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	BALL, EDWARD / REF: GORDON LANGLEY HALL / DAWN LANGLEY SIMMONS Peninsula of Lies - Dawn Langley Simmons / Gordon Langley Hall - a True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 2004 Later Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 -1/2 x 9 x 1/2 " 0743235606 2004 Hardcover in DJ later printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Never opened, Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick Mylar sleeve ... 271 pages Peninsula of Lies is a true mystery story ... set in haunting locales and people with fascinating characters, that unwraps the enigma of a woman named Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and became the focus of one of the most unusual sexual scandals of the last century ... Born in England sometime before World War II, Dawn Langley Simmons began life as a boy named Gordon Langley Hall ... Gordon was the son of servants at Sissinghurst Castle, the estate of Vita Sakville-West, where as a child he met Vita's lover Virginia Woolfe ... In his twenties, Gordon made his way to New York, where he became an author of society biographies and befriended such grandes dames as the actress Margaret Rutherford and the artist and heiress Isabel Whitney, who left him a small fortune ... The money allowed Gordon to buy a mansion in Charleston and fill it with period furniture, providing a stage for him to entertain more great ladies and to climb the social ladder of the Southern gentry to its heights ... However, Gordon's world changed instantly in 1968, when at The Johns Hopkins Hospital he underwent one of the first sex-reassignment surgeries, returning to Southern society and scandalizing Charleston as the new Dawn Langley Hall ... Dawn Hall furthermore announced that her surgery had been corrective, because she'd actually been misidentified as a boy at birth ... Three months later, Dawn raised the stakes in still-segregated Charleston when she arranged her very public marriage to a young black mechanic, John-Paul Simmons ... In due course, Dawn appeared around town pregant; finally, she could be seen pushing a baby carriage with a child - her daughter Natasha ... National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball has written a real-life detective story that deciphers the riddle of Dawn Simmons, a once rich and infamous changeling who died in 2000, her sexual identity never determined ... This is an engrossing narrative of a person who tested every taboo, as well as the confidence of observers in their own eyes ... Gordon Langley Hall 1922 - 2000 , a biographer who underwent one of the most celebrated gender switches in the 1960s, is the focus of this expose of Southern snobbery. English by birth, Langley Hall was the son of a maidservant at Sissinghurst Castle, which had earlier been made famous by Vita Sackville-West in the 1930s ... Leaving England in the bleak postwar era, he eventually made his way to New York, where, after befriending an elderly heiress, he inherited enough of her money to start a new life in the "Peninsula of Lies," Charleston, South Carolina ... After his operation at the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins, the first U.S. hospital for sex change operations, and now Newly a woman, "Dawn Pepita Hall" married her mechanic in a lavish church ceremony, defying at once not only gender expectations and the racial codes of the American South, for she was white, her husband black and the year 1969 ... Author Edward Ball 's ' Slaves in the Family ' won the National Book Award ... " Peninsula of Lies - A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love " ... by Edward Ball ... published by Simon & Schuster, New York ... 2004 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 24.95** [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2202] Book number: 6075 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FICHTE, HUBERT / KEVIN GAVIN, TRANSLATOR Gay Critic , the Homosexual and Literature - By Hubert Fichte - Homosexualität Und Literatur - in English Only USA: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Later Printing. Soft Cover. 5 x 9 x 1-1/4 " 0472083406 1999 Softcover , later printing ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 440 pages with index ... orginally published in German as " Homosexualität und Literatur " .... this volume in English only ... Hubert Fichte - Novelist, anthropologist, playwright, and polemicist, German man of contemporary letters ... Hubert Fichte was prolific and controversial, an outsider and auto-didact ... Before his death at age 51, he was a powerful public voice who was broadcast on German radio, heard at public lectures, and read in academic and popular literary journals... The Gay Critic ... originally published in Germany as Homosexualität und Literatur ... offers, both in content and form, a microcosm of Fichte's writings. The overarching concerns are with sexualities and their expression or repression, as evidenced in literary contexts by the producers and the receivers of marginalized, often reviled texts and