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41) Gone, gone, gone
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251 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Struggling with the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and sniper shootings throughout the Washington, D.C. area, Craig and Lio consider a romantic relationship that is complicated by Craig's ex-boyfriend, Lio's broken family, and the death of Lio's brother.
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313 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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A little desert city known as Albuquerque, in the state of New Mexico, would have it's first Gay pride march in 1976. This book reveals the struggles, victories, and celebrations that ensured a Pride event took place every year until 2016. Albuquerque Pride would celebrate 40 years in 2016 declaring solidarity through pride. However, after all the celebrating was done, and the glitter was being swept away, Albuquerque Pride and the world would experience...
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167 pages, 25 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 22 cm
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English
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As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. Whitman never published the cycle. Instead he cut them up, rearranged them, and hid them in...
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348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film explores how sexuality in the movies and the performances of iconic actors have reflected cultural experimentation and the fulfillment of latent desires.
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Peter Ackroyd is our preeminent chronicler of London. In Queer City, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality was considered admirable. The city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops and clergy, monks...
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In 1974, the first year of busing in Boston, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Ann Ahern's lesbianism, which has isolated her from other white students, draws her to her African French teacher and leads her to insights into Blacks' struggles in the post-Civil Rights era.
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xv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people...
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152 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 22 cm
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English
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"This biography tells the story of Evelyn Hooker, the woman behind the research, advocacy, and allyship that led to the removal of the "homosexuality" diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"--
Evelyn Hooker was the woman behind the research, advocacy, and allyship that led to the removal of the "homosexuality" diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. She was also a poet, and an influential...
53) Proust in love
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xiv, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
54) Death in Venice
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Criterion collection volume 962
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English
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A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
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xxxviii, 300 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"In this frank memoir, Mattson chronicles his journey to and from a gay identity, finding peace in his true identity, as a man, made in the image and likeness of God. Part autobiography, part philosophy of life, and part a practical guide in living chastely, the book draws lessons from Mattson's search for inner freedom and integrity, sharing wisdom from his failures and successes. His lifelong search for happiness and peace comes full circle in his...
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207 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Have you noticed something about every "100 Greatest Movies Ever Made" list? The people in those movies ... they're almost all straight, white men. With so much incredible cinema to choose from, those lists only begin to peer into the cinematic and wider world. It's time to push past the gatekeepers of what makes a movie "great" or "culturally significant" and get a broader view of what's out there. Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema's greatest...
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When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
58) Night out
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Saturday night in Berlin. A colorful mix of hetero and gay singles, couples and polyamorous, craving fun explore the city and their relationships for different reasons. Their journey will lead them into a frenetic night where anything goes, portraying an array of contemporary nightlife possibilities. Loaded, passionate, and sweaty, the stories of our protagonists ultimately intertwine in the KitKatClub. At the break of dawn, and after a series of...
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269 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"An artist's captivating and quirky illustrated coming-of-age memoir of surprising first love, coming out, and coming to embrace her queer Christian identity."--
Is it possible to be gay and Christian? Chomiak tells the true story of her teenage and young-adult years of heartbreak, family conflict, trying to become ex-gay, wrestling with her faith, and finding love. -- adapted from back cover
60) Pulp
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406 pages ; 22 cm
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In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It's not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself--and Marie--to a danger all...
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