Good Books and Movies
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Perfect. Thanks!0
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Adam and Steve - hysterical movie! Plus it has Parker Posey in it whom I LOVE!0
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My omg yesyesyes GLBTQ themed book I've ever read has to be, hands down "Hero" by Perry Moore. IT IS SO GOOD.
http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Perry-Moore/dp/14231019520 -
I fav movie is Beautiful Boxer - such a powerful movie
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My fav L books:
Author: Skyy
Books: Choices, Consequences, Crossroads (This is the series in order)
Description: Follow a group of African-American and Latina lesbians on their journey from college to adulthood through this sereis. Features Femmes/Studs and Bi women in relationships and dealing with life. Very fun reads.
Author: Fiona Zedde
Books: Bliss, A Taste of Sin, Hungry For It
Description: A Taste of Sin and Hungry For It are a series. Bliss is an idividual book. Fiona also writes primarily about African-American lesbians. However, her characters are also from Jamaica (she is Jamaican). Bliss is my favorite because it's set in Jamaica and she makes the people, landscape, food, and culture come alive. She is one of my all time favorite authors, lesbian or otherwise.0 -
"Out of season" and "Dessert Hearts"0
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"Dorian Blues" was a book?!? I saw the movie and love it, but I'll bet the book is so much better...like they always are!0
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I love LGBT movies and have quite a few in my collection, among my favourites:
Shelter
Latter Days
eCupid
Were the World Mine
The Big Gay Musical
The Trip
Is it Just Me
Eating Out (Just the first one, the rest have been utter drivel)
Make the Yuletide Gay
Broken Hearts Club0 -
I saw Matthew Bourne's dorian gray a few years ago. for a cheap thrill, google it... artistically I really liked it.. didn't LOOOOOVEEE it but really reallyliked it.."Dorian Blues" was a book?!? I saw the movie and love it, but I'll bet the book is so much better...like they always are!
and as an aside I saw a production of The Pitmen Painters today.. WOW..0 -
I'd go with movies:
Kissing Jessica Stein
Heavenly Creatures (one of my all time fav movies)
Bound
D.E.B.S (cuz cheesy is fun)
and Michelle Paradise. Meeeow.0 -
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Hero are definitely on my list to read.
Some other great books are:
Middlesex, Jeffrey Euginides - This is his best book, by far. I read The Virgin Suicides and just finished The Marriage Plot, but Middlesex is an amazing novel about FTM transexuality.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - One of my favorite books of all time. A lot of the homosexuality was edited out, but it's pretty crystal clear if you know the history of the book and its author.
Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis - Great book and a great movie about relationships.
A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon - I thought the gay relationship in this book was pretty realistic. It's a side story, but overall I liked the book.
Movies:
A Single Man (haven't read the book yet)
Wonder Boys (haven't read the book yet)
Brokeback Mountain (LOVE this story... the short story is excellent too, and the movie does a really good job of portraying the relationship and expanding upon it)
If These Walls Could Talk 2 - hellooooooooo Chloe Sevigny and Michelle Williams. Need I say more?
Boys Don't Cry - Chloe Sevigny again
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Can't believe it took til page 3 for someone to mention Hedwig. I love Hedwig. I also really liked Middlesex -- so I guess I like gender explorations.0
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Can't believe it took til page 3 for someone to mention Hedwig. I love Hedwig. I also really liked Middlesex -- so I guess I like gender explorations.
NOT REAL KEAN (OR IS IT KEEN) ON THE HEDWIG MOVIE. SAW JCM LIVE AND HE WAS BEYOND AMAZING... THE MOVIE.. NOT SO MUCH...0 -
Latter Days - my best and I have watched it back-to-back at least 6 times in a weekend. It's about an out and proud boy who meets a closeted Mormon boy, it makes me bawl.
LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!! I'm not a crier but it moved me to tears!!!0 -
the gymnast is a pretty good movie. pretty ladies, thrilling plot, and awesome performances =D0
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hey,,, in light of the magic mike movie, anybody remember 'a night in heaven?" another stripper flick... and somehow this brought to mind The World's Greatest Athlete with jan michael vincent.0
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I just finished Daniel Savage's The Commitment. Hilarious, touching, and thought provoking.0
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izzat anything like mitch gaylord's american anthem??? much better than footloose imhothe gymnast is a pretty good movie. pretty ladies, thrilling plot, and awesome performances =D0 -
I just finished Daniel Savage's The Commitment. Hilarious, touching, and thought provoking.
I do not believe I have ever heard anyone refer to him as Daniel before. I don't know why, obviously that is his full name.0 -
Funny. I'm probably channeling his mother in a lecturing mood. Different people call him Dan, Danny, or Daniel in the book, depending on the circumstances.0
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The book, not the movie based on the book which heterofied the plot.0
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The Miles by Robert lennon- His expereience in NYC on getting fit withe LGBT running group.. Interesting read.0
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Here's some that span the years in no particular order:
When Night is Falling
Lianna
Chutney Popcorn
Mulholland Dr
Edge of Seventeen
Female Trouble
The Children's Hour
The Runaways
Faster *****cat, Kill! Kill!
Honorable mention: Showgirls0 -
Just started STONEWALL... and I'm thinking of putting it down.. the beginning with intros of characters and history seems , there're no other words, trite and stupid... SHOULD I KEEP PLOWING ON?
Also reading Harry Belafonte's autobiography.. LOVING IT... early life,, little island slant,,, segregation... , civil rights. really liking it.0 -
I've never read "Stonewall," but if it starts off trite and stupid, it will probably continue trite and stupid. Maybe skip the background and go straight to the action.
Just curious which book you're talking about. I assume one of the Stonewall riot books, not a Stonewall Jackson one! http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=stonewall0 -
I've never read "Stonewall," but if it starts off trite and stupid, it will probably continue trite and stupid. Maybe skip the background and go straight to the action.
Just curious which book you're talking about. I assume one of the Stonewall riot books, not a Stonewall Jackson one! http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=stonewall
YEAH, THIS IS THE ONE.... IT HAS TO GET MORE INTERESTING...0 -
WONDERING IF ANYONE HEARD THE PIECE ON NPR THIS MORNNG ABOUT ALEXANDER DUMAS? AND NAPOLEON? AND SON'S WRITING? I GOT TO WORK IN THE MIDDLE AND DIDN'T HEAR THE END BUT IT WAS PRETTY FASCINATING..0
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There are so many wonderful books and films with gay themes. Here are the ones that come to me immediately ...
BOOKS
A Fairly Honourable Defeat, Iris Murdoch,
A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
Dance on My Grave, Aidan Chambers
Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Manuel Puig (also an amazing film and stage play)
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
FILMS
Angels in America (if we're allowed mini series)
A Single Man
Beautiful Thing
Brokebank Mountain
La Cage Aux Folles (preferably the 1979 version)
Milk
My Beautiful Launderette
My Own Private Idaho
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The Killing of Sister George
Torch Song Trilogy
To Wong Foo0 -
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/15/160969342/the-black-count-a-hero-on-the-field-and-the-page
The NPR Dumas piece. Very interesting.0
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