Artur Singer: 23 positive Jahre

Eine HIV-Story. D 2009, 135 S., geb., € 20.60
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Artur Singer - Wiener Szenenlegende - legt mit »23 positive Jahre« einen ersten Teil seiner Memoiren vor. Die intime Lebensbeichte über die Jahre als männerverschlingende Discoqueen verspricht er uns für einen späteren Zeitpunkt. Hier geht es ihm um sein Leben als HIV-Positiver und mit Aids. Mit Mitte vierzig ist er die Hälfte seines Lebens nun schon HIV-positiv. Der Tod war ... Weiterlesen

Ron Ross: Nine...Ten...and Out! the Two Worlds of Emile Griffith

USA 2008, 250 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Dibella Entertainment
This biography explores more than just the ring battles of a legendary champion. It takes us from a roped-off arena to a far larger battleground, that of life itself. Having fought 112 fights on five continents, the holder of six championship belts and appreciated as a warrior who took on all comers, Emile Griffith captivated the boxing world with his ... Weiterlesen

Sheila Rowbotham: Edward Carpenter

A Life of Liberty and Love. UK/USA 2008, 565 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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Verso
The gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women's suffrage and prison reform, his work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Rowbotham's biography situates Carpenter's life and thought in relation to the ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: The Mayor of Castro Street

The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. USA 2008 (Reprint), 388 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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SMP
Known as »The Mayor of Castro Street« even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in ... Weiterlesen

Burton Bernstein and Barbara B. Haws: Leonard Bernstein - American Original

How a Modern Renaissance Man Transformed Music and the World During His New York Philharmonic Years, 1943-1976. USA 2008, 223 pp. with numerous illustrations, hardback, € 25.95
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Harper Collins
One of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians in the second half of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic in 1943, at age 25. A year later, he became a sensation on Broadway with the premiere of »On the Town«. Throughout the 1950s, his Broadway fame only grew with ... Weiterlesen

Didier Eribon: Michel Foucault

Eine Biographie. Dt. v. Hans-Horst Henschen. D 2008, 517 S., Pb, € 20.60
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Suhrkamp
Mit Michel Foucault starb 1984 einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen Frankreichs. Das vorliegende Buch ist seine Biographie. Und doch: Wenn man eine Biographie Foucaults in Angriff nimmt, tut man das, weil er Bücher geschrieben hat. Und so ist Didier Eribon mit seiner Biographie über Michel Foucault, der bisher einzigen, aufgrund ihres profund recherchierten Faktenreichtums, ihrer intimsten Kenntnis von Person und Werk ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Snyder: The Red Prince

The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. USA 2008, 344 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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Perseus Group
Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club. He handled women by necessity and men for ... Weiterlesen

Paul Trynka: Iggy Pop - Open up and Bleed

UK 2008, 450 pp. illustrated, Pb, € 13.95
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Little Brown
At the end of the 1960s, Jim Osterberg, a charming, hyperintelligent, ambitious boy from a Michigan trailer park, teamed up with two miscreant brothers to form the band »The Stooges«, single-handedly presaging the entire punk, new wave, metal, and alternative rock movements. His alter ego, Iggy Pop, perhaps the greatest rock front man and gender-bending sex icon ever, was exalted ... Weiterlesen

David Bret: Clark Gable

Tormented Star. USA 2008, 287 pp., brochure, € 14.89
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Clarke Gable - the archetypal male of his era. He was named »King of Hollywood« in 1938. But as the author of this uncensored biography reveals, the star was not quite who he seemed. One of Gable's best-kept secrets was his bisexuality. Bret recounts Gable's failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye toward his affairs with actors Earl ... Weiterlesen

Sheila Rowbotham: Edward Carpenter

A Life of Liberty and Love. UK/USA 2008, 565 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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The gay socialist humanitarian writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A mystic, progressive advocate of, among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women's suffrage and prison reform, his work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The biographer situates Carpenter's life and thought in relation ... Weiterlesen

Stefan Kanfer: Somebody

The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando. USA 2008, 352 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination. What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows? Born in Nebraska in 1924, Brando grew up unaffected by the Depression but scarred by a brutal father and ... Weiterlesen

Dustin Lance Black (ed.): Milk - A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk

USA 2008, 144 pp., brochure, € 18.30
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In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America. Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero for all Americans. In 2004, screenwriter ... Weiterlesen

Herb Boyd: Baldwin's Harlem

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Although James Baldwin left his native Harlem as a young man and returned only for occasional visits, the New York neighborhood was a recurring theme in his essays and novels. His junior high French teacher may have inspired Baldwin's later Paris sojourn and his first literary efforts, and Baldwin shared a stormy relationship with another Harlem Renaissance progenitor, poet Langston ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Columbus war ein Engländer

Dt.v.Georg Deggerich. D 2008, 448 S., Pb, € 12.28
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Der bislang erste Teil der Autobiografie von Allround-Talent und großem Original Stephen Fry ist jetzt wieder als Taschenbuch erhältlich: die ersten zwanzig Jahre im Leben des Stephen Fry sind zum In-die-Hosen-Machen komisch - egal, ob es um seine Familie, seine Homosexualität, die K(r)ämpfe seiner Kindheit geht. Als Stephen Fry mit 7 ins Internat kommt, stehen ihm Prügel, Heimweh, Liebeskummer, Entjungferung, ... Weiterlesen

Holger Fuß: Der Einzelgänger

D 2008, 164 S., Broschur, € 15.32
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Wenn man »anders« ist, kann man sich nicht auf Sicherheiten verlassen. Das Leben verläuft nicht unbedingt in kanalisierten, vorbestimmten Bahnen. Diese Erfahrung musste auch Holger Fuß machen - und seine Erfahrungen waren keineswegs positiv. Schon früh erkannte er, dass er schwul ist. Es dauerte einige Zeit, das Schwulsein akzeptieren zu lernen. Sein Outing brachte ihm Zurückweisungen ein und das schwierige ... Weiterlesen