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THE PINK LIST FICTION ADAIR, GilbertALEXANDER, NickBuenos Noches, Buenos Aires 50 Reasons to Say Goodbye Sottopassagio Code of Submission Seven Moves He kills coppers Johnny Come Home ALEXANDER, Paul CANSHAW, CarolARNOTT, Jake- This is a gripping tale of emotional and political ferment in 70s London from the author of the bestselling "Long Firm" trilogy. London, 1972, and a charismatic anarchist called O'Connell dies of an overdose, leaving his artist boyfriend, Pearson, and fellow activist Nina in shock. It also leaves a spare room in their squat, so Pearson moves in Sweet Thing, a streetwise yet vulnerable young rent boy he initially picks up but then tries to help. Pearson isn't the only one who's interested though - glam rock star Johnny Chrome is on the brink of a breakdown and is convinced that Sweet Thing is the only one who can bring him back. As Sweet Thing gets drawn further into Johnny Chrome's dangerous orbit, Pearson and Nina discover that O'Connell was not all he seemed. In this tautly paced, highly evocative novel Jake Arnott once again combines brilliant storytelling with a flawless portrait of a changing era, when the optimism of the 60s was giving way to the anger and bombs of the early 70s. The Long Firm Truecrime ASHLEY, TimAUGIERAS, FrancoisBABCOCK, JimBAINBRIDGE, BerylThe Island of Mending Hearts The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Boys and the Bees Harriet Said 1 BAKER, James Robert- Anarchy Testosterone Giovanni’s Room Go Tell It on the Mountain Force of Nature Journey to a Woman That Man from C.A.M.P. The Regeneration Trilogy includes Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost Road Cry Havoc He’s the One BALDWIN, James- BALDWIN, KimBANNON, AnneBANIS, V.JBARKER, Pat- BAXTER, ClareBECK, Timothy James- Arriving in New York City to realize his dreams as a web site designer, Midwestern jock-slash-computer geek Adam Wilson finds the perfect man in Jeremy, a gorgeous TV actor, and launches an all-out campaign to win his heart--an endeavor that teaches Adam a thing or two about true love. I’m Your Man It Had to Be You BEHR, MarkBERNSTEIN, MattBESSON, PhilippeBLACK, EthanBODNER, Hal Embrace Pulling Taffy In the Absence of Men The Broken Hearts Club Bite Club: a West Hollywood Vampire Novel. Around the Houses BOULTER, Amanda- In this, the first of a series of novels set in South London, we meet Anna who is having a baby - but the father's gay, and her lover is a woman. Her best friend Ruby is 40 and fondling every man she can, and her neighbours are the OAPs from Hell. Balham will never be the same again! Back Around the Houses 2 BOYLE, T.C- The Inner Circle In 1939 on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right hand man. But Kinsey teaches Milk more than the art of objective enquiry. Behind closed doors, he is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a member of his 'inner circle' of researchers, Milk is called on to participate in experiments that become increasingly uninhibited. BRAUND, Diana TremainBRITE, Poppy Z- Wicked Good Time Exquisite Corpse Lost Souls Best Lesbian Love Stories Addictions Alma Mater Rubyfruit Jungle BROWN, AngelaBROWN, LawrenceBROWN, Rita Mae- BROWNRIGG, SylviaBURCHILL, Julie- Pages For You Sugar Rush Saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life - come get your sugar fix! It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalising Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the 'Ravers'. As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and gambles her good-girl past for an exciting life of late-night parties and daring emotion, she must ask herself a disturbing question: has she fallen in love with her best friend? BURNETT, AllisonBUFFORD, BridgetBURROUGHS, WilliamBURSTON, PaulBURTON, PETER (Editor)- Christopher Minus One Naked Lunch Shameless Serendipity : The Gay Times Book of New Stories 3 BRYSON, Kathleen Kiink- Mush For me, the story about four people and how the death of one has affected the others, directly or indirectly, is powerful stuff. Sometimes I didn't want to explore too deeply my own feeling towards what was happening to the characters. 'Mush' is always challenging, never lets you go, picks you up by the scruff of your neck and shakes you about until you want to shout for it to stop. And then it goes further. It's definitely not for those who like to read about fluffy bunnies and sip a cup of horlicks before going to bed, but for those of you who like modern fiction that doesn't follow the welltrodden path this is gold dust! CALHOURN, Jackie CALLOWAY, Kate- Abby’s Passion 8th day Fourth Down On the Wings of Love Adam and Steve Burden of Ashes Running Dry CARTER, MeganCHESTER, CraigCHIN, JustinCHRISTIAN, M- A wicked tale of vengeance, loyalty and the inherent humanity of the inhuman. Ernst Doud is a middle-aged 154 year old non-human painter living quietly in Los Angeles when he receives a cryptic letter from a lover he last saw in 1913, precisely at the moment he killed him - or so he had always thought. So begins M. Christian's debut novel, as unlike any book you have read as Doud is unlike any hero who has ever graced the pages of a novel. Set in contemporary Los Angeles, with excursions into the surreal outback of Southern California's high desert, "Running Dry" is a stunningly realised story of vengeance, loyalty and the inherent humanity of the inhuman. CLARE, BaxterCOLE, C BardCOLLINS, WarwickCONN, NicoleCOOPER, Dennis- Cry Havoc Briefly Told Lives Gents Claire of the Moon Period Try Wrong: Stories 4 COOPER, Steven- Deadline Saving Valencia Valencia Brandywine, heiress to a hotel empire is missing. Her brother, Rico, with dear friend D'vora Wasserman at his side, trots the globe in search of Valencia...a search that turns out to be a deeply personal and somewhat mystical journey as well. What follows is a romp through psychotherapy, religion, romance and several inauspicious erections. Rico learns who he is. He learns why he is who he is. He learns about a power that inhibits him - a power he was born with that brings out the very truth in people. With You in Spirit CORTLETT, WilliamNow and Then Two Gentlemen Sharing Close to Spider Man Boy Toy The Ice Sculptures My Summer of Love COYOTE, Ivan ECRAFT, MichaelCRAIG, Michael. DCROSS, Helen- It’s 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire’s seen. It’s the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in... Mona is fifteen years old. She’s a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who’s died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse… CUMMING, AlanCUNNINGHAM, Michael- Tommy’s Tale At home at the End of the World The Hours Specimen Days The Blood of Kings The Priest Fainted The Element of Water Scar Culture Dreams found CURLOVICH, John MichaelDAVIDSON, Catherine TDAVIES, StevieDAVISON, ToniDENISON, Lyn- 5 D’ERASMO, StaceyDIXON, MelvinDONOGHUE, Emma- Tea Vanishing Rooms The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits Alchemy Beneath the Blonde Eating Cake Fresh Flesh Immaculate Conceit Wavewalker The History of Lesbian Hair Making A Killing Hallucinating Foucault DUFFY, MaureenDUFFY, Stella- DUGGER, MaryDUNFORD, WarrenDUNCKER, Patricia - A tale of a writer, the glamorous, scandalous Paul Michel, enfant terrible of French letters, and of a student who sets out to find him. When he does find Michel, it is in a French asylum where he has languished for years. The student arranges for Michel to be freed, but with devastating results. DUNFORD, Warren- Soon to be a Major Motion Picture The Oversight Distant palaces Middlesex EAVES, WillESTEVEZ, ABILIOEUGENIDES, Jeffrey- In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, Cal has inherited a rare genetic mutation. The biological trace of a guilty secret, this gene has followed her grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Detroit and has outlasted the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Cal is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Sprawling across eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. 