Författare: Hardy Haberman
Förlag: Greenery Press (2001)
Vikt: 195 g.

From anatomy to psychology to descriptions of actual play scenarios, Family Jewels offers a wealth of information and ideas for any man or woman who wants to offer more pleasure and intensity to the male anatomy.

Författare: Starhawk
Förlag: Bantam Books (1994)
Vikt: 535 g.

Lambda Literary Award (Science Fiction/Fantasy, 1993)

Starhawk’s epic tale, set in 2048, California. In a time of ecological collapse, when the hideously authoritarian and corporate-driven Stewards have taken control of most of the land and set up an apartheid state, one region has declared itself independent: the Bay Area and points north. Choosing life over guns, they have created a simple but rich ecotopia, where no one wants, nothing is wasted, culture and cooperation are uppermost, and th...

Författare: Ali Liebegott
Förlag: Carroll & Graf (2007)
Vikt: 295 g.

Liebegott’s debut novel is a coming-of-age coming-out in the tradition of Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle, but here, the portrait of an artist as punk waitress is more a celebration of sexuality than humanity. Twenty-year-old Francesca is a recovering drunk who finds comfort in cutting herself and harbors fantasies of her beautiful AA sponsor, Maria; her former philosophy teacher, Irene; and a soap opera heroine. “I wanted everything: Irene’s cheekbones, empathy, and wi...

Författare: bell hooks
Förlag: South End Press
Vikt: 245 g.

In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of contemporary representations of race and ethnicity within a white supremacist culture.

Författare: Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey
Förlag: Routledge (2003)
Vikt: 403 g.

Working from the premise that the white race has been socially constructed, Race Traitor is a call for the disruption of white conformity and the formation of a New Abolitionism to dissolve it.

In a time when white supremicist thinking seems to be gaining momentum, Race Traitor brings together voices ranging from tenured university professors to skinheads and prison inmates to discuss the “white question” in America. Through popular culture, current events, history and per...

Författare: Elisabeth Cady Stanton
Förlag: Dover Publications
Vikt: 340 g.

The publication of The Woman’s Bible in 1895 and 1898 represented the feminist pioneer’s last strike at the roots of the ideology behind her gender’s subordinate role in society. In keeping with her characteristic radical individualism, Stanton attacks religious orthodoxy on a political rather than scholarly basis. This clarion call to action consists of a book-by-book examination of the Bible, placing events in their historical context, interpreting passages as both allegory...

Författare: bell hooks
Förlag: South End Press
Vikt: 181 g.

In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice.

hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a femi...

Författare: Ann Bannon
Förlag: Cleis Press
Vikt: 294

In the 1950s, Ann Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embraced their sexuality. With Odd Girl Out, Bannon introduces Laura Landon, whose love affair with her college roommate Beth launched the lesbian pulp fiction genre.

Författare: Ann Bannon
Förlag: Cleis Press (2001)
Vikt: 294g.

Ann Bannon was designated the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp” for authoring several landmark novels in the ’50s. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead characters who embraced their sexuality. With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in Beat-era Greenwich Village.

Författare: Dorothy Allison
Förlag: Plume
Vikt: 349g.

Rekommenderas av Sister Spit.

Set in the rural South, this tale centers around the Boatwright family, a proud and closeknit clan known for their drinking, fighting, and womanizing. Nicknamed Bone by her Uncle Earle, Ruth Anne is the bastard child of Anney Boatwright, who has fought tirelessly to legitimize her child. When she marries Glen, a man from a good family, it appears that her prayers have been answered. However, Anney suffers a miscarriage and Glen begins drifting. He develops a contentious relatio...

Författare: Lisa Brown
Förlag: McSweeney´s Books
Vikt: 90g.

If you’re a new parent, you know how hard it is to get quality alone time with your partner. Instead of blaming the kid, put him to work! This handy manual will teach your baby how to set the mood for an intimate evening (and then make himself scarce — thanks, baby!) “Baby Get Me Some Lovin’” is essential for expectant parents, harried mothers, tired fathers, and overly involved grandparents.

Författare: Lisa Brown
Förlag: McSweeney´s Books
Vikt: 95g.

Many people are parents, and many parents are thirsty. Yet too many parents allow their infant sons and daughters to lie about idly: napping, drinking milk, and whatnot. Why not put them to work? Observe how tots enjoy the shapes and colors, all the while learning how to mix a variety of basic cocktails. Thanks, Baby!

Författare: Lisa Brown
Förlag: McSweeney´s Books
Vikt: 90g.

Are you a parent? Are you tired of driving around in an old wreck of an automobile? Never fear; help is on the way. This book will teach your little ones the ins and outs of basic car repair. It’s quick, easy, and best of all, cheaper than your local garage! Now wipe off your greasy paws, get into your carseat, and well hit the road! Thanks, baby!

Edited by: Jennifer Clare Burke
Förlag: Homofactus Press (2009)
Vikt: 320 g.

Volume one.
Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each contributor’s concrete notion of femm...

Author: Sarah Schulman
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (2008)
Weight: 350g.

Written from the epicenter of the AIDS crisis in the 1990’s, Rat Bohemia is a bold, achingly honest story set in the “rat bohemia” of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians who bond with one another in the wake of loss. Navigating the currents of the city is Rita Mae Weems, a rat exterminator who holds the optimism of all true bohemians – those who stand outside of the prevailing social apparatus. Inspired by A Journal of...

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Delta (200)
Weight: 160g

Set in the 1950’s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin’s now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversal story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

“A young American involved with both a woman and a man…Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual can...

Author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher: Routledge (2006)

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts.

Spivak here develops an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies – deconstruction, Marxism and feminism – turning this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture. In Other Worlds considers questions of theory across a broad spect...

Författare: JACK RINELLA
Förlag: Greenery Press (CA)
Vikt: 272 g

Is it possible to form lasting, healthy, loving relationships thare are based on power, control and pain? Of course it is – if you approach it with common sense, care and affection.

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Författare: Kamila Shamsie
Förlag: Picador USA
Vikt: 358 g

A powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents.

Författare: Nella Larsen och Deborah McDowell
Förlag: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vikt: 335 g

Two novels of 1920s Harlem describe Helga Crane’s search for freedom and personal expression, and Irene’s friendship with Clare, who attempts to pass for white.

Editor: Greta Christina
Publisher: Last Gasp(2009)
Weight: 795 gram

Comics for erotica fans! Erotica for comics fans! Smart, hot, and cutting-edge, “Best Erotic Comics 2009” features the sexiest, funniest, filthiest, most beautiful, most unsettling, most inspiring adult comics of today, with work by Junko Mizuno, Peter Kuper, Gilbert Hernandez, Ellen Forney, Rick Altergott, Cristy C. Road and many other first-rate erotic comic artists. For erotic connoisseurs who aren’t familiar with the world of comics, this anthology will open up an entirely new wor...

Komedi från 1990 av John Waters med Johnny Depp och Amy Locane.

Johnny Depp spelar huvudrollen i John Waters anarkistiska och omåttliga musikal om ungdomsbrottslingar. Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker (Depp) är den snyggaste och tuffaste värstingen i skolan. Hans förmåga att gråta en enda perfekt tår driver tjejerna tokiga, och särskilt Allison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane). Den vackra överklassflickan dras obönhörligt in i Cry-Babys rebelliska gäng och börjar entusiastiskt insupa de onda 
vibbarna från rockabilly och snabba bilar. År 1954 skildras färgstarkt o...

Drama från 2005 av Aisling Walsh med Elaine Cassidy och Rupert Evans.

Den prisade miniserien bygger på den världsberömda författaren Sarah Waters älskade roman om svek och förbjuden passion i det viktorianska England. 

Den bräckliga aristokraten Maud Lilly och tjänsteflickan Sue – två kvinnor från vitt skilda världar – möts under mystiska omständigheter och visar sig ha betydligt mer gemensamt än en intensiv längtan efter ett annat liv. 

De färgstarka miljöerna skiftar från de fina salongerna till Londons mörka labyrint av gränder, i denn...

Dokumentär & övrigt från 1993 av Jenni Olson.

This spectacular collection of vintage queer movie trailers offers a crash course in lesbian, gay, bi and transgender (LGBT) movie history and a colorful look at nearly every major mainstream queer-themed film produced between 1953 and 1977!

Skräck från 1989 av Dan Hoskins med Jamie Rose och Catherine Carlen.

Bikerbrudarna Cycle Sluts rullar in i en liten håla för att göra det bikerbrudar gör bäst – supa, slåss och ragga karlar (ja, inte den lesbiska i gänget förstås). Men i Zombietown går det lite vildare till än de tänkt sig.

Inte nog med att de träffar på föräldralösa som viftar med maskingevär, en begravningsentreprenör som är dvärg – de får även en hord köttätande zombies på halsen! Direkt från den närliggande gruvan!

En film vars manus det tog tio år att skriv...

Drama från 1985 av Gus Van Sant med Doug Cooeyate och Sam Downey.

Gus Van Sant’s “Mala noche” handlar om Walt som bor i ett nedgånget, invandrartätt område i Portland, Oregon. En dag stöter han på en ung mexikansk man som bor i hans kvarter och blir hopplöst förälskad. Hans kärlek blir dock obesvarad. En märklig relation växer istället fram mellan männen med desperation, ångest samt glittrande stunder av lycka som resultat.

Action från 2004 av Angela Robinson med Sara Foster och Jordana Brewster.

Four sexy women from a secret spy school known as The Academy stalk a ruthless she-villain, whose only crime as of late is trying to find love in a difficult dating world. An untraditional meeting between one of the spies and the villain sparks an awkward and unlikely love relationship that causes confusion and misunderstanding among the elite spy law enforcement community.

Author: Charlotte Brontë
Publisher: Penguin Classics (2006)
Weight: 380g

Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations. Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert’s brother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled?

Author: Rebecca Walker
Publisher: Riverhead Books (2009)
Weight: 400g

These plainspoken, cage-rattling essays, collected by Walker (What Makes a Man), address how dramatically the traditional nuclear American family has changed. Jenny Block’s And Then We Were Poly sets the decidedly unconventional tone by insisting that her and her husband’s embrace of other sexual partners allows them a more joyful, fulfilling commitment to each other. A gay couple adopts the child of a self-destructive street girl in Dan Savage’s DJ’s Homeless Mommy, then trie...

Author: Nancy D. Polikoff
Publisher: Beacon Press (2008)
Weight: 360g

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage should not bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and LGBT, live in a variety of relationships—including unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended biological family units, and myriad other familial configurations. These relationships, like marriage, are about building and sustaining economic and emotiona...

Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: Verso (2009)
Weight: 380g

In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rat...

Author: Mehmet Murat Somer
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail (2009)
Weight: 170g

Late one night, our glamour-puss nightclub manager receives a visit from Buse. For many years, Buse has kept letters and photos of a compromising nature, from a former relationship with a powerful lover. But her apartment has been ransacked and Buse worries about the consequences.Being an obliging sort, our detective agrees to help out, but what initially appears to be a personal favour turns out to have consequences that run much deeper. When the web of intrigue reveals that an arch-conserv...

Published by Meem (http://www.meemgroup.org/), with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Middle East Office.
Year: 2009
Weight: 300g

“Bareed Mista3jil” is a brave new book published by Meem in Beirut, Lebanon. The book, available in both English and Arabic versions, is a collection of 41 true (and personal) stories from lesbians, bisexuals, queer and questioning women, and transgender persons from all over Lebanon. The introduction to the book is a 30-page analysis of the general themes presented in the stories.

What sort of diversit...

Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage Books (2005)
Weight: 140g

Sula revolves around the relationship between two little girls growing up in a poor, black neighbourhood nestled high in the hilltops. “The Bottom”, as the barrio came to be known, is brimming with eccentric residents but sadly deprived of human warmth (the town actually takes pride in celebrating National Suicide Day). However, out of this bitter, abrasive environment grows a beautiful friendship between Sula and Nel. Their shared secrets and dreams blossom through childhood, but their spec...

Author: Louis-Georges Tin
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (2008)
Weight: 720g

Dust off those old World Book Encyclopedias and slide over the Britannicas. A new reference tome is in town. The Dictionary of Homophobia isn’t a “how-to” guidebook for homophobes but rather an exhaustive compendium of the history, geography and philosophy of anti-gay fear, hatred and prejudice over the ages. Seventy-six writers contributed to this massive effort, edited by Louis-Georges Tin and now translated into English….With the same thirst for knowledge that makes ...

Author: Chris Weedon
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers (2000)
Weight: 395g

Difference is a key term in contemporary feminism. Since the 1700s women have been concerned with how they are seen as different from men and the social consequences of such assumed and actual differences. Whereas early second-wave feminism stressed women’s shared oppression and sisterhood, more recent feminism has stressed difference – of class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and age. Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference looks at the question of difference across the ...

Author: Harry Oosterhuis
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (2001)
Weight: 510g

The legacy of Viennese psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) rests largely on his well-known Psychopathia Sexualis, a collection of case studies and an attempt to classify sexual “deviance” systematically. From the early 20th century to the rabid denunciations of Michel Foucault and others in the 1980s, Krafft-Ebing’s work has been harshly criticized as everything from morally repugnant to blatantly serving the interests of psychology’s medical model propone...

Editor: Diane Sainsbury
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1999)
Weight: 425g

Gender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on the interrelationships between aspects of the welfare state and labour market policies in structuring and transforming gender relations across a broad spectrum of countries. The book examines the construction of gender in various government welfare policies and illustrates how the specific qualities of the welfare state reinforce or counteract gender inequalities.

Author: Andrea Smith
Publisher: South End Press (2005)
Weight: 495g

A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In Conquest, Smith places Native American women at the center of her analysis of sexual violence, challenging both conventional definitions of the term and conventional responses to the problem.

Beginning with the impact...

Author: Sarah Waters
Publisher: Virago (2009)
Vikt: 515 g

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined...

Author: Agnes McLaren
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers (2008)
Weight: 450g

In the past three decades, historians and sociologists have increasingly used sex and sexuality as a vehicle to explain and interpret society, politics and human behavior. McLaren’s ambitious book surveys nearly 100 years of sexual practices, attitudes and social policies in an attempt to construct a cohesive history of the ebb and flow of periods of relative sexual freedom followed by the backlash of repression. Using this model of “sexual panics,” he discusses such issues as m...

Editor: Stuart Hall
Publisher: The Open University and Sage Publications (1997)
Weight: 950g

Representation – the production of meaning through language, discourse and image – occupies a central place in current studies on culture. This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation’.
Individual chapters explain a variety of approaches to representation, bringing to bear concepts from semiotic, discursive, psychoanalytic, anthropological, sociological, feminist, a...

Author: Laura Carlson
Publisher: Iustus Förlag (2007)
Weight: 950g

Achieving economic equality between men and women is a challenge to every country. This work takes the Swedish approach to the problem of economic equality and compares it to the legal systems as found in the EU, UK and US.

Editors: Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2004)
Weight: 430g

The thirteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume are designed to provide an accessible and stimulating guide through an area of philosophical thought and literature that has seen massive expansion in recent years. They encompass all the core subject areas commonly taught in anglophone undergraduate and graduate philosophy courses, offering both an overview of and a contribution to the relevant debates. This volume will be essential reading for any student o...

Editor: Judith Kegan Gardiner
Publisher: Columbia University Press (2002)
Weight: 520g

Why is there so much talk of a “crisis” of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity? Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory addresses central questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. The volume examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions...

Publisher: Amber Goodwyn
Format: 21.5×14cm, black & white + colour pictures
Number of pages: 64
Weight: 120g
Genre: Pan-sexual, sex-positive smut.