textual scenes in Western European literature. Fichte uses contemporary points of reference--AIDS, literary mores, the gay voice, the ousted minor traditions--to discuss a wide range of literature. Fichte's perspective is fresh, unexpected, and uncommonly original as he champions literary untouchables such as the homosexualities conveyed by the Iliad; the now- obscure lyric poet von Platen, a polygraphic, homosexual contemporary of Goethe's and the prototype for Aschenbach in Mann's Death in Venice; and Jean Genet, on the question of French national socialism. Fichte contends that writing and its reception, its institutionalization and its repressions, are inseparable, even continuous. And, he argues, one's sexualities, libidinal and cultural, are inevitably engaged in either act. The volume also considers Sophocles, Petronius, Nizami, Villon, Rabelais, Quevedo, Marlowe, Defoe, Casanova, Stendhal, Flaubert, Strindberg, Lagerlöf, Proust, Euclides de Cunha, and Borges. Fichte's prose style defies categorization, comprising a postmodern pastiche that mixes spontaneous criticism and free-form commentary with quotation, academic writing, and dialogue laced with historical and critical reflection. Most of the essays were first read over German radio, and even after revision for publication have remained highly entertaining, accessible and compelling texts... Peter Demetz of Yale University says : "Hubert Fichte was a writer quietly and intensely at odds with contemporary German society and literature--as "Half Jew" ( according to Nazi law ), as Protestant growing up in a Catholic orphanage, and a gay intellectual living in middle-class Hamburg. He wanted to be an outsider but instead of being sentimental about what others would call a life of the margins he made it a central place from which he observed others and his own consciousness, critically and with the highest perception." ... " The Gay Critic " The Homosexual and Literature ... by Hubert Fichte ... translated from the original German into English by Kevin Gavin ... published by the University of Michigan Press ... 1999 Softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New . USD 25.95** [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2290] Book number: 2176 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GROSS, LARRY Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America : Up from Invisibility New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. First. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0231119534 2001 Softcover . Brand new from publisher. Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked. 295 pages with index. 50 years ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging " visibility " of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling - and perhaps unable - to fully comprehend and honor it? ... While positive representations of gays and lesbians are a cautious step in the right direction, media expert Larry Gross argues that the entertainment and news media betray a lingering inability to break free from proscribed limitations in order to embrace the complex reality of gay identity. While noting major advances, like the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore - the first gay bookstore in the country - or the rise of The Advocate, from small newsletter to influential national paper, Gross takes the measure of somewhat more ambiguous milestones, like the first lesbian kiss on television or the first gay character in a newspaper comic strip. " Up From Invisibility : Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America " published by Columbia University Press, New York. 2001 softcover *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5907 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HAMILTON, WALLACE Christopher and Gay - a Partisan's View of the Greenwich Village Homosexual Scene in the 1960s & 70s New York: Saturday Review Pub, 1973. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0841502439 1973 Hardcover in DJ... Very Good condition ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... price-clipped dj has closed shelf tear on bottom , not as noticeble inside New protective sleeve ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... 216 pages ... Author Wallace Hamilton was alive and gay and living in Greenwich Village in the 60s ... At the age of 52 ... he left his home in Baltimore ... & moved to New York to ... to live an openly homosexual life .... This book is at once a cool ... funny ... & sceptical ... report ... of one middle-aged man's emergence from the closet ... & a unique glimpse into the lifestyles of the gay community .... Filling these pages are a cheerfully colorful cast of characters ... including Wanda ... a full-fledged drag queen with a starling resemblence toTallulah Bankhead ... Daniel, a promiscuous male go-go dancer ... & Lamont, a black southerner who decided it was more glamorous to pretend he was from Africa ... This book goes into detail about the watershed of homosexual freedom ... the police raid on the Stonewall Bar in 1969 that radically changed ... and charged ... the Gay Activist movement ... The author makes no attempt to glorify his life ... He simply wrote honestly ... and the result is a witty & informative guide to the gay subculure ... that provides the outsider with an accurate picture of a very inside world ... " Christopher and Gay " ... A Partisan's View of the Greenwich Village Homosexual Scene in the 1960s and 70s ... by Wallace Hamilton ... 