I Pierre Seel. Deported Homosexual by Pierre Seel, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp. For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually he deci ...Show more
If This is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping ...Show more
Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty - Boys Were Their Gods by Andrew Lear; Eva Cantarella
$84.99 AUD
Category: History
This lavishly illustrated book brings together, for the first time, all of the different ways in which vase-painting portrays or refers to pederasty, from scenes of courtship, foreplay, and sex, to scenes of Zeus with his boy-love Ganymede, to painted inscriptions praising the beauty of boys. The book s ...Show more
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of IN MONTMARTRE, a lively group biography tracing the emergence of Surrealism in Paris "I loved Roe's In Montmartre and In Montparnasse]-- a colorful, gossipy account of the birth of Surrealism...is equally beguiling."--The Bookseller, Editor's Choice (UK) As she did for the Mod ...Show more
In Search of Captain Moonlite: Bushranger, Conman, Warrior, Lunatic by Paul Terry
$36.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
When a masked and cloaked bandit robbed the bank at a small gold town in 1869 he created the legend of Captain Moonlite, the gun-toting man of God who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade.Real name Andrew George Scott, he is remembered as bushranger, conman, warrior and lunatic. In ...Show more
Indecent Advances - A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"A fast-paced, meticulously researched, thoroughly engaging (and often infuriating) look-see into the systematic criminalization of gay men and widespread condemnation of homosexuality post-World War I." ―Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle Stories of murder have never been just about killers and vi ...Show more
Intimacy, Violence and Activism: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Australian History and Society by Yorick Smaal, Graham Willett
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives
In this, the latest in the Gay and Lesbian Perspectives series, researchers explore the rich history of queer Australasia, uncovering photographic records of small-town male intimacy, cases of police entrapment, the mysterious suicide pact of Charles Marks and Edward Feeny, ASIO attempts to grapple wit ...Show more
I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going - AIDS, the Art Scene, and Downtown New York in The 1980s by Peter McGough
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York's Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naivet and dysfunction that would destroy both their live ...Show more
James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder by Chris Bryant
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* 'Carefully observed, rich in detail, imaginative, compassionate and angry. A raw, unexpected portrait of Britain's grandeur, wealth, energy, cruelty and hypocrisy in the age of liberalism' RORY STEWART 'A shocking story of prejudice and injustice, told in meticulous det ...Show more
Joy Sorrow Anger Love Pride - A Celebration of Toronto Pride, from 1970 to Present, Through the Lens of the Arquives by Kerry Manders (Introduction by); Gaëlle Morel (Text by); Tim McCaskell (Text by)
$90.00 AUD
Category: History
First EVER Toronto Pride PublicationOne Sunday afternoon in 1971, a few activists and their friends gathered in Toronto for a picnic. A celebration of pride in who they were, together, was born. Since then, millions of people from Toronto, Canada and around the world have attended and supported Toronto ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story (Indie Book of the Year 2024) by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Kinky History: The Stories of Our Intimate Lives, Past and Present by Esme Louise James
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A fun, educational deep dive into the rich history of human sexuality and how we can harness this kinky history towards a more liberated present and future. This book draws on Esme Louise James's phenomenally successful Kinky History series on social media which focuses on the evolution of human sexuali ...Show more