Lickety Split is a pansexual smut zine dedicated to encouraging sex-positive expression and thought. The zine promotes collaborative
art making and encourages diverse contributions to climb into bed with one another, because one sexual expression just does not satisfy.
Lickety Split wants to help make the masses cum with smutty photography and art, essays and stories in order to fulfill the whole h...

Editors: David Collinson and Jeff Hearn
Publisher: Sage Publications (1996)
Weight: 470g

Most managers in most organizations in most countries are men. This book is the first international work to address the relationships between men, masculinities and managements. It examines the processes through which gendered managerial structures, cultures and practices are reproduced. Exploring top and middle managers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and public and private sector managers, the book breaks new ground by critically examining the gendered power processes that...

Author: Charlotte Roche
Publisher: Fourth Estate (2009)
Weight: 560g

Helen Memel lies in the Department of Internal Medicine at Maria Hilf Hospital. While she waits for her divorced parents to come and visit her – who she hopes will finally be reconciled by the side of her hospital bed – she begins to examine those parts of her body usually seen as distinctly ‘unladylike’. She lets the orderly, Robin, take photos of those areas her curious gaze can’t reach. And, on the side, she tends to her collection of avocado stones – which also...

Editors: Eva Magnusson, Malin Rönnblom och Harriet Silius
Publisher: Makadam (2008)
Weight: 380g

There is an increasing awareness that gender equality is not something that just is in unproblematic and natural ways, but that it may be understood and packaged in several ways, with quite different consequences. It therefore makes good sense to ask, with the authors in this book, how gender equality is understood and practised in the Nordic countries, with their avowedly good record on gender equality measures.

Author: Thomas Waugh
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (2004)
Weight: 720g

On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning book Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Thomas Waugh offers more historic and erotically charged drawings, depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view.

The more than 200, never-before-published images in Lust Unearthed are from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, a Hollywood costume and set designer (his work included George Cukor’s 1939 film The Women) who died in 2002 ...

Editors: Ann Kristin Carlström, Lena Gerholm and Ingrid Ramberg
Publisher: Mångkulturellt centrum (2000)
Weight: 320g

Culture is not merely a set of ideas and concepts, it is also imprinted on, experienced by and expressed through the body. This statement challenges every attempt to maintain a dualistic division between body and and mind, body and society. The same goes for today’s complex reality, with the myriad of coexisting, divergent ideas and practices regarding body and culture. The question that is raised in this book is how we shall go about learning ...

Editor: Amrita Basu
Publisher: Westview Press (1995)
Weight: 750g

This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women’s movements worldwide. Unlike most of the literature, which focuses on the industrialized Western world, this volume devotes greater attention ot the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The book challenges the assumptions that feminism can transcend national differences and, conversely, that women’s movements are shaped and circumscribed by national levels o...

Author: Lady Green
Publisher: Greenery Press (1996)
Weight: 140g

If you’ve ever thrilled to the thought of a beautiful bare bottom turning pink… whether it’s your bottom or someone else’s… this is the book for you!
Witty and practical, The Compleat Spanker is ideal reading for anyone contemplating an over-the-knee adventure.

Author: Roberta Gregory
Publisher: Fantagraphics (1999)
Weight: 200g

“Bitchy Butch: World’s Angriest Dyke,” by Roberta Gregory, collects both long and short comic strip stories about the outrageous title character. The book contains pieces published between 1991 and 1998, as well as new material. It opens with a preface (done in comic strip format!) in which author Gregory appears as a comic strip character to directly address the reader; the cartoon Gregory is also confronted by Bitchy Butch herself!
BB is a really over-the-top character. She...

Author: Diana Crane
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2000)
Weight: 450g

It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed.

Crane compares nineteenth-century societiesFrance and the United Stateswhere social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-...

Editor: Matt Runkle
Format: A4
Numbers of pages: 22
Weight: 70 g.

In his new comic, Matt Runkle exposes the ups & downs of being broke and gay in America. He recounts his random work experience in “My Zany Resume,” and reviews his various crushes in “That’s Why I’m So Obsessed.” “Coeur d’Alene” details Runx’s trip to a bizarre small town, while “The Weiner Takes it All” finds him passing out swag for an Abba-soundtracked movie. “Summer of Love” loo...

Editor: Brontez
Format: A4
Numbers of pages: 16
Weight: 80 g.

A radical scratchy fag zine devoted to punk rock, boning on the first date, smashing the state, arty porn, dancing at shows, drinking in bushes, fucking in bushes, skateboarding, pink everything, interracial everything, yoga-bunnyism, carbs, sex with strangers, slut pride, and other related interests. Not exactly a smut zine, but a lot of sex talk and some dirty pictures.
In this issue: cruising reviews; nightmare party reviews; blackout reviews; romantic follies; und...

Author: Colleen Coover
Publisher: Eros Comix 2003
Weight: 50 g.

Girly porno color special!
Annie, a bisexual, masturbation- crazy nymphomaniac, is sucked into the earth by the Queen of Her Conscience and given a six- inch taskmaster named Nibbil to keep her from diddling herself too much. The problem is… Nibbil is hornier than Annie! These two instantly take to each other in a never ending sex- romp.

Editor: Debbie Stoller
Number of pages: 112.
Weight: 240 g.

December/January 2009
For women With Something to Get Off Their Chests
Acid Queen- Getting down to business with songstress Jenny Lewis.
Made With Love- Expert crafters reveal their best DIY ideas of the year.
Mad Women- During advertising’s golden age, females were far from typical wage slaves.
For Those About to Rock- These head-bangin’ chicks need heavy metal to get their kicks.
The Right Stuff- The BUST staff’s pic...

Editor: Michael Dowers
Publisher: Eros Comix (2006)
Weight: 45 grams

Issue 11 of this sex comic devoted to everybody’s favorite penetrative sex toy—the dildo. This issue features four stories crafted from the minds of Ricardo Cabeza and Gauntlet. Master of the Doggie-Style Suk Yu Long takes her skills into the “Temple of the Rising Shaft.” A beautiful lonely woman lives out a fantasy in “Hot Date,” while an unsuspecting patient receives a surprise visit from “Nurse Nadine.” And last but not least is “In a Minute,&#...

Editor: Michael Dowers
Publisher: Eros Comix (2005)
Weight: 40 grams

Issue 8 of this sex comic devoted to everybody’s favorite penetrative sex toy—the dildo. In this issue: several pieces from a talented new Japanese artist, Fushigi Pen; French Canadian Basta delivers another Trixie story; plus work by Motohiko Tokuta, Fernando Calvi, and Matt Howarth.

Editor: Michael Dowers
Publisher: Eros Comix (2005)
Weight: 40 grams

Issue 8 of this sex comic devoted to everybody’s favorite penetrative sex toy—the dildo. In this issue: several pieces from a talented new Japanese artist, Fushigi Pen; French Canadian Basta delivers another Trixie story; plus work by Motohiko Tokuta, Fernando Calvi, and Matt Howarth.

Editor: Michael Dowers
Publisher: Eros Comix (2004)
Weight: 40 grams

Issue 5 of this sex comic devoted to everybody’s favorite penetrative sex toy—the dildo. This issue includes work by Roger Wormburper, T.J. Kirsch, Pete Strucic, Shelton Bryant, and Gerben Den Heeten.

Editor: Michael Dowers
Publisher: Kim Thompson & Gary Groth (2003)
Weight: 40 grams

Issue 3 of this adult comic book dedicated to phallic sex toys. Girls and guys both get dildified in a variety of stories. Includes comics by Motohiko Tokuta, Ricardo Cabeza & Gauntlet, Roger Wormburper, Scorpio, and Philo.

Author: Coleen Coover
Publisher: Eros Comix (2003)
Weight: 50 grams

Annie and Nibbil are in love. The Queen of Annie’s Conscience and her assistant, Janus, have assigned Nibbil as Annie’s live-in personal conscience enforcer, to keep her from indulging in her excessive masturbatory habits. However, Nibbil is less interested in her duties than she is in having frisky sex with Annie.

Author: Coleen Coover
Publisher: Eros Comix (2002)

Annie and Nibbil are in love. The Queen of Annie’s Conscience and her assistant, Janus, have assigned Nibbil as Annie’s live-in personal conscience enforcer, to keep her from indulging in her excessive masturbatory habits. However, Nibbil is less interested in her duties than she is in having frisky sex with Annie.

Editors: Caryn Leschen and Rosemary Dinegar
Publisher: Last Gasp
Weight: 40 grams

The serious comic book by women. Politically correct.

Author: Individual Artists
Publisher: Last Gasp (1983)
Weight: 50 grams

The serious comic book by women. Politically correct.

Author: David Kelly
Publisher: David Kelly (1997)
Weight:40 grams

Not to be confused with Doug Allen’s ‘Steven’, this is an autobiographical childhood memoir slightly more interesting than Joe Matt’s and depicting the joys and sorrows of growing up queer.

Author: Amanda Verwey
Publisher: Amanda Verwey (2008)
Weight: 85 grams

“Hi. My name is Amanda. People call me Manderz even though I’ve never asked them to. I’m a dyke. I reside in Oakland California by way of Racine Wisconsin. I’m in my twenties and I decided to make diary comics. Enjoy.”

Author: Fiona Mallratte
Publisher: Manix Media (2008)
Weight: 140 grams

Cartoonist Steve Lafler (Bughouse, Dog Boy) presents Tranny vixen Fiona Mallratte in a hilarious new graphic novel, wherein she holds forth on “The $99.00 Drag Makeover” and getting all dolled up for Halloween. She also asks the eternal question: “Aren’t superheroes just a bunch of Trannys?!” Ms. Fiona Mallratte considers the transcendent thrill of drag to be equal, at the very least, to the exotic rush experienced by Spider Man or Batman as they boldly take the city ...

Editor: Melody Berger
Publisher: PM Press (2008)
Weight: 70 grams

A spiffy zine by and for young feminists, and a feminist handbook for the revolution. Fierce words that subvert the dominant paradigm and strive to expose/defeat all the bad “isms” in the world. This is the “Outlaws” issue. In this issue: interviews including radical historian Howard Zinn, author and activist Loretta Ross, artist Cristy Road, and gender outlaw Kate Bornstein. Plus a fascinating history of the pre-Roe Vs. Wade underground abortion service...

Genre: Pulpy Vintage ‘Dyke-sploitation’ Melodrama
Year: Early 70s
Weight: 100g
Director: Barbara Peters & Jaque Beerson
Starring: John Aprea; Marland Proctor; Luanne Roberts; Elizabeth Plumb

Description: This wildly entertaining vintage lesbian exploitation film rarity tells the story of a pair of lonely housewives who fall into bed together after seeing a lesbian couple holding hands at a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard.

While their husbands travel for their government jobs, Denise (Elizabeth Plumb) falls big-time for her pal Adria ...

Genre: Vintage Pulp-Trash Lesbian Melodrama!
Year: Late 60s
Weight: 100g
Director: Russel Vincent
Starring: Richard St. John; Sue Bernard; Rick Cooper; Tanya Lemani; Bee Tompkins; Joe Castagna; Roger Helfond; Margaret Read

Description: That Tender Touch focuses on the twisted break up of lesbian lovers Marsha (Bea Tompkins) and Terri (Sue Bernard) who share a contented life together before dissatisfaction invades their Southern California wood-paneled apartment and Terri runs off to have a normal suburban married life with Ken. But poor Marsha can t quite le...

Author: Yuniya Kawamura
Publisher: Oxford (2006)
Weight: 240 g

This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of “the genius designer” and explains that fashion is not about clothes but is a belief. There is an institutional structure, ignored by many fashion theorists, that has shaped and produced the fashion phenomenon. Ka...

Editor: Tristan Taormino
Publsher: Cleis Press (2008)
Weight: 470g

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Erotica in 2003 and 2004, Cleis’ Best Lesbian Erotica series is the gold standard for erotic lesbian fiction, and this year’s collection is no exception. Best Lesbian Erotica 2009 journeys into the world of hot women-on-women action with edgy, unusual stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. Edited by best-selling author Tristan Taormino and selected and introduced by the noted author, playwright, and poet Joan Larkin, this latest edition...

Author: Terry Goldie
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (2008)
Weight: 390g

Evocative of writers Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, whose best works explore gender and sexuality through personal memoir, queersexlife is a frank and intimate collection of responses to theories of queer sexuality and identity as viewed through the author’s own experiences. By turns insightful and elegant, Terry Goldie delves into contemporary subject matter both fraught and explicit, revealing subtle, fluid truths about human sexuality and desire: drag queens, feminism, cross-cult...

Editor: Uta Grosenick
Publisher: Taschen (2005)
Weight: 1250g

Many of the century’s greatest artistic talents grace the pages of this tome, each artist represented by six pages of illustrations and photographs covering the various phases of her life and work, including biographical portraits and text. The media covered range from the standard painting, sculpture, and photography to concept art, performance, body art, video, feminist actions, installations, and interactive projects. Presented in alphabetical order by artist, Women Artists is an indispensable refe...

Genre: Boxing Drama
Year: 2004
Weight: 80g
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Hillary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Marcus Chait

Description: Clint Eastwood’s 25th film as a director, Million Dollar Baby stands proudly with Unforgiven and Mystic River as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. In an age of bloated spectacle and computer-generated effects extravaganzas, Eastwood turns an elegant screenplay by Paul Haggis (adapted from the book Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by F.X. Toole, a pseudonym for veteran boxing manager Jerry Bo...

Genre: Lesbian Detective Comedy/Suspense
Year: 1973
Weight: 80g
Director: Theodore Gershuny
Starring: George Shannon, Mary Wornow, Lynn Lowry, Daniel Sadurs, Ondine, Jennifer Welles, Anthony Pompei, Dan Daniels

Description: Directed by Theodore Gershuny from a script co-written by Lloyd Kaufman, and an early production with future Oscar®-winner Oliver Stone (working here as the associate producer) and future Oscar®-nominated editor Dov Hoenig, Sugar Cookies is a seductive tale of lesbian love and revenge set against the seamy backdrop of the 1970’s p...

Genre: Gay Bear Comedy
Year: 2002
Weight: 80g
Director: Miguel Albaladejo
Starring: José Luis García-Pérez, David Castillo, Arno Chevrier, Elviera Lindo, Mario Arias, Diana Cerezo

Description: Pedro (José Luis García-Pérez) is an attractive homosexual dentist who lives a sexually active lifestyle. He offers to take care of his 9 year-old nephew, Bernardo (David Castillo), for two weeks while the child’s mother, Pedro’s older sister, Violeta (Elvira Lindo), goes off to India with her latest “hippie” boyfriend. Pedro modifies his ...

Genre: Alienated teen lesbian tv series
Year: 2005
Weight: 90g
Director: Sean Grundy and Harry Bradbeer
Starring: Olivia Hallinan, Leonora Crichlow

Description: Being a teenage girl is tough. Being an uncool, 15 year old lesbian who’s completely infatuated with the most outrageous and popular girl in school is downright unfair!

Sugar Rush explores the world of Kim and her earth-shattering lust for the gorgeous and sassy Maria Sweet, otherwise known as Sugar. And if Sugar wasn’t enough to blow Kim’s mind, there’s also her dys...

Author: Janice McLaughlin
Publisher: Palgrave (2003)
Weight: 345g

This important text introduces students to both feminism and other social and political theories via an examination of the inter relationship between different feminist positions and key contemporary debates. The book takes each debate in turn, outlines the main themes, discusses different feminist responses and evaluates the implications for real-life political and social issues. This user-friendly structure effectively redraws the map of contemporary feminist thought, offering a fresh and succinct sum...

Author: Ellen Forney
Publisher: Fantagraphics (2008)
Weight: 410g

Ellen Forney’s follow-up to her wildly successful I Love Led Zeppelin is a collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world of personal classifieds.

Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger’s “Lustlab” classified ads by interpreting the most interesting, outrageous, or idiosyncratic ad in that week’s paper, that is awarded the appellation “Lustlab Ad of the ...

Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Penguin (1998)
Weight: 110g

Excursions into other worlds of other depths have been the source material and trademark of Capote’s literary career. Breakfast at Tiffany’s a novelette and three short stories, is no exception and bears the indelible mark of Capote and an indication of his literary maturation. Holly Golightly, the heroine of the novelette, is the neurotic product of experience as a child-bride, girl-about-New York, pay-as-you-play. Innocent services to a dear Mr. Sally Tomato result in her complicity in gangster...

Author: Randall Kenan
Publisher: Vintage Books (2000)
Weight: 220g

Horace Cross, the 16-year-old descendant of slaves and deacons of the church, spends a horror-filled spring night wrestling with the demons and angels of his brief life. Brilliant, popular, and the bright promise of his elders, Horace struggles with the guilt of discovering who he is, a young man attracted to other men and yearning to escape the narrow confines of Tim’s Creek. His cousin, the Reverand James Greene, tries to help Horace but finds he is no more prepared than the older generation to...

Author: Makuchi
Publisher: Ohio University (1999)
Weight: 230g

Women’s writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state. The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon—women, more often than not, are at the center of these stories that probe their day-to-day experiences of survival...

Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: Crossing Press (1982)
Weight: 340g

The biomythography, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, traces Audre Lorde’s life from her childhood in Harlem through her discovery and acceptance of her self as a Black, lesbian woman in the late 1950’s. Masterfully crafted by the profound and artistic Lorde, Zami reads like musical poetry. Through her life experiences, Lorde carefully forges a path to locate her position in the world. Ultimately, naming and accepting difference are the tools necessary for Lorde’s ability to stay alive ...

Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Heinemann (2008)
Weight: 220g

The Joys of Motherhood tells the moving story of Nnu Ego, a West African woman devoted to her children, giving them all her life – with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age. The Joys of Motherhood is a powerful commentary on polygamy, patriarchy and women’s changing roles in urban Nigeria.

This novel was recognised as one of Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century in an initiative organised by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair.

Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: Norton (1982)
Weight: 140g

Jean Rhys’ late, literary masterpiece “Wide Sargasso Sea” was inspired by Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven...

Editor: Robin Griffiths
Publisher: Intellect Books (2008)
Weight: 380g

Queer cinema has gained scholarly attention in recent years as a manifestation of the conflicts, anxieties, and liberation of European sexuality. Robin Griffiths’ Queer Cinema in Europe, the first anthology of its kind, probes the questions and implications of sex, gender, and identity in contemporary European filmmaking. An esteemed group of contributors discuss the varieties of lesbian and gay representation to deconstruct and redefine notions of national identity and culture in a diverse Europ...

Author: Jamison Green
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (2004)
Weight: 380g

Gender goes beyond chromosomes, a point broadly knowledgeable transgender activist Green makes early in the compelling, immensely readable story of his FTM (female-to-male: Jamie to Jamison) transsexual experience, from which he emerged fortysomething chronologically yet younger than 20 psychosexually as a consequence of biochemical and surgical sex reassignment. In discussing adjustment to a man’s body, Green remarks that those whose bodies originally R...

Author: Tristan Taormino
Publisher: Cleis (2008)
Weight: 470g

Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiat...

Author: Roberta Gregory
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (2001)
Vikt: 45g

Just in time for Halloween, the ghosts in Bitchy’s past come back to haunt her: Marcie, lesbian couple Barb and Lanie, their little girl Tanya, even Kenney! Plus, a biographical piece about a surrealist painter and more!

From Roberta Gregory:

“Bitchy deals with the “9-11” panic, plus a lengthy and humorous account of a journey across the Midwest with Donna Barr, Wally Crane, and myself. AND, another remarkable woman’s biography: Remed...

Author: Roberta Gregory
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (1998)
Weight: 40g

This issue gives a whole new meaning to the “good ol’ days”: taking place in the 14th century, it stars “Bitchy Witch,” putting up with a whole new level of ignorance, brutality, and prejudice.

From Roberta Gregory:
” “Burn, Bitch, Burn” reveals the darkly humorous side of the Dark Ages. I did my historical research for this one and it shows! Plus, pages by Christine Olson, Robert Kirby and “Class Photo” by Robert Triptow.”

Original price: 85kr

Author: Roberta Gregory
Publisher: Morgan Printing (2001)
Weight: 100g

A collection of the BEST of the “Bitchy Bitch” strips which appeared in only a few weekly papers. Whether you’re a long-time fan of Bitchy, star of the printed page, television and stage, or just getting to know her, you’ll enjoy her “Bitchy-eye-view” of today’s world.

Author: Roberta Gregory
Publisher: Morgan Publishing (1999)
Weight: 120g

From Roberta Gregory:
“This is a project that I have been working on for nearly two decades, and it has spilled over into other creative projects, as well, and continues into the present. It is a rather metaphysical storyline that seems to have followed me for most of adult creative life, and finally gotten into print, in various imperfect forms. Two volumes exist, the first published in 1988 and the second, concluding one published in 1999, but the story does not even end with the sec...

Author: Roberta Gregory
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (1997)
Weight: 45g

Featuring Bitchy Butch in “A Butch is Born,” and a little Bitchy Bitch action, including a “Dear Bitchy” column.

Author: Abby Denson
Publisher: Manic D Press (2006)
Weight: 275g

Derived from Japanese boys’ love comics (yaoi/shonen-ai), this tells the story of Brian, a newcomer to his suburban high school, and his budding romance with Chris, a classmate. Denson substitutes reality for romance, confronting issues of adolescent homosexuality with a self-conscious sincerity. Often times, the boys are suspended between cold reality, as when the jocks in the school assault Brian, and bliss, when Chris and Brian are able to act as a couple. Denson’s jagged illustration evok...

Author: Henry Scott Stokes
Publisher: Cooper Square Press (2000)
Weight: 460g

Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima’s closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima’s spectacular suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima’s meteoric and eclectic caree...

Editor: Michael Warner
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (1993)
Weight: 410g

In recent years lesbian and gay men have developed a new, aggressive style of politics. At the same time, innovative intellectual energies have made queer theory an explosive field of study.
The contributors to Fear of a Queer Planet draw on emerging new queer politics to demonstrate how queer activists have come to challenge basic assumptions about the social and political world. Queer sexualities, say the authors, assume many forms, are the subject of many kinds of conflict and ...

Author: Bill Osgerby
Publisher: Berg (2001)
Weight: 400g

Post-war America was an exciting time. It was an age characterised by backyard barbecues and beach parties, mai-tai cocktails and Ford Mustangs, high school hops, Hawaiian shirts and Huch Hefner’s Playboy empire. This book charts middle-class America’s move toward an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license during the fifties and sixties.
Focusing on two of the period’s most visible icons- the swinging bachelor and the vibrant teenager- this book looks at the interconnected cha...

Author: Mark McLelland
Publisher: Rowan and Littlefield (2005)
Weight: 400g

Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific War, addresses transgender and lesbian as well as gay issues, examines the interface of queer soc...

Author: Alison M. Jagger
Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers (1983)
Wieght: 620g

“Presents feminism as an essential part of the subject matter of political philosophy. Jagger is strikingly successful in integrating the more traditional academic debates with those emerging directly from areas of political struggle. A rich and instructive book that can be recommended to anyone interested in the future of political theory.” -Mind

Author: Imelda Whelehan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (1999)
Wieght: 370g

This introduction provides a critical survey of the dominant trends in Anglo-American feminist thought since 1968. From the historical roots of second-wave feminism to current debates about feminist theory and politics, it sets out the different philosophies and political positions before relating them to feminism in the 1990s.
In individual chapters, this book analyses key issues such as sexuality, representation, consciousness-raising and ideology from liberal, socialist, radical,...

Editor: Violet Blue
Publisher: Cleis Press (2008)
Wieght: 370g

Best Women’s Erotica 2008 delivers risky, romantic, heart-pounding thrills. Joyful, daring, and authentic, these 21 steamy stories revel in erotic adventure, from the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of long-time lovers. In “Penalty Fare,” a Londoner rides train after train without a valid ticket, until, on an early morning journey to Bristol she finds the conductor who knows just how to punish her for trying to skip the fare. In “Winter Heat,” a woman finds that each year, the wi...

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2001)
Weight: 290 g.

Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing—and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing...

Editors: Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber and Beth B. Hess
Publisher: Altamira (2000)
Weight: 700g

This comprehensive handbook attempts to summarize the state of gender studies not only by examining the crucial research of the past decade, but by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. Building on the work started by the contributors to this volume’s predecessor, (Analyzing Gender, Sage 1987), editors Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess reflect on the advances of gender scholarship during the ...

Editors: Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (2004)
Weight: 530g

Disability and gender, terms that have previously seemed so clear-cut, are becoming increasingly complex in light of new politics and scholarship. These words now suggest complicated sets of practices and ways of being.
Contributors to this innovative collection explore the intersection of gender and disability in the arts, consumer culture, healing, the personal and private realms, and the appearance of disability in the public sphere—both in public fantasies a...

Author: Steven Angelides
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2001)
Weight: 440g

Why is bisexuality the object of such skepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been rendered as mostly irrelevant to the history, theory, and politics of sexuality. With A History of Bisexuality, Steven Angelides explores the reasons why, and invites us to rethink our preconceptions about sexual identity. Retracing the e...

Editor: Dian Hanson
Publisher: Taschen (2008)
Weight: 3220g

When it comes to pleasure, size doesn’t matter; as we all know it s quality, not quantity, that counts. But let’s admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2% of the world’s population, this rare accessory will always fascinate.

In The Big Penis Book we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large ph...

Editors: Les Back and John Solomos
Publisher: Routledge (2000)
Weight: 1315g

This comprehensive Reader brings together foundation work in the study of race and ethnicity and writings from many of the most exciting scholars today. It is divided into the following main sections:

• origins and transformations
• sociology, race and social theory
• racism and anti-Semitism
• colonialism, race and the other
• feminism, difference and identity
• changing boundaries and spaces.
  Each section begins with a b...

Author: Dante DiFranco
Publisher: Wasteland Press (2004)
Weight: 560g

The Art of Drag Kinging gives a clear and understandable definition of a drag king. It explores the culture responsible for creating the drag king to the modern culture that embraces it. The book also educates one on the principles and techniques involved in becoming a drag king. Overall, the book brings the art of drag kinging to modern and profound level. It provides drag kings and those who are interested in becoming one, with a vast array of resources from the Internet to the movies. It will giv...

Genre: Drama / gay
Year: 2006
Weight: 80g
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Description: Though the subject matter of Mysterious Skin is as sensational as that of Gregg Araki’s other films (such as Totally F*ked Up, The Doom Generation, or The Living End), his direction is richer and more multilayered than ever before. Two Kansas teenagers named Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 10 Things I Hate About You) and Brian (Brady Corbett, Thirteen) share a childhood trauma—but their responses are radically dif...

Author: Toril Moi
Publisher: Routledge (2002)
Weight: 270g

What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?
Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. In the years since publication this book has rightly attained t...

Author: Stephen M. Whitehead
Publisher: Polity (2002)
Weight: 400g

Men and masculinities is one of the most comprehensive texts ever published on the sociology of masculinity. Wide-ranging and accessible, it considers all the key themes, concepts and writings informing this increasingly important area of study.

Starting with discussion of the nature/nurture debate, Freudian and Jungian perspectives, and first-wave writings on men and masculinity, Men and Masculinities explores the work of key feminist and profeminist theorists such as Bob Connell, Jeff Hern,...

Author: R.W. Connell
Publisher: University of California Press (2005)
Weight: 490g

Here is a powerful reply to Iron John, a fresh look at the complicated nature of what R.W. Connell calls “masculinities.” One of the most important voices in the new feminist scholarship by men, Connell provides a nuanced and incisive analysis of how our notions of masculinity have evolved in psychoanalysis, social science, and historically in the creation of a global economy. There is not one but many masculinities, he claims, in a bold critique of the “men’s mo...

Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2006)
Weight: 510g

In a startling, original study, Kimmel, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York, makes a persuasive case that manhood has been a constantly changing social construct in American culture. Once rooted in genteel land-ownership or in the pride of independent artisans, shopkeepers and farmers, manhood was transformed by the industrial revolution, which made American males, by the mid-19th century, insecure, mobile, competitive, chronically restive and seeking a sense of ...

Author: Sara Ahmed
Publisher: Routledge (2004)
Weight: 360g

In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading “the emotionality of texts.” She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions in feminist and queer politics. Of interest to readers in gender studies and cultural studies, the psychology and sociology of emotions, and phenomenology and psychoanalysis, The Cultural Politics of the ...

Author: Jonathan Ned Katz
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (2007)
Weight: 360g

Although we take for granted that heterosexuality is and has always been the sexual norm, historian Katz reexamines the constructions of sexual identity and postulates that heterosexuality has a history that has heretofore never been analyzed and that “such privileging of the norm accedes to its domination.” Tracing the first appearance of the terms heterosexual and homosexual in 1868 in Germany, the author of Gay American History (LJ 12/15/76) analyzes the changes in ...

Author: Valerie Bryson
Publisher: Palgrave (2003)
Weight: 420g

This volume provides both a wide-ranging history of Western feminist thought and a lucid analysis of contemporary debates. It offers an accessible and thought-provoking account of complex theories, which it relates to “real life” issues such as sexual violence, political representation and the family. This edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate developments in feminism and feminist scholarship throughout, in particular taking into account the impact of black and post-modern feminist...

Author: Scott Heim
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2008)
Weight: 260g

Strange and luminous, this fascinating psychological thriller from Heim (In Awe) tackles questions of identity, illness and trauma. Scott, a writer and drug addict, travels back to Kansas from New York City at the request of his ill mother, Donna, who’s become obsessed with missing children. Scott soon finds out that Donna believes she was kidnapped in her youth by an elderly couple who eventually returned her unharmed. This experience has led her to an odd alliance with a boy who leaves candy on...

Author: Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
Publisher: Temple University Press (2005)
Weight: 410g

Transforming Knowledge suggests that education can serve neither the quest for knowledge nor the promise of a genuinely democratic system until some very basic intellectual errors are uncovered and corrected. Examining the heritage of a tradition created primarily by white Euro-American men who considered themselves the norm and the ideal for all humankind, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich identifies these errors, characterizes them, and demonstrates how they work to distort and limit ou...

Author: Don Kulìck
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (1998)
Weight: 390g

It is wonderful and weirdly fitting that one of the jacket blurbs for this work of social anthropology is by sex educator and former porn star Annie Sprinkle. Just as there is nothing dry or remote about Annie Sprinkle’s delivery, there is nothing dry or remote about Don Kulick’s. In fact, this may be the most readable and engaging study of transgenderism to surface in years. For seven months in 1994, Kulick lived in a household of “travestis”—Brazilian mal...

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Barnes and Noble (2003)
Weight: 250g

A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man’s portrait, his subject’s frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray’s picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, “as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife,” Dorian G...

Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Firebrand Books (1995)
Weight: 210g

Jezanna owns a bookshore. Clarice is an attorney. Ellen’s become a councilwoman. Sparrow has worked her way to the top as director of the shelter. But it wasn’t an easy road to “adulthood”. Ever wondered how Mo and the gang got together? From protests to pot ...

Sparrow has worked her way to the top as director of the shelter. But it wasn’t an easy road to “adulthood”. Ever wondered how Mo and the gang got together? From protests to pot brownies, ...

Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: W. W. Norton (2004)
Weight: 240g

“I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol’s frenzied bid for freedom,” writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith’s finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salva...