6 FASCHINGER, Lillian- Vienna Passion Rosa Havelka is a woman of her time. From a Prague orphange to the bedrooms of the Austro-Hungarian court. Rosa shines through the sordid glamour of fin de siecle Vienna, and makes it her own. In her footsteps follows Magnolia Brown, a young New Yorker beginning a tentative romance with her singing teacher in modern day Vienna. FAULKS, SebastianFORD, Michael Thomas- Birdsong Last Summer Looking for It An Emergence of Green The Beverly Malibu Daughters of an Emerald Dusk Lesbian Pulp Fiction Murder at the Nightwood Bar Murder by Tradition Maurice FORREST, Katherine V. FORSTER, E.M- Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. Compellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, and is at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's erotic and political self-discovery. FREDRIKSSON, MarianneFRITCHLEY, Alma- Inge and Mira Chicken Out Chicken Shack The Star’s Tennis Balls The Sacred Shore Aerodynamics of Pork Friendly Fire Kansas in August Little Bits of Baby Rough Music 7 FRY, StephenFULTON, JenniferGALE, Patrick- GALE, Patrick- Sweet Obscurity Tree Surgery for Beginners Marrying Tom GERACI, Joseph- I wasn't too sure what to expect of this book, I was looking for something a bit light to read whilst travelling. The result was a really entertaining book, i genuinely enjoyed it. A couple of the characters and situations were a little unrealistic for what seemed to be a fairly down to earth novel. Remember that guy you really fancied in school because he was tough, popular and edgy. Well now imagine that you actually got it on with him.... That's what makes this novel entertaining. It's a real opportunity to fantasise. G’FELLERS, JeanneGOLDING, Paul- No Sister of Mine The Abomination Senseless Dark Rider Skin Deep Bending the Landscape vol 3 Slow river Yin fire Boulevard Kirith Kirin The Sense of Movement Plays Well With Others The Well of Loneliness GORDON, JackGORDON, John,RGRIFFITH, Nicola- GRILIKHES, AlexandraGRIMSLEY, Jim- GUNN, ThomGURGANUS, AllanHALL, Radclyffe- A powerful novel of love between women, THE WELL OF LONELINESS brought about the most famous legal trial for obscenity in the history of British law. Banned on publication in 1928, it then went on to become a classic bestseller. Stephen Gordon (named by a father desperate for a son) is not like other girls: she hunts, she fences, she reads books, wears trousers and longs to cut her hair. As she grows up amidst the stifling grandeur of Morton Hall, the locals begin to draw away from her, aware of some indefinable thing that sets her apart. And when Stephen Gordon reaches maturity, she falls passionately in love - with another woman. HANSEN, Joseph- Gravedigger Skinflick 8 HART, Ellen- Faint Praise Hunting the Witch The Merchant of Venus City Secrets (short stories) Rock n’ Roll Suicide Sixteen HARTNETT, P.P- Steven lives for the school holidays, touring the swimming pools, talking about the music he loves and enjoying the attention as he pauses on the highest diving platform. Growing up surrounded by the images on pop videos and teen magazines, Steven soon learnt that a look can be provocative, that a smile can be a come-on. Carl understands the lure of the image. As a consultant in the music industry, he creates the boy bands that dominate the charts and fill the record shops. When he meets Steven at the local swimming pool, it is inevitable that his svengali side comes to the fore. But even he does not know what he really wants: is his interest personal, could it be professional? And how far is he prepared to exploit the appeal of a sixteen year old? HEIM, Scott- Mysterious Skin Daring, controversial, intelligent, beautiful, emotional, these are just a few of the words to describe this masterpiece. From the beginning it has you gripping the next page, wondering were the characters path in life will next take its turn. There are also points in the book that arguably could be edited, although the fact that they remain, makes this book seem even more of a work of art. Its rawness and beauty make it original and well worth a read. I hope to be reading more books from this amazing author in the near future. HELGASON, HallgrimurHELL, RichardHENSLEY, DennisHENSHER, PhilipHERREN, Greg- 101 Reykjavik Godlike Misadventures in the 213 The Mulberry Empire Murder in the Rue Dauphine Murder in the Rue St Ann Upon a Midnight Clear: Queer Christmas Tales Calm Before the Storm Midnight Rain To Have and To Hold Carol HERRING, Peggy J- HIGHSMITH, Patricia- 9 HILL, EleanorHILL, Gerri- A Passionate Development Dawn of Change Susan Sterling wanted nothing more than to escape her life ...and her marriage. The family's secluded cabin in Kings Canyon National Park seemed the only place for her to find peace. But it took Shawn Weber coming into her life for her to find the courage to make changes. The budding friendship between the two women strengthens into an intense emotional bond, a bond that soon eclipses friendship. Hunter’s Way One Summer Night HILL, LindaHILLMAN, TheaHOAG, TamiHOLLINGHUSRT, AlanTreasured Past Depending on the Light Dust to Dust The Folding Star The Line of Beauty It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility. At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world. In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. The Spell The Swimming-Pool Library HOUSE, RichardHUNTER, FredILSLEY, George KISHERWOOD, ChristopherJOHNSON, Ben PatrickJOHNSON, Bett ReeceJONES, Frankie. JUninvited The Chicken Asylum Random Acts of Hatred Goodbye to Berlin Third and Heaven The Woman Who Found Grace For Every Season Whispers in the Wind 10 JONES, John Sam- Welsh Boys too With Angels and Furies Contemporary, yet timeless, these tales of young gay men living in rural Wales have a pathos and dignity that sustains this slim but vibrant collection. JONES, Sonya (ed)KALLMAKER, Karin- A Sea of Stories Car Pool Frosting on the Cake Making Up for Lost Time One Degree of Seperation Substitute for Love Sugar Wild Things A Married Woman Trumpet KAPUR, ManjuKAY, Jackie- Jackie Kay's first novel is a curious and haunting story about mixed-race jazz trumpeter Joss Moody (Irish mother, black father), who turns out, on his death, to have been a woman all along. The story begins with that discovery. Thereafter it traces its consequences for his white wife Millie, who always knew, and his adopted black son Colman, who didn't. Millie rehearses the stages of her relationship with Joss, reworking an intense and abiding love and commitment in which gender is, oddly, never really an issue. Colman, by contrast, is driven, in the period immediately following his father's death, by anger and an intense feeling of betrayal, to try to "out" his father and complete his humiliation as a kind of personal expiation. As he retraces the steps of Joss's life, however, he begins gradually to change his mind. Kay has won acclaim for her poetry. Here she shows that she can harness her plangent voice to a narrative, producing writing of real maturity. Race and gender are deftly woven into its fabric, without insistence, to reveal a troubling ordinariness about fragmentation and confusions of identity in contemporary British life. KEANE, MollyKEATES, JonathanKEEGAN, MelKEEGAN, MelKEENAN, Joe- Good Behaviour Smile Please Aquamarine Fortunes of War Blue Heaven Putting on the Ritz 11 KENDRICK, Mark- Desert Sons Into This World We’re Thrown The Arrival of Fergal Flynn KENNEDY, Brian For sixteen-year-old Fergal Flynn, growing up in 1980s Belfast isn't easy. His father and brothers despise him; he's his mother's crutch one day, her punching bag the next; he has no idea what he wants to do with his life; and he fancies one of the boys in his class...Fergal just wants to belong - but knows he never will. When handsome young Father Mac arrives in the parish, Fergal embarks on a whirlwind journey towards a new life. As their relationship deepens, he discovers his sexuality, his talent for singing and the wonderful, terrifying opportunities the world has to offer. Funny, tender and unflinching, The Arrival of Fergal Flynn is the story of a young man struggling to find his voice against all the odds. Roman Song KHAN, E.MKING, FrancisKING, LaurieKING, MartinKLUGER, SteveKRACH, AaronLAMBERT, CochraneLARDER, HelenDeep Water In the Nick of Time With Child The Estate Almost Like Being in Love Half-Life Three Fortunes in One Cookie Treasure Within the tight timeframe of a treasure hunt on a summer's day, this cleverly constructed story follows the progress of six very different women, one unconventional child and a desperate sperm donor. As they follow the clues to find the treasure, we also wait to see whether Jo will leave her lover and their daughter before the day is out. A generosity of human spirit runs through this book as it takes on infidelity, queer parenting, transsexuality and unrequited lust. LEAVITT, David- The Body of Jonah Boyd Martin Bauman The Page Turner The Stories of David Leavitt The handsomest man in the world LEDDICK, David- 12 LEE, V.GLENNON, TomLEROY, J.T- The Comedian Crazy Love The Heart is Deceitful Above All Other Things J.T. LeRoy has gained passionate admirers in the UK. We are now proud to publish his collection of short stories. These loosely connected autobiographical stories describe the harrowing experiences of a teenager living on the streets. J.T. LeRoy's voice is lyrical and nuanced as he shapes his dark subjects