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Der heterosexuelle Rasheed möchte mehr darüber erfahren, wie queere Menschen in Deutschland leben, was sie freut, was sie traurig macht. Die Travestiegröße Jacky-Oh Weinhaus nimmt ihn an die Hand und zeigt ihm immer neue Facetten der queeren Welt. Was, wenn eine Person erst im Rentenalter merkt, dass sie ein Leben lang im falschen Körper gelebt hat? Wie hält man das aus, wenn die Eltern den Kontakt abbrechen, bloß weil man jenseits der so genannten sozialen Norm lebt?

Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago’s gay subculture: cruising Bughouse Square, getting arrested for “disorderly conduct,” and falling in love.

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is a hilarious memoir of growing up in the early days of the internet and celebrating technology's role in our lives. Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess Kimball Leslie looked to the nascent internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler fans; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; interns trudging through similarly soul-crushing media jobs.