Author: Jack Rinella
Publisher: Greenery Press (2004)
Weight: 90g

A quick reference guide to everything pinchy, from simple wooden clothespins to hand-tooled precision devices of gleaming chrome. Clamps offer a versatile spectrum of sensation to the knowledgeable player, and this book is the clamp-user’s best friend.

Jack Rinella is the author of The Master’s Manual, Dedalus, 1994 and The Compleat Slave, Dedalus, 2002. He is a founding member of MAsT-Chicago, an associate member of the Chicago Hellfire Club, and a weekly columnist for Gay Chicago Mag...

Author: Tempest
Publisher: Greenery Press (2006)
Weight: 90g

The latest in Greenery’s popular Toybag series. Mad doctors and nasty nurses…white coats and latex gloves…shiny instruments and the sharp tang of alcohol…what a playground for the fetishist, BDSM practitioner or sexual adventurer! If you’ve ever fantasized about bringing the scary, evocative world of the doctor’s office into your playspace, this is the book for you. You’ll learn: “How to set up your playspace with fun, realistic equipment, even if you...

Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: Routledge (2006)
Weight: 360g

In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble—among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies—Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler’s emphasis on the performative nature ...

Author: bell hooks
Publisher: South End Press (2000)
Weight: 240g

In the book, hooks uses the term white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy as a lens through which to both critique various aspects of American culture and to offer potential solutions to the problems she explores. hooks addresses topics including the goals of feminist movement, the role of men in feminist struggle, the relevance of pacifism, solidarity among women, and the nature of revolution. hooks can be identified in her discussions of these topics as a radical feminist because of her arguments that ...

Author: Drucilla Cornell
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2000)
Weight: 820g

This vibrant collection expands the parameters of the feminist debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from the divisive frameworks in feminist disputes over pornography, this volume seeks to understand what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, and work within it. By opening up a space for divergent points of view to address the complexity of sexual material, this book seeks to forge solidarity among academics, activists, and sex workers from diverse social...

Editor: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Indiana University Press (1987)
Weight: 340g

Appearing in the feminist social science literature from its beginnings are a series of questions about methodology. In this collection, Sandra Harding interrogates some of the classic essays from the last fifteen years in order to explore the basic and troubling questions about science and social experience, gender, and politics.

Author: Thomas W. Laqueur
Publisher: Zone Books (2004)
Weight: 760g

Laqueur’s Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud is a classic work in history and gender studies, and a regular on syllabi around the world. In his latest study, the UC Berkeley historian maps out the changing nature of Western culture’s ongoing obsession with manual self-pleasuring and its effects. Not surprisingly, masturbation’s history is fraught with anxiety, particularly since it was often thought to irrevocably damage its practitioners, ...

Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (2002)
Weight: 330g

When it was originally published in 1991, Feminine Endings was immediately controversial for its unprecedented intermingling of cultural criticism and musical studies, an approach that came to be called “the New Musicology.” Through case studies of works ranging from the canonical-operas by Monteverdi and Bizet-to the contemporary-the performance art of Diamanda Galás and popular songs by Madonna-Susan McClary focuses on the ways music produces images of gender, desire, ple...

Author: Judith Frank
Publisher: Firebrand Books (2004)
Weight: 500g

Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank’s first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two butches of different generations – a middle-class, thirty-something adult literacy teacher and her older, working-class student. With a disparate group of adult learners as the backdrop, Frank examines, with warmth and wit, the relationship between education and gender, class, and racial identity.

Author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher: Harvard University Press (1999)
Weight: 680g

In recent years, a growing body of literary and historical scholarship has explored the complex relationship of Western elite culture to the postcolonial societies of the Southern hemisphere. Spivak, a prominent literary theorist based at Columbia University, is widely known for her sophisticated deconstructive approach to questions of feminism, North-South relations, and the politics of subaltern studies. This book is based on a number of her published essays, including the inf...

Author: Del Lagrace Volcano, Ulrika Dahl
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail (2008)
Weight: 620g.

What is femme? French for woman? A feminine lesbian? A queer girl who loves to dress up? Think again! Going beyond identity politics and the pleasures of plumage, Femmes of Power captures a diverse range of queerly feminine subjects whose powerful and intentional redress explodes the meaning of femme for the 21st century.

Femmes of Power features both every-day heroines and many queer feminist icons, including Michelle Tea, Virginie Despentes, Amber Hollibaugh, Itzi...

Author: Cherríe Moraga
Publisher: South End Press (1993)
Weight: 230g

A poet, playwright, essayist, and anthologist (she coedited This Bridge Called My Back , Kitchen Table Pr., 1984), Moraga is a Chicana lesbian determinedly resisting assimilation. She longs for the formation of a “Queer Aztlan,” an inclusive Chicano tribe in which cooperation is rewarded over competition. “Written as a prayer”—a visionary prayer honoring the author’s belief that “every writer is a prophet if she only opens her heart and listens”—...

Author: Terence Kissack
Publisher: AK Press (2008)
Weight: 380g

By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of LGBT politics in the United States. The anarchists Kissack examines—such as Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker, and Alexander Berkman—defended the right of individuals to pursue same-sex relations, challenging both the sometimes conservative beliefs of their fellow anarchists as well as those outside the movement—pol...

Author: Susan Stryker
Publisher: Seal Press (2008)
Weight: 250g

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the e...

Author: Leslie Feinberg
Publisher: Beacon Press (1996)
Weight: 500g

In this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg—one of the most prominent gender rights activists today—uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Out of hir embattled childhood and teenage years as a gender outlaw, Feinberg began a search for others like hir in history.

Ze found a long tradition of fighting back against injustice—from Joan of Arc to the Welsh peasants who cross-dress...

Editors: Robert Kirby and David Kelly
Publisher: Green Candy Press (2006)
Weight: 350g

From its first photocopied edition in 1994, Boy Trouble: Gay Boy Comics with a New Attitude emphasized personal stories and viewpoints outside the mainstream, with subject matter that ranged from sex, love, and longing to porn, drugs, and punk rock. The Book of Boy Trouble compiles the greatest hits from the zine’s first ten years, including favorites like Michael Fahy’s “Valentine’s Day Love Poem,” Andy Hartzell’s “Dinner at Achmed’s,” and Anonymou...

Authors: The Brothers Hernandes
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (1994)
Weight: 110g

Jaime: It’s Not That Big a Deal
Gilbert: A Trick of the Unconscious

Author: Scott Heim
Publisher: Harper Perennial (1995)
Weight: 230g

Brian Lackey and Neil McCormick are so different by nature that they might never have met except for a shared incident at age eight. One summer afternoon, a storm forces the cancellation of a Little League game, and Brian catches a ride home with his coach and Neil. Ten years later, Brian still can’t remember that afternoon, although he suspects that it was a turning point in his life. His search for answers eventually leads to Neil, who helps re-create the afternoon of seduction and sexual abuse...

Editor: Winston Leyland
Publisher: Leyland Publications (1991)
Weight: 350g

An anthology of explicit gay erotic comics that features all the top guys who draw gay comics. In this volume: The Hun, Gerard Donelan, Kurt Erichsen, Jeffrey A. Krell, Sean Martin, Stephen Lowther, and more.

Author: Roberto Baldazzini
Publisher: Eurotica
Weight: 250g

The ladies with dicks from Casa Howhard 1 are back. The sleek, feminine women with rampant Johnsons and hyperactive libidos compete in a saucy TV show for best trannies in action. Who can do the hottest sex number on stage?

Authors: Justin Hall, Dave Davenport & Drub
Publisher: Marginalized Publications (2007)
Weight: 150g

64 engorged pages. Color covers.
Includes 4 stories by Justin Hall…
Tales of the Hard Roger, Part Three: Mutiny
...I Can Take It…Fluid…and Rollin’ Down the River
2 stories by Dave Davenport…
Feral: Touch Me I’m Sick…and House of F
also with special feature
Dem Bones by Drub.

Editor: Larry Fuller
Publisher: Last Gasp (1981)
Weight: 50g

Freaky-smutty-cute collection of gay comics- the spectacular cover is more than enough to make it a perfect gift for you, your buddy, your elderly neighbour…

This issue’s editor: Joyce Farmer
Publisher: Last Gasp (1985)
Weight: 55g

“Being aggressive had no meaning in a woman’s life until she had the possibilities a man does. Now women move into all areas of living, including crime.”—Dr Leon Salsman, Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Psychology Medicine in New York.

This issue’s editors: Mel Gebbie & Dot Bucher
Publisher: Last Gasp (1976)
Weight: 55g

Wimmen’s Comix, later titled Wimmin’s Comix, was an influential all-female underground comics anthology published from 1972 to 1992.

The magazine was produced and jointly edited by a collective whose original members were Trina Robbins, Michelle Brand, Lora Fountain, Aline Kominsky, Diane Noomin, Lee Marrs, Pat Moodian, Sharon Rudahl, Shelby Sampson, and Janet Wolfe Stanley. Later members and contributors included Terry Richards, Caryn Leschen, M.K. Br...

This issue’s editor: Sharon Rudahl
Publisher: Last Gasp (1973)
Weight: 45g

Finding that the comix underground scene was often much like a boy’s club, women comic artists got together in the early 1970s and produced the first all-woman comic book, ‘It Ain’t Me, Babe’. Two years later, Sharon Rudahl, Terry Richards, Lee Marrs, Trina Robbins, Pat Moodian, Aline Kominsky, Michelle Brand, Lora Fountain, Shelby Sampson, Karen Marie Haskell and Janet Wolfe Stanley produced the first on-going comic drawn exclusively by women: Wimmen’s Comi...

Author: Tom Bouden
Publisher: Green Candy Press (2004)
Weight: 290g

Belgian comic artist Bouden’s U.S. debut is a breezy and refreshingly angst-free tale that traces Max’s gay sexual awakening from preteen friskiness to furtive all-boys school rendezvous and, finally, full-blown love when he meets Sven. When Max finally summons up his courage to confess his feelings, he must deal with the fact that Sven’s feelings are not mutual. The friendship survives and grows. Along the way, Max’s awkwardness and youthful paranoia are played for laughs, som...

Author: Paige Braddock
Publisher: Girl Twirl Comics (2005)
Weight: 360g

Jane’s World Vol. 3 begins with Jane taking a little fantasy trip away from reality as Jane bond, guns and hot girls included. Just when life seems like it might get back to normal a glimpse of a shadowy character from Chelle’s past shows up in town. Shortly thereafter, Jane gets a visit from her ex-girlfriend, Talia. Talia isn’t quite the girl Jane knew in college and this little visitor from Jane’s past kicks off a chain of events that climax in a desert road trip and fla...

Author: Donna Barr
Publisher: MU Press (1992)
Weight: 90g

The Desert Peach is Pfirsich Rommel, the gay younger brother of Erwin Rommel. The able commander of a German army battalion and the understanding father figure to a gaggle of ne’er-do-well would-be soldiers, the Peach is a man of integrity and peace thrust into a conflict he finds appalling. He is intensely loyal: to his men, his brother, his lover, and his country. But he always finds himself torn: between ideals and duty, love and conscience, responsibility and regulation.

Author: Donna Barr
Publisher: MU Press (1992)
Weight: 50g

The Desert Peach is Pfirsich Rommel, the gay younger brother of Erwin Rommel. The able commander of a German army battalion and the understanding father figure to a gaggle of ne’er-do-well would-be soldiers, the Peach is a man of integrity and peace thrust into a conflict he finds appalling. He is intensely loyal: to his men, his brother, his lover, and his country. But he always finds himself torn: between ideals and duty, love and conscience, responsibility and regulation.

Author: Melinda Gebbie
Publisher: Last Gasp (1977)
Weight: 55g

A smutty, freaky little collection of comics by Melinda Gebbie. Includes the stories:

• In Debasement
• Mollie Follies
• Vulva-Tune
• Mandy Mermaid
• Ms Gazzolina Tindent

Author: Colleen Coover
Publisher: Eros Comix (2002)
Weight: 250g

This collection includes the first four issues of Small Favors, along with some extra goodies. Here is the story of a girl named Annie and her little friend, Nibbil. In this volume you will see how they meet, how they fall in love, and what they like to do best!

Author: Stacy Kravetz
Publiser: Girl Press (1999)
Weight: 350g

Subtitled Running the Show Like the Big Chicks, the latest release from Girl Press is an excellent resource for resourceful young women. Girl Boss provides tips, tricks, and TLC for girls who are interested in starting their own business projects. And it all comes in a hip layout with plenty of photos, sidebars, and graphics. As with the publisher’s previous releases, Cool Women and Zine Scene, the emphasis here is that girls can do anything, and the text offers countless ex...

Author: Alicia E. Goranson
Publisher: Suspect Thoughts (2006)
Weight: 360g

Rump-smaking good action-adventure trans fiction that boots transgender literature out of the classroom and into the streets. A hard-edged tale of passion, revenge and low-rent apartments, Supervillianz has romance, car chases, brutal superheroes, epic battles in dyke bars, and a climax that will have you reaching for the tissues.

Author: Liz Baillie
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing (2007)
Weight: 160g

A group of teenage queer punks get in perpetual trouble with the police when they aren’t flirting over loud music or postering their high school with flyers to allow same sex couples at prom. It’s like they were your actual high school peers – angering the administration and taking care of each other when they get beat up by skinheads. Liz Baillie has a real talent for dialogue, characters, storytelling, and capturing New York – especially those moments that we all live, aw...

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press (1974)
Weight: 350g

Regarded by many critics as Jean Genet’s highest achievement in the novel –– certainly one of the landmarks of postwar French literature. The story of a dangerous man seduced by peril, Querelle deals in a startling way with the Dostoyevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation.

Author: Carol J. Adams
Publisher: Continuum (2004)
Weight: 300g

The author of The Sexual Politics of Meat returns with an emotionally charged volume based on her traveling lecture-slide show. Adams, a crusader for the rights of women and animals (or, as she calls them, “nonhumans”) charges that both have long been portrayed as consumable, mouth-watering slabs of meat, and she provides graphic backup for her argument in the form of advertisements, signs, photographs and illustrations (e.g., “Strip Tease,” reads a billboard for a steak house). Th...

Author: David Cordingly
Publisher: Random House (2007)
Weight: 220g

The shipwrecked sailor is a familiar figure, but what of the woman lighthouse keeper who rescued him? Readers of sea lore know the pirate Calico Jack, but what about his mistress Anne Bonny and her lover, Mary Read? An Oxford-trained maritime museum curator, Cordingly (Under the Black Flag) writes back into naval history these and other women who went to sea with their lovers, either as wives or as cross-dressing “cabin boys.” Although he sometimes wanders away from his primary subject to ...

Author: Queer Mutiny Bristol + contributors
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 32
Weight: 40g

Here’s a little peek at the contents:

• What does ‘Queer’ mean?
• Queer Mutiny’s favourite queer things
• This is not liberation
• Narcissism
• Bull Shit Creation Myth #10
• If I had been straight…
• “I’ve been wanting to start a debate on male privilege for ages…”
• Vagina Envy
• Anarchy is Queer
• ... and more!

Historically fairy tales operate as prettied up morality tales about the consequences of straying from the good girl path. But the contributions in Slit’s Fairy Tale issue don’t punish but reward deviation…

Red Riding Hood is by no means a damsel in distress as she seduces the rather dashing, wolf. Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz pisses out the path, her perversion creates her yellow brick road, and her dream gets sexy…

Chris Michael’s photo feature of ethereal fairies creates an otherworld mood, a place of fairy magic, The sublime theme cont...

Authors: David L. Chapman & Thomas Waugh
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (2007)
Weight: 620g

An amazing collection of full-colour, sexually explicit 3-D photographs of men taken in the early 1950s by Denny Denfield, an amateur physique photographer in California who worked as an accountant for the US Army. Denfield’s photographs, never distributed publicly given their illegality at the time, display a skill, wit, and daring rarely seen, and with their rich Kodachrome colours and mid-century decors, can now be appreciated for their rog...