1973 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... published by Saturday Review Publshing , New York ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality *. Very Good Plus/Very Good . USD 20.00** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1038 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	LEE, BILL ED. Country Rogues - One Hand Books for Two-Fisted Men - Anthology of Gay Men's Erotica , Edited By Bill Lee California: GLB Gay Erotica, 1995. First Edition. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" 1879194198 1995 softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 210 pages ... Enjoy outdoor gay love ... far from the maddening crowd ... in this amazing collection of erotic tales ... These are the kind of stories to take with you into the wilderness for company ... on rainy days alone in the tent ... " Country Rogues - One Hand Books for Two - Fisted Men " ... edited by Bill Lee ... published by GLB Gay Erotica , California ... 1995 paperback *. NEW . USD 12.95** [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1143] Book number: 2387 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	MASS, LAWRENCE D. / REF : LARRY KRAMER Larry Kramer, the Life and Legacies of . . . We Must Love One Another Or Die - 23 Other Writers Join Together to Explore the Life and Work of Screenwriter , Producer, Novelist , Playwright , Founder of Act-Up , & Pioneer Aids Activist Kramer New York: St. Martin's Griffin Pub, 1999. First Edition. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 x 1-1/4 " 0312220847 1999 Softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... Handsome hefty book, 400 pages ... In this original collection ... 23 writers join together to explore the life and work of Larry Kramer ... pioneer AIDS activist ... and acclaimed author of ' The Normal Heart and Faggots ' ... The Academy Award-nominated screenwriter... producer ... novelist ... playwright ... & co-founder of GMHC ... and fo under of ACT-UP ... is one of the most significant gay role models we have ... This unique volume focuses on Kramer as activist ... writer, & personality ... An informed bibliography & moving interview complete the essays ... that range from the political & historical ... to the personal & bittersweet ... A controversial figure in the worlds of activism & letters ... Kramer embodies the phrase ... " the personal is political " ... This collection proves the impossibility of separating the activist from the legacy of the writer ... & why perceptions of Kramer run fom genius to provocateur ... " We Must Love One Another or Die - The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer " ... edited by D. Lawrence Mass ... published by St. Martin's Griffin , New York ... 1999 softcover *. NEW/New . USD 18.95** [Appr.: EURO 12.75 \| £UK 11.5 \| JP¥ 1672] Book number: 1550 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	PELHAM, RAYDON Shame - Mystery Gay Men's Erotica in the Clubs of London & Ibiza London: Idol Erotica, 1998. First Edition. Soft Cover. 0352333022 1998 Softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... small orange feltpen dot on bottom ... Gift Giving quality ... 222 pages ... On vacation in West Hollywood ... Martyn Townsend meets Scott ... Within one evening he finds himself falling in love ... But the romance is cut short ... when Scott is shot dead in Martyn's arms ... Terrified ... but determined to discover the truth ... Martyn returns to England ... to try to track down Peter ... who was Scott's previous partner ... Plunged into a world of casual sex ... and drugs ... in the clubs of London and Ibiza ... Martyn becomes the prey ... not the hunter .. of the charismatic Peter ... " Shame " ... by Raydon Pelham ... published by Idol Erotica , London 1998 softcover *. New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 1509 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SHILTS, RANDY Gay & Lesbians in the U.S. Military - Conduct Unbecoming New York: St. Martins Pub, 1993. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 -1/2 x 9 -1/2 x 2 " 031209261X 1993 Hardcover in DJ First Edition... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked .... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... 784 pages with bibliography + index ...... National correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, author Randy Shilts follows his best-seller ' And the Band Played On ' ... In this interesting study, he investigates the situation of gays and lesbians in the military over the past 3 decades ... Revealing for the first time that some of the most cele brated soldiers in American history were homosexual ..... Many years of interviews & thousands of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act , to get the information from the United States services, helped bring this important book to light ... " Conduct Unbecoming - Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military " ... by Randy Shilts ... published by St. Martin's Press, New York ... 