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It's week nine of this season of The Catch, and the cast and crew are arriving at their latest exotic location: a remote tree-covered island in the rainy North Pacific. America's most eligible bachelor (*eye-roll*) has whittled down the contestants to the Final Four, but as everyone online knows, he's probably just going to pick Vanessa. So far, so predictable. At the top of Mount Resilience, luxury yurts surround an elegant firepit—all, of course, perfectly staged and lighted. But this week's Elimination Event isn't going to go as planned.

In the aftermath of a category 6 hurricane in Puerto Rico, aspiring journalist Vero Diaz leads an effort to rebuild his community, reviving ancient Taíno traditions to survive the storm's aftermath and their island's new colonizers. Still gripped by tradition, many do not accept Vero, a trans man, as their leader, driving him to start a new life abroad.

Ein Sommer und der Zauber der ersten Liebe... Charkiw, 1986: Als der rebellische Jura im sowjetischen Pionierlager eintrifft, glaubt er einen langen, langweiligen Sommer vor sich zu haben. Doch dann tritt Wolodja in sein Leben. Der Gruppenleiter plant ein Theaterstück auf die Beine zu stellen und bittet Jura um Hilfe. Während der Vorbereitungen merken die beiden, dass sie weitaus tiefere Gefühle füreinander hegen als nur Freundschaft. Gefühle, die eine Gefängnisstrafe bedeuten könnten, sollte jemand etwas bemerken. Nach dem Sommer trennen sich die Wege der jungen Männer.

Lady Mona Roughton ist keine Aristokratin, wie sie im Buche steht. Der geerbte Adelstitel kommt mit einem altehrwürdigen Anwesen, das mehr Risse hat als ihre Ehe mit dem verstorbenen Lord. Damit der Freigeist aus San Francisco ihr neues Leben im ländlichen England halten kann, wird das stattliche Easley House prompt zur gewinnbringenden Touristenfalle. Zum Glück steht ihr Adoptivsohn Wilfred zur Seite, der einst vor der Deportation durch Thatchers eiserne Legislation floh. Denn als die Amerikanerin Rhonda ein Zimmer mit ihrem Ehemann mietet, braucht Mona jede Hilfe, die sie kriegen kann.

When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn't so sure. His rounds with his father to evangelize at hospices and sell his father's self-published book, Heaven or Bust!, feel inauthentic and strange, especially now that he's started having sex dreams about Jesus. 

The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.

I needed to get the hell out of Big City. The only reason I'm living in this American wasteland is because my mother insisted I reconcile with my estranged father. That the idea came to her while drunk on French bubbly should have been my sign to stay right where I belonged. Anywhere but here. Certainly somewhere more fabulous. When an international job opportunity arises, I jump on board. It's just a bonus that I'll be traveling with the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome. Make that muscular, morally gray, and hopefully, my next conquest.

A little very big dragon finds his voice, two legs, and some delightful human appendages beyond in this MM high fantasy romance, featuring: one forlorn dragon-riding prince, a dragon who just wants to kiss the boy, two incredibly self-sacrificing doofuses, a road to pain paved with all the best intentions, and a plot to upend a kingdom.

After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbridled hatred simmering beneath the guise of the town’s idyllic community.

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world.

Ein queerer Urban Fantasy Roman. Vampire sind Monster. Dessen wird sich der 2000 Jahre alte Boris erneut bewusst, als er für die Ausbildung zum Kriminalbeamten gezwungen wird, wieder frisches Blut zu trinken. Ambrosia hat ihn für viele Jahrzehnte menschlich gemacht, ihm ermöglicht zu atmen – aber Menschlichkeit hilft ihm im Kampf gegen Untote, Werwesen und Dämonen nicht weiter. Es ist vor allem seine eigene Art, gegen die es zu kämpfen gilt. Ein Vampirclan verbreitet Angst und Terror in der Stadt.

Follow professional fairy-tale fixer Zinnia Gray as she helps women get the endings they deserve! First, Sleeping Beauty in A Spindle Splintered, fractured and reimagined. And then, Snow White's Evil Queen in A Mirror Mended!

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Lonely and far from home, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher. Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo's nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in seedy bars. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light.