Author: Matthew Hays
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (2007)
Weight: 590g

The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that became much larger with the recent success of Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica. But the history of gay and lesbian filmmakers is its own story. In The View from Here, queer directors and screenwriters―some mainstream, others who work defiantly from the margins―speak passionately about the medium, in particular their personal experiences navigating through the often-cynical and cruel film industry. All of them offer...

Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Firebrand Books (2000)
Weight: 190g

The further adventures of Mo, her tenure-bound girlfriend, Sydney, and their much-loved friends unfold against a shifting gender landscape: lesbians sleeping with men, lesbians becoming men, Ginger sleeping with lesbians who’ve become men. As with her eight previous collections, Alison Bechdel covers a host of pressing issues, from the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the decline of the independent bookstore, and pauses to consider whether an online affair qualifies as cheating. “Of course it&...

Author: Miranda Celeste
Format: A6
Number of Pages: 40
Weight: 20g

When I picked this up, I was aggrivated that I didn’t know what the word “Pleiades” meant. But after a little trip to Wikipedia, I feel much better, and want to provide you with the same relief:

“The Pleiades, also known as M45, the Seven Sisters, Seven Stars, SED, Matariki or (in Japan) Subaru, is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters, and is probably the best kno...

Author: Isy
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 28
Weight: 35g

Here we have some extensive cartooning about:

• Anarchists vs the G8 summit
• The annual Swaffham Horticultural Show
• A look into “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet” by Mark Lynas
• “Climate Camp” 2007
• Pancakes
• Diversionary Imaginative Telly
• Beech Trees
• Whisky
  ... and collected reader submissions on the theme : Things I Hate. Here’s a sample:

Things I Hate!

Authors: Various
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 48
Weight: 35g

This fanzine is a much-needed discussion about community responses to sexual abuse. This second issue lists the contents:

• Soph’s introduction
• “Born in Flames” Handouts: What is Safety/ Trigger Plan/ What is ‘dissociated’/’checked out’?
• Confronting Rape Without the State
• Creating Infrastructure Around Community Responses to Sexual Assault
• Talking About Our Lives: A conversation on socialization and manh...

Author: Viva Voce
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 92
Weight: 110g

Stop sitting around sulkily listening to what THE MAN has to say about your body, and listen to this:
THE HIDDEN PARTS OF THE CLITORIS! INTERVIEW WITH A FEMALE EJACULATORA! DOING A SELF-EXAM! PMS, WORK DISCIPLINE + ANGER! MENSTRAL EXTRACTION! HERBAL MEDICINE! WOMEN FIGHT B...

Authors: Greta Gaard, Cathryn Bailey, Steve Baker
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 66
Weight: 85g

Includes the following essays:

• Vegetarian Ecofeminism
• We Are What We Eat: Feminist Vegetarianims and the Reproduction of Racial Identity
• A review essay on the significance of postmodern thought for animal studies

Here’s an excerpt from ‘We Are What We Eat’:

The racist and sexit comparisions made between people of color and animals, and the conceptual overlaps imagined between them, have ...

Format: A5
Number of Pages: 12
Weight: 10g

The author shares her disillustionment after years of idolizing those scruffy, iconic musicboys. Her conclusion is that they’re all sluts. She will prove this to you in a startling series of black and white drawings—be forewarned.

Authors: Roger White, Jason Adams & Sharif Gemie
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 71
Weight: 90g

• Post Colonial Anarchism
• Non-Western Anarchisms: Rethinking the Global Context
• Beyond the Borders: The Question of Third World Anarchism

Here’s an interesting little excerpt from the first page:

The rejection of nationalism by many North American anarchists is often an expression of a colonial mindset that requires all of the peoples of the world fighting for liberation to define the...

Editors: Laura Harris & Elizabeth Crocker
Publisher: Routledge (1997)
Weight: 310g

For many homosexuals the images of the nelly queen or the butch and femme dykes generated anxiety because they too closely resembled negative stereotypes held by heterosexuals. But over the past three decades the lesbian and gay movement has made great strides in accepting a wide diversity of sexual identities and behaviors within its own ranks. Self expression became valued over perceived acceptability. In Femme, Laura Harris and Elizabeth Crocker continue this project of exploring...

Author: Jens Rydström
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (2003)
Weight: 550g

Sinners and Citizens explores how sexual habits changed in Sweden during its development from an agrarian society into a modern welfare state. Jens Rydström examines the history of homosexuality and bestiality in that country to consider why these sexual practices have been so closely linked in virtually all Western societies. He limns sharply the distinctive experience of rural life, showing that to regularly witness farm animals stirred passions and sparked ideas, especially among...

Author: Tracey Emin
Publisher: Sceptre (2005)
Weight: 145g

The memoirs and recollections of Tracey Emin provide a remarkable account of an extraordinary life. From the bed and breakfast land of Margate, through the vicissitudes of her relationship with a strong mother and elusive Turkish father, to international acclaim as an artist, her journey is told with searin honesty. Despite her often painful past, Tracy has a profoundly romantic world-view, and her writings are a testament to a strange and beautiful mind.

Author: Nancy Friday
Publisher: Arrow Books (2003)
Weight: 300g

Nancy Friday’s international bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers revealed that women posses erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as men. Women on Top looks at a new generation of women and asks: what are women’s sexual fantasies about today? How have they responded to the changes brought about by feminism?
In a world wallpapered with erotic images, but which still denies them full sexual freedom, women are more determined than ever that they’ll be ...

Author: Susie Orbach
Publisher: Arrow Books (2006)
Weight: 260g

When it was first published, Fat is a Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Reflecting on our increasingly diet- and body-obsessed society, Susie Orbach’s new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age where women want to be sexy, nurturing, domestic goddesses, confident at work, and feminine too, the twenty-first-century woman is poorly armed for survival. Never befor...

Author: Jason Cromwell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (1999)
Weight: 300g

“This book provides a wonderful documentation of transmen’s lives and voices as well as an excellent critique of a number of discourses that marginalize, pathologize, and otherwise make transmen invisible.”—Evelyn Blackwood, coeditor of Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures

“Without a doubt this is the definitive work on the transmen social identity. Cromwell brings to life the issues faced by transmen and h...

Editors: Joan Nestle, Clare Howell and Riki Wilchins
Publisher: Alyson Publications (2002)
Weight: 300g

Whether it’s a 14-year-old waiting for her first Transexual Menace T-shirt in the mail, a lesbian in a butch-femme relationship reflecting on the subversive power of being an “invisible” femme, or a female-to-male transsexual singing the praises of his Colt .45, the contributors to GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary report on life in the gray area between genders and suggest that those genders aren’t as self-evident as they app...

Author: Ainur Elmgren
Format: A4
Number of pages: 32
Weight: 100g

In the second chapter of the Goldenbird saga, Godless Communist Andy and Blues Bobcat Lou explore the nightlife of a sleepy Adriatic resort. Nothing is what it seems in Ginestra, this summer night in 1920.

Author: Ainur Elmgren
Format: A4
Number of Pages: 30
Weight: 100g

“Welcome to the first issue of Goldenbird. My name is Ainur Elmgren, and I’m a historian. No, let’s put it this way- I am a cartoonist, and I work as a historian. There is a difference. You see, I have been drawing since I could clasp a pencil in my paw. Not an unusual story. Many people start this way, an then something comes in between- life, usually- and the pencil is dropped. It was pretty darn close for me a couple of years ago. But the very thing that came in bet...

Authors: Donna Barr, Yamila Abraham, August Li, and D.V.L. Spencer
Publisher: Yaoi Press (2007)
Weight: 200g

Volume 4 of the sexiest yaoi anthology going brings in all new talent, including famous comic creator Donna Barr! Stories include a nobleman succumbing to pleasure in the desert and a space general losing control of a prisoner for even more pleasure. A young sorcerer in training wants to be initiated by the darkest sorcerer in the world. And finally – Trach the tentacle monster is ticked off! His fellow sex monsters are being rounded up to be used in vil...

Authors: Yamila Abraham, Laila Reimoz, Studio Kosaru, and Yishan Studios
Publisher: Yaoi Press (2007)
Weight: 200g

In Volume 3 of the ultra popular, kinky, sex-full Yaoi Hentai, you’ll see tentacle monster Trach nailing an unsuspecting bus rider, a poor bishonen with his wiener caught in a fence hole and the perv friend who helps, a yaoi take on the “Aristocrats” joke, hot loving with a Sultan’s slave and more! Explicit yaoi content. For readers 18+ only!

Photographer: Nan Goldin
Publisher: Hasselblad Center/Steidl (2007)
Weight: 1300g

The Hasselblad Award is the most important international photography prize in the world today, and since 1980 award winners have included some of the greatest names the medium has known. The award is granted to “a photographer recognized for major achievement”; this may be an individual who has made a pioneering achievement in photography, who has had a decisive impact on one or more younger generations of photographers, or one who has implemented one or more internationally ...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Harper Tempest (2002)
Weight: 170g

While horsing around in the high school cafeteria, Matt Donaghy makes some remarks that land him in a world of trouble. Yanked out of fifth-period study hall by plainclothes policemen, he learns that he’s suspected of plotting to bomb the school. In this day and age that’s no joking matter. His friends are advised by their parents not to get involved, lest they fall under suspicion themselves. Only the resolutely individualistic, somewhat frightening Ursula Riggs, a girl he barely know...

Author: Karin Didring
Format: A5, black & white
Number of pages: 14
Weight: 20g
Genre: A sketchbook of animals labelled with thoughtful tags.

Author: Will Self
Publisher: Grove Press (2002)
Weight: 350g

To reimagine a classic work-especially when its author is the flamboyant and witty Oscar Wilde-is a daunting task, but Self (How the Dead Live) rises to the challenge. Upon its publication in 1891, The Picture of Dorian Gray shocked Victorian sensibilities. That Self’s work will have a similar impact seems doubtful; as a society familiar with the works of Bret Easton Ellis, Thomas Harris, and Clive Barker, we have come too far, or, some may think, sunk too low. This is not to say, however, that Self ha...

Author: Deborah Siegel
Publisher: Palgrave (2007)
Weight: 230g

Contrary to clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and reinventing it—with a vengeance. From feminist blogging to the popularity of the WNBA, girl culture is on the rise. A lively and compelling look back at the framing of one of the most contentious social movements of our time, Sisterhood, Interrupted exposes the key issues still at stake, outlining how a twenty-first century feminist can reconcile...

Editor: Melody Berger
Publisher: Seal (2006)
Weight: 500g

The contemporary essays collected by Berger, an activist and creator of The F-Word, a feminist zine for teens, demonstrate loudly and clearly that feminism is alive, well and pursuing a wide variety of concerns. Sexuality, empowerment, violence, body image, reproductive rights, child sexual abuse, the gynecologist, the morning-after pill, the “Seventh-Grade Slut” and “Sex, Drugs, and the Department of Homeland Security” are all explored, as are the roles of government, religion, and the ...

Editors: Chloe Brushwood Rose & Anna Camilleri
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (2002)
Weight: 280g

Brazen Femme is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch. In this sharp-edged collection, femme is inherently queer—bent, unfixed, unhinged, and finally unhyphenated. Released from the binary models of sexual orientation, gender, and sex, this collection insists on femme as distinct from and critical of naturalized notions of femininity. Here, femme might be described as “femininity gone wrong”—bitch, slut, queen, whore, cougar, dyke, or brazen ...

Författare/Author: Konstantinos P. Kavafis
Förlag/Publisher: Ersatz (2007)
Vikt/Weight: 260g

Konstantinos P. Kavafis är medelhavskulturens mest älskade poet. Han publicerade inte en rad under sin livstid, men delade ut handskrivna blad till sina vänner på Alexandrias dunkla kaféer. Sammanlagt blev det 154 dikter. I dag är han ett världsnamn, unga som gamla kan recitera “Ithaka” eller “I väntan på barbarerna” på grekiska, turkiska, arabiska och engelska. Det är just vad folk i Alexandria, Istanbul och Athen gör i filmen, och i ...

Editor: Briand Bedford
Publisher: Bruno Gmunder (2008)
Weight: 860g

SPARTACUS INTERNATIONAL GAY offers rapid orientation to all the most important locations for the gay tourist: addresses, tips, and information for more than 160 countries worldwide. With over 22 000 addresses the SPARTACUS covers all the highlights for the gay man, Whether you are looking for an extraordinary hotel, the hottest clubs the most exciting gay beaches or the most popular bars, you will find all this and much more. Hot off the press!

Author: Kate Bornstein
Publisher: VIntage (1995)
Weight: 260g

A thoughtful challenge to gender ideology that continually asks difficult questions about identity, orientation, and desire. Bornstein cleverly incorporates cultural criticism, dramatic writing, and autobiography to make her point that gender (which she distinguishes from sex) is a cultural rather than a natural phenomenon. The chapters range from ``fashion tips’’ on her writing style to dialogue between herself and another about the ``nuts and bolts’’ of the surgical process of a ge...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Carroll & Graf (2003)
Weight: 150g

Prolific Oates (We Were the Mulvaneys; Beast; etc.) explores sexual violence and its aftermath in this taut, harrowing novella. Teena Maguire, a pretty, 30-something widow, is on her way home from a party when she is beaten, gang-raped and left for dead. She survives the attack, which her 12-year-old daughter Bethie witnesses, but as only a husk of her former self (“That pathetic woman,” she thinks of herself, “they should have finished the job”). It is to Bethie, then,...

Editors: Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (2001)
Weight: 400g

The office of rabbi is the most visible symbol of power and prestige in Jewish communities. Rabbis both interpret to their congregations the requirements of Jewish life and instruct congregants in how best to live this life.
Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation documents a monumental change in Jewish life as eighteen lesbian rabbis reflect on their experiences as trailblazers in Judaism’s journey into an increasingly multicultural world....

Author: Achy Obejas
Publisher: Cleis Press (1996)
Weight: 310g

The power and meaning of memory lie at the heart of Obejas’s insightful and excellent second work of fiction. With a prose so crisp, the book could pass for a biography, Obejas introduces Juani Casas, a Cuban-born American lesbian in her early 20s who manages her family’s Laundromat in a Cuban neighborhood of Chicago. Juani walks a fine line between being out about her sexuality and being discrete enough not to alienate her family. Her family, after all, is central to her sense of belonging, an...

Authors: Dossie Eaton & Janet W. Hardy
Publisher: Greenery Press (2004)
Weight: 300g

Leather, tantra and spirit combine in this revolutionary sex book, which partners BDSM and sacred-sex practices. For millennia, seekers have used physical and emotional extremes to achieve transcendence and exaltation. Today, many BDSM and leather practitioners are discovering the potential of SM practice to reach personal, interpersonal and spiritual goals. With trademark frankness and humor, these popular BDS...

Author: Frida Kahlo, with an essay and commentary by Sarah M. Lowe
Publisher: Abrams (1995)
Weight: 950g

Frida Kahlo’s diary, like her art, is painted in breathtakingly vivid colors. It covers her tumultuous last decade and encompasses love letters, political musings on Communism, and resplendent paintings. The paintings, peopled with mythic figures, self-portraits, and monsters, articulate Kahlo’s fantastic visions. One drawing melds a procession of crying faces onto an intertwined couple surrounded by body parts, only to dissolve into a mass of roots and...

Authors: Dominique Mainon & James Ursini
Publisher: Limelight Editions (2006)
Weight: 1090g

With hundreds of stunning photographs and entertaining vignettes from classic, cult, and little-known films, The Modern Amazons documents the transformation of the archetypal warrior woman in film and on television, from early film figures like Joan of Arc to the present-day onslaught of strong female action characters. Authors Dominique Mainon and James Ursini offer a one-two punch of sheer fun and keen insight that puts this growing trend in sociological perspective.

