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  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    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.
    thanks topper.. i thought it was too. I have to hear the entire piece. the napoleon tie in.. fascinating..especially for anyone who has been to the beach with the count of monte cristo
  • Diegoavi19
    Diegoavi19 Posts: 11 Member
    I really like this one book by Brent Hartinger called Geography Club, which recently I learned is being made into a film and will be release this year. really curious to see how that's going to be like.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    Loved Geography Club!
  • Brandification
    Brandification Posts: 109 Member
    What's it about?
  • SweetSailor
    SweetSailor Posts: 81 Member
    If you are a fan of Portlandia and John Waters-esque films, I thought "Rid of Me" (Netflix streaming) was pretty good. The beginning is jarring, but it gets better.

    And I have to mention for books Michelle Tea's Valencia or The Chelsea Whistle, which maybe I'm biased just being a San Franciscan and knowing some of the characters.
  • jerknoir
    jerknoir Posts: 96 Member
    And I have to mention for books Michelle Tea's Valencia or The Chelsea Whistle, which maybe I'm biased just being a San Franciscan and knowing some of the characters.
    aoh my god, thank you for bringing up Valencia! It was one of the first LGBT+ lit I ever read and I've been trying to remember the author's name for ages! ;3;
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    Geography Club is about a group of high school misfits (most of them gay or bisexual) who start a club. They call it the geography club on the assumption that no one would be interested in joining if they really thought it was about geography.
  • jerknoir
    jerknoir Posts: 96 Member
    Has anyone ever read Will Self's Dorian? It's a modern (1980's) adaption of Dorian Grey where the characters are as gay as the subtext made them out to be. Another I read in middle school when I first started questioning was Empress of the World by Sara Ryan, which apparently became a series since I last read it??? Seven years demands a reread, love me some cheesy YA fiction.
  • imfivebyfive
    imfivebyfive Posts: 104
    Book: The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
  • rabbitrage
    rabbitrage Posts: 13 Member
    Books (so far): Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinburg, Valencia - Michelle Tea, anything by Poppy Z Brite, Naked Lunch - William S Burroughs, the Wet Moon series by Ross Campbell, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins and Lynne Flewelling's Nightrunner series (even though they've started to go a tad downhill, the first three are brilliant).

    And I don't watch a lot of films but recently I saw Otto; or Up With Dead People, which was pretty cool.
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