into something utterly strange and magical. Fresh, raw, and absolutely unforgettable, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things will prove LeRoy to be one of the most gifted writers of his generation. Sarah LEVIN, Shaun LEVITHAN, David LEWIS, HeatherLEIBER, JuliaA Year of Two Summers Boy Meets Boy House Rules The Blue Scorpion There came Two Angels Loy Lombard is hired to clear the name of former republican senator Jasper Slade, who has been charged with the murder of a young gay hustler. Loy begins to suspect she is being used as a pawn to help destroy the state's gay rights group. But by whom? And how far are they willing to go to protect the powerful tobacco families that are linked to both sides of this dirty war? LOPEZ, ErikaLove shook my heart – Vol 1 Love shook my heart – Vol 2 McCANN, JeanneMcCANN, MariaMcCLATCHY, J D (ed)McCLUNE, Lindsay (ed)Mc COURT, EmerMcCULLERS, Carson13 They Call Me Mad Dog Hawaiian Love As Meat Loves Salt Love Speaks It’s Name On Our Backs Elvis, Jesus and Me The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McDERMID, Val- Booked for Murder Common Murder Final Edition Report for Murder Stranded Union Jack Adam Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet Cop Out Death Club McDONALD, Anthony- McNAB, Claire- An exclusive golf tournament is carefully designed to lure the world's top players to a private clubhouse. With a lot more happening off the course than on, the fairway becomes a killing field, and someone sets out to even the score. The Kookaburra Gambit MADDISON, LaurenDeceptions The Eleventh Hour Epitaph for an Angel Witchfire Not Dark Yet All the Rage Modern Love Strange Boy To the Devil:a Diva! MAES, NickMAGRS, Paul- Karla Sorensen used to be big in horror films. In the 60s and 70s no self-respecting low-budget bloodily schlocky shocker was complete without the Queen of the Vampires presiding over it. She was well qualified for it, after all...at the age of ten she sold her soul to the devil. Now, although spookily ageless, Karla is knocking on in years. Her residuals are drying up and she needs some cash, so she decides to return to the north of England, to Manchester, to appear in Menswear, Britain's riskiest television soap opera. Not everyone's happy about her return to the fame game, however. The current star of the late-night show is Lance Randall, the famously bisexual actor, and he is furious to hear that Karla is about to become his co-star. He hates her, he fears her, and he's convinced that she's coming to steal his very soul. Dark clouds are massing around Manchester; deep, dark, devilish secrets are about to be unleashed that will wreak havoc on all around. MANDAL, Jay- The Dandelion Clock Different Kind of Love The Loss of Innocence Precipice 14 MANDAL, JayMANN, Paul MANN, William JMARTIN, Douglas. AMARTIN, Marianne K- Slubberdegullion The queer commando All American boy Outline of my lover Dawn of the Dance Moni seeks the healing touch that only another woman can give, but Paige turns out to be a heart breaker. Devastated, Moni vows to never get close to a woman again - until she looks into Katherine's sweet, seductive eyes. Moni Matteson is a young woman too old for her years and too young for her dreams. At 17, she has known for some time that her happiness would come from the love of a woman. She finds it at first in the arms of Paige Flemming, a woman with an unknown past and a questionable future. Through the rhythm of the dance, Paige teaches her to want and need love. Then, during a lonely morning after, she leaves her. Devastated. Moni goes to college, where for three years she struggles to maintain her belief that there could be someone with whom she can share her life. Then, unexpectedly, she finds herself in a temporary teaching job with Katherine Cunningham, a woman whose career is masking her own loneliness. They teach side by side, while Moni secretly falls in love. Afraid to expose her feelings, she endures a long guessing game before Katherine makes the moves that propel them both into a relationship. Only after a shocking reunion with Paige does Moni believe in the stability of her relationship with Katherine, and finally in herself. Love in the balance MARTINAC, PaulaMAUPIN, ArmistedChicken Tales of the City A naïve young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin. More Tales of the City Further Tales of the City Babycakes Significant Others Sure of You Maybe the Moon The Night Listener MAXWELL, LeeMENDELSON, CharlotteEmerald Budgies Daughters of Jerusalem 15 MERLIS, Mark- American Studies Man About Town Pyrrhus Dispatch to Death MILLER, Martha- For years Trudy has driven cab number four, and that's all she's done since Georgia left her. This all changes when she picks up a fare, the beautiful and mysterious Anita Alvarez. Next thing she knows, she is drawn into Anita's world of drug running and murder. Nine Nights on the Windy Tree MILLS, JosephBorderline – Scottish Gay Writing Obsessions The Redundancy of Courage Does your mama know ? A Matter of Life and Sex MO, TimothyMOORE, Lisa CMOORE, Oscar- For anyone who has felt alone, confused or repressed by their own sexuality. At times perhaps despondent; homophobic even, this book explores a very English kind of coming out. An English expression of sexuality for someone growing up without positive role models. It is dirty and horny; elating and lonely. I felt exquisitely touched by this book. The HIV issue came late and reminded me of how I had perhaps escaped the real trauma years. This was not without a touch of sorrow. For those who are gay, or with gay friends they sometimes find confusing, this book is like reading a friends diary. MYLES, EileenO’HARE, AndrewOLSHAN, JosephO’NEILL, JamieORLAFF, AlvinORTON, Joe and Kenneth Halliwell- Cool for You Green Eyes Vanitas At Swim, Two Boys I Married an Earthling The Boy Hairdresser and Lord Cucumber Death Wore the Emperor’s New Clothes 16 OUTLAND, Orland- OUTLAND, Orland- Different People A Serious Person Havana Red The Monkey’s Mask PADURA, Leonardo. PARKER, Dorothy- This novel in the form of poems is amazing not only because of its unusual form but also because of its potency. The work is vibrant and exciting; you will be on the edge of your pillow. Porter's words leap off the page. The poems stand alone and yet hang together. Great performance poetry, especially if Porter herself is delivering. This book HAS to be experienced. Poetry erupts in this one! PECK, Dale- Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SHORT STORIES PERRONE, Michael HollowayPICANO, FeliceA Time Before Me Late in the Season Like People in History Elf Child The Tenth Man Hot Sauce Brokeback Mountain PIERCE, David MPODOJIL, E WilliamPOMFRET, ScottPROULX, Annie- Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands -- 'drop-out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, tough spoken' -- glad to have found each other's company where none had been expected. But companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain, something not looked for, something deadly. PURDY, JamesQUINN, JayRADCLYFFE- Moe’s Villa Metes and Bounds Above All, Honor Honor Bound Justice Served 17 REDMANN, Jean- Death by the Riverside The Intersection of Law and Desire A Woman’s Touch The City Kid Blind Items A Density of Souls Light Before Day REED, ValerieREIDINGER, PaulRETTENMUND, MatthewRICE, Christopher- Christopher Rice breaks into the mainstream with his most powerful novel to date. Obsession, fantasy and nightmare collide in a harrowingly brilliant suspense thriller from the son of the legendary Anne Rice. 25-year-old journalist Adam Murphy is chasing a career-breaking story when he is abruptly fired by the magazine that employs him. Scarred by the failure of a recent relationship, he finds himself set adrift in the city of West Hollywood, where he meets mystery novelist James Wilton, a man whose life has been marked by bestsellerdom, fame and murder. Within days of joining Wilton's personal staff, Adam learns that his former lover has vanished without a trace and that his disappearance matches several other recent missing persons cases. Adam and Wilton begin to suspect a serial killer is preying on the city's young gay men and decide to investigate. But the truth is being guarded by a diabolical force neither man could have imagined and they explore paths of vengeance, murder and sexual perversion from the mansionstrung Hollywood Hills to the drug-ravaged plains of California's Central Valley. It is an investigation that will threaten not only their unlikely friendship, but their lives. The Snow Garden ROBBINS, TimROBERTS, JennyEven Cowgirls get the Blues Breaking Point It's not the best of days for Cameron McGill. Home early from Amsterdam, after a major row with her