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Where to get LGBT books?

  • 08-03-2010 1:48am
    #1
    witty_name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭


    Heya guys,
    I've been looking to read some LGBT themed books recently, but they seem to be impossible to come by without ordering them off the internet. I know Waterstone's used to have an LGBT section but it's gone now.
    Any idea where to get LGBT themed books in Dublin, and any reccommendations?


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  • #2
    Sir Ophiuchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Sir Ophiuchus


    Waterstone's "integrated their LGBT books into their regular shelves", which technically means they're there but impossible to find. Ask staff, if you're not embarrassed to do so. There are also some in the Sociology section downstairs, but they tend to be academic works, not novels.

    I recommend either Books Upstairs (Dame Street) or Chapters (Parnell Street), as they both have extensive LGBT sections.

    Actually, they're the *only* Dublin bookstores I know of that now have LGBT sections.


  • #3
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    O Mahonys in Limerick will order them if you know the titles, Live Journal is a knowledgable forum to ask about current titles.


  • #4
    Annasopra
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    Tallaght Library has done leaflets on recommended LGBT themed books and the leaflet is in outhouse as well

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #5
    witty_name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭witty_name


    Cheers! I'll give them ago.


  • #6
    ztoical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭ztoical


    Chapters use to have a good LGBT section and the guys working there were good to rec and order stuff in but haven't been in there since it moved to it's new location so no clue if this is still true.


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  • #7
    Sir Ophiuchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Sir Ophiuchus


    ztoical wrote: »
    Chapters use to have a good LGBT section and the guys working there were good to rec and order stuff in but haven't been in there since it moved to it's new location so no clue if this is still true.

    It is. It's a great section and I've ordered stuff there.


  • #8
    CSaber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭CSaber


    Books Upstairs, as are Waterstones and Hodges Figgis if you know where to look.

    On a side note I am currently reading The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst, having read his other books. Strange author - don't like his style but can't put the books down.


  • #9
    Dark Artist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Dark Artist


    I'd imagine the National Lesbian and Gay archives would be of some help... check these lads out, looks useful ;)

    http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g186605-d216336-Reviews-National_Lesbian_and_Gay_Archives-Dublin_County_Dublin.html


  • #10
    Aard
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    CSaber wrote: »
    On a side note I am currently reading The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst, having read his other books. Strange author - don't like his style but can't put the books down.
    The Line of Beauty has been on my locker for months now. No matter what mood I'm in, I can never get into it.


    ===


    Chapters is good. There's a lot of "Tom of Finland"-type stuff. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if there's much else.


  • #11
    CSaber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭CSaber


    Aard wrote: »
    The Line of Beauty has been on my locker for months now. No matter what mood I'm in, I can never get into it.

    The Line of Beauty is actually one of his better books IMO. I'm tempted to get the DVD of it. The Folding Star was the one that gave me the most difficulty.


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  • #12
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    Whipping Girl by Julia Serano is a brillant book on a Transgender theme..... Nobody passes is a good read about varied queer testimonies,as is gender Queer.


  • #13
    Squaw Crow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Squaw Crow


    Books upstairs are quite good for gay and bisexual men's writing but not so much lesbian and women's writing - the selection of which is mostly erotic novels.


  • #14
    markw999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭markw999


    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    Tallaght Library has done leaflets on recommended LGBT themed books and the leaflet is in outhouse as well

    They also have a list of LGBT themed books/dvd's that they will give out/email upon request.


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