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Translated from the German. Contributors include Claudia Breitsprecher, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Angela Steidele, Antje R\u00e1vik Strubel, Antje Wagner and Tania Witte.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Book_ID: <\/strong>\u00a0119039<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queer voices were heard in Germany, Switzerland and Austria decades before Stonewall. This anthology gathers prose fiction by more than twenty contemporary openly queer writers in German, whose work celebrates the present, casts a queer eye on the past and imagines LGBTQ futures. 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