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LGBT Reads April 2013
“Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?” — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
New and Recently Released LGBT Reads
Heart Block - by Melissa Brayden
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/2012
Share Heart Block ISBN-13: 9781602827585
ISBN-10: 1602827583
Sarah Matamoros can't complain. After immigrating from Mexico when she was nine years old, she's content with the life she's made for herself in sunny San Diego. She works hard at her mother's housecleaning service by day and spends the evenings with her quirky eight-year-old daughter, Grace.From a very young age, Emory Owen had several concepts drilled into her head. Success is everything. Be the best. Fight your way to the top. Expectations were high in the Owen household and the world was watching. Born into a high society family, Emory never wanted for anything...at least anything money could buy. When she meets Sarah, hired to sort her mother's home, her sterile life suddenly sparks into color.
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein - by Jonathan Cott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/2013
Share Dinner with Lenny%3a The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein ISBN-13: 9780199858446
ISBN-10: 0199858446
Features a complete account of the author's twelve-hour interview with Bernstein one year before the classical music personality's death in 1990.
Coming Out Can Be Murder - by Renee James
Publisher: Windy City Pub
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/2012
Share Coming Out Can Be Murder ISBN-13: 9781935766285
ISBN-10: 1935766287
First he wants her...then he wants her dead. Bobbi Logan's life and career begin to spiral downward when she comes out as a transgendered woman. But the gutsy hairdresser is determined to live her "new" life authentically, even as she is drawn into the investigation of her brutally murdered friend. The Chicago police have all but said they're not interested in the death of a "tranny" and the media has failed to report it. As she follows a trail of evidence through the shadowy underground of the Windy City, Bobbi is led to John Strand, a seductive powerbroker. Coming face-to-face with the number-one suspect can only lead to one thing...murder. But who will it be?
Chained Melody - by Debbie Martin
Publisher: Pink Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/2013
Share Chained Melody ISBN-13: 9781780035475
ISBN-10: 1780035470
Can the fluttering of a butterfly's wing cause such a ripple in the world, it can change lives? Chaos theory says it can. Even with the sexual revolution of the permissive seventies and eighties, men remained men. But as childhood friends Tom and Will enter adulthood, for one of them maturity isn't just growing from boy to man. He develops into someone completely new as surely as the butterfly emerges transformed from its chrysalis, irrevocably and chaotically also transforming both their worlds in the process. Through battle ground bravado in Northern Ireland, drugs, sexual betrayal, IVF, transsexualism, and "forbidden" love, they each search for courage to live life their way. Can love be strong enough to fly in the face of the chains of convention?
The Scientists: A Family Romance - by Marco Roth
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2012
Share The Scientists%3a A Family Romance ISBN-13: 9780374210281
ISBN-10: 0374210284
Tells the story of the author's family and how they dealt with his father's suffering and death from AIDS.
Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality - by John Schwartz
Publisher: Gotham Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/2012
Share Oddly Normal%3a One Family ISBN-13: 9781592407286
ISBN-10: 1592407285
When 13-year-old Joe Schwartz attempted suicide after telling his school friends he was gay -- and receiving a hostile reaction -- he and his parents discovered there was very little help available for children like him. In Oddly Normal, Joe's father, New York Times correspondent John Schwartz, recounts the story of his son's life, explaining how Joe seemed different even as a small child. For years Joe had seen numerous therapists and received various diagnoses, but nothing helped. After Joe came out, he eventually found help through the Youth Enrichment Services at the Gay Center. For another moving account of a family's relationship to a gay son, read Robb Forman Dew's The Family Heart.
Art on Fire - by Hilary Sloin
Publisher: Bywater Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/2012
Share Art on Fire ISBN-13: 9781612940311
ISBN-10: 1612940315
Seeking to emerge from her prodigy sister's shadow and reeling from her grandmother's rejection due to her sexuality, Francesca deSilva escapes to a ramshackle cabin in Massachusetts, where she unwittingly becomes an overnight art sensation.
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