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LGBTQ at YOUR Library July 2017
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ADULT LGBTQ+ Bookclub Starting in August
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Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother, the woman who raised him, catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, Rasa roams the city's slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country's elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family.
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Handmaiden Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Sarah Water’s novel Fingersmith, relocated to 1930s Korea during the Japanese occupation. A young Korean thief poses as a maid working for a Japanese heiress to help a swindler rob her of her fortune. Review
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Nasty baby While gay Brooklyn couple Freddie and Mo are trying unsuccessfully to have a baby with their friend Polly, the three friends become increasingly at odds with a local crazy who calls himself The Bishop.
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Hurricane BiancaWhen Richard, a New York teacher, can't find work, he accepts a position in a small Texas school. Almost immediately, they figure out that he is gay, and fire him. Later, when a new friend introduces him to the underground drag scene, Richard dons a new identity as the utterly hilarious Bianca, and returns to the school to wreak havoc.
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Black swan
An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role
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Transphobia : deal with it and be a gender transcender
by J. Wallace Skelton
Non-fiction. Discusses transphobia and transgender, gender neutral, and gender nonconforming people, covering reasons for transphobia, typical situations, and ways to respond to events that indicate transphobia and to help someone else who is transgender
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10 things I can see from here
by Carrie Mac
Fiction. A girl who has struggled with anxiety for as long as she can remember is required by her mother's long work assignment to temporarily live with her alcoholic father and pregnant stepmom in Vancouver, where she falls in love with a fearless girl.
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Wuvable Oaf : blood & metal by Ed LuceGraphic novel. Goteblud takes the stage, revealing Oaf's previous life as a satanic-themed wrestler, along with stories of heavy metal and Oaf's formative years.
Winner of 2017 Lambda Literary Award for graphic novel
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Marrow Island
by Alexis M Smith
Thriller. After a mysterious group with a charismatic leader takes over her childhood home in the wake of a natural disaster that killed her father, Lucie Bowen returns to Marrow Island in an attempt to uncover the group's secrets and rescue one of her friends from its hold.
Winner of 2017 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual fiction
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Thriller/romance. Hannah Lewis's life is exactly where she thinks it should be. But when her girlfriend, Jordan, disappears into thin air and she and Jordan's best friend, Nikki, are drawn closer in the search, she discovers that lovers can be strangers and perceived knowledge just as illusory. The more she learns, the less she seems to know, and the more she discovers about herself.
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Embracing the Dawn
by Jeannie Levig
Lesbian romance. Jinx Tanner is an ex-con trying to piece together a life on the outside and heal her relationship with her half-sister who hasn’t spoken to her in over twenty-five years. Romantic love is now here on her radar. E. J. Bastien is a business executive with her life and heart under control. She has a successful career, a woman in her bed whenever she wants one, and a healthy relationship with her grown children—as long as they don’t find out she’s gay. She has no desire for romantic entanglements.
When these two women awaken after a one-night stand to find their lives inextricably entwined, love has its work cut out for it
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No one can pronounce my name : a novel by Rakesh SatyalQueer fiction. "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who can no longer function after the death of Harit's sister, Swati. In a misguided attempt to keep both himself and his mother sane, Harit has taken to dressing up in a sari every night to pass himself off as his sister. Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid-forties, has just seen her only child, Prashant, off to college. Worried that her husband has begun an affair, she seeks solace by writing paranormal romances in secret. When Harit and Ranjana's paths cross, they begin a strange yet necessary friendship that brings to light their own passions and fears"
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