Winter Edition 2018/2019 • Vol. 29, No. 1 the ListBOOKS! AUTHORS! MOVIES! Hundreds of recommendations curated by Quatrefoil Qsupporters quatrefolio Meet the Desk Volunteers • Scholarship Fund Momentum Your Old Books & Quatrefoil • New at Q: Merch Table Free Events at the Library • Dates to Remember 10 Best Lesbian Books/Series 5 Best Gay Best Friends (fi lm) 5 Great Lesbian Romances You May Not Have Read Stephen Caff rey in “Annie on My Mind” by Nancy Garden (1982) Girl meets girl in New York’s Micky Knight series by J.M. Redmann “Longtime Companion” (1989) Metropolitan Museum. Still a heartwarming classic in 2018. The person everyone can depend upon, The Celaeno or the Lyremouth series “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” by Fannie Flagg (1987) The and he does the “Dreamgirls” dance by Jane Fletcher word lesbian does not appear once in this book, but child, it is the sweetest Southern fl awlessly. lesbian romance ever written. Isis series by Jean Stewart Rupert Everett in “After Mrs. Hamilton” by Clare Ashton (2012) A lesbian escort fi nds love. Ashton “Chronicles of Alsea” “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997) gives us Yanks the UK’s best lady… in print. by Fletcher DeLancey Everyone who has played this role since “Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel” by Sara Farizan (2015) Iranian- Cain Casey series by Ali Vali is doing a pale imitation of this witty American Leila falls in love with the new girl at her boarding school. One of the few “The Always Anonymous Beast” performance. LGBTQ young adult novels with a Muslim heroine. Sweet and nerdy. by Lauren Wright Douglas T. Wendy McMillan “The Air You Breathe” by Frances de Pontes Peebles (2018) It isn’t every day that Stoner McTavish series in “Go Fish” (1994) two girls from the Brazilian sugar plantation run to the big city to become samba by Sarah Dreher A best friend who will not rest until her musicians. buddy fi nds love. Lauren Laurano series Rachel Wexelbaum, St. Cloud librarian by Sandra Scoppettone Sarah Paulson in “Carol” (2015) “Thin Fire” by Nanci Little She does what her titular friend/ex-lover needs her to do, even if she thinks it’s the Books with Funny Families 5 Desert Island Gay Novels Echo Series by Linda Kay Silva wrong thing. “The Kid” by Dan Savage “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann Lisa Vecoli Stanley Tucci in Former director of Tretter Collection at U of M Death coupled with desire, what could “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) “My Brother’s Husband” Vol. 1 by Gengoroh Tagame be better? Maybe a bit sketchy nowadays, Not just loyal, he also has as it’s an old man doing the lusting after Favorite Books by “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” impeccable taste. a boy, but it’s philosophical and there is by Alison Bechdel Christopher Isherwood Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune staff writer never any contact between them. “No One Can Pronounce My Name” “A Single Man” (1964) A stellar short “Maurice” by E.M. Forster by Rakesh Satyal novel about a day in the life of George, a Forster’s posthumous early novel of gay grieving English professor in southern “A Queer and Present Danger” love; it’s groundbreaking; so very English, California. The 2009 movie (directed by by Kate Bornstein yet sexy! Tom Ford) is a gorgeous tearjerker. Anitra Budd, Q board member “The Counterfeiters” by Andre Gide “Christopher and His Kind” (1976) The greatest novel you may never Isherwood sheds the closet and recounts have heard of. Nobel winner Gide his early life, his fi ction, famous friends Cooking/Entertaining Books being postmodern before modern was and passionate loves. “Cooking in Heels: post; exciting Parisian intrigue full of “Berlin Stories” (1939) Set during A Memoir Cookbook” desire and counterfeit money and desire. 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Prabhavananda “Feed the Resistance: Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved” by Julia Turshen Greg Hewett, poet and Q board member Claude Peck, Q board member Anitra Budd, Q board member Sarah Paulson in ‘Carol’ 2 3 2 Good Books about Books 10 Essential Gay Male Poets Books For Someone “Eminent Outlaws: The Gay William Shakespeare Just Coming Out Writers Who Changed America” by The Sonnets, of course! The fact that the ”It Gets Better” edited by Dan Savage Christopher Bram (2012) This smart, Bard was “gay” still irks a lot of folk. and Terry Miller (2011). Created in passionate survey makes you want to go Walt Whitman response to a series of tragic suicides back and read infl uential writers ranging All of “Leaves of Grass,” but especially by LGBT young people, It Gets Better from James Baldwin and Truman the Calamus poems, are full of masculine features a collection of essays and stories Capote to Larry Kramer and Tony love and are sensuous as anything. by celebrities and political leaders, Kushner. Arthur Rimbaud from Ellen DeGeneres to President “The Unpunished Vice” by Edmund The mad boy-genius will knock you Barack Obama, for teens struggling with White (2018), Subtitled “A Life in out with the brilliance of his bullying. ‘Essential’ gay poet Reading,” White’s chatty memoir hallucinatory verse. “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” careens widely among writers (gay Frank O’Hara C.P. Cavafy by Emily M. Danforth (2012). Set in and straight) he has found infl uential His fi n-de-siecle cafe scenes in rural Montana in the 1990s, this novel and unforgettable in his long life in cosmopolitan Alexandria are so sexy and follows a young girl who is discovering literature.. sad; the scenes from ancient times are her sexuality and is subsequently sent Claude Peck, Q board member also powerful. to a gay conversion camp, where she is introduced to a welcoming community Hart Crane of queer teens. Tragic life, triumphant poetry; in a sense, Strong (and Queer) Women 12 Great Trans /Nonbinary Reads his writing is a gay language. “Boy Meets Boy” by David Levithan (2003). This classic queer romance in Science Fiction and Fantasy “I Am J” by Cris Beam W. H. Auden novel follows Paul as he meets, loses, “Solitaire” by Kelley Eskridge This Anglo-American poet is the “Beauty Queens” by Libba Bray and attempts to win back Noah. 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Written by Urbane yet accessible; read his elegy to a trans non-binary couple, this guide for “Ash” by Malinda Lo “Sovereign” by April Daniels Billie Holiday, “The Day Lady Died,” and trans and gender non-conforming teens “Ascension” by Jacqueline Koyanagi “Being Emily” by Rachel Gold I dare you not to weep. features hilarious true stories and advice “Smoketown” by Tenea D. Johnson “Just Girls” by Rachel Gold Frank Bidart on coming out, pronouns, hormone “Lady Knight” by L-J Baker “If I Was Your Girl” by Meredith Russo Such a genius and so accessible, so therapy, and more. “Gossamer Axe” by Gael Baudino “Lizard Radio” by Pat Schmatz dramatic; his collections “Golden State” “The Perks of Being a Wallfl ower” by and “The Book of the Body” should be Catherine Lundoff , writer “The Art of Being Normal” Stephen Chbosky (1999). A coming-of- by Lisa Williamson required gay reading. age tale about an introverted high school Rachel Gold, writer Mark Doty freshman and his experiences with death, The chief American gay poet of the last romance, abuse, LSD, and “The Rocky 2 Terrifi c Recent Memoirs few decades; he knows his gay stuff ! 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