1993 Hardcover in Dustjacket 1st *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 163a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	THOMPSON, MARK Gay Body - a Journey Through Shadow to Self - Growing Up Gay in a Dysfunctional Family , & the Lessons Learned for Each Gay Man to Heal His Own Gay Soul , Spirit and Body on the Spiritual Journey to Adulthood . . . By Mark Thompson New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0312168535 1997 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 276 pages ... The spiritual journey to adulthood is ... for many gay men ... particularly difficult ... Often suffering the hurts of difficult childhoods... the assaults & rejections of indifferent or confused families ... and the outsider status ... conferred upon them by society at large ... some get lost along the way ... In an electrifying mix of theory & autobiography ... author Mark Thompson explores the stages of healing & recovery ... that gay men can experience if they dare to take the path leading to a fully integrated body & spirit ... In his own life ... he details the experience of growing up gay in a dysfunctional family ... the heady days of the early 1970s in San Francisco ... and his attempts to heal himself ... from the fairy circles ... to the deepest reaches of the leather movement ... Intermixed is an explanation of archetypes ... & how they function in a gay man's life ... the roles that they assume ... the dangers that they hold ... and the lessons that must be learned for each gay man to heal his own gay soul, spirit, & body ... " Gay Body - A Journey Through Shadow to Self " ... by Mark Thompson ... published by St. Martin's , New York 1997 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 24.95** [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2202] Book number: 1574 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WILDE, OSCAR / MARTIN JARVIS / GYLES BRANDRETH Great Trials - Oscar Wilde Sodomy Trial 1895 - Audio Book - Adaptation By Gyles Brandreth Toronto: Tangled Web Audio, 1996. First. Audio Book (Cassette). 189655203X Audio Book on Tape Set 2 tapes in original case. BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... STILL SEALED in original publisher's Shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Approx. playing time: 2-1/2 hours... ' Great Trials - Oscar Wilde ' Adaptation by Gyles Brandreth, read by Martin Jarvis... On February 18th, 1895 the Marquess of Queensberry left a visiting card at the Albemarle Club on which he had written " To Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite ". The act led directly to a series of three trials , and the imprisonment of Oscar , full name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde , for 2 years. He never got over the experience of being in jail ... gaol ... and died 3-1/2 years later in Paris at the age of 46 ... This audiobook expertly recreates the atmosphere of the courtroom, transporting the listener back over 100 years to witness one of the wittiest and most controversial trials in history ... " Great Trials - Oscar Wilde " ... The Trial of Oscar Wilde for sodomy; read by modern actor Martin Jarvis ... Audio Book Tape , 2 tape set , still sealed, never opened ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... *. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 5930 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	YAMAGUCHI, LYNNE / KAREN BARBER , EDS. Tomboys - Tales of Dyke Derring - Do . . . Stories , Essays , Poems Collection of Daring Tomboy , Tom Boy , Girls Who Grow Up to Be Lesbian . . . By Alison Bechdel , Susan Fox Rogers, Lucy Jane Bledsoe , Hilary Mullins & More California: Alyson Pub, 1995. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Photos. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1 " 1555832857 1995 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... 304 pages ... These tales of dyke daring celebrate ... the ' tomboy ' ... tomboyhood ... and its meaning ... for those tomboys ... who grew up to be lesbians ... The stories, essays, poems, and photographs collected here will provoke laughter ... tears ... thought ... memories ... and perhaps even a return to self ... Readers will delight in both the commonalities ... and the varieties ... of experience revealed in these tales told with humor ... boldness ... and, above all ... with love ... Contributors include ... Alison Bechdel ... Susan Fox Rogers ... Mariah Burton Nelson ... Lucy Jane Bledsoe ... Hilary Mullins ... and Louise A. Blum ... " Tomboys - Tales of Dyke Derring - Do " ... edited by Lynne Yamaguchi & Karen Barber ... published by Alyson Books, California ... 1995 Softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 1947 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.

