Looking for a good (free) book?
| 27 May 2010
In March, a forum hosted by Yarra City Council to bring together members of the GLBTIQ community – including businesses and community groups – came up with a few suggestions for making Yarra a more inclusive place to be for queers.
One suggestion at that meeting was that there be an audit of all the queer fiction, non-fiction and DVDs available through the Yarra Libraries network, which includes public libraries in Carlton, Collingwood, Fitzroy, North Fitzroy and Richmond.
This week, the second meeting between council and the community saw the release of a ‘GLBTIQ Reading List’, which shows the titles available to you if you fancy reading something by authors ranging from Julian Clary to Edmund White.
The list was compiled by library staff who undertook a subject search of the Yarra Libraries catalogue, and Yarra Mayor Cr Jane Garrett told MCV more materials will be added to the list in coming weeks.
"The list will be updated from time to time as relevant materials are added to the library collection," Garrett said.
Now all you have to do is join the Yarra library nearest you and start borrowing. And don't worry if you live in Richmond and the book's in the Carlton library - they will get it delivered to the Richmond library for you.
Check out Yarra Libraries here.
| Yarra Libraries GLBTIQ Reading List | |
| Author | Title |
| Abrams, Brett L | Hollywood Bohemians : transgressive sexuality and the selling of the movieland dream |
| Aciman, Andre | Call me by your name |
| Adams, Elizabeth | Going to heaven : the life and election of Bishop Gene Robinson |
| Aitken, Graeme | Fifty ways of saying fabulous |
| Aldrich, Robert | Colonialism and homosexuality |
| Andriote, John-Manuel | Victory deferred : how AIDS changed gay life in America |
| Ashburn, Elizabeth | Lesbian art : an encounter with power |
| Baldwin, James | Giovanni's room |
| Barber, Stephen | Edmund White : the burning world |
| Barrett, Jon | Hero of Flight 93 : Mark Bingham |
| Baumgardner, Jennifer | Look both ways : bisexual politics |
| Baxt, George | A queer kind of love : a Pharoah Love mystery |
| Baxt, George | A queer kind of umbrella : a Pharoah Love mystery |
| Beierle, Andrew W M | First person plural |
| Benderson, Bruce | The Romanian |
| Bernhardt, William | Hate crime [text (large print)] |
| Blazey, Peter | Screw loose : uncalled-for memoirs |
| Bloom, Amy | Normal : transsexual CEOs, cross-dressing cops, and hermaphrodites with attitude |
| Borthwick, Prudence | Mothers and others : an exploration of lesbian parenting in Australia |
| Boy George | Straight |
| Boyd, Helen | She's not the man I married : my life with a transgender husband |
| Boylan, Jennifer Finney | She's not there : a life in two genders |
| Brass, Perry | The harvest : a novel |
| Brickell, Chris | Mates & lovers : a history of gay New Zealand |
| Brill, Stephanie A | The transgender child |
| Brown, Mildred L | True selves : understanding transsexualism... : for family, friends, coworkers, and helping professionals |
| Brown, Rita Mae | Venus envy |
| Browning, Frank | The culture of desire : paradox and perversity in gay lives today |
| Burston, Paul | Star people |
| Bussy, Dorothy | Olivia |
| Callaghan, Greg | Bondi badlands : the definitive story of Sydney's gay hate murders |
| Cameron, Loren | Body alchemy : transsexual portraits |
| Carbery, Graham | A history of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras |
| Carter, Alice A | The Red Rose girls : an uncommon story of art and love |
| Carter, David | Stonewall : the riots that sparked the gay revolution |
| Carter, Miranda | Anthony Blunt : his lives |
| Chaline, Eric | Gay planet : all things for all (gay) men |
| Chasin, Alexandra | Selling out : the gay and lesbian movement goes to market |
| Clary, Julian | A young man's passage |
| Cleary, Jon | A different turf |
| Clinger, R W | Just a boy |
| Clum, John M | Something for the boys : musical theater and gay culture |
| Colapinto, John | As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl |
| Conigrave, Timothy | Holding the man |
| Conyers, Tom Gregory | Morse code for cats |
| Cook, Rachel | Closets are for clothes : a history of queer Australia |
| Cooper, Bernard | Truth serum : memoirs |
| Cooper, Dennis | The sluts |
| Craft, Michael | Bitch slap / A Mark Manning Mystery |
| Crisp, Quentin | Resident alien : the New York diaries |
| Crisp, Quentin | The naked civil servant |
| Cullin, Mitch | Undersurface : a novel |
