Wen oder was wir als liebens- und begehrenswert empfinden, hängt mit Vorstellungen eines idealen Körpers, unseren Bildern von Mann und Frau, mit unserem Sinn für Schönheit und "Normalität" und natürlich mit unserer Stellung in der Gesellschaft zusammen. Das Bild von Liebe und Begehren, Erotik und Sexualität hat sich im Laufe der Geschichte immer wieder verändert. Das ist nicht zuletzt an der Un-/Sichtbarkeit gleichgeschlechtlich l(i)ebender Menschen abzulesen.

The Updated and Expanded edition of The Art of Feminism charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and its development over two centuries that have seen profound and fast-paced change in women's lives across the globe. Including over 350 remarkable artworks, ranging from political posters and graphics to stunning and provocative pieces of painting, sculpture, textiles, craft, performance, digital and installation art, the book begins with poster images produced by the Suffrage Atelier in the nineteenth century, moving on to

Uncovering the lost history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender artists in New York City. Queer people have always flocked to New York seeking freedom, forging close-knit groups for support and inspiration. Gay Gotham brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images—both works of art,

Bandra Sentimental, the new photography book on the block, documents style on the streets of Mumbai.
With a cast chosen from the city’s streets, their flamboyant styles intact, the book aims to showcase everyday life in the city. Commonplace to the Indian, sometimes shocking to an outsider, the fearless amalgamation of colour, fabric, pattern, design and cut, worn by men out and about, comes not from wanting to make a statement but a natural sensibility within.

In the book “I used to be a lovely boy but turned out queer,” the author Jovan Josifovski, through photos from family albums, home phone books, and personal belongings, interprets his experiences and the term queer.

Looking at cartographies through sexual dissidence facilitates a process of resignification that speaks in other terms, deals with other territories and breaks away from the hegemonic ideals of cartography. These are maps that do not intend to be utilitarian objects, but rather an exchange of perspectives and experiences around other ways of thinking of and occupying space.

Visual AIDS artist member Ben Cuevas speaks to Annie Sprinkle about art, knitting, postporn, ecosex, HIV, love, loss, risk, activism, feminism, go-go dancing, orgasms, humor, death and more.

Hipster Porn nimmt Butts stilbildende Originalität in den Blick. Über die Perspektiven von Queer Theory, Masculinity Studies, Medienwissenschaften und Affekt Theorie wird die Welt des Fanzines lesbar, wie umgekehrt auch deren theoretische Positionen durch Butt herausgefordert werden.

Multiple Spirits is a "Bilingual Queer Art Zine from/within Japan".

"Johnny, are you queer?" is a brief meditation on the steamy dynamics churning beneath the surface of The Wild One, one of the most deliciously homoerotic epics of all time, intentionally or not.

The fifth issue of "FAQNP" looks at "visualizations" of queer nerds. The title of the publication is a recursive acronym (popular in programming communities). Design elements of the publication are intentional to the smallest detail - the font used is OCR-B, designed early in computer production to be easily read by both computers and the human eye.

Beiträge von: Christa Benzer, Martine Beugnet, Martin Frey, Lars Henrik Gass, Brent Klinkum, Friederike Pezold, Bert Rebhandl, Dietmar Schwärzler, Sylvia Szely, Viktoria Tremmel
Interviews mit: Helmut Herbst, Luke Morris, Franz Novotny, Agnès Varda

Madill's work addresses the construction of identity around the unstable binarism of homo/heterosexual.