Author: Mariko Tamaki
Publisher: Women’s Press (2005)
Weight: 130g

Fake ID is a collection of short essays in urban settings. Stuck in coffee shops, bad jobs, SUV’s and the United States of America, Tamaki’s characters explore and resist social constructions, while seeking sanity and some form of definition. In the tradition of her earlier work, Tamaki mixes social commentary with dry wit, poking fun, not simply at racial, cultural, and sexual prejudice, but also at the ridiculous way these stereotypes play out in everyday l...

Editors: Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker
Publisher: Lexington Books (2007)
Weight: 700g

Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan. These stories trace the evolution of queer voices in Japan with analyses of the presence of homosexuality in the Japanese Imperial Army, the develop...

Author: Judith Halberstam
Publisher: Duke University Press (1998)
Weight: 590g

Readers who have followed the postmodern gender debate in the university presses (ranging from Thais Morgan’s sedately twisted analyses of Victorian male lesbianism to Judith Butler’s acclaimed Gender Trouble) will delight in the latest little earthquake: Judith Halberstam’s deft separation of masculinity from the male body in Female Masculinity. If what we call “masculinity” is taken to be “a naturalized relation between maleness and power,” Halber...

Author: Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher: Indiana University Press (1994)
Weight: 450g

Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural “origin” outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women- me...

Author: Mabel Maney
Publisher: Cleis Press (2006)
Weight: 408 g.

In this sequel to The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, Hannah, Nancy’s housekeeper, stands wrongfully accused of murder. Nurse Cherry, who fell head-over-hells in love for the world-famous girl detective, must help her new sweetheart clear Hannah’s name, and her own, and restore her sterling reputation. But does Nancy deserve her devotion?

Based on a true love story.

Author: Sara Elgeholm
Size: 10×10.5cm
Number of pages: 24
Weight: 40g

Authors: Cathy Winks & Anne Semans
Publisher: Cleis Press (2002)
Weight: 950g

Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel welcome. Their book is as candid, upbeat, and friendly as the store. It is filled with information that customers ask for most frequently, tips for enhancing your sex life, and reviews of a variety of sex toys. Good Vibrations believes that “there’s more sexual pleasure available than most people experience” and “achi...

Author: Pete Burns
Publisher: John Blake
Weight: 240g

Pete Burns was the undoubted star of Celebrity Big Brother and has recently been the subkect of a documentart on ITV1. With a career spanning more than two decades, the astonishing story of his life will appeal to a wide range of people. Pete is never very far from the pages of celebrity magazines whether his latest antics make the headlines or his bizarre fashion sense makes the hit and miss feature. Pete Burns has found a new audience wit his outrageous antics on Celebrity Big Brother. W...

Editor: Notes From Nowhere
Publisher: Verso (2003)
Weight: 550g

“Rather than one dominant political voice, one dogma, one party line, we present you with a collision of subjectivities… moments both intimate and public, charged with inspiration, fear, humor, the everyday, and the historic.” So begins this 7” 5”, b&w photo-studded tour of the global justice movement’s many locales and leaderless actors, from a mostly London-based editorial collective that includes an editor of New Internationalist magazine. The book is divided int...

Author: David Ebershoff
Publisher: Penguin (2000)
Weight: 270g

Ebershoff, the publishing director at Modern Library, has taken a highly unusual subject—and a big chance—for his first novel. That it comes off triumphantly is a tribute to his taste and restraint and to the highly empathetic quality of his imagination. His book is based on the real-life story of Einar Wegener, a Danish artist who 70 years ago became the first man to be medically transformed into a woman—long before the much better-known case of Christine Jorgensen. Ebershoff has natural...

Author: Minnie Bruce Pratt
Publisher: Alyson Publications (1995)
Weight: 200g

Pratt breaks traditions, restrictions, and taboos in what many—some with shocked horror, others with fascination—will find a high-risk book, almost sure to become one of the hottest this season in and perhaps also outside the lesbian community. In a long series of vignettes, Pratt chronicles her Southern youth, during which she was “trained into the cult of pure white womanhood” and raised to be subjugated by a man; her lengthy marriage, the birth of two sons, and her...

Research and interviews: Karin Tideström; Editors: Anna Lithander and Agneta Söderberg Jacobson; Photography: Maria Stéen
Publisher: Kvinna till Kvinna (2007)
Weight: 200 g.

I rapporten står tonårsflickor och unga kvinnor i fokus. I områden som drabbas av krig och konflikter är dessa grupper särskilt utsatta. De tvingas sluta skolan i förtid. Deras rörelsefrihet begränsas kraftigt, de kan många gånger inte ens träffa vänner. Deras kroppar kontrolleras och deras åsikter tas inte på allvar. De lever i en verklighet där våldtäkt och andra former av se...

Editor: Cornelia Butler
Publisher: The MIT Press (2007)
Weight: 2000g

There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s—and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK! documents and illustrates the impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring pioneering and influential works by artists who came of age during that period—Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Valie Expor...

Editors: Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia
Publisher: Harrington Park Press (2007)
Weight: 300g

Take a ride—on the wild side!
Hard Road, Easy Riding: The sex is intense, joyful, liberating. The writing is hot, edgy, and uninhibited. The stories, while wildly different, are all sex-positive, adventurous, and sensual. There are many anthologies of lesbian erotica available, and editors Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia have been published in quite a few of them, but none so far have focused on the interaction between lesbian sex and the lifestyles of lesbian b...

Author: Stephan O. Murray & Will Roscoe
Publisher: New York University Press (1997)
Weight: 440g

The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality.

The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological p...

Author: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Publisher: Cleis Press (1995)
Weight: 255g

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde in 1928 in Mahlsdorf, was the son of a benevolent mother and a tyrannical father. At a very early age (seven or eight), he discovered that he liked to wear his mother’s old clothes, jauntily noting that “I still have my mania for aprons.” His story is not all lightness and lipstick, however. Mahlsdorf recalls being transferred from public to private school after a teacher beat him for making a crack about Hitler Youth. He found a j...

Author: Mabel Maney
Publisher: Cleis Press (1995)
Weight: 340g

With their fearless crime-fighting, good manners, and manly fashion sense, the Hardly boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. In A Ghost in the Closet, dark-haired, muscular Frank and his lovable kid brother Joe return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents — world-famous detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, Mrs. Hardly — have been kidnapped! Even worse, so have six poodles from the Lake Merrimen Dog Show! Pals Nancy Clue, Cherry Aimless, R.N., and Police Detective Jackie Jones help...

Author: Larry Kramer
Publisher: Grove Press (2000)
Weight: 430g

Very few writers have the prescience or audacity to produce one of the standard works of their era—not a classic, necessarily, but a book that defines its own cultural moment in startling new terms, like One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest or Portnoy’s Complaint. Activist and rabble-rouser Larry Kramer has the distinction of having written not only one of the earliest and best-known plays on AIDS, The Normal Heart, but also the astonishing satire of gay urban sexual...

Author: Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Publisher: New York University Press (2001)
Weight: 240g

“If there is one thing that marks us as queer… it is undoubtedly our relationship to the body,” writes Reid-Pharr in this startling and provocative collection of essays detailing his intellectual (and erotic) life as a black, gay man living in a racist, heterosexual, postmodern world. Covering a wide range of topics black anti-Semitism, the Million Man March, interracial sex, the black family, gay male identity and lesbianism Reid-Pharr presents a cogent analysis th...

Authors: LeeRay Costa & Andrew Matzner
Publisher: The Haworth Press (2007)
Weight: 310g

Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender system—through analysis of the personal stories from transgendered youth in Thailand

The Thai term sao braphet song (a “second type of woman”) describes males who reject the gender of masculinity for femininity. Male Bodies, Women’s Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered Youth uses the narrative method, stories in the words of these “second type of women” to analyze th...

Editors: E. Patrick Johnson & Mae G. Henderson
Publisher: Duke University Press (2005)
Weight: 560g

While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States. Bringing together essays by established and emergent scholars, this collection assesses the strengths and weaknesses of prior work on race and sexuality and highlights ...

Authors: Dossie Eaton & Catherine A. Liszt
Publisher: Greenery Press (2000)
Weight: 280g

One of the hardest things about being “kinky” is trying to find a way to tell your friends, relatives, lovers, etc about your “alternative lifestyle.” Some of choose not to, because of the fear they will be ridiculed or ostracized by those close to them. So some that are into “kink” choose to keep it a secret.

When Someone You Love Is Kinky is a wonderful book to give to a friend or lover to explain to them some of the reasons why ...

Author: Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher: Routledge (2005)
Weight: 505g

Drawing on vivid images of hypersexual blacks and the sociological theses of strong black women and weak black men, Collins explores an astonishing range of ideas and images through history, sociology, and popular culture. Rather than debate the dominance of race versus sex in the history of social injustice to black men and women, Collins offers a theory of “intersectionality,” viewing race, gender, and sexuality together. She explores the social and personal implications of historical...

Editors: Jackie Stacey & Sarah Street
Publisher: Routledge (2007)
Weight: 465g

Queer Screen contains articles published in Screen between 1990 and 2004, spanning the period during which queer studies and the New Queer Cinema flourished. It will include ground-breaking articles by Teresa de Lauretis, Chris Straayer, and Andy Medhurst, and will address issues of bodies and technologies, as well as reprinting the debate, spanning several issues of the journal, about the queer movie Boys Dont Cry.

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers (2005)
Weight: 260 g.

Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades’ worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain’s great female writers. A selection of t he very best of Doris Lessing’s essays, never before collected together and published in book form. Articles on writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Mikael Bulgakov sit alongside autobiographical looks at the beliefs that ...

Editor: Vern L. Bullough
Publisher: Harrington Park Press (2003)
Weight: 703 g.

The 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City, which thrust the struggle for civil rights for homosexuals into the consciousness of North Americans, was so seminal an event that it is easy to forget that it did not occur in a vacuum. Editor Bullough (ed., Encyclopedia of Birth Control; coauthor, Sexual Attitudes) redresses this with a collection of 49 short biographies of activists, written by such authors as Felice Picano, James T. Sears, Wayne R. Dines, and Charley Shively. Included are n...

Författare: Tiitu
Format: A5, svartvit
Antal sidor: 26
Vikt: 15g
Genre: Snuskiga teckningar av glada, kåta, lesbiska tjejer.

Författare: Tiitu
Format: A5, svartvit
Antal sidor: 26
Vikt: 20g
Genre: Snuskiga bilder med glada, kåta, lesbiska tjejer.

Publisher: Amber Goodwyn
Format: 21.5×14cm, black & white, colour cover
Number of Pages: 64
Weight: 70g
Genre: Pan-sexual, sex-positive, smutty fanzine from Montreal. Interviews, stories, poetry, tips, and dirty pictures to get your juices flowing.

Author: Karolina Bång
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 12
Weight: 25g
Genre: Hot lesbian cowgirl pick-up story (finns även på svenska).

Author: Karolina Bång
Format: A5, black & white, pink cover
Number of Pages: 24
Weight:20g
Genre: Lesbian romance

Author: Johan Carlsson & Morten Sörenson
Format: A5, black & white
Number of Pages: 16 + 2 inserts
Weight: 30g
Genre: Gay vacation reportage about Provincetown, Cape Cod.

Author: Johan Carlsson & Morten Sörenson
Format: A5, black & white
Number of Pages: 12
Weight: 20g
Genre: Story about a gay hotel

Author: David Deitcher
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (2005)
Weight: 640g

Dear Friends investigates the social conditions that made these photographs possible and examines both their abandonment and subsequent retrieval by those who cherish them as rare historical visual evidence of love between men.

Editor: Michael Hemmingson
Publisher: Soft Skull Press (2000)
Weight: 340g

The writers of What the Fuck? show that human sexuality is broad, and the range of desire is exciting and vast. Sex is as vital as food, politics, and conflict. The writers herein are not afraid to explore and exploit the nature of postmodern human sexuality in the 21st Century, with their own brand of twists and curves. Shunning the notion that erotic literature is hastily created thrown-away words and sentences, a new literary, experimental aesthetic pervades What the Fuck? The Avant Porn Ant...

Author: Michelle Tea
Publisher: Seal (2000)
Weight: 340g

The rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco’s radical lesbian underground is laid bare in this action-packed novel, which follows a young gay woman down into the often dangerous world inhabited by the city’s dyke community.

Author: Sumomo Yumeka
Publisher: Digital Manga (2006)
Weight: 476 g.

Nakagawa and Yokota are two boys very much in love with each other. Yokota is more open with his feelings, but Nakagawa is easily embarrassed of public displays of affection. Though they may be outwardly different, their feelings for each other are the same – their connection is such that they liken themselves to Do-Seibutu (Same-Cell Organisms).

Author: Judith Halberstam
Publisher: New York University Press (2005)
Weight: 320g

Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms – especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.

Author: Kathy Acker
Publisher: Grove Press (1998)
Weight: 277g

Kathy Acker was a high-wire writer. She took risks. She experimented for the sake of it. She made mistakes. She fell. She never wanted a modest success, and so her books, all of them, swing from passages of topflight bravura, where you think, “How did she do that?” to a sawdust-in-your-mouth kind of feeling that you just want to spit out. She is an exhilarating, exasperating writer who wants you in the ring with her, through the highs and the lows. There was always something touching and trusti...

Author: Terry Moore
Publisher: Abstract Studio (2007)
Weight: 304 g.

“Ever After” is the final trade paperback in the “Strangers in Paradise” series chronicling the lives of Francine and Katchoo. When her famous brother-in-law falls prey to a crazed fan’s bullet, Francine is forced to confront her own doubts and fears about the life she has chosen. In a bold move, she leaves her cheating husband and tries to reconnect with the only person she ever truly loved, Katchoo. But things have changed since Francine left, Katchoo has changed, and ...

Author: Naomi Wolf
Publisher: Harper (2002)
Weight: 260g

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.
In today’s world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women’s movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It’s the beauty myth, an obsession with ...

Author: Terry Moore
Publisher: Abstract Studio (1996)
Weight: 360 g.

This is the extraordinary graphic novel taught in university classrooms across the nation as a leading example of contemporary literature. From its comic beginnings in the first book, SiP takes a dramatic turn in I Dream Of You. Katchoo returns from a mysterious three-month trip to Canada to find her trusted friend David and roommate Francine angry and demanding answers. But Katchoo can’t tell Francine the truth: that she was once a highly paid call girl working for the wicked and powerful Darc...

Author: Joel Grip
Publisher: Tredje Graden Förlag
Weight: 150

The year is 2069. The world is ruled by the conservative council, a rightwing coalition with neo-fascist influences. The founder, and also Minister of Sexual Affairs, doctor Stratelove, has organized an illegalization of so-called “sexual anomalies”. He is also assisted by a special police force called Brave Imperial Guardians Of Tradition – B.I.G.O.T, created solely for the purpose of tracking down homosexuals and hand them over to doctor Stratelove. Not a single one of these poor souls ...

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (2007)
Weight: 680 g.

Perla la Loca begins with the graphic novel “Wigwam Bam,” arguably Jaime Hernandez’s definitive statement on the post-punk culture. As Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days—except for Izzy, who tries to flee and ultimately, ironically, is the one who finds Hopey (and who unlocks the secret of Maggie and Hopey’s relationship.) “Wigwam Bam”...

Editors: Sylvia Molloy & Robert Irwin
Publisher: Duke U.P. (1998)
Weight: 500 g.

Brings together a group of essays that advance Hispanic studies and gay and lesbian studies, by calling into question what is meant by the words Hispanic and homosexual. Undermining a univocal sense of homosexual identities and practices, this book is useful for those engaged with the complexities of ethnic, cultural, and sexual subjectivities.

Author: Ellen Forney
Publisher: Fantagraphics (2006)
Weight: 504 g.