| Cummings, Katherine | Katherine's diary : the story of a transsexual : a transgender journey from first awareness to self-determination and beyond |
| De Caro, F A | A boy named Phyllis : a suburban memoir |
| Deitcher, David | Dear friends : American photographs of men together, 1840-1918 |
| D'Erasmo, Stacey | A seahorse year |
| Dew, Robb Forman | The family heart : a memoir of when our son came out |
| D'Hondt, John | The bunny book : a novel for anyone who believes life and death are, after all, a wonder |
| Dyer, Richard | The culture of queers |
| Ebershoff, David | The Danish girl |
| Edwards, Hazel | F2M : the boy within |
| Edwards, Ruth Dudley | Murder in a cathedral |
| Faderman, Lillian | Gay L.A. : a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians |
| Feinberg, Leslie | Trans liberation : beyond pink or blue |
| Felloes, Traci | A fellow no more |
| Fleming, Keith | The boy with a thorn in his side : a memoir |
| Ford, Michael Thomas | Changing tides |
| Ford, Michael Thomas | Full circle |
| Forster, E M | Maurice |
| Foster, J H | Take me to Paris, Johnny |
| Frantzen, Allen J | Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America |
| Gallo, Marcia M | Different daughters : a history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement |
| Gapper, Frances | Absent kisses |
| Gardiner, James | Who's a pretty boy then? : one hundred & fifty years of gay life in pictures |
| Garner, Abigail | Families like mine : children of gay parents tell it like it is |
| Gay, Peter | My German question : growing up in Nazi Berlin |
| Ginoli, Jon | Deflowered : my life in Pansy Division |
| Glass, Julia | Three Junes |
| Gleitzman, Morris | Two weeks with the Queen |
| Goldstein, Richard | Homocons : the rise of the gay right |
| Greenberg, Keith Elliot | Zack's story : growing up with same-sex parents |
| Greenberg, Richard | Take me out : a play |
| Gustav-Wrathall, John Donald | Take the young stranger by the hand : same-sex relations and the YMCA |
| Hall, Donald E | Reading sexualities : hermeneutic theory and the future of queer studies |
| Hammond, Harmony | Lesbian art in America : a contemporary history |
| Hansen, Joseph | Troublemaker |
| Harding, Brenna | Going to fair day |
| Harding, Brenna | Koalas on parade |
| Harding, Brenna | My house |
| Harding, Brenna | The rainbow cubby house |
| Hare, David | The Judas kiss |
| Harris, Gavin | Camp as a row of tents : the life and times of Sydney's camp social clubs |
| Harris, Jennifer | Pink |
| Hart, John | Stories of gay and lesbian immigration : together forever? |
| Harvey, John | Gone to ground |
| Hayes, J G | A map of the harbor islands |
| Heger, Heinz | The men with the pink triangle |
| Hequembourg, Amy | Lesbian motherhood : stories of becoming |
| Highsmith, Patricia | Carol |
| Hogan, Steve | Completely queer : the Gay and Lesbian encyclopedia |
| Huegel, Kelly | GLBTQ : the survival guide for queer & questioning teens |
| Hurley, Michael | A guide to gay and lesbian writing in Australia |
| Ihimaera, Witi | Nights in the gardens of Spain |
| Indiana, Gary | Rent boy |
| Isherwood, Christopher | A single man |
| Jackson Master | Sir! more sir! : the joy of S&M |
| Jeffreys, Sheila | Unpacking queer politics : a lesbian feminist perspective |
| Jorgensen, Christine | Christine Jorgensen : a personal autobiography |
| Joseph, Sue | She's my wife, he's just sex |
| Keates, Jonathan | Smile please |
| Kennedy, Brian | The arrival of Fergal Flynn |
| Kennedy, Pagan | The first man-made man : the story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution |
| Knight, Geoffrey | The cross of sins |
| Kushner, Tony | Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes |
| Leavitt, David | The man who knew too much : Alan Turing and the invention of the computer |
| Leavitt, David | The page turner : a novel |
| Leddick, David | The secret lives of married men |
| Levithan, David | Boy meets boy |
| Linton, Gordon | The sacrifice |
| Loffreda, Beth | Losing Matt Shepard : life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder |
| Lord, Jennifer | Over the rainbow : a guide to the law for lesbian, gay and transgender communities in Victoria |
| Louganis, Greg | Breaking the surface |
| Lucas, Ian | Impertinent decorum : gay theatrical manoeuvres |
| Maaten, Frits | Justice for Jamie : the mistaken incarceration of Jamie Koeleman |
| MacSween, Prue | Carlotta : I'm not that kind of girl |
| Mann, William J | Men who love men |
| Mann, William J | Wisecracker : the life and times of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay star |