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	BALL, EDWARD / REF: GORDON LANGLEY HALL / DAWN LANGLEY SIMMONS Peninsula of Lies - Dawn Langley Simmons / Gordon Langley Hall - a True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 2004 Later Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 -1/2 x 9 x 1/2 " 0743235606 2004 Hardcover in DJ later printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Never opened, Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick Mylar sleeve ... 271 pages Peninsula of Lies is a true mystery story ... set in haunting locales and people with fascinating characters, that unwraps the enigma of a woman named Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and became the focus of one of the most unusual sexual scandals of the last century ... Born in England sometime before World War II, Dawn Langley Simmons began life as a boy named Gordon Langley Hall ... Gordon was the son of servants at Sissinghurst Castle, the estate of Vita Sakville-West, where as a child he met Vita's lover Virginia Woolfe ... In his twenties, Gordon made his way to New York, where he became an author of society biographies and befriended such grandes dames as the actress Margaret Rutherford and the artist and heiress Isabel Whitney, who left him a small fortune ... The money allowed Gordon to buy a mansion in Charleston and fill it with period furniture, providing a stage for him to entertain more great ladies and to climb the social ladder of the Southern gentry to its heights ... However, Gordon's world changed instantly in 1968, when at The Johns Hopkins Hospital he underwent one of the first sex-reassignment surgeries, returning to Southern society and scandalizing Charleston as the new Dawn Langley Hall ... Dawn Hall furthermore announced that her surgery had been corrective, because she'd actually been misidentified as a boy at birth ... Three months later, Dawn raised the stakes in still-segregated Charleston when she arranged her very public marriage to a young black mechanic, John-Paul Simmons ... In due course, Dawn appeared around town pregant; finally, she could be seen pushing a baby carriage with a child - her daughter Natasha ... National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball has written a real-life detective story that deciphers the riddle of Dawn Simmons, a once rich and infamous changeling who died in 2000, her sexual identity never determined ... This is an engrossing narrative of a person who tested every taboo, as well as the confidence of observers in their own eyes ... Gordon Langley Hall 1922 - 2000 , a biographer who underwent one of the most celebrated gender switches in the 1960s, is the focus of this expose of Southern snobbery. English by birth, Langley Hall was the son of a maidservant at Sissinghurst Castle, which had earlier been made famous by Vita Sackville-West in the 1930s ... Leaving England in the bleak postwar era, he eventually made his way to New York, where, after befriending an elderly heiress, he inherited enough of her money to start a new life in the "Peninsula of Lies," Charleston, South Carolina ... After his operation at the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins, the first U.S. hospital for sex change operations, and now Newly a woman, "Dawn Pepita Hall" married her mechanic in a lavish church ceremony, defying at once not only gender expectations and the racial codes of the American South, for she was white, her husband black and the year 1969 ... Author Edward Ball 's ' Slaves in the Family ' won the National Book Award ... " Peninsula of Lies - A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love " ... by Edward Ball ... published by Simon & Schuster, New York ... 2004 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 24.95** [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2202] Book number: 6075 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FICHTE, HUBERT / KEVIN GAVIN, TRANSLATOR Gay Critic , the Homosexual and Literature - By Hubert Fichte - Homosexualität Und Literatur - in English Only USA: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Later Printing. Soft Cover. 5 x 9 x 1-1/4 " 0472083406 1999 Softcover , later printing ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 440 pages with index ... orginally published in German as " Homosexualität und Literatur " .... this volume in English only ... Hubert Fichte - Novelist, anthropologist, playwright, and polemicist, German man of contemporary letters ... Hubert Fichte was prolific and controversial, an outsider and auto-didact ... Before his death at age 51, he was a powerful public voice who was broadcast on German radio, heard at public lectures, and read in academic and popular literary journals... The Gay Critic ... originally published in Germany as Homosexualität und Literatur ... offers, both in content and form, a microcosm of Fichte's writings. The overarching concerns are with sexualities and their expression or repression, as evidenced in literary contexts by the producers and the receivers of marginalized, often reviled texts and