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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
Author
Series
Guncle volume 1
Appears on list
Description
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed. So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother...
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Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she's in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna's Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn't think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents' insistence that she 'broaden her horizons' and try something new--something that isn't art. But when Glenna's Portraits falls on hard...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
5) Madame
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A double portrait of a young boy slowly coming out of the closet and of the lady that was, even more than his mother, the woman in his life, his grandmother. The film takes viewers on an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother, and her filmmaker grandson Stephane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. Stephane struggles to play the role everyone expects in his Swiss bourgeois...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother--a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love. When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself--an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook--in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from...
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