| Manrique, Jaime | Twilight at the Equator : a novel |
| Marcus, Eric | Is it a choice? : answers to 300 of the most frequently asked questions about gays and lesbians |
| Marcus, Eric | Making history the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 : an oral history |
| Marsden, John | I am what I am : my life and curious times |
| Martin, April | The guide to lesbian and gay parenting |
| Martin, April | The lesbian and gay parenting handbook creating and raising our families |
| Maupin, Armistead | More tales of the city |
| Maupin, Armistead | Significant others |
| Maupin, Armistead | Sure of you |
| Maupin, Armistead | Michael Tolliver lives |
| May, Lois | Transgenders and intersexuals : everything you ever wanted to know but couldn't think of the question : a resource book for the general community |
| McCourt, James | Queer street : rise and fall of an American culture, 1947/1985 : excursions in the mind of the life |
| McGarrity, Michael | Everyone dies : a Kevin Kerney novel |
| McLellan, Diana | The girls : Sappho goes to Hollywood |
| Menadue, David | Positive |
| Merlis, Mark | Man about town |
| Michaels, Grant | Dead on your feet |
| Moore, Patrick | Tweaked : a crystal meth memoir |
| Mordden, Ethan | I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore : tales from gay Manhattan |
| Mordden, Ethan | Some men are lookers |
| Mordden, Ethan | The Venice Adriana |
| Moser, Charles | Health care without shame : a handbook for the sexually diverse and their caregivers |
| Oldes, Terry | Dancing with Tina |
| Packard, Chris | Queer cowboys : and other erotic male friendships in nineteenth-century American literature |
| Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria | When our children come out : how to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered young people |
| Patchett, Ann | The magician's assistant |
| Peake, Tony | Derek Jarman |
| Pearce, Joseph | The unmasking of Oscar Wilde |
| Pinto, Ricardo | The standing dead |
| Plate, Peter | Soon the rest will fall : a novel |
| Ramsey, Gerald | Transsexuals : candid answers to private questions |
| Rechy, John | The sexual outlaw : a documentary |
| Renault, Mary | The charioteer |
| Reynold, Robert | What happened to gay life? |
| Rice, Christopher | Light Before Day |
| Richards, Renee | No way Renee : the second half of my notorious life |
| Robinson, V Gene | In the eye of the storm |
| Rocke, Michael | Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence |
| Rouse, Wade | America's boy : a memoir |
| Rowse, A L | Homosexuals in history : a study of ambivalence in society, literature and the arts |
| Saffron, Lisa | "What about the children?" : sons and daughters of lesbian and gay parents talk about their lives |
| Sanderson, Mark | Wrong rooms : a memoir |
| Sanderson, Terry | How to be a happy homosexual : a guide for gay men |
| Scarce, Michael | Smearing the queer : medical bias in the health care of gay men |
| Schulman, Sarah | The child : a novel |
| Sessums, Kevin | Mississippi sissy |
| Seyda, Barbara | Women in love : portraits of lesbian mothers & their families |
| Shilts, Randy | The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk |
| Simpson, Mark | Sex terror : erotic misadventures in pop culture |
| Spinelli, Frank | The advocate guide to gay men's health and wellness |
| Spry, Jennifer | Orlando's sleep : an autobiography of gender |
| Stukas, David | Going down for the count |
| Sulzer, Alain Claude | A perfect waiter |
| Summerhawk, Barbara | Circles of power : shifting dynamics in a lesbian-centered community |
| Sutton, Adam | Say it out loud : journey of a real cowboy |
| Talese, Gay | Unto the sons |
| Taylor, Robert | A few hints and clews |
| Toibin, Colm | Love in a dark time |
| Toibin, Colm | The story of the night |
| Virtue, Noel | Once a Brethren boy |
| Volcano, Del Lagrace | Femmes of power : exploding queer femininities |
| Warren, Patricia Nell | The front runner |
| Welsh, Louise | The cutting room |
| Wheen, Francis | Who was Dr Charlotte Bach? |
| White, Edmund | Chaos |
| White, Edmund | City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and 70s |
| White, Edmund | My lives |
| White, Edmund | The beautiful room is empty |
| White, Edmund | The burning library : writings on art, politics and sexuality, 1969-1993 |
| White, Edmund | The farewell symphony : a novel |
| White, Edmund | The married man |
| White, Edmund | A boy's own story |
| White, Patrick | The Twyborn affair : a novel |
| Woodrell, Daniel | Tomato red : a novel |
| Wotherspoon, Garry | 'City of the plain' history of a gay sub-culture |
