Wade Rouse: America's Boy

USA 2007, 341 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Growing up gay in the Missouri Ozarks in the 60s and 70s, the author was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Wade was hopelessly out of step with the ... Weiterlesen

John Amaechi: Man in the Middle

USA 2007, 290 pp., hardback, € 23.90
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This is John Amaechi's extraordinary journey from awkward, overweight English lad to jet-setting NBA star. Along the way, Amaechi encountered endless obstacles to achieving his hoop dreams - his father's abandonment, being cut from his first college team, a life-threatening injury, abusive coaches, the death of his mother - all the while protecting a vital secret that could end his ... Weiterlesen

Farley Granger with Robert Calhoun: Include Me Out

USA 2007, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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Working with such creative visionaries as Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, and Nicholas Ray, Farley Granger was a celebrated figure in films like »Strangers on a Train«, »Rope«, »Senso«, and »They Live by Night«, bringing a memorable presence to the big screen. Behind his characters, however, he was and remains a complex man, full of whimsy as well as strength. Now, ... Weiterlesen

Carola Stern: Auf den Wassern des Lebens

Gustaf Gründgens und Marianne Hoppe. D 2007, 400 S., Pb, € 10.18
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Die Publizistin Carola Stern berichtet in dieser Doppelbiografie von zwei Aufsteigern und Profiteuren des NS-Regimes. Gleichzeitig reflektiert die Geschichte von Gustaf Gründgens und Marianne Hoppe auch die Schicksale von NS-Verfolgten und -Gegnern, die sich anders als diese beiden nicht mit den Nazis arrangierten. Trotz seiner Verbindung zu den Geschwisterpaar Erika und Klaus Mann machte Gründgens als Görings Günstling unter den ... Weiterlesen

Merlin Holland: Oscar Wilde

USA 2007, 384 pp., cloth, € 26.69
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Merlin Holland's »Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters« is, in effect, a selected letters, 384 manageable pages rather than the 1,270 of the »Complete Letters«. This has necessitated the omission of »De profundis«, all 50,000 words of it. That apart, it is a judicious and representative selection. Telling the Wilde story in his own words, this is a calm approach ... Weiterlesen

Hillary R. Clinton: Gelebte Geschichte

Dt.v. S.Gebauer & U. Zehetmayer. D 2007, 670 S., Pb, € 10.23
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Anwältin, Mutter, Ehefrau, Ex-First Lady, Frauenrechtlerin, Senatorin von New York und aussichtsreiche potenzielle Präsidentschaftskandidatin der Demokraten in Wahlkampf 2004 - Hillary R. Clinton ist eine der beeindruckendsten Frauen unserer Zeit. Die Veröffentlichung ihrer Autobiografie - die nun in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt - schlug hohe Wellen. Die meisten versprachen sich private Details aus ihrer Zeit im Weißen Haus - z.B. zur ... Weiterlesen

Josh Kilmer-Purcell: I Am not Myself These Days

USA 2006, 305 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Harper Collins
The funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual life - advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night - was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series »The Fabulous Beekman Boys«. His story begins here - before the homemade goat milk soaps ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: My Lives

UK 2006, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to »cure« homosexuality, he ... Weiterlesen

Patricia Nell Warren: The Lavender Locker Room

3000 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation Was Different. USA 2006, 345 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Wildcat
Some are legendary such as pilot Amelia Earhart and golf champion Babe Didrikson. Others are less familiar balloonist Alberto Santos-Dumont and javelin thrower Ana Maria Sagi. Some went public NFL running back David Kopay and downhill skier Erik Schinegger. Others, such as Wilhelm von Homburg, were known only to sport insiders. Some, like jockey John Damien, figured in milestone court ... Weiterlesen

T. J. Parsell: Fish. A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

USA 2006, 324 pp, pb, € 24.95
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When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would »own« him. Forced to remain ... Weiterlesen

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His ... Weiterlesen

Jin Xing: Shanghai Tango

Mein Leben als Soldat und Tänzerin. Dt. v. Anne Spielmann. D 2006, 223 S., geb., € 9.20
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Goldmann
1967 als Junge in der mandschurischen Provinz geboren, ist Jin Xing der einzige männliche Nachkomme seiner aus Korea stammenden Familie. Der ganze Stolz der Familie bündelt sich in seiner Person. Doch das heile Bild gerät ins Wanken, als der Junge mit einem Hungerstreik die Zustimmung seiner Eltern zum Eintritt in eine Armeeschule, der eine Tanzausbildung angeschlossen ist, erzwingt. In den ... Weiterlesen

Margaret B. Thornton: Tennessee Williams - Notebooks

USA 2006, 828 pp., hardback, € 34.95
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Tennessee Williams' notebooks have now been published for the first time. In these pages this monumental American genius wrote out his most private thoughts. He reflected on his plays, stories, and poems. And he gave accounts of his social, professional, and sexual encounters. These notebooks are the repository of Williams' fears, obsessions, passions, and contradictions. This convincing tome is a ... Weiterlesen

John Carlyle: Under the Rainbow

USA 2006, 326 pp., hardbound, € 25.79
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Actor John Carlyle got his big break in 1954 when, at age 23, he was cast for George Cukor's »A Star is Born«. Although Carlyle's scene was later cut from the film, the job brought him in touch with Judy Garland who, up until her death, was Carlyle's friend and sometimes lover. This book tells the story of their rocky ... Weiterlesen

Veit Johannes Schmidinger: Wo freilich ich ganz daheim sein werde ...

Klaus Mann und Frankreich. D 2006, 237 S., geb., € 19.53
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Ein Leben lang war Klaus Mann auf der Suche. Irgendwie fühlte er sich als Schwuler entwurzelt. Schon in jungen Jahren entwickelte sich Frankreich - und dort insbesondere Paris - zu Fluchtpunkten seiner Sehnsucht. Zum einen glaubte er dort - wie nirgendwo sonst - ein ungezwungenes Leben als Schwuler führen zu können. Zum anderen vertrieb ihn seine grundsätzlich oppositionelle Haltung gegenüber ... Weiterlesen