textual scenes in Western European literature. Fichte uses contemporary points of reference--AIDS, literary mores, the gay voice, the ousted minor traditions--to discuss a wide range of literature. Fichte's perspective is fresh, unexpected, and uncommonly original as he champions literary untouchables such as the homosexualities conveyed by the Iliad; the now- obscure lyric poet von Platen, a polygraphic, homosexual contemporary of Goethe's and the prototype for Aschenbach in Mann's Death in Venice; and Jean Genet, on the question of French national socialism. Fichte contends that writing and its reception, its institutionalization and its repressions, are inseparable, even continuous. And, he argues, one's sexualities, libidinal and cultural, are inevitably engaged in either act. The volume also considers Sophocles, Petronius, Nizami, Villon, Rabelais, Quevedo, Marlowe, Defoe, Casanova, Stendhal, Flaubert, Strindberg, Lagerlöf, Proust, Euclides de Cunha, and Borges. Fichte's prose style defies categorization, comprising a postmodern pastiche that mixes spontaneous criticism and free-form commentary with quotation, academic writing, and dialogue laced with historical and critical reflection. Most of the essays were first read over German radio, and even after revision for publication have remained highly entertaining, accessible and compelling texts... Peter Demetz of Yale University says : "Hubert Fichte was a writer quietly and intensely at odds with contemporary German society and literature--as "Half Jew" ( according to Nazi law ), as Protestant growing up in a Catholic orphanage, and a gay intellectual living in middle-class Hamburg. He wanted to be an outsider but instead of being sentimental about what others would call a life of the margins he made it a central place from which he observed others and his own consciousness, critically and with the highest perception." ... " The Gay Critic " The Homosexual and Literature ... by Hubert Fichte ... translated from the original German into English by Kevin Gavin ... published by the University of Michigan Press ... 1999 Softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New . USD 25.95** [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2290] Book number: 2176 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GROSS, LARRY Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America : Up from Invisibility New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. First. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0231119534 2001 Softcover . Brand new from publisher. Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked. 295 pages with index. 50 years ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging " visibility " of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling - and perhaps unable - to fully comprehend and honor it? ... While positive representations of gays and lesbians are a cautious step in the right direction, media expert Larry Gross argues that the entertainment and news media betray a lingering inability to break free from proscribed limitations in order to embrace the complex reality of gay identity. While noting major advances, like the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore - the first gay bookstore in the country - or the rise of The Advocate, from small newsletter to influential national paper, Gross takes the measure of somewhat more ambiguous milestones, like the first lesbian kiss on television or the first gay character in a newspaper comic strip. " Up From Invisibility : Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America " published by Columbia University Press, New York. 2001 softcover *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5907 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HAMILTON, WALLACE Christopher and Gay - a Partisan's View of the Greenwich Village Homosexual Scene in the 1960s & 70s New York: Saturday Review Pub, 1973. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0841502439 1973 Hardcover in DJ... Very Good condition ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... price-clipped dj has closed shelf tear on bottom , not as noticeble inside New protective sleeve ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... 216 pages ... Author Wallace Hamilton was alive and gay and living in Greenwich Village in the 60s ... At the age of 52 ... he left his home in Baltimore ... & moved to New York to ... to live an openly homosexual life .... This book is at once a cool ... funny ... & sceptical ... report ... of one middle-aged man's emergence from the closet ... & a unique glimpse into the lifestyles of the gay community .... Filling these pages are a cheerfully colorful cast of characters ... including Wanda ... a full-fledged drag queen with a starling resemblence toTallulah Bankhead ... Daniel, a promiscuous male go-go dancer ... & Lamont, a black southerner who decided it was more glamorous to pretend he was from Africa ... This book goes into detail about the watershed of homosexual freedom ... the police raid on the Stonewall Bar in 1969 that radically changed ... and charged ... the Gay Activist movement ... The author makes no attempt to glorify his life ... He simply wrote honestly ... and the result is a witty & informative guide to the gay subculure ... that provides the outsider with an accurate picture of a very inside world ... " Christopher and Gay " ... A Partisan's View of the Greenwich Village Homosexual Scene in the 1960s and 70s ... by Wallace Hamilton ... 