girlfriend Hellen, she stumbles across a knife attack on the fogbound Humber Bridge. The victim, Magda Swinson, is critically wounded and Cameron, much to her dismay, is held by the police for questioning. Desperate to clear her name, and fulfil a promise that she made to the victim, she starts to investigate and runs into hostile animal rights militants, violent thugs, a mysterious dyke called Beano, the alluring Angel, who only wants to get Cameron into bed... and the very unhelpful chief executive of an animal research establishment. As the days pass she gets drawn into an ever-more sticky web of danger and intrigue, that ultimately - and dramatically - puts her own life on the line as well. Dead Reckoning Needle Point ROBINSON, Carlton18 High RODI, Robert- Closet Case Fag Hag Kept Boy After years as a pampered "companion" to 50ish, rich impressario Farleigh Nock, Dennis Racine finds himself out of bed, out of favour and out of a job. He whisks Farleigh away to Greece to try and rekindle the relationship, only to find that goats and a deranged grandmother hamper his plans. ROSIER, GillesROWE, Michael (editor)- Love Without Resistance Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction Queer Fear - Volume 2 Lust Rainbow Boys Rainbow High RYMAN, GeoffSANCHEZ, Alex- Nelson Glassman and Kyle Meeks, best friends for many years, are gay teens at Walt Whitman High School. Kyle becomes romantically involved with basketball jock Jason Carrillo, while Nelson embarks on a strained relationship with Jeremy, who has tested positive for HIV. Jason comes out to his team-mates and endures public scrutiny on television, eventually losing his athletic scholarship. On the homefront, Kyle's parents desperately want him to attend Princeton, although this would mean leaving Jason behind, while Nelson's mother also insists that he end his relationship with Jeremy. Throughout these vicissitudes, the young men provide support for one another as graduation approaches. Rainbow Road SANDLER, HelenThe Diva Book of Short Stories Touch Typist They Say She Tastes Like Honey Hen’s Teeth Night Mares No Good Deed Stronger than Death Gay Resort Murder Shock Mardi Gras Murders One Dead Diva Vampire Vow SAWYER, Michelle- SCOTT, Manda- SCOTT, Phillip- SCHIEFELBEIN, Michael- 19 SEALE, AnneSELF, WillSHACKLADY, Helen- Finding Ms Wright Dorian The Lacquered Box Far from settled down, this risk-taking lesbian couple laugh and quarrel as they meet ex-lovers. Kate and Liz investigate used furniture merchants. What do they learn about high art, or the international antiques market in the process? And what of Stella, the new musical talent whom Kate finds? The Patterned Flute The Stolen Crate Stoppage Time The Vinland Sheep SHIELDS, JodySELVADURAI, ShyamThe Fig Eater Funny Boy In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in the capital of Sri Lanka, Arjie is an oddity - a "funny boy" - who likes dressing as a girl. Through his eyes, the reader watches him come to terms with his homosexuality and with the violent racism of the society in which he lives. SIMS, Elizabeth- SMITH, AliSMITH, FrederickSMITH, Virginia- Damn Straight Easy Street Holy Hell Lucky Stiff Hotel World Down for Whatever The Ropemaker’s Daughter This compelling suspense novel asks the question 'Who can you trust?' and comes up with some frightening answers. Rebecca questions the people she meets and steals the stories they tell her, claiming them for her own. Then she meets a man whose story is already familiar, a man who says he knows her. But the real Adam is dead, so who is this impostor? Enter Paige, who will help Rebecca discover the truth about herself, Adam, and love between women. SOEHNLEIN, K.M- The World of Normal Boys You Can Say You Knew Me When A Stone Boat In the City of Shy Hunters 20 SOLOMAN, AndrewSPANBAEUR, Tom- SPRAGGS, Gillian (ed)STEVENS, R.J- Love Shook My Senses Becoming Bobbie The Best of Friends All the Bold Days of My Restless Life Love Letters in the Sand Best Gay Love Stories Biceps of Death STONE, Sharon- STREET, NickSTUKAS, David- It ain't easy being pretty, and in Chelsea it ain't easy NOT being pretty. That's why Robert is putting himself through a gruelling work-out regime under his roommate Michael's tutelage. It takes Robert by complete surprise, though, when bodybuilding hunk Flex, gives him a cheeky kiss in the locker room and disappears off promising him more to follow. The next morning, however, Flex is found dead - murdered by the person the papers have dubbed the "bodybuilder serial killer". Now it's up to Robert, with pals Michael and Monette, to stop the killer before he strikes again... Going Down for the Count Someone Killed his Boyfriend Wearing Black to the White Party SUDBERY, ClareSUTCLIFFE, WilliamSUTHERLAND, LukeThe Dying of Delight New Boy Venus as a Boy In a room in Soho, a man is turning gold. His flesh, his organs, even his beautiful eyes, are being transformed by some shocking human alchemy into precious deadly metal. And the path to this curious and frightening predicament has itself been filled with incredible moments. It began on South Ronaldsay amongst the singing seals and ancient ruins of Orkney. There a lad grew up with a rare gift for loving - something that proved much trickier than it sounds. He encountered misunderstanding, bullying, loss and heartbreak. And yet the physical heights he reached - and to which he brought others - went far beyond any normal sensual pleasure. This led to the sort of sex that made people see angels. Indeed when the lad actually lost his virginity, it was to a glorious Dane called Engel who fell - literally - out of the sky, entangled in a huge kite tail. This remarkable story about the power of love veers from stratosphere to gutter, from visions of Heaven to the all-too mortal yearning below for even just one glimpse of it. TABOR, DoeTALARAN21 Do Drums Beat There? Vendetta TAVERNER, JayTAYLOR, WilliamTEMPRELL, SimonTHEOBOLD, Stephanie- Something Wicked Pebble in a Pool Bitter and Twisted Sucking Shrimp Trix When charismatic hustier Ruby Rose meets Scarborough waitress Mo at a wake in a New Orieans diner, she offers to be Mo's guide on a road trip across America. Mousy Mo jumps at the chance, but it isn't long before she suspects that Ruby's insatiable thirst for adventure covers a deeper secret. What lies behind the mask of her charisma? In this daring, sharply funny novel, Mo discovers that tricks aren't just about sex - that we all turn tricks in our own way... THOMAS, JessicaTHOMAS, RupertTHOROGOOD, StuartTOBIN, BetsyTOIBIN, Colm- Caught in the Net Street Life and Hard Time Outside In The Bounce The Blackwater Lightship The Story of the Night Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out mirrors the country's emergence from the repressive rule of the Generals to tentative new hope under the early Menem government. TOKSVIG, Sandi- Flying Under Bridges Whistling for Elephants Maryfield Academy Separate Rooms The Water’s Edge Sacred Country Fran’s War Loaded TOMASO, CarlaTONDELLI, Pier VittorioTONDEUR, LouiseTREMAIN, RoseTRENCH, SallyTSIOLKAS, Christos- 22 TULCHINSKY, Karen XTYLER, Ben- Love Ruins Everything Gay Blades Tricks of the Trade Descanso Living Upside Down Our Lady of the Assassins TYLER, CynthiaTYM, KateVALLEJO, Fernando- A writer Fernando returns to Medellin after an absence of 30 years. He meets Alexis, 16 years old, a male prostitute and a hitman - a Medellin child - with whom he falls in love. But their tender love is doomed. Alexis needs no reason to kill: like an Angel of Death he opens fire on anybody who rubs him the wrong way. Fernando and Alexis are bound by an intense passion as they wander from church to chruch, murder to murder. When Alexis is finally killed himself Fernando unwittingly takes up with his killer. Reminiscent of the best of Genet, Our Lady of the Assassins is a dark, fierce book that blames the church and the political elite for Colombia's tragedy. VIDAL, GoreWAKEFIELD, TomWALKER, Alice - The City and the Pillar Mates The Color Purple You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down The Wild Man Affinity Fingersmith The Night Watch WARREN, Patricia NellWATERS, Sarah- Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover ...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances ...Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement. Tipping the Velvet 23 WATTS, JuliaWAUGH, EvelynWELSH, LouiseWHITE, Edmund- Finding H F Brideshead Revisted The Cutting Room The Beautiful Room is Empty The Married Man Austin, a middle-age American in Paris, catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. Life suddenly becomes a round of suppers and glittering salons. But the sadness in Julien's past will lead them around the world in a quest for health and happiness. WILBON, MaryWILDE, OscarWILSON, CintraWINTERSON, Jeanette- Naughty Little Secrets The Picture of Dorian Gray Colors Insulting to Nature Lighthousekeeping Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Brought up in a working-class Pentecostal family, up North, Jeanette follows the path her Mam has set for her. This involves Bible quizzes, a stint as a tambourine-playing Sally Army officer and a future as a missionary in Africa, or some other "heathen state". When Jeanette starts going to school ("The Breeding Ground") and confides in her mother about her feelings for another girl ("Unnatural Passions"), she's swept up in a feverish frenzy for her tainted soul. Confused, angry and alone, Jeanette strikes out on her own path, that involves a funeral parlour and an ice-cream van. The Passion The Powerbook Sexing the Cherry WOODCRAFT, ElizabethYATES, BartYOUNG, Laura DehartZAHAVA, Irene (Editor)Good Bad Woman The Brother’s Bishop Love on the Line Love Shook my Heart: New Lesbian Love Stories Sex and murder.com ZUBRO, Mark Richard- 24 NON-FICTION Christine Stringfellow and Junko Mori (collected and edited) Local Studies reference - There is a rainbow over Blackpool Tower ...memories and images recording the rich social history of Blackpool's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people 025.040 DAWSON, JeffGay and Lesbian Online; Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web An upbeat tour of gay web sites and online resources provides for readers of a wide range of interests and computer skills, profiling more than 3,300 sites that encompass chat rooms, dating services, and reference pages. Original. It Only Hurts When I Polka Even More Tongue In Cheek : Looks at Queer Life Normal Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude Three Queer Lives: an Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall 305 ISOM, Kevin- 305. 308 Bloom, Amy 305.906 BAILEY, Paul- This work dissects the lives of two extraordinary men and one remarkable woman who defied the sexual prejudices of their age and lived by their own rules. It tells the rags-to-riches story of Fred Barnes, a singer, dancer, comedian and scourge of the military; Naomi Jacob, a terrible but prolific novelist, broadcaster and cross-dresser; and Arthur Marshall, wit, television personality and "portly sunbeam". Paul Bailey describes gay life when it was still illegal, and how he became fascinated by these three characters, all gay in more senses than one. 305.906 LAMING, Tim305.906 LARGE, Gina- The Virgin Gay Guide Gina: The Woman Within 25 305.906 MINTON, Henry. L- Departing From Deviance: a History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America Conundrum The Inflatable Butch: New Funny Stuff The Queen is Dead: a Story of Jarheads, Eggheads, Serial Killers and Bad Sex 305.906 MORRIS, Jan305.906 ORLEANS, Ellen- 305.906 SIMPSON, Mark- A chance letter sparks off an hilariously doomed transatlantic literary romance involving Marines, glory holes, cats, intellectuals, transsexuals and a bizarre lovetriangle rivalry with gay serial-killer and Gianni Versace's assassin Andrew Cunanan. If you believe the old adage that something is funny because it's true and true because it's funny, The Queen is Dead will kill you. Or at least make you laugh and cry until you wish that you'd been lied to instead. Provocative, revealing, startling and scandalously funny. 305.9066 BLASIUS, Mark- We Are Everywhere: a Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics Speaking Sex to Power: the Politics of Pleasure and Perversity Sexuality and Discrimination Born to be Gay: A History of Homosexuality Strangers: Homosexual love in the 19th Century Family Outing 306.7 CALIFIA-RICE, Pat- 306.76 Donnellan, Craig306.766 NAPHY, William G- 306.766 Robb, Graham- 306.77 BONO, Chastity- A self-help book for parents and teens-to-early-twenties on coming out. Chastity Bono (daughter of Cher and Sonny) interweaves the story of her own experience with her parents with those of many others, offering practical advice on seeing yourself as normal (parents and kids alike). This is a frank account of her own and others' rites of passage, and a clear case for the acknowledgement being a form of empowerment for herself and others, parent and child. 26 306.77 CLARK, Don306.77 COLLIS, Rose- Loving Someone Gay Portraits to the Wall: Historic Lesbian Lives Unveiled Focusing on British and European women, this is an accessible study of lesbian history. Each chapter documents and examines a woman's life and work, or the nature of a particular partnership. Some of the women featured are famous, such as Greta Garbo, Ethel Smyth, Eve Balfour and Queen Anne, while some of the others' lives have not been documented to date. In considering each person or pair the following questions are asked: were the women "infits" or "outfits" in terms of their sexuality?; how were their relationships conducted?; how much did social status/background dictate the extent of their openness or compromise?; what sort of role models where they in their day to other women?; and what legacy did they create, if any, to the status/visibility of the contemporary lesbian?. A wide range of women of different eras, nationalities, ages and social backgrounds are discussed. 306.77 DYER, Richard306.77 EISENBACH, Helen306.77 GREEN, James N- Culture of Queers Lesbianism Made Easy Beyond Carnival Male: Homosexuality in TwentiethCentury Brazil We Can't Even March Straight: Homosexuality in the British Armed Forces 306.77 HALL, Edmund- Within NATO only Britain and the USA discriminate against homosexuals in the armed forces, and there are indications that more than 260 homosexuals have been forced to leave Britain's forces since 1990. Drawing on many first-hand experiences, this book is a personal testimony and a plea for change. The author served as a naval officer for two years before acknowledging his homosexuality and resigning his commission. 306.77 ISAY, Richard- Being Homosexual: Gay Men and their Development 306.77 O'KEEFE, Tracie and Katrina Fox- Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender 306.77 MERLA, PatrickBoys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories 27 306.77 NAPHY, William G- Born to be Gay: a History of Homosexuality Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century How To Be a Happy Homosexual Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to your Family, Friends, and Colleagues 306.77 ROBB, Graham- 306.77 SANDERSON, Terry- 306.77 SIGNORILE, M- Outing Yourself was such a great resource for me in my coming out. I gave it to four friends and each found it to be equally important to them. Every one of us held on to it--sometimes literally, particularly when the going got rough-- and went back to it when we needed support. I still do so. That's because it breaks the process down into steps and none of us is never fully finished. We're always dealing with these issues. And Signorile understands that rather simplifying it. I don't know what I'd have done without the book. 306.77 SULLIVAN, Andrew- Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality There Must Be Fifty Ways to Tell Your Mother: Coming Out Stories Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society The Third Sex: Kathoey, Thailand's Ladyboys Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle’s Memoir 306.77 SUTCLIFFE, Lynn- 306.77 VANITA, Ruth (ed)- 306.770 Totman, Richard- 306.87 WINTLE, Edwin- When you are a fortysomething gay New Yorker with a stressful job as a film agent, a fruity assortment of friends and the odd obsessive-compulsive tendency, you may not see yourself as an ideal parent. However, when Ed's sister begs him to take in her daughter - the beautiful, capricious and downright difficult Tiffany - Ed rashly agrees. Soon, his life has turned upside down as he tries to deal with an exasperating but loving teenager while learning to be a parent himself. Their relationship develops from culture shock on both sides to an affectionate tolerance of each other's idiosyncrasies and a shared passion for really bad films. 