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lus their only ally is the young imperial prince,
Julian. But Julian has troubles of his own. His
very success has made him hated by his uncle,
the emperor Constantius. With spies and adversaries
all about them, the two friends link their
fate with Julian‘s. In a life-or-death struggle that
takes them from one end of the empire to the
other, they set themselves against the forces
that are determined to crush them.
Christopher Stoddard:
White, Christian.
USA 2010, 209 pp., brochure, € 18.20
20-year-old Christian
White is attractive, droll,
addicted, frightened, cynical,
homosexual, infantile,
campy, sexually
compulsive, fragile, but
somehow dynamic. He‘s
a poster boy for a long
list of contemporary dysfunctions.
His borderline
lifestyle is a carnival of
drugs and sex, accessorized by designer clothes
and frequent stealing or scamming. Underneath
the decadence are haunting memories
of childhood abuse, the death of a brother and
a father‘s criminal past. Expecting to make a
fresh start, Christian relocates from San Francisco
to New York, just as his friends are being
rounded up by the police. But life only spirals
farther out of control in the new setting. He has
let himself slip into prostitution.
Non-Fiction
Susan Goldberg & Chloë B. Rose
(eds.): And Baby Makes More.
Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our
Unexpected Families.
CAN 2010, 235 pp., brochure, € 13.95
This book explores the role of the »known
donor« in the queer family structure: what happens
when would-be dyke moms or gay dads
ask a friend or acquaintance to donate sperm
or an egg, or to act as a surrogate? A quirky,
funny, and occasionally heartbreaking collection
of personal essays, this book offers an intimate
look at the relative risks and unexpected
rewards of queer, do-it-yourself baby-making,
and the ways in which families are re-made in
the process. With no clear models to follow,
these new versions of the queer family are crea-
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ting their own, addressing questions such
as: what‘s the difference
between being a donor
and being a parent?
What happens to nonbiological
parents when
a known donor is also
part of the picture? When
and how does biology
count - or does it? Why do
parents choose known
donors, and what if
things get ugly? And what does all this mean
for queer families already facing extraordinary
social pressures?
Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie &
Kay Whitlock: Queer (In)Justice.
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the
United States. USA 2011, 216 pp.,
hardbound, € 22.99
In March 2003 police
stormed the Power Plant,
a private club frequented
by African American
LGBT people. Over 350
people were handcuffed
and subjected to homophobic
slurs. Some were
hit on the head and back.
Others were slammed
into walls. Their supposed
crime was later chalked up to a bizarre
infraction: »loitering inside a building«. Three
years earlier, Freddie Mason, a 31-year-old
Black gay man was arrested after a verbal
altercation with his landlord, and then anally
raped with a billy club covered in cleaning
liquid by a Chicago police officer. A Tennessee
police officer‘s beating of Duanna Johnson, a
Black transgender woman, was even caught on
camera. Within a year, she was dead. Events
such as these illuminate a long shadow of criminalization
of LGBT people in America. This
book turns a »queer eye« on the criminal legal
system in which queer lives happen to be criminalized,
policed, and punished.
Terry Sanderson:
The Gay Man‘s Kama Sutra.
UK 2010, 144 pp. illustrated,
hardback, € 12.95
A book on gay Kama Sutra has for a long time
been asked for. Now, here it is. The Kama