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TITLE LISTINGS |
| 2009 ALSO directory: a business and services directory for the GLBTIQ community |
| A funny time to be gay |
| A Member of the family: gay men write about their families |
| A woman like that: lesbian and bisexual writers tell their coming out stories |
| The advocate [e-magazine] |
| ALSORTS: a sexuality awareness resource |
| Best American gay fiction |
| Best gay erotica 2006 |
| Between men 2 |
| Between the acts: lives of homosexual men, 1885-1967 |
| Boys like us: gay writers tell their coming out stories |
| Buttmen: erotic stories and true confessions by gay men who love booty |
| Confessions of the other mother: nonbiological lesbian moms tell all |
| Cool thing: the best new gay fiction from young American writers |
| Farm boys: lives of gay men from the rural Midwest |
| Fresh men: new voices in gay fiction |
| Gals with gay pals: a celebration of friendship |
| Gay and lesbian Asia: culture, identity, community |
| Gay and lesbian Asia: culture, identity, community |
| Gay men at midlife : age before beauty |
| Gay men living with chronic illnesses and disabilities : from crisis to crossroads |
| Gay men living with chronic illnesses and disabilities : from crisis to crossroads |
| Gendered outcasts and sexual outlaws : sexual oppression and gender hierarchies in queer men's lives |
| Growing up gay a literary anthology |
| His : brilliant new fiction by gay writers |
| Inside out : an Australian collection of coming out stories |
| Lady boys, tom boys, rent boys : male and female homosexualities in contemporary Thailand |
| Lavender mansions: 40 contemporary lesbian and gay short stories |
| Mardi gras! : true stories |
| Men on men 2000: best new gay fiction for the millennium |
| Men on men 5: best new gay fiction |
| Men on men 6: best new gay fiction |
| Men on men 7: best new gay fiction |
| Out in the Castro: desire, promise, activism |
| Out in theory: the emergence of lesbian and gay anthropology |
| Out of the blue: Russia's hidden gay literature : an anthology |
| Out on the edge: America's rebel comics |
| Out plays: landmark gay and lesbian plays of the twentieth century |
| Over the rainbow : lesbian and gay politics in America since Stonewall |
| Pages passed from hand to hand : the hidden tradition of homosexual literature in English from 1748 to 1914 |
| Partings at dawn : an anthology of Japanese gay literature |
| Preventive health measures for lesbian and bisexual women |
| Pulp friction : uncovering the golden age of gay male pulps |
| Secret sisters : stories of being lesbian and bisexual in a college sorority |
| Sexual metamorphosis: an anthology of transsexual memoirs |
| Sister & brother: lesbians & gay men write about their lives together |
| Spartacus: international gay guide : 2009 |
| Staging gay lives: an anthology of contemporary gay theater |
| The future is queer: |
| The Penguin book of gay Australian writing |
| The stately homo: a celebration of the life of Quentin Crisp |
| Transsexualism and sex reassignment |
| Waves: an anthology of new gay fiction |
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We must love one another or die: the life and legacies of Larry Kramer |
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DVD |
| Angels in America [DVD] |
| Boy culture [DVD] : sex pays, love costs |
| Bump!. Florida, FT. Lauderdale, Miami Beach, Key West [DVD] : the ultimate gay travel companion with your tour guide J. R. Anderson |
| Bump!. Great Britain, Brighton, Manchester, London [DVD] : the ultimate gay travel companion with your tour guide Shannon McDonough |
| Bump!. Mexico, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun [DVD] : the ultimate gay travel companion with your tour guide Charlie David |
| But I'm a cheerleader (DVD) |
| Gay sex in the 70's [DVD] |
| m2F [DVD] : a journey in gender identity |
| Milk [DVD] |
| Outing Riley [DVD] |
| Patrik, age 1.5 [DVD] |
| Prom queen [DVD] |
| Queer as folk. Series 1, Part 2 [videorecording] |
| Queer as folk. Series 2 [videorecording] |
| Rick & Steve. The complete first season [DVD] : the happiest gay couple in all the world |
| The art of being straight [DVD] |
| The DL chronicles. the complete first season [DVD] |
| The line of beauty [DVD] |
| The lost language of cranes [DVD] |
| The mostly fabulous social life of Ethan Green [DVD] |
| The naked civil servant [videorecording] |
| The sum of us [DVD] |
| Transamerica [DVD] |
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