As his family falls apart day by day, Robin finds himself pulling away from the unquestioned, unexamined life that has been carefully laid out for him. Small acts of rebellion lead to larger questions of what it means to stand on his own. Falling into a fevered triangle with two other outcasts, Todd Spicer and Scott Schatz, Robin embarks on an explosive odyssey of sexual self-discovery that will take him beyond the spring-green lawns of suburbia, beyond the fraying fabric barely holding together his quickly unraveling family, and into a complex future, beyond the world of normal boys.

It’s 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works in conservation at the Met, she spends her free time scouting the city’s street art, hoping something might spark inspiration. Instead, everything looks like a dead end. And art isn’t the only thing that feels wrong: wherever she turns, her gender identity clashes with the rest of her life. Her relationship, once anchored by shared queerness, is falling apart as her boyfriend Lukas increasingly seems to be attracted to Dawn only when she’s at her most masculine.

Als sich der junge Eman vor seinen Eltern outet, endet das in einer familiären Katastrophe, die ihn allein und obdachlos zurücklässt. In seinem Herzen ist er überzeugt, sein Schicksal durch seine homosexuelle Neigung herausgefordert zu haben, also beschließt er, dieser abzuschwören. Nach Jahren auf der Straße erhält er überraschend ein Jobangebot von dem geheimnisvollen Major, wodurch seine Entscheidung auf die Probe gestellt wird. Die Klientel von dessen Agentur Your secret Wish besteht nämlich zu einem Großteil aus queeren Kunden und auch die Angestellten sind fast ausschließlich schwul.

" Elio doit être mon refuge. Je l‘ai sauvé d'une vie de perdition, c‘est à lui de me sauver de celle qu‘on me promet. " Elio, 25 ans, vit une existence tranquille auprès de son compagnon. Quand il n’écume pas la capitale à vélo pour son travail de livreur, il poursuit son rêve d’exposer un jour ses peintures aux yeux du monde en prenant des cours d’art. Alors, oui, il a " quelques soucis " avec le concept de fidélité ; oui, il arnaque parfois les clients de quelques euros, mais rien ne prédestinait Elio à la punition qui l’attend : placer sa vie, son corps et son âme entre les mains d’un seul homme.

"Quando scrivo poesia mi sento simile alle stelle che vagabondano nel cielo con la loro luce intermittente. La mia poesia vive di segni e di simboli, con la mia parola poetica annuncio eventi. Abito l’immaginazione, vi soggiorno, amo sedurre con le parole e i simboli per rendere sopportabile il mondo che incatena le nostre vite. Mi inabisso fino ai fondali del mondo e più in là nell’infinito, per scrutarne il mistero. Io scrivo poesia per salvarmi dalla mia dannazione, dal mio destino."

Rifugio, palcoscenico, spazio di incontri, di solidarietà, di espressione sessuale: il bar gay è stato a lungo il luogo in cui una comunità priva di diritti e di rappresentazione, esclusa dal centro della scena e delle città, ha potuto riunirsi, sperimentare l’appartenenza, esistere davvero. Oggi, uno per uno, quei luoghi stanno scomparendo, chiusi oppure trasformati in qualcosa di più innocuo (e certo più commerciabile). Possiamo leggerlo come un buon segno, la dimostrazione che non c’è più ragione di nascondersi; ma, senza voler negare il valore di quello che abbiamo guadagnato, è possibile raccontare anche quello che stiamo perdendo?

Er dachte, er wäre ein Mensch. Doch nun ist er auf einmal ein Omega. Ohne Clan. Ohne Rechte. In einer Welt voller Bestien... Kieran Nashville, genannt Nash, wusste natürlich, dass es Wandler gibt und dass sie in dieses merkwürdige System aus Alpha, Beta, Omega eingeteilt sind. Was er nicht wusste: Er ist selbst ein Wandler, und dummerweise ausgerechnet ein Omega. Von einem Tag auf den anderen verliert er alles: seine Freundin, sein Zuhause, seine Zukunft. Denn seine Eltern, die nichts mit einem Omega anzufangen wissen, geben die Verantwortung an die Blackwolf Agency ab.