A collection of strips originally created for a range of prestigious and alternative newsweeklies and magazines by the Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist includes pieces that were prepared collaboratively with such individuals as comedienne Margaret Cho, vice president’s daughter Kristin Gore, and writer Dan Savage. Original.

Author: Mildred L. Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd (2003)
Weight: 335 g

This edition about transsexuals for their friends, families, co-workers, and helping professionals, brings clarity, understanding, and reality to a difficult subject in an easily readable form and salutes the humanity of everyone involved.

Mildred L. Brown is a clinical sexologist and therapist in private practice in San Jose, California. She is also professor of clinical sexology at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. ...

Author: Julia Serano
Publisher: Seal Press (2007)
Weight: 386 g.

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations — both pre- and post-transition — to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.

Serano&#...

Author: Katharine Gates
Publisher: Juno Books (2000)
Weight: 1022 g.

An anthropological look at the explosion of extreme fetishes and post-modern eroticisms at the beginning of the new millennium. Illustrations.

Author: Ann Bannon
Publisher: Cleis Press (2002)
Weight: 250 g.

Designated the Queen of Lesbian Pulp for her series of landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Presss new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, Women in the Shadows finds Laura in love among the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. This edition features a new introduction by the author. Sex. Sleaze. Depravity. Oh, the twisted passions of the twilight world of lesbian pulp fiction. Chicago Free Press Shame...

Author: Kathy Acker
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (2000)
Weight: 260 g.

Kathy Acker was a high-wire writer. She took risks. She experimented for the sake of it. She made mistakes. She fell. She never wanted a modest success, and so her books, all of them, swing from passages of topflight bravura, where you think, “How did she do that?” to a sawdust-in-your-mouth kind of feeling that you just want to spit out. She is an exhilarating, exasperating writer who wants you in the ring with her, through the highs and the lows.

There was...

Editor: Louise Downie
Publisher: Aperture (2006)
Weight: 1200 g.

Author: Trina Robbins
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (2004)
Weight: 105 g.

Today is like any other day in Grover Cleveland High’s science lab – any day in the Jurassic Era, that is! As if being late for cheerleading practice isn’t enough of an annoyance, try ditching a hungry T-Rex! And where did those alien spaceships come from?! Ages 8+.

Author: Trina Robbins
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (2006)
Weight: 67 g.

This title contains two feature-length stories in one volume! Video games can get too realistic, as the flying teenager, GoGirl! discovers in “Prisoners of the Machine,” when she and her friends find themselves trapped inside a computer, menaced by giant anime-robots! And in “Double Trouble,” GoGirl!’s archenemies create a robot that looks just like her, except that it has the mind of a master criminal! How can our heroine convince the cops that she didn’t rob t...

White, heterosexual men (some of them married, some of them already having kids). ARTISTS. Crème de la crème of the Polish art-world.

Chapeaux bas!

Hip-hoppers must be handled with care. You mustn’t scare or intimidate them, be gentle and watch your tongue. These guys are very sensitive. How do you reach them? Check our special hip-hop issue…

COCKY COCKS

We continue the patriotic motifs of the last issue, but this time we’re giving DIK a screaming folk-drag.

This issue features: Kasia Kozyra showing her rubber dick, Slawek Belina cooks a soup and shoots self-portraits. Jerzy Nasierowski talks about his criminal past and past affairs and introduces his latest voluptuous novel. We also present our fresh discovery, Marek Pruss, who made the cover.

The gang issue. Well it’s damn interesting to see how peeps conceptualise of a gang. The linking theme in this issue is the radical interpretation of the gang as a “strength in numbers” vehicle to challenge, and in practice change, dominant power relations and stereotypes.

This issue is brought to you by the letter T. We hope the T issue acts to transmorgify your mind from the torturous (and not in a good way) ties of patriarchal capitalism…

We hope to transmute our love for you dear reader, and tantalise till your tongue is tied, twisted by the myriad of ways that you express your most secret desires.

Ladies in lingerie show us how to change tyres (p12), while the butchies (p54) make it look that much tougher in the garage. Deborah Kelly shares her tools for social change (p6). Web porn stars Buck Angel, SindyRay, Fanny and Cat O’Nine Tails tell us how they’ve made the internet a tool for cheek, gender queer loving and all things show pony (p36). Whereas Nicola Brown inhabits her drawings in varied disguise (p62).

Lesbians To The Rescue

“Fantastic Magazine for (male) Homosexuals.”

Release date: August 16, 2006 (Autumn 2006 issue)
Number of Pages: 76
Weight: 130g
Contents:

GUS VAN SANT
FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR FROM PORTLAND OWNS EXACTLY ONE PORN VIDEO
by Bruce LaBruce

IOANNIS
by Heinz Peter Knes

WOLFGANG TILLMANS
DEUTSCHER TOP KUNSTLER AUS LONDON FICKT KEYBOARD PLAYER VON BRONSKI BEAT
by Stuart Comer

“Fantastic Magazine for (male) Homosexuals.”

Release date: October 22, 2007 (Late autumn/early winter 2007 issue)
Number of Pages: 84
Weight: 130g
Contents:

VAGINAL DAVIS
DRAG ARTIST IN BERLIN HAS HER SKIN CARE PRODUCTS
FLOWN IN FROM THE USA
by Bruce LaBruce

1976
by Sunil Gupta

XAVIER
FRENCH HORTICULTURIST MAKES UP TO 1500 EUROS A NIGHT
by Regis Trigano

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“Fantastic Magazine for (male) Homosexuals.”

Release date: April 2, 2007 (Spring 2007 issue)
Number of Pages: 80
Weight: 130g
Contents:

DUO
by Walter Pfeiffer

JOE GAGE
TOP PORNOGRAPHER LOVES TO BANG OUT A LOAD WHILE WATCHING HIS OWN LEGENDARY FILMS
by Frank Rodriguez

UN HOMBRE ESPANOL
Juanjo Martinez, by Luis Venegas

I AM DEREK
by Derek Jackson

This graphic album reprints the first Blonde mini-series in a bigger, improved format. The lovely master criminal leaves a trail of trussed-up beauties in her wake, in this sci-fi secret-agent bondage classic from Italy (don’t worry, the text is in English). She decides to kidnap a beautiful snack food multi-millionairess… but so does everybody else! The result is chaos, leading to a showdown in an abandoned rope factory. Also: a bonus eight-page story (available nowhere else) in which The Blonde attends a “Blonde-Con.”

Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Alyson Publications (2005)
Weight: 200 g.

Book 11 in the Dykes to Watch Out For series finds Alison Bechdel’s beloved cast of characters discovering that nothing but change is constant in our multihued-terror alert-system world. Mo is working her way through library school by shelving best sellers at Bounders Books and Muzak, Sparrow and Stuart face parenthood with a mixture of ambivalence and zeal, Clarice and Toni clash over the gay marriage debate while their 10-year-old son Raffi jacks cars and slaps hos on his best friend&#...

Author: Tee Corinne
Publisher: Last Gasp (1988)
Weight: 230g

“In 1973 I set out to do drawings of women’s genitals for use in sex education groups. I wanted the drawings to be lovely and informative, to give pleasure and affirmation. I organized the drawings into a coloring book because a major way we learn to understandthe world, as children, is by coloring. As adults many of us need to learn about our external sexual anatomy. Coloring is a way for the child in each of us to revision and reclaim this portion of our bodies from which we have been estra...

Editors: Maura Reilly & Linda Nochlin
Publisher: Merrell (2007)
Weight: 1200g

This celebration of contemporary feminist art brings together works by over eighty women artists from around the world. Contributions by a multinational team of authors focus particular attention on socio-cultural, racial and gender identities. By offering new perspectives on feminist artistic expression since 1990, this ground-breaking book moves the discourse of feminism away from its traditional linear history and towards a global inclusiveness that acknowledges the cultural differenc...

Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Alyson Publications (2003)
Weight: 200 g.

Change is afoot as the best-selling Dykes to Watch Out For celebrates 20 years in print. These hilarious, biting, pointed and poignant comics have won multiple awards for their humor, their political savvy, and their addictively soap-operatic dyke drama. In the 10th book in the series, Mo rants about Dr. Laura, Donald Rumsfeld, gay Enron execs, and the pernicious effects of Frogger; while Clarice displays symptoms of soccer-mom-itis, Lois announces that her new name is Louis, and Sparrow consi...

Author: Bayard Rustin, Devon W. Carbado, Donald Weise
Publisher: Cleis Press (2003)
Weight: 635 g.

In 1956, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott; in 1963, he organized the March on Washington. Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern Black protest, his gay identity became a point of contention within the movement, the controversy embroiling King himself. This collection of five decades of Rustin’s writing includes his views on Gandhi and Malcolm X, plus never-before published essays on Lou...

Author: Collen Coover
Publisher: Eros Comix (2004)
Weight: 230g

Seriously fun lesbo girly porn comics, collected into a wonderful graphic novel. Annie is a young woman who likes sex. Nibbil is Annie’s conscience, and can change from very small conscience-size to regular woman-size. Nibbil’s job is to keep Annie from masturbating too much; but instead, Nibbil and Annie spend all their time lovin’ each other up… Sexy, enthusiastic, good-natured lesbian fun. “A smart, cute, funny celebration of girl-on-girl sex.”- Diana Cage, On Our Ba...

A magazine for boys with problems

Eclectic, crazy and refreshing, Kaiserin Magazine should be on everyone’s required summer reading list. Founded in 2006 by Arnaud-Pierre Fourtané and Didier Fitan, this French-English bilingual biannual calls itself “a magazine for boys with problems and all the girls who like them.” It features the work of both established and emerging artists, photographers, authors, designers and illustrators who address homosexuality in their work.

The second issue—called the Ecstasy Collective (or L’Extase Collective fo...

Av: Pierre Et Gilles.
Fotobok.

Author: Susan Faludi
Publisher: Morrow (1999)
Weight: 750 g.

Picks up where Faludi’s previous book Backlash left off. It seeks to understand male behaviour in order to close the chasm between the sexes, and asks why men are so fearful and aggressive in the face of women’s independence

Author: Rosie Lugosi

Rosie Lugosi is Manchester’s very own Vampire Queen, and one of the country’s finest performance poets. she regulary pops up out of her coffin to appear on stage, screen, radio, and the more disreputable of night clubs.

This is her third collection of poetry. So be prepared for thrilling entertainment as she cracks her whip and ensures that everyone is sitting uncomfortably.

Author: Rosie Lugosi

“Greetings, mortals…I do hope you’re all sitting uncomfortably…”
So begins another performance of vampiric verse by Rosie Lugosi, the Lesbian Vampire Queen. She has been tantalising audiences with her unique blend of poetic perversion, humour and song for five years.

She has performed in every kind of venue, from theaters to barges and libraries at midnight, at rock concerts and on numerous radio and television programmes.

Gathered here for the first time are a clawful of her best-known performance poe...

Editor: Brontez
Format: A4
Number of Pages: 24
Weight: 60g

A radical scratchy fag zine devoted to punk rock, boning on the first date, smashing the state, arty porn, dancing at shows, drinking in bushes, fucking in bushes, skateboarding, pink everything, interracial everything, yoga-bunnyism, carbs, sex with strangers, slut pride, and other related interests. Not exactly a smut zine, but a lot of sex talk and some dirty pictures. In this issue: Coolies interview; pin-up Matthew Cote; Ask Allison; DJ Bus Station John; interview with an ex...

Editor: Brontez
Format: A4
Weight: 55g

A radical scratchy fag zine devoted to punk rock, boning on the first date, smashing the state, arty porn, dancing at shows, drinking in bushes, fucking in bushes, skateboarding, pink everything, interracial everything, yoga-bunnyism, carbs, sex with strangers, slut pride, and other related interests. Not exactly a smut zine, but a lot of sex talk and some dirty pictures. In this issue: Alvin Orloff interview; coloring contest; the life of a totally fab go-go boy; Ask Allison; The Husbands; Scream Club; more.

Author: Vicky Lee
Publisher: Way Out (2006)
Weight: 350 g.

This book digs deep into the phenomena of male-to-female cross-dressing and transsexuality. It aims to explore and answer, in a very practical way, all the questions that are asked about this misunderstood but steadily growing phenomena, including: Why? Who does it? How long has this been going on? How do they do it? Is it a sexual turn on? After 12 years researching and writing the annual “Tranny Guide” books, and meeting thousands of transgender people, Vicky Lee has concentrated all her experien...

Girls Like Us returns to further probe the evolving world of dyke drama and third wave feminism with a glossy, artful approach that doesn’t lack for substance or style.

“Traditional in form, radical in content, this issue of the annual queer feminist art journal, published through Printed Matter’s Emerging Artist Publication Series challenges and inspires readers with 80 pages of experimental personal political writing and artwork.

“Each copy of the soft-cover book comes with a limited edition glove made for LTTR by Liz Collins, a set of oracle coins by Nancy Brooks Brody and a silk-screened print from Xylor Jane and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.

“Other contributors include Vivian Babuts, Eden Batki, ...

Editors: Michel Hurst and Robert Swope.
Publisher: PowerHouse Books (2005)
Weight: 650g

Discovered at a New York flea market, these well-preserved snapshots taken roughly between the mid-50s and mid-60s depict a group of cross-dressers at Casa Susanna: a large house in small-town New Jersey, used as a weekend headquarters for a regular “girl’s life.” There are many glamorous photos of Susanna and her gorgeous friends enjoying fashion shows and dress-up Christmas and tea parties. But it is in the more intimate shots, where the girls sweep the porch, c...

Author: Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt
Publisher: Greenery Press (1997)
Weight: 480 g

Beyond the often unrealistic ideal of lifetime monogamy lies an uncharted jungle of delightful options—everything from committed multi-partner relationships to friendly sex, casual sex, group sex and more. This book provides a road map for exploring this sometimes difficult, often rewarding territory. Warm, informative details about how to get your needs met, manage your jealousy, make agreements that work for all concerned, talk to your friends and relatives, and build...

Author: Charles Anders
Publisher: Greenery Press (2001)
Weight: 270 g.

The author is a crossdresser of many years’ experience, gives you the skills and confidence you need to crossdress as much—or as little—as you want! Unlike crossdressing manuals that insist on nothing less than perfect passable femininity, these pages give you permission to experiment! You’ll learn how to achieve the results you desire with Make-Up (“The Televangelist’s Finger Test”)—Body Image (“Fat Is a Feminine Tissue”)—Undergarme...

Authors: Jim Goad & Jim Blanchard.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (2004)
Weight: 80g

The twisted, violent, sordidly hilarious tale of Butch and Petey, two aging, obese truckers so steeped in denial of their homosexuality, they’re about to burst. They trek across the USA in their battered eighteen-wheeler, doling out misdirected hatred to all they encounter—and eventually succumbing to their long-repressed lust for each other. But succumbing just makes them even more twisted, and sets them on a fag-bashing rampage… Very s...

Editor: Jop Van Bennekom
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh (2006)
Weight: 874 g.

Celebrating Butt magazine’s fifth anniversary, this book is a selection of the most fantastic and the most ridiculous interviews and photos that have appeared in Butt so far. This anthology also finally makes a lot of material from the (now rare) earlier issues available again. Like the magazine itself, this book offers an often amazingly realistic view on today’s homosexual man, including conversations with Michael Stipe, Gus van Sant, Rufus Wainwright,Marc Jacobs, as well as contribut...

Editors: Marci Blackman, Trebor Healey
Publisher: Manic D P (1994)
Weight: 270 g.

An anthology of gay and lesbian writers who define their sexual identities 25 years after the official start of “gay liberation.” Foreword by Susie Bright. Nominated for a National Library Award.

Author: Beth Lisick
Publisher: Manic D Press (1997)
Weight: 200 g.

