The Two Roberts
5.490 kr.Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he’s off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with loose dark curls – and never leave his side.
Together they will spend every penny and every minute devouring Glasgow – its botanical gardens, the Barras market, a whole hidden city – all the while loving each other behind closed doors. With the world on the brink of war, their unrivalled talent will take them to Paris, Rome, London. They will become stars as the bombs fall, hosting wild parties with the likes of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Elizabeth Smart. But the brightest stars burn fastest.
Stunningly reimagined, The Two Roberts is a profoundly moving story of devotion and obsession, art and class. It is a love letter to MacBryde and Colquhoun, the almost-forgotten artists who tried to change the way the world sees – and paid a devastating price.
Bad Habit
3.490 kr.Beautifully written and told in an irresistible voice, Bad Habit is a powerfully moving coming-of-age novel following a young trans woman in 1980s Madrid. An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working-class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a dazzling party scene animated by charming junkies, glamorous pop divas, and fallen angels.
With each step she takes forward in the city, she finds herself confronted by an antagonism she does not yet know how to counter. In this thrilling and yet often frightening place each decision can have the highest of stakes and yet she knows that only she can forge a path forward to the life she truly wants to live. Beautiful and deeply moving, Bad Habit by Alana S Portero is translated by Mara Faye Lethem, and deftly illuminates the search for identity and the power of chosen family.
Bad Habit is an unforgettable story of self-realisation that speaks to the outsider in all of us.
Valencia
3.690 kr.The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea’s classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts.
Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco’s riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone.
‘Hilarious, euphoric, perspicacious and punk – the book that showed so many of us how writing can be real’ – Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar
‘One of the few truly life changing books I’ve encountered’ – Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby
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The Loves of My Life
Original price was: 5.690 kr..3.983 kr.Current price is: 3.983 kr..With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old ‘paterfamilias of queer literature’ (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex.
Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950’s to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in the 1970’s; through the terror of HIV and the age of sex on the apps, White has seen – and experienced – it all.
Unyieldingly honest, outrageously raucous and arrestingly touching, The Loves of My Life can but further cement White’s unquestionable role at the apex of the gay canon.
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Love In Exile
Original price was: 5.690 kr..3.983 kr.Current price is: 3.983 kr..Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved: addictions and short-lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Faye’s experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her fears. But, as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture.
Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless; in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. In this highly politicized terrain, boundaries are purposefully drawn to keep some in and to keep others out. Those who exist outside them are ignored, denigrated, exiled.
In Love in Exile, Shon Faye shows love is much greater than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave so desperately that we are willing to bend and break ourselves to fit them. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.
Stag Dance
4.390 kr.Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
Drottningarnar í Garðinum
4.190 kr.Hópur kynlífsverkakvenna er á næturrölti í Sarmiento-garðinum í Córdoba, Argentínu. Þær heyra barnsgrát í nóttinni. Encarna frænka, leiðtogi þeirra, ryður sér leið í gegnum skógarþykknið og finnur barn, sem hún tekur að sér, eins og hún hefur tekið margar útskúfaðar konur að sér, þar á meðal Camilu. Í bleika húsinu hennar Encörnu frænku finnst skjól fyrir daglegum ógnum, sjúkdómum og ofbeldi af hálfu kúnna, lögregluþjóna og ástmanna. Mállaus kona umbreytist í fugl, hauslaus maður flýr stríð og Camila berst fyrir að ráða lífi sínu og kyngervi sjálf. Raunveruleikinn er sveipaður töfrum drungalegs ævintýris. Drottningarnar í garðinum hefur verið þýdd á ótal tungumál og unnið til margra verðlauna. Höfundurinn Camila Sosa Villada er einnig leikkona og baráttukona.
Ég er Jazz
3.190 kr.Frá því að hún var tveggja ára gömul vissi Jazz að hún væri stelpa þó að allir héldu að hún væri strákur. Hún elskaði bleikan og að klæða sig eins og hafmeyju og leið ekki eins og henni sjálfri þegar hún klæddist fötum eins og flestir strákarnir voru í. Þetta var ruglingslegt fyrir fjölskyldu hennar, þar til þau fóru með hana til læknis sem greindi Jazz sem trans og útskýrði að hún væri fædd á þennan hátt. Trans börn eru allskonar eins og önnur börn. Þau hafa misjafnan fatasmekk og misjöfn áhugamál. En þetta er saga Jazz sem byggir á upplifun hennar. Hún segir frá á einfaldan og skýran hátt sem höfðar vel til barna, foreldra og kennara.
Mennska
5.890 kr.Bjarni Snæbjörnsson ólst upp á Vestfjörðum við algeran skort á hinsegin fyrirmyndum. Það eina sem hann heyrði um aðra homma var að þeir væru öfuguggar og kynvillingar. Til að lifa af spilaði hann eftir þeim reglum sem hann taldi gilda en í leiðinni afneitaði hann sjálfum sér með öllum tiltækum ráðum. Hér segir Bjarni, með aðstoð dagbóka sinna og bréfaskipta við fjölskyldu og vini, frá leiðinni út úr skápnum. Hann lýsir á hispurslausan hátt ævintýralegri för um heiminn, erfiðum tímum, ástum og kynlífi, litlum og stórum sigrum í lífi og leiklist – ásamt áralangri sjálfsvinnu til að ná sátt við sína margbrotnu og litríku mennsku.
Mennska er aðgengileg og hrífandi lesning sem á erindi við alla sem hafa glímt við skömm og reynt að skila henni, finnst erfitt að taka pláss í samfélaginu eða hafa fórnað hluta af sjálfum sér af ótta við viðbrögð annarra.
Mánasteinn – drengurinn sem aldrei var til
1.290 kr.Árið er 1918 og frá Reykjavík má sjá eldgosið í Kötlu mála himininn nótt sem dag. Lífið í höfuðstaðnum gengur sinn vanagang þrátt fyrir náttúruhamfarir, kolaskort og styrjöldina úti í hinum stóra heimi. Íslendingar búa sig undir að verða fullvalda þjóð.
Drengurinn Máni Steinn lifir í kvikmyndunum. Sofandi dreymir hann myndirnar í tilbrigðum þar sem vefur atburðanna er slunginn þráðum úr hans eigin lífi. Vakandi hefst hann við á jaðri samfélagsins.
En þá tekur spænska veikin land og leggur þúsundir bæjarbúa á sóttarsæng, sviptir hundruð lífinu. Skuggar tilverunnar dýpka. Í brjósti Mána Steins ólmast svartir vængir. Það súgar milli heima í veröld þar sem líf og dauði, veruleiki og ímyndun, leyndarmál og afhjúpanir vegast á.
