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LGBT Library - Books and Movies

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    I really wish there was a Women's Library, like they have in Glasgow (21 years old this year!) and London.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Can anyone recommend any good sci-fi/fantasy books in this vein? I have to read a lot of serious stuff for uni and I read a lot of science books, so I like to maintain some total escapism for my downtime. I''m not really into fluffy erotica/trashy romance type books, I prefer something with a captivating world.
    Seem to be difficult genres to find any LGBT stuff in.

    The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman.

    The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin.

    Triton by Samuel R. Delaney.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭lazorgirl


    just finished reading Emma O Donoghues new book of short stories Astray. the last story What Remains has lgbt theme; a beautiful moving story of 2 sculptors Queenie & Florence and how the couple are divided not by space but by Queenies dementia and how Florence tries to bridge that distance by way of their love and memory. florences attempt to make some sense of what their long shared life of love amounts to, really touched me.

    also dipping in and out again of Lisa Diamonds Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Womens Love & Desire; it is academic but an interesting look at the vast spectrum of women's sexuality. not one to get the juices flowing though.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    The only books I've read so far, with an LGBT theme, would have to be Whipping Girl by Julia Serano and His Name is Rebecca by Rebecca Da Havalland. By very good books, but Rebeccas book seemed to hit close to home.

    At the moment, I'm reading Insurgent, sequel to Divergent. Both very good books. Have a few left on my shelf to read before I buy new ones :D K-PAX, Blaze by Stephen King and The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 g_dublin


    I have read it about five million times, but "How I Learned to Snap" by Kirk Read really brightens up a rainy day. It's a coming-out story and at times the book made me absolutely laugh out loud. Highly recommended.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 castrolracing


    Hey everyone. Just said I'd start a thread on gay themed movies and books. I'd be interested in any suggestions you may have on good stories in book or movie form. Its easy to get porn movies, magazines and books but it can be difficult enough to find decent real life stories and books that actually tell a story.

    I just finished reading a book called "The Velvet Rage", written by Alan Downs. It's basically about coming to terms with your sexuality and feeling good about yourself. I'd highly recomend it. The author is a gay psychologist, and in it he tells about his own life and about some of his patients stories of just being gay and coming to terms with it in "a straight mans world". I found some of the stories and depictions in it to be very like my own.

    Anyone into watching gay themed movies? "Prayers For Bobby", is well worth a watch. It's based on a true story about a young guy growing up in the USA in a strictly catholic family. His mother does everything she can to try and "cure him", of being gay. Tragically Bobby takes his own life. It's a very sad but real story. I'm sure similar tragic events have taken place in Ireland.

    2 other movies I've watched recently are "Defying Gravity", and "Shelter". Not true stories but they could be anyone's story in fairness. They are about getting involved in relationships and coming to terms with and coming out as gay.

    Anyone any comments on these or any other recommendations?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Rick_




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 castrolracing


    I had forgotten about "Beautiful Thing", indeed its a good movie too. Ill check out the others. Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,208 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra



    Anyone any comments on these or any other recommendations?

    I've merged your thread with a previous thread

    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



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭periodictable


    Keep the Lights On http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2011953/
    We Were Here http://wewereherefilm.com/
    Clapham Junction http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043903/
    Juste une question d'amour http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231844/
    Eyes Wide Open http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424327/
    The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveras http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479506/
    Little Ashes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104083/?ref_=sr_1
    Yossi and Jagger http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334754/?ref_=sr_1
    Yossi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1934269/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
    Steam:The Turkish Bath http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119248/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4
    Bear Cub http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359045/?ref_=sr_1
    Third Man out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446051/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    The last movie is one of 4 about a gay private eye, set in recent times but in a 40's style.
    Some of the above are available at The Outhouse.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 6,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Paddy C wrote: »

    I second most of them!!!
    Philadelphia was quite popular at it's time, being the first mainstream film to talk about AIDS - maybe not quite realistically (not that I would know otherwise), but a step in the right direction.

    Two more films from the past that the story unfolds around AIDS:
    Longtime Companion - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100049/ and
    And The Band Played On - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106273/

    and a lovely French film:
    Presque Rien (Come Undone) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242795/
    (with an excellent soundtrack by Perry Blake)

    2025 gigs: Selofan, Alison Moyet, Borderline Festival, Wardruna, Gavin Friday, Orla Gartland, Nine Inch Nails



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭Cosmic Maybe


    AfterElton did a survey a while ago of the 100 best gay films:

    http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2012/09/greatest-gay-movies

    I think some of them are quite good - Milk, Prayer for Bobby, although there's a lot of rubbish ones on the list too - I wouldn't go as far as saying Brokeback Mountain is one of these but I do think it's a bit overrated.

    Personally, though I think films where a character's sexuality is just an incidental part of the plot can be equally as powerful if not more so, they show that sexuality is just one aspect of our lives and that we're not defined by it. Speaking of which there are two really good films out at the moment where some of the main characters are gay or lesbian, (although, it's only minor in the overall plot of both movies I'll stick the spoiler blocker over the names in case anyone hasn't seen them as the gay/lesbian bits are twists, especially in the second one)
    The Paperboy
    and
    Side Effects


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Don't know if Plan B has been mentioned.
    I watched it last week and really enjoyed it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,208 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Rick_


    Transamerica is on Film 4 on Monday 22nd April at 1:05am (so Tuesday morning if you're that way inclined!)

    Looks good from the trailer so will be setting the recorder for that.


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