, Kevin is facing his most challenging position yet - to stop a ruthless killer. As Kevin begins his investigation, there's ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Klein: Gib nicht auf!

Wie man aus den Tiefen seines Lebens wieder zu neuen Höhen finden kann. Ö 2011, 183 S. mit Abb., geb., € 18.90
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Prima Vista
Nach den erfolgreichen Memoiren »Zwischen Schein und Sein - Mein Weg aus der Depression« schildert der schwule Almdudler-Chef Thomas Klein in seinem zweiten Buch aus der subjektiven Perspektive eines Betroffenen, wie man selbst in ausweglos erscheinenden Situationen den Mut bewahren kann. Dieser Erfahrungsbericht versucht Hilfestellung zu geben in Momenten, in denen man von Angst, Depressionen, Verzweiflung, Trauer und Selbstmordgedanken bedrängt ... Weiterlesen

Ute Schall und Christine Groß (R): Das traurige Leben der Gloria S.

D 2011, OF, engl.UT, 75 min., € 19.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics (lesbian)
Gloria arbeitet als Schauspielerin. Doch von den Engagements an künstlerisch ambitionierten, aber kleinen Theaterbühnen lebt sie mehr schlecht als recht. An sich bräuchte sie dringend mehr Geld in der Kasse. Da erfährt sie von einem Projekt, dass die Regisseurin Charlotte plant: sie möchte eine alleinerziehende Sozialhilfeempfängerin dokumentarisch durch deren Alltag begleiten. Gloria überlegt nicht lang und bewirbt sich als ... Weiterlesen