1973 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... published by Saturday Review Publshing , New York ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality *. Very Good Plus/Very Good . USD 20.00** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1038 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	LEE, BILL ED. Country Rogues - One Hand Books for Two-Fisted Men - Anthology of Gay Men's Erotica , Edited By Bill Lee California: GLB Gay Erotica, 1995. First Edition. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" 1879194198 1995 softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 210 pages ... Enjoy outdoor gay love ... far from the maddening crowd ... in this amazing collection of erotic tales ... These are the kind of stories to take with you into the wilderness for company ... on rainy days alone in the tent ... " Country Rogues - One Hand Books for Two - Fisted Men " ... edited by Bill Lee ... published by GLB Gay Erotica , California ... 1995 paperback *. NEW . USD 12.95** [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1143] Book number: 2387 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	MASS, LAWRENCE D. / REF : LARRY KRAMER Larry Kramer, the Life and Legacies of . . . We Must Love One Another Or Die - 23 Other Writers Join Together to Explore the Life and Work of Screenwriter , Producer, Novelist , Playwright , Founder of Act-Up , & Pioneer Aids Activist Kramer New York: St. Martin's Griffin Pub, 1999. First Edition. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 x 1-1/4 " 0312220847 1999 Softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... Handsome hefty book, 400 pages ... In this original collection ... 23 writers join together to explore the life and work of Larry Kramer ... pioneer AIDS activist ... and acclaimed author of ' The Normal Heart and Faggots ' ... The Academy Award-nominated screenwriter... producer ... novelist ... playwright ... & co-founder of GMHC ... and fo under of ACT-UP ... is one of the most significant gay role models we have ... This unique volume focuses on Kramer as activist ... writer, & personality ... An informed bibliography & moving interview complete the essays ... that range from the political & historical ... to the personal & bittersweet ... A controversial figure in the worlds of activism & letters ... Kramer embodies the phrase ... " the personal is political " ... This collection proves the impossibility of separating the activist from the legacy of the writer ... & why perceptions of Kramer run fom genius to provocateur ... " We Must Love One Another or Die - The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer " ... edited by D. Lawrence Mass ... published by St. Martin's Griffin , New York ... 1999 softcover *. NEW/New . USD 18.95** [Appr.: EURO 12.75 \| £UK 11.5 \| JP¥ 1672] Book number: 1550 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	PELHAM, RAYDON Shame - Mystery Gay Men's Erotica in the Clubs of London & Ibiza London: Idol Erotica, 1998. First Edition. Soft Cover. 0352333022 1998 Softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... small orange feltpen dot on bottom ... Gift Giving quality ... 222 pages ... On vacation in West Hollywood ... Martyn Townsend meets Scott ... Within one evening he finds himself falling in love ... But the romance is cut short ... when Scott is shot dead in Martyn's arms ... Terrified ... but determined to discover the truth ... Martyn returns to England ... to try to track down Peter ... who was Scott's previous partner ... Plunged into a world of casual sex ... and drugs ... in the clubs of London and Ibiza ... Martyn becomes the prey ... not the hunter .. of the charismatic Peter ... " Shame " ... by Raydon Pelham ... published by Idol Erotica , London 1998 softcover *. New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 1509 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SHILTS, RANDY Gay & Lesbians in the U.S. Military - Conduct Unbecoming New York: St. Martins Pub, 1993. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 -1/2 x 9 -1/2 x 2 " 031209261X 1993 Hardcover in DJ First Edition... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked .... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... 784 pages with bibliography + index ...... National correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, author Randy Shilts follows his best-seller ' And the Band Played On ' ... In this interesting study, he investigates the situation of gays and lesbians in the military over the past 3 decades ... Revealing for the first time that some of the most cele brated soldiers in American history were homosexual ..... Many years of interviews & thousands of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act , to get the information from the United States services, helped bring this important book to light ... " Conduct Unbecoming - Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military " ... by Randy Shilts ... published by St. Martin's Press, New York ... 