28 307.760 KAISER, Charles331.530 WOOG, Dan- The Gay Metropolis Gay Men, Straight Jobs There is no denying that the closet door has swung wide open for gay men in most professions from doctors to politicians to movie producers. But for many of those working in more blue-collar, male-dominated environments, the workplace remains a place of secrets and fear of discovery. In this new collection, journalist Dan Woog, who has previously examined the intersections - and often collisions - of sexual identity and societal expectations in fields such as athletics (Jocks) and education (School's Out) applies his sharp, empathetic skills to these profiles of gay men who work in what might traditionally be thought of as 'straight jobs'. Construction work, trading on the Stock Market, playing professional football, and fighting fires are just a few of the professions that seem to attract only straight men. But, of course, appearances don't always match reality. GAY MEN, STRAIGHT JOBS reveals the liberating, frightening and sometimes tragic experiences of gay men working in these environments, and spotlights in an intimate, thought-provoking way the important truths about what makes today's society truly work. 362.196 TAYLOR, Jean387.508 BAKER, Paul and Jo Stanley- The C word: a Story of Cancer Hello Sailor 'From Quentin Crisp cavorting with US marines in "The Naked Civil Servant" to Jean Genet, Fassbinder and "Querelle", a celebration of sailors has long been a part of gay culture. But very rarely has it been the subject of serious study. Here at last is the book that puts all that to rights. Thoroughly-researched and engagingly written, "Hello Sailor" looks beyond the butch, bell-bottomed image and explores the real meaning of gay life for sea-faring men.' - Paul Burston, "TimeOut". "Innovative, revealing and brave, this book peers through previously forbidden portholes and unravels a neglected strand of British history. It tells many fascinating stories of lives lived against the odds..." - Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex. "...meticulously researched, cogently argued work of high scholarship...producing an endlessly fascinating and finely nuanced examination of the culture and mores of homosexuality afloat...This book is greatly to be commended." - Dr Campbell McMurray OBE, Director, Royal Naval Museum. 616.979 CHAITOW, Leon616. 979 MONETTE, Paul- HIV and AIDS Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Caring For Someone With AIDS 616.979 YELDING, David- 616.9792 DOTY, Mark616.9792 ADLER, Michael W29 Heaven's Coast: A Memoir ABC of AIDS 616.9792 Lather, Patti- Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/ AIDS 646.704 QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY- The Fab 5's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better Wild Girls Paris, Sappho and Art, the Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks David Hockney Straight 759.13 SOUHAMI, Diana- 759.29 LIVINGSTONE, Marco780.422 BOY GEORGE In the 13 years since the conclusion of the first part of his memoirs, Take It Like A Man, Boy George has reinvented himself. As that story closed, George was coming to terms with the fall-out from his drug addiction, the failure of his relationship with Jon Moss and the collapse of Culture Club. For lesser men this would have been the end but for George it became the start of a period of startling personal and creative reinvention. Told with George's trademark biting wit, brutal honesty and sparkling insight, this new book will bring his remarkable story up to date and follow his quest for personal happiness and creative success. Take It Like A Man saw George's struggle against drugs come to dominate his rapid rise to fame; this book will be an even more fascinating insight into what makes this superstar tick, tracing the momentous twists and turns of his personal and artistic life over the last decade-anda-half to include his role as a world-class DJ spearheading the dance music revolution in clubs all over the world, his cutting-edge record label, and his role as the driving force behind and star of the theatrical sensation, Taboo, which recently opened on Broadway. This book will not just be a riveting companion volume to the bestselling Take It Like a Man, but a truly fascinating book in its own right. 782.421 FREESTONE, Peter791.436 EHRENSTEIN, David- Freddie Mercury Open Secret:: Gay Hollywood Ehrenstein's book is a fine overview of Hollywood's treatment of gay and lesbian actors/actresses. There was a lot in the book that I was not aware of, and I've been a dedicated movie fan for five decades. He surprised even me with anecdotes about people I never "suspected". I'll be sure to seek out his earlier works, and am waiting for the next book. 791.436 OLSON, Jenni- The Queer Movie Poster Book 30 792.702 CLINTON, Kate792.702 TOKSVIG, Sandi- Don’t Get Me Started The Gladys Society: A Personal American Journey Love Speaks It’s Name 808.8 McCLATCHEY, J.D (ed)- 810.9 TIPPINS, Sherill- February House From 1940 to 1941, WH Auden and Benjamin Britten shared a house in Brooklyn with Paul and Jane Bowles, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee, among others. The house was established as an artistic and intellectual community, and Tippins brings to life the rise and fall of the group, exploring the role of art in the first years of World War II as these creative geniuses struggled with the conflict of what to do with so much creativity when the world was so close to chaos. 810.992 GOVE, Ben- Cruising Culture: Promiscuity, Desire and American Gay Culture Why Things Burn: Poems 811.54 GOTTLIEB, Daphne811.540 LASSELL, Michael and Elena Georgiou- The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology My Lover Is A Women: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems 811.540 NEWMAN, Leslea (ed)- Celebrating the diversity and complexity of women's relationships, a literary compendium features the work of more than 120 lesbian poets, including Adrienne Rich, Dorothy Allison, Joy Harjo, Judy Grahn, and Paula Gunn Allen. 812.54 ENSLER, Eve818.602 PERRY, Joel- The Vagina Monologues Funny That Way: Adventures in Fabulousness The World’s Wife: Poems 821.91 DUFFY, Carol Ann 31 821.91 GUNN, Thom- The Man with Night Sweats Ranging from classical forms to looser more colloquial measures, this collection of poems addresses a daunting range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a sequence of poems about the deaths of the poet's friends from AIDS. 821.91 GUNN, Thom821.91KAY, Jackie821.91 RICH, Adrienne- Selected Poems 1950-1975 The Adoption Paper’s Midnight Savage: Poems 19951998 Boss Cupid Feeling For the Quickness of Time First Person Plural 821.914 GUNN, Thom821.92 TABER, Roger N- The book is Vol.2 in a planned quartet. It comprises some 150+ poems in five sections, including a gay section. many of the poems have appeared elsewhere but this is the first time they have been brought together as a collection. Love and Human Remains The Third Eye 823 NAMJOSHI, Suniti915.213 BARBER, Stephen941.072 MOORE, LucyGoja: An Autobiographical Myth Tokyo Vertigo Amphibious Thing Lord Hervey was one of the most controversial figures of the Georgian age. The consummate courtier--strikingly handsome, elegant and witty--he was both the favourite of the Queen and right-hand man to Walpole. Painted by Hogarth, satirised by Fielding and Pope, and confidant of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hervey counted among his friends and enemies some of the most brilliant men and women of the age. Yet for all his hard-won public fame, there was a scandalous private side to Hervey. He was certainly a rake (rumour had it that he shared a mistress with the Prince of Wales), but such behaviour was quite normal among the 18th-century aristocracy. Less usual, however, was his 10-year affair with another man. From the outset, Hervey was fascinated by Stephen Fox. His engaging, delightfully witty letters reveal the depth of their passion for one another, and the lengths to which they were driven in order to escape detection. Finally, their became an "open secret", one of the many factors that was to contribute to Hervey's downfall. In this entertaining and wonderfully observed biography, Lucy Moore brings to life an entire age, with its shimmering artifice and its poisonous deceit, its highly wrought melodrama and its grand passions. 