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81) Akron
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two college boys meet and fall in love but have to come to terms with a devastating revelation about a tragic past event involving both of their mothers.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
85) Chasing Pacquiao
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Bobby is unwillingly outed he turns to boxing, finding a hero in Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, but when Pacquiao publicly denounces homosexuality, Bobby must discover a hero within himself.
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
164 pages.
Description
Before COVID-19 made "pandemic" a household word in 2020, there was the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s. Author Lynn Curlee explores the parallels and the difference as he recounts living in New York and Los Angeles when the disease silently took hold of the gay community. As the disease became a full-blown public health crisis, Curlee watched in horror at the devastating progression of HIV/AIDS, the staggering losses endured, and divisive politics...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country. At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a...
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Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler. Neither country can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board the Coordinated Endeavour under strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his mother, strangers have been aboard, and Kodiak, the only other...
89) José
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jose lives with his mother in Guatemala City, where, dominated by conservative Catholic and Evangelical Christian religion, living one's life as an openly gay man is hard for Jose to imagine. His mother has never had a husband and is determined to hold on to him. Jose fills his free time with dating apps, but when he meets attractive and gentle Luis, they pursue an unexpected relationship with more emotion than Jose has ever felt.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian-both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence-spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"--
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Para Édgar, las cicatrices del pasado siguen latiendo con fuerza. A pesar de los años y de que ahora vive en la Ciudad de México, el recuerdo de su exnovio Jorge se mantiene presente, por lo que lucha constantemente por eludir la tragedia de su muerte y el sentimiento de abandono que lo atormenta. Cuando su abuela enferma y se ve obligado a regresar a Monterrey, su antiguo hogar, Édgar se reencuