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      • Trusted Partner
        December 2021

        Drag Cop

        Thriller

        by Candas Jane Dorsey, Thomas Wörtche, Conny Lösch

        Als die geliebte Enkelin einer guten Freundin ermordet aufgefunden wird, werden unsere ambisexuelle Sozialarbeiterin und ihre Katze Bunnywit zur Lösung des Falles hinzugezogen. Für die kanadische Polizei ist Maddy bloß eine weitere tote Sexarbeiterin ‒ also liegt es an unserer Heldin und ihrer LGBTQ-Crew herauszufinden, was mit ihr passiert ist. Dabei geraten sie schneller, als ihnen lieb ist, in eine raue Welt voller Sex, Lügen und Verrat, auf die sie mit Ironie, Witz und Intelligenz (naja, außer der renitenten Katze) reagieren. Und was auf den ersten Blick wie ein mieser kleiner Straßenmord aussah, entpuppt sich bald als ein »Kollateralschaden« extremer krimineller Machenschaften …

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2023

        Luminous presence

        by Alexandra Parsons

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        The Arts
        October 2024

        Queer cinema in contemporary France

        Five directors

        by Todd Reeser

        Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these directors' careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with wide international release. Whether having sex on the beach or kissing in the high school swimming pool, these cinematic characters create or embody forward-looking, open-ended and optimistic forms of queerness and modes of living, loving and desiring. Whether they are white, beur or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans* or queer, they open up hetero- and cisnormativity to new ways of being a gendered subject.

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        The Arts
        December 2022

        The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

        by Ana María Sanchez-Arce

        This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

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        August 2020

        Schamlos schön

        Klartext über Pubertät, wirre Gefühle und den Mut, du selbst zu sein

        by Nina Brochmann, Ellen Støkken Dahl, Magnhild Winsnes, Maike Dörries

        "Schamlos schön" ist ein mutiges und wegweisendes Aufklärungsbuch von den jungen Ärztinnen und Erfolgsautorinnen Nina Brochmann und Ellen Støkken Dahl, das sich speziell an Mädchen und junge Frauen richtet. Mit einer Mischung aus Humor, Empathie und fachlicher Expertise brechen die Autorinnen Tabus rund um die Themen Pubertät, Sexualität und Körperbewusstsein. Von den körperlichen Veränderungen bis hin zu den emotionalen Wirbelstürmen der Pubertät – dieses Buch steht jungen Leserinnen als vertrauensvolle Freundin zur Seite, die klare Antworten und verlässlichen Rat bietet. Illustriert von der preisgekrönten Künstlerin Magnhild Winsnes, ist "Schamlos schön" ein visuell ansprechendes und inhaltlich tiefgreifendes Werk, das junge Mädchen dabei unterstützt, ihren Körper zu verstehen, zu schätzen und selbstbewusst durch die Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens zu navigieren. "Schamlos schön" ist mehr als nur ein Aufklärungsbuch; es ist eine Einladung an junge Mädchen, sich selbst zu erkunden, zu lieben und stolz auf die Person zu sein, die sie werden. Mit diesem Buch in der Hand sind sie für die Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens bestens gerüstet. Umfassende Aufklärung: Behandelt alle wichtigen Themen der Pubertät und Sexualerziehung auf eine zugängliche und informative Weise. Empowerment und Selbstakzeptanz: Stärkt das Selbstbewusstsein junger Mädchen und fördert ein positives Körperbild. Vielfältige und inklusive Perspektiven: Berücksichtigt eine breite Palette von Erfahrungen und Identitäten, einschließlich LGBTQ+ und Gender-Vielfalt. Tabufreie und ehrliche Diskussion : Bietet eine offene Plattform für Themen, die oft als peinlich oder tabu angesehen werden. Expertenwissen: Geschrieben von medizinischen Fachkräften, die komplexe Themen verständlich und ansprechend vermitteln. Wunderschön illustriert: Die einzigartigen Illustrationen ergänzen den Text perfekt und machen schwierige Themen zugänglich. Ratgeber und Freundin: Dient als vertrauensvolle Quelle für Rat und Unterstützung während der turbulenten Jahre der Pubertät. Perfektes Geschenk: Ideal für Mädchen ab 12 Jahren, die in die Pubertät kommen, sowie für Eltern, die das Gespräch mit ihren Kindern suchen. Unterstützung in der Identitätsfindung: Hilft jungen Leserinnen, ihre Identität zu verstehen und zu akzeptieren. Förderung von Toleranz und Verständnis: Ermutigt zu einem offenen Dialog über Vielfalt und Akzeptanz.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2024

        Queer beyond London

        by Matt Cook, Alison Oram

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2025

        Red closet

        by Rustam Alexander

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        The Arts
        February 2022

        "I am Jugoslovenka!"

        Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

        by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

        "I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.

      • Affirming LGBTQ+ Stuudents in Higher Education

        by David P. Rivera, Roberto L. Abreu, Kirsten A. Gonzalez

        This book will guide institutions of higher learning in making practical and effective changes at many levels to better support LGBTQ+ students and, ultimately, improving the campus climate for all. For college students with marginalized gender identities and sexual orientations, simply getting through a day of study—not to mention work, exercise, and social life—can be taxing in the extreme, due to the additional weight of minority stress.However, there are many steps higher education leaders can take, both to boost students’ resilience and to dismantle the very structures that create minority stress. These steps may involve changes to facilities, student health and resource centers, housing, administrative policy, faculty training, curriculum, and other areas. This book presents research-based needs assessment frameworks and best practices for integrating a broad array of institutional changes to improve LGBTQ+ students’ higher education experience. Chapters describe student populations with multiple intersecting identities: transgender students, students of color, students with disabilities, student athletes, international students, and first-generation college students. The authors also address issues unique to different settings, including community colleges, religious institutions, and historically Black colleges and universities.

      • Inverted Triangles

        by Karen Fagan

        Set between Dublin and London in 2006/7, INVERTED TRIANGLES is where Tales of the City meets Sex in the City for the LGBTQ+ community. Exploring love and its loss, gay relationships and friendships, and the deception of self and others, the story follows the crises and triumphs of four increasingly interlinked lives. Filled with comedy, warmth and memorable characters, INVERTED TRIANGLES has the potential to break through commercially as few LGBT novels have done before.

      • September 2020

        The Summer of Everything

        by Julian Winters

        Wes Hudson’s summer has gotten complicated. His job at the local indie bookstore is threatened by a coffeeshop franchise looking to buy it. His family is pestering him about college majors. And he can’t stop pining over his best friend, Nico. When all three problems converge, Wes comes face-to-face with the thing he fears most— adulthood.

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        Blond Boy; Red Lipstick

        by Geoff Bunn

        This is a love story, deliberately pitched at a mainstream audience and at a level far removed from the dark and often sordid world of transsexual prostitution on Bois de Boulogne in Paris. The idea is to subtly lead the reader into this setting and give them an insight into the life of a transsexual.  In this first book, we meet the Narrator and Alley – a vivacious young boy with bleach blonde hair and red lipstick. The two begin a gentle romance. Issues such as homophobia are only touched upon, rather than explored fully. By the time readers finish the book, they will know the characters, be interested in them, and they will have some empathy towards and a little more understanding of transsexuals.  Blond Boy; Red Lipstick is the first of two, where the sequel, already planned out, will be a darker story (albeit with a happy ending).

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        A Soul has no Gender

        Love and acceptance through the eyes of a mother of sexual and gender minority children

        by Ajeto, D. M.

        What would you do if your child told you that he or she had something “very difficult” to tell you? How would you respond? Would you sit down and try to understand what your child was trying to communicate to you? Would you respond in anger, judgment, or irritation? Would you even give your child your full attention? And after listening to your child, would you attempt to ignore, dismiss, or even deny what your child was trying to tell you? These are important questions for all parents to ask—and answer—because it is vitally important that parents understand how to respond to the significant questions that our children present to us with care and consideration. This understanding is especially critical for parents who are faced with the additional—and unexpected—challenge of how to respond when what is so “very difficult” for their child to tell them is that he or she is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning their identity (LGBTQ). Given the strong societal stigma against the LGBTQ population, as well as the lack of education with respect to parenting skills, sexuality, gender, and identity development, many parents feel overwhelmed, ashamed, and isolated. As a result, despite coming out in increasing numbers, almost half of LGBTQ youth face an uncertain future due to parental and societal rejection. A Soul Has No Gender is the story of one mother’s inquiry into her experience of coming to accept the sexual and gender identities of her fraternal twins, who are lesbian and female-to-male transgender, and how the experience transformed not only her relationships with her children, but with herself as well.

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