Short stories. A panoramic tapestry of strip malls, junk-food habits, and yuppie pick-up joints.

Author: David Bennahaum
Publisher: Omnibus Press (1995)
Vikt: 200g

A compilation of quotations taken from interviews with k.d. lang. This book takes the reader into her mind, exploring her controversial attitudes to lesbianism and vegetarianism, as well as her music and career.

Author: Linda Lovelace med Mike McGrady
Publisher: Citadel (1980)
Weight: 275 g

Former porno movie star tells the true story of the brutality and horror behind her rise in the business from turning tricks in Florida to starring in “Deep Throat,” all under the pressure of her sadistic boyfriend.

Author: Elaine Showalter
Publisher: Picador (2001)
Vikt: 250g

Inventing Herself is an account of women, from the 18th century to the present, who lived life on a grand scale. Uncovering the lives of feminist intellectuals, Elaine Showalter shows how the intellectual standard for modern feminists has been compromised by the spectre of celebrity.

Author: Erika Zander
Publisher: Periskop förlag (2003)
Weight: 450 g.

Zander is a Swedish lesbian—a male to female transsexual. In this candid autobiography, she discusses a wide range of topics related to gender and the individual’s quest for wholeness.

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics (2005)
Weight: 600g

Jaime Hernandez’s most beloved character, Maggie, takes center stage in his newest graphic novel. The newly divorced Maggie is now working as the resident building-manager of the notorious Capri Apartments in the San Fernando Valley, where imaginary dogs roam at night, all the air conditioners are broken, and the empty swimming pool is covered with flies. As if the eccentric tenants weren’t enough, Maggie’s old friend Izzy shakes things up with her nervous breakdowns and nocturnal s...

Author: Diane DiMassa
Publisher: Cleis Press (1999)
Weight: 1179 g.

Hothead Paisan is back! The over-caffeinated, media-crazed psychotic lesbian returns for more search and destroy missions and preventative homicides.

Author: Phoebe Gloeckner
Publisher: Frog Books (2000)
Weight: 430g

Gloeckner is a legendary figure in underground comics. Her short, powerfully candid and visually explicit autobiographical graphic narratives vividly re-create the sexual victimization of her childhood and adolescence. Her first full-length book combines new work in color and in black-and-white, including the title story, along with older, shorter narrative comics dating back to 1976. (An appendix reprints her disturbing medical illustrations for J.G. Ballard’s avant-SF classic The Atrocity Exhib...

Author: Terry Moore.
Publisher: Abstract Studio (2006)
Weight: 249 g.

Francine and Katchoo meet face to face for the first time since Francine’s wedding. With Katchoo’s career in full swing and Francine trying to be the happy homemaker, have the two grown too far apart to come back together? When David’s secret is revealed, the friends try to make sense of the devastating news.

Author: Erika Lopez
Publisher: Seal Press (1997)
Weight: 330g

A collection of comic narratives that are hilariously incisive and illustrated in her splashy, apropos style, Lap Dancing for Mommy runs riot with mainstream perceptions of “underground” lifestyles—and with just about anything else that crosses this artist’s keen eye. Whether she’s revealing “Phallusies: The Fake Penis Exhibition,” relating the psycho antics of “Therapy Girl” or the troubles of “Camaro Joe,” or taking friendly shots at sexual...

Author: Terry Moore
Publisher: Abstract Studio (2004)
Weight: 245 g.

This volume marks a revival in the series, with fresh art and storyline. Katchoo has begun a new life as a painter, and finds success at her first showing when an anonymous patron begins buying up her art at any price. Katchoo suspects the buyer is David and is determined to find him.

Author: Anonymous (contact megalaniassvarta@hotmail.com)
Format: 11×29.6cm
Number of Pages: 28
Weight: 60g
Genre: Sex positive/egalitarian sexualtiy

Authors: Suzanne, Diane di Prima, Carin Holmberg, Betty Dodson
Format: A5
Number of Pages: 28
Weight: 50g
Genre: Gender rebellion, arts and entertainment
Language: Predominantly English, though the manifesto is in french.

“Manifeste: Nous sommes en chasse et Paris est notre champ d´action Nous sommes en quête; de tous les mots qui ne sont pas ennuyeux de ceux qui les possèdent de ceux qui les écrivent, les délivrent et les détiennent de ceux qui ont quelque chose qui n’est pas ennuyeux à dire Quand nous les aurons attrapés, nous l’ imp...

Author: Abby Denson
Publisher: Manic D Press (2006)
Weight: 300 g.

Inspired by shounen-ai manga—melodramatic Japanese comics by girls about gay boys—Tough Love is a teen romance and coming-out story about a shy boy named Brian. More realistic than Japanese manga, the graphic novel centers on the relationships Brian develops with the boy he likes, Chris, and Julie, the girl who befriends him. Serious issues like gay bashing, suicide, and coming to terms with one’s own sexual identity are depicted with an honest, gentle touch. Socially relevant, fun, i...

Author: Charles Willeford

Jake Blake is a private detective short on cash when he meets a rich and beautiful young woman looking to escape her father’s smothering influence. Unfortunately for Jake, the smothering influence includes two thugs hired to protect her—and the woman is in fact not the daughter of the man she wants to escape, but his wife. Now Jake has two angry thugs and one jealous husband on his case. As Jake becomes more deeply involved with this glamorous and possibly crazy woman, he becomes entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue—and multiple murders. Brilli...

Author: Felice Picano
Publisher: Alyson Books (2000)
Weight: 430 g.

Bright, ambitious, and handsome, Ross Ohrenstedt is a high flier in the fashionable field of queer studies. He has just been appointed to oversee the collection of papers and works of the gay literary salon known as the Purple Circle—when he stumbles across a “lost” work by an unknown author. But as his search to identify the mystery writer uncovers increasingly bizarre and unbalanced facts about the Purple Circle, Ross finds himself the target of menacing attempts to derail his inve...

Author: Lou Rand & Susan Stryker
Publisher: Cleis Press (2003)
Weight: 230 g.

Lou Rand is the penname of Lou Hogan, a former Gourmet Magazine columnist and closet pulp fiction writer. He earned culinary distinction at the Bohemian Club, the Palace Hotel, and the Mark Hopkins as well as working as the private chef for billionaire industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. Alongside The Gay Detective, he is also author of the cult classic The Gay Cookbook, written in 1965, whose recipes are loaded with double entendres popular during the period. Rand, who also wrote for the Adv...

Författare: Rosalind B. Penfold.

Rosalind B. Penfold is an appealing, successful, 35-year-old businesswoman running her own company when she falls deeply in love with widower Brian. But soon Roz begins to notice troubling signs that Brian is not what he seems. A pattern of lies and petty cruelties begins to emerge that, over the course of their decade together, comes to encompass a litany of physical, mental, and sexual abuse appalling in its scope and malevolence. Often too traumatized and ashamed to admit the true extent of what she is experiencing, Roz instead pours her ang...

Author: William Maltese
Publisher: Green Candy (2003)
Weight: 300 g.

In Thailand to buy silk, Stud Draqual dodges bullets, bombs, knives, mayhem, and murder. Less successfully, he maneuvers the intricacies of his sexually charged relationship with the man out to make sense of the murder of a young Thai prostitute. This is the second book in the Stud Draqual series.

Author: Mabel Maney.
Publisher: Cleis Press (1993)
Weight: 260g

In this artful, hilarious send-up of girls’ fiction of the past, innocent, naive recent nursing school graduate Cherry Aimless is drawn into pursuing a “case” when a beautiful patient in her psych ward mysteriously disappears after a visit by a nun. Cherry seeks the aid of forthright, courageous Nancy Clue, whose attorney-father has lately been done in by his housekeeper of 30 years. What is the clue in the book the missing patient gave Cherry? What happened to the conventful of nuns, pr...

Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (2000)
Weight: 123 g.

Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn’t got a past. She doesn’t want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs.

Författare: Kevin Bentley
Förlag: Green Candy (2002)
Vikt: 400 g.

Wild Animals I Have Known is a frank, witty, and literate portrayal of the experiences of a wide-eyed 22 year old living in San Francisco from his arrival in 1977 to 1996. The novel recounts war stories of love, sex, self-doubt, friendship, humor, and unapologetic partying – the stuff of gay life in the heyday of San Francisco gay bohemia. Wild Animals I Have Known is the story of a man who sets out to tally and record his sexual exploits and ultimately captures the friendships, hilarity, and un...

Author: Dodie Bellamy
Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press (2004)
Weight: 200 g.

This work of autiobiographical fiction reveals Dodie Bellamy’s intimate secrets—sex, shoplifting, voyeurism, writing. Like Dorothy, Bellamy grows up in a dreary Midwestern town, a bossy, queer child who eventually tumbles into Oz—San Francisco’s bohemian Mission District. As she attempts to reconcile her working class origins with the privileged insanity of her arts community, everything crackles and blurs. True confession bleeds into high theory into trash cinema, in...

Author: Charlie Anders
Publisher: Soft Skull Press (2006)
Weight: 400 g.

12-year-old Berry doesn’t want to become a man—ever. In an effort to stay a choir boy surrounded by perfect notes, Berry injures himself, then convinces a clinic to give him testosterone-inhibiting drugs. But there’s a catch—the drugs come with a hefty dose of female hormones. Suddenly Berry finds himself with a set of B-cups and a lot of explaining to do. A fantastical coming-of-age fable in the tradition of Geek Love, Charlie Anders’ first novel reminds us just how...

Author: Cameron Tuttle
Publisher: Chronicle (1999)
Weight: 220 g.

A toss-it-in-the-glove-compartment guide for any woman with a jones for freedom and adventure. Includes 14 ways to open a beer bottle on your car, 9 non-gun weapons you already own, and more.

Hot ape on pirate action! The new school of gay porn comics is here! Randy pirates who really know what to do with a hook, necrophiliac werewolves, and hot skater boys fill the pages with their misadventures and plenty of hard-core sex. Mixed in with the pure fantasy are true biographical and autobiographical sex stories. Funny, smart, and hot—a definite cut above your average sex comic. Fans of Sticky should snap this one up. Co-created by the creator of True Travel Tales.

Authors: Gilbert Hernandez
Publisher: Eros Graphic Albums (1999)
Weight: 310g

Erotic comics by Love and Rockets creator Gilbert Hernandez! A hardcore, voyeuristic foray into the lives of several strippers, bodybuilders, horny aliens and a sensuous psychiatrist. Several stories featuring the lovely lisping Fritz. This collection reprints all four issues of the series, and includes copious bonus material as well.

Author: Nika Kramer
Publisher: Powerhouse Books (2005)
Weight: 500 g.

In 1985, B-Boys were all the rage, but where were the girls? This is a lively look at the hot and happenin’ world of B-Girlz of the 21st century as documented by photographer Martha Cooper and writer Nika Kramer. Breaking is back with a new twist, as today’s stylish fly girls can battle the best of them. Featuring pioneering B-Girlz like Rokafella from the Bronx, who now dances professionally, and Asia-One from L.A., who organized and promoted the B-Boy Summit for ten years, We B*Girlz&#...

Author: Carol J. Adams
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Co. (2000)
Weight: 410 g.

Drawing on such sources as butchering texts, cookbooks, Victorian hygiene manuals, and Alice Walker, this book argues in favor of linking feminist and vegetarian theory. It compares myths about meat-eating with myths about manliness, and seeks to explore the literary, scientific, and social connections between meat-eating, male dominance, and war. This is the 10th anniversary edition.

Authors: Marguerite Abouet och Clement Ouberie
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly (2007)
Weight: 500g

Abouet could have just wanted to tell a sweet, simple story of the Ivory Coast of her childhood as a counterpoint to the grim tide of catastrophic news, which is all most Westerners know of Africa. But in Aya, Abouet, along with Parisian artist Oubrerie, does quite a bit more than that, spinning a multifaceted romantic comedy that would satisfy even without any political agenda behind it. Set in 1970, Aya follows the travails of some teenage girls in the peaceful Abidjan ...

Author: Belasco
Publisher: Cleis Press (2000)
Weight: 570 g.

Not since Tom of Finland has a gay erotic artist created a visual world so entirely his own as Belasco’s. But if Tom’s beefy heroes looked as if they might slip into fluffy bedroom slippers at home, not so with Belascos streetwise young studs, who often ease into a hot session of male-male love with a quick uppercut and a chokehold. The characters, drawn from Belasco’s several cartoon chapbooks, represent a range of gorgeous black male styles and types, all of them with cut physiques and ze...

Slit Dyke Sex Magazine #4

“Codes and Uniform
emerged outta lots of conversations about dyke code
learning what looks + words communicate, a fascination with sailor bois and french maids, school girls, boot blacks and gentlemen cruising for a bruising.”

Slit Dyke Sex Magazine #8

“Saucy. It’s how we like our ladies. Sassy, slippery, with come hither sighs, sweating and rubbing thighs… This issue is so saucy it squirts when you open the pages!”
dyke sex culture
politics porn magazine.

a glossy low/high art
production produced 2 times a year based in australia.
each issue plays with
a theme, exploring dyke culture from all over.

fiction,photography,art,
poetry,video,music,
performers profiles, politics, media activists stories, adventures, illustations

w...

Slit Dyke Sex Magazine #5

“Pink This issue will make you blush
dedicated to the grinding of pink
bits everywhere,we have pink
ladeez on carousel ponies,
a bit of alley mischeif!”

Slit Dyke Sex Magazine #7

“Brutes evoke fascination, a thinly veiled (or not) cruelty, the potential for pain and heartbreak, a certain distance, control, strength and discipline. Rocco D’Amore the alluring and quintessential brute, is our centrefold and coverboi…”

Slit Dyke Sex Magazine #6

“And so we declare this issue DISSIDENT! Inside this issue is oh mi god oh mi god the hottiest punk metal cock rock goddess BugGiRL.. grab a copy and pay homage with a special gift…
dyke sex culture
politics porn magazine.

a glossy low/high art
production produced 2 times a year based in australia.
each issue plays with
a theme, exploring dyke culture from all over.

fiction,photography,art,
poetry,video,music,
performers profiles, politics, media activists stories,...

Slit Dyke Sex Magazine #10

“This is the 10th issue of SLIT! ANIMAL. In this issue: Glita Supernova, the Animal issue covergirl is a glamorous and sassy Miss Piggy, Glita talks tales and inspirations with SLIT (p28). Scarlett Fistfillet is the centrefold, a fish caught hook line and sinker by the fishermen (p12 + 34). This fish theme is continued by poet Yvette Holt in a meditation on love witnessed by her goldfish (p55).”

Trahnuty golubych!

In the search for inspiration we embark on a long journey. We spend day and night on the train with locked windows. There is beer and vodka in the compartments. Loud Ukrainian anthems ooze from the intercom in the morning.

Kyiv, finally. Nothing here is what it seems to be…

“Fantastic Magazine for (male) Homosexuals.”

Release date: July 2007 (Summer 2007 issue)
Number of Pages: 80
Weight: 130g
Contents:

JAVIER PERES
THE BAD ASS ART DEALER
by Jop van Bennekom

HOLLYWOOD
by prvtdncr

MARCO FLORES
THE AWESOME HOUSECLEANER
by Frank Rodriguez

JEFF BURTON
THE PORNOGRAPHER, THE

For boys with problems.

Author: Katarina Bonnevier
Publisher: Axl Books (2007)
Weight: 400 g.

“Behind Straight Curtains presents a series of critical scenes that celebrate the queerness and theatricality of architect Eileen Gray’s building E. 1027, the literary salon of author and seductress Natalie Barney at 20 rue Jacob, and author Selma Lagerlöf’s home Mårbacka. Lifting the curtains of heteronormative and sexist assumptions, the book explores examples of architecture that challenge social norms. Speculatively, yet with passion and engagement, the work posits an arising...