943.155 GAY, Peter32 My German Question Autobiographies and Biographies. B/ BUR BURROUGHS, AugustenDry: A Memoir You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the underground, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls and aftershave on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr are immediately dashed by the grim reality of flourescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. B/BUR Burroughs, Augesten- Running with Scissors This is the story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of grandeur) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. Suddenly at the age of 12, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients and a paedophile living in the garden shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules or school. The Christmas tree stayed up until Summer and valium was chomped down like sweets. When things got a bit slow, there was always the ancient electroshock therapy machine under the stairs. B/ CAM CAMERON, Rhona- 1979: A Big Year in a Small Town Nineteen Seventy-nine takes place in a small fishing town called Musselburgh, situated on the east coast of Scotland. It's about a young girl who is very naive yet incredibly self-aware in the year that changed her life forever - an evocative, moving and at times hilarious true-life story about growing up gay in a small town, finding out you're adopted, and losing your father at the age of 14. Always an outsider, the Rhona of 1979 was desperate to fit in at any cost, and here lies the bittersweet humour. At the heart of the book is the Clubhouse, a place that symbolises all that is normal, happy, and secure. Sons with their fathers; 15 year-old boys with their girlfriends for their first underage drink. Wives with their husbands for the Christmas disco. And behind the club, outside, Rhona and her friends are smoking, fighting, kissing and drinking. In this darkly funny and deeply biographical first book, Rhona Cameron takes us back to a year when everything seemed to change. A new British government came to power, the Eighties were approaching and at times life felt so precarious that it really looked like she and her family might never make it through the next year, let alone the next decade... 33 B/CLA CLARY, Julian- A Young Man’s Passage A long way from the usual ghosted celebrity autobiography, this is Julian Clary's debut as a writer of huge talent - perhaps closer in style to Fay Weldon or Muriel Spark than Dale Winton. Julian has led a unique life. From boarding school, where unholy monks taught him the rudiments of glamour, alternative living and brutality, through to art school in London while the punk and alternative comedy revolution was in full swing, finding out by practical trial and error whether he was gay or straight, his huge success and fame as probably the most high profile gay man in the country and, during the same period, the pain of losing those close to him and the high price of his fame. This is the first time he has voiced his private life and he will bring to its telling all the elegance, economy and integrity that have always informed his comedy. And, possibly, the odd double entendre. B/CRI CRISP, Quentin- How To Become A Virgin In this account of his youth, Quentin Crisp describes the stresses and strains of homosexual life. Crisp wandered the world of London's bedsits and late-night cafes, encountering both hostility and tenderness. He faced a life of short-lived jobs and relationships with humour and intelligence. The Naked Civil Servant In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships. All of which he faced with humour and intelligence. Resident Alien: The New York Diaries Quentin Crisp's witty and yet profound diaries cover four years of hectic cosmopolitan life. At an age when most people are moving into nursing homes, Crisp has launched himself into life in New York. B/DOT DOTY, Mark- Firebird: A Memoir A gay poet recounts his difficult childhood and the experiences that shaped him as a writer. B/EVE HOWARD, JohnetteThe Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova - Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship In March 1973 two women met on a tennis court in Akron, Ohio. Over the course of the next sixteen years, together they would change the world. In their long careers Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert played each other eighty times, sixty of those in finals. For twelve consecutive years, from 1975 to 1986, one or other finished the season ranked No. 1 in the world. Each set out to be the finest player women's tennis had ever seen; each goaded the other to greatness. Their contrasting styles - Martina, the epitome of serve-and-volley tennis, bravely charging to the net against cool and controlled Chris, the world's greatest baseline player - captivated millions across the globe. Tennis was a chauvinistic game when they arrived. But their brilliance demanded, and received, long-overdue respect for female sporting achievement. Their ability to forge a close friendship amidst their fierce competition still provokes 34 wonder and admiration from fans. There has never been a sporting rivalry to match the intensity, longevity, public impact and emotional resonance of the years-long duel between these two great athletes. For nearly two decades we were transfixed by the struggle between the ice-maiden Chris - blonde, all-American, a nation's sweetheart and the supreme athlete Martina, a Czech defector, the first outspoken openly gay athlete in female sport, and a woman who wore her heart on her sleeve at all times. Their lockstep careers played out against the backdrop of seismic change in sport and society: the women's movement; the gay rights' movement; the fall of the Iron Curtain; and the rise of women's tennis from backwater to big time (with a huge nod of gratitude to Billie Jean King). Thirty years on from the first meeting, both have become legends. Based on interviews with both Martina and Chris and those who knew them best, Johnette Howard gives us the story of these two remarkable women. Brilliantly researched, beautifully written, Unrivalled will be read by those who love sport for years to come. B/FRY FRY, Stephen- Moab Is My Washpot 'Stephen Fry is one of the great originals... This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewildering confusion... That so much outward charm, self-awareness and intellect should exist alongside behaviour that threatened to ruin the lives of innocent victims, noble parents and Fry himself, gives the book a tragic grandeur and lifts it to classic status.' Financial Times 'A remarkable, perhaps even unique, exercise in autobiography... that aroma of authenticity that is the point of all great autobiographies; of which this, I rather think, is one' Evening Standard 'He writes superbly about his family, about his homosexuality, about the agonies of childhood... some of his bursts of simile take the breath away... his most satisfying and appealing book so far' Observer B/ISH PARKER, Peter- Isherwood: A Biography The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived. Isherwood's travels were a means of escape: from his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood's relationship with his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood's complicated relationships with such lifelong friends as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life, and one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. 35 B/JAR PEAKE, Tony- Derek Jarman Biographies undertaken by acquaintances of the subject can so assault the senses with over-preened apologia that one would be forgiven for chomping on lemons to counter the gooiness. Tony Peake, former literary agent of Derek Jarman, proves an honourable exception, for in this oddly conventional yet superb account of an anything but conventional life, he remembers with discerning clarity the maverick talent and the talented maverick. As Betts, Jarman's mother, confided to her husband, "I'm so glad our children haven't grown up normal. They're so much more interesting than their friends." Jarman came to be known as much for going public on being HIVpositive and for the subsequent campaigning work he did for AIDS awareness and the militant gay group "Outrage". His homosexuality certainly informed his art, though for many it may also have obstructed it--but that would be a criticism of the artist, not the man. He came to film relatively late; painting was perhaps his first love (he was short listed for the 1986 Turner Prize), certainly staying with him as a constant form of expression until his final days, and he was also a prolific writer, with several volumes of autobiography and journals published, and a final one due to appear in early 2000. If mythology informed his art, it also shaped his life and Peake shows redoubtable resolution in trying to pin down the facts in the face of constant reinvention and artistic licence. Jarman was an original film-maker, perhaps not great, but always searchingly imaginative, and if his films show flaws, the charge can never be laid that they lack ambition and vision, something conspicuously absent from the work of so many of his British contemporaries. His later works, made in the shadow of his personal sword of Damocles, are steeped in unavoidable poignancy, stripped of the eager rawness of the youthful Jubilee and The Tempest. And always behind the artifice and polemic lay a gentle, warm man, devoted to his gardening, a constant that spanned his life. Where others may plunder, Tony Peake has crafted an intimate, sensitive account, unafraid of home truths, yet commendably slow to judge; he shows the seams, but wisely doesn't remark on the stitch work. B/MOE ADAIR, Gilbert- The Real Tadzio; Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice” and the Boy Who Inspired It Whilst visiting Venice in 1911 Thomas Mann's eye was drawn to a young sailorsuited boy of almost supernatural beauty, and was inspired to write "Death in Venice". This is a biography of that boy, who went on to lead a life as rich and as full of twists as any piece of fiction. B/NOR NORTON, Graham So Me Hugely entertaining and refreshingly honest, So Me is the memoir everybody has been waiting for. Graham Norton, whose impish charm and quick wit has earned him a place in our hearts, looks back at his life so far, a personal journey that begins in a remote village in Ireland forty years ago. Packed with anecdotes about his time at Cork University before dropping out and joining a commune of hippies in San Francisco, about his disastrous attempts at becoming a serious actor and about the rise of his comedy career in London, this is a hilarious, insightful and at times moving account of a very colourful life. As Norton puts it himself, So Me is "a real romp through a journey from living in a cockroach-infested council flat in Hackney to buying Claudia Schiffer's townhouse in Manhattan, from my mother dragging me to school to me dragging her to Sharon Stone's house for New Year's brunch". 