1993 Hardcover in Dustjacket 1st *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 163a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	THOMPSON, MARK Gay Body - a Journey Through Shadow to Self - Growing Up Gay in a Dysfunctional Family , & the Lessons Learned for Each Gay Man to Heal His Own Gay Soul , Spirit and Body on the Spiritual Journey to Adulthood . . . By Mark Thompson New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0312168535 1997 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 276 pages ... The spiritual journey to adulthood is ... for many gay men ... particularly difficult ... Often suffering the hurts of difficult childhoods... the assaults & rejections of indifferent or confused families ... and the outsider status ... conferred upon them by society at large ... some get lost along the way ... In an electrifying mix of theory & autobiography ... author Mark Thompson explores the stages of healing & recovery ... that gay men can experience if they dare to take the path leading to a fully integrated body & spirit ... In his own life ... he details the experience of growing up gay in a dysfunctional family ... the heady days of the early 1970s in San Francisco ... and his attempts to heal himself ... from the fairy circles ... to the deepest reaches of the leather movement ... Intermixed is an explanation of archetypes ... & how they function in a gay man's life ... the roles that they assume ... the dangers that they hold ... and the lessons that must be learned for each gay man to heal his own gay soul, spirit, & body ... " Gay Body - A Journey Through Shadow to Self " ... by Mark Thompson ... published by St. Martin's , New York 1997 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 24.95** [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2202] Book number: 1574 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WILDE, OSCAR / MARTIN JARVIS / GYLES BRANDRETH Great Trials - Oscar Wilde Sodomy Trial 1895 - Audio Book - Adaptation By Gyles Brandreth Toronto: Tangled Web Audio, 1996. First. Audio Book (Cassette). 189655203X Audio Book on Tape Set 2 tapes in original case. BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... STILL SEALED in original publisher's Shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Approx. playing time: 2-1/2 hours... ' Great Trials - Oscar Wilde ' Adaptation by Gyles Brandreth, read by Martin Jarvis... On February 18th, 1895 the Marquess of Queensberry left a visiting card at the Albemarle Club on which he had written " To Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite ". The act led directly to a series of three trials , and the imprisonment of Oscar , full name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde , for 2 years. He never got over the experience of being in jail ... gaol ... and died 3-1/2 years later in Paris at the age of 46 ... This audiobook expertly recreates the atmosphere of the courtroom, transporting the listener back over 100 years to witness one of the wittiest and most controversial trials in history ... " Great Trials - Oscar Wilde " ... The Trial of Oscar Wilde for sodomy; read by modern actor Martin Jarvis ... Audio Book Tape , 2 tape set , still sealed, never opened ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... *. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 5930 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	YAMAGUCHI, LYNNE / KAREN BARBER , EDS. Tomboys - Tales of Dyke Derring - Do . . . Stories , Essays , Poems Collection of Daring Tomboy , Tom Boy , Girls Who Grow Up to Be Lesbian . . . By Alison Bechdel , Susan Fox Rogers, Lucy Jane Bledsoe , Hilary Mullins & More California: Alyson Pub, 1995. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Photos. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1 " 1555832857 1995 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... 304 pages ... These tales of dyke daring celebrate ... the ' tomboy ' ... tomboyhood ... and its meaning ... for those tomboys ... who grew up to be lesbians ... The stories, essays, poems, and photographs collected here will provoke laughter ... tears ... thought ... memories ... and perhaps even a return to self ... Readers will delight in both the commonalities ... and the varieties ... of experience revealed in these tales told with humor ... boldness ... and, above all ... with love ... Contributors include ... Alison Bechdel ... Susan Fox Rogers ... Mariah Burton Nelson ... Lucy Jane Bledsoe ... Hilary Mullins ... and Louise A. Blum ... " Tomboys - Tales of Dyke Derring - Do " ... edited by Lynne Yamaguchi & Karen Barber ... published by Alyson Books, California ... 1995 Softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 1947 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.