36 Containing Graham Norton's trademark stamp of surreal humour and wry observation, So Me is a treat for all of the presenter's millions of fans. B/ NOR BOWYER, Alison Graham Norton Laid Bare Since being spotted on Channel 5, Graham Norton's career struck an all time high. He has done 4 series of his incredibly popular TV show, So Graham Norton and is now starting a new show V Graham Norton which promises more of the same. His unique blend of camp comedy, cosy chattiness, and brilliant bitchiness has earned Graham a place in the nation's hearts. But not too much is known about Graham Norton's private life, and so biographer and journalist Alison Bowyer has travelled to his native Ireland, talked to friends and relatives about this irrepressibly likeable man. No matter what anybody thinks, Graham Norton can attract just about any of the big names onto his show for a natter and a laugh at some poor website owner's expense. Warm, witty and camp as Christmas, there is no doubt that Graham Norton will continue to go from strength to strength. B/STE SOUHAMI, Diana- Gertrude and Alice Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tokas were the talk of pre-war Paris. Photographed by Cecil Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway, they were at the heart of Parisian cultural and literary life. Alice, convinced that Gertrude was a genius, cooked for her, typed her manuscripts and fought to obtain the fame she was convinced Gertrude was due. Alice said Gertrude was the happiest person she had ever known, and was besotted with her for the many years they were together. They were indomitable, charismatic, and wildly eccentric, driving around in 'Auntie', their Ford, with Basket, their cherished poodle. Using letters, memoirs and the published writings of Gertrude and Alice, Diana Souhami has written a brilliant and witty chronicle of one of the happiest marriages in modern literary history. B/ VID VIDAL, Gore- Palimpsest: A Memoir This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated and exasperating mother, Nina. Then come schooldays at St Albans and Exeter; the army; life as a literary wunderkind in New York, London, Rome and Paris in the '40s and '50s; sex in an age of promiscuity; and a campaign for Congress in 1960. His cast includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Eleanor Roosevelt, Truman Capote, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Christopher Isherwood, Jack Kerouac, Jane and Paul Bowles, Santayana, Anais Nin, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among others. 37 B/WHI BARBER, Stephen- Edmund White A biography of the most acclaimed gay novelist of his generation--fully authorised by Edmund White himself. Edmund White: The Burning World is the first biography of the novelist whose personal life reflects the course of gay history in America in the last half of the 20th century. Born in Cincinnati in 1940 and raised in Evanston, White arrived in New York City in 1962, tortured by the knowledge of his homosexuality. Working by day as a staff writer for Time-Life, he secretly cruised the West Village past nightfall. To appreciate White's life is to understand the formative years of gay liberation, for White--who was a participant at the original Stonewall event-experienced all of the ecstasy and abandonment that came to characterise this first generation of post-Stonewall gay men. Yet while many gay men of his era took to politics, White himself chose to record the extraordinary social and sexual revolution of which he was a prime participant through literature and novels. Whether writing about Fire Island in Forgetting Elena or about gay social revolution in America in States of Desire, White capture the energy and the emotions of an underground culture which had finally thrown off the shackles of its repression. And in A Boy's Own Summer, White helped to define the coming-out novel as a new gay genre. With complete access to all of White's files and materials, Stephen Barber has created an extraordinary testament to the life of one of America's most respected literary artists. B/WHI WHITE, Edmund- My Lives No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with "A Boy's Own Story", here in his memoir White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era which tried to 'cure' homosexuality, but found him 'unsalvageable', he emerged into a 1960s society which re-designated his orientation as 'acceptable (nearly)'. He describes a life touched by psychotherapy in every decade, starting with his flamboyant and demanding therapist mother, who considered him her own personal test case - not to mention her escort to cocktail lounges after her divorce. His father thought that even wearing a wristwatch was effeminate, though custodial visits to Dad in Cincinnati inadvertently initiated White into the culture of 'hustlers and johns' that changed his life. White introduces us to his lovers and predilections - past and present, and on the way gives his striking and eloquent opinions on art, life and other artists. "My Lives" is a spectacular treat: by turns moving and hilarious, outrageous and enlightening. 38 New Non-Fiction just added to stock (May 2006) ANDERS, Charles BAIRD, VanessaBARTLETT, NeilThe Lazy Crossdresser Sex, Love and Homophobia Solo Voices: Monologues 19882004 Transvestism and Cross Dressing: Current Views My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossdresser True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism Sex Changes: Transgender Politics Don We Now Our Gay Apparel The Bible, The Church and Homosexuality Becoming a Visible Woman Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History From 1869 to the Present The New Gay Teenager Miss Vera’s Cross-Dress for Success Queer Theory, Gender Theory The Psychobiology of Sex BLAND, Jed(Editor)- BOYD, Helen- BROWN, Mildred- CALIFIA, Patrick- COLE, ShaunCOULTON, Nicholas(Editor)- GREEN, JamisonMILLER, Neil- SAVIN-WILLIAMS, Ritch CVERA, Veronica- WILCHINS, RikiWILSON, GlennOrientation 39 Blackpool Central Libraries LGBT Social and Reading Group. Come along to our meetings. All members of the LGBT community and their friends are welcome. We aim to expand and develop what we read – and also to read books that we may not have thought of before. If it is your first time - try and read the book or at least the first 50 pages then you can contribute to the book discussion. Don’t forget the social aspect of the Group as well. Come along for a drink and a chat and get to know other people. All meeting are held at Central Library, Queens Street on the last Thursday of each month. Each meeting starts at 7pm – we keep the doors open so don’t be afraid to come and join us. 25th May 29th June 27th July 31st August 28th September 26th October 30th November 21st December - Rose Tremain – Sacred Country - David Levithan – Boy Meets Boy + Annie Proulx – Brokeback Mountain - Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty - Elizabeth Sims – Easy Street - Neil Bartlett – Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall - Helen Cross – My Summer of Love - William Cortlett – Now and Then - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch From May , the group will be spilt into 2 groups and we will discuss 2 separate books. E.g. For the May Meeting, half the group will read the May Book and half will read the June books. Then at the June meeting we swap books. For more information contact Mark Ramsden on 01253 478052 or mark.ramsden@blackpool.gov.uk. Or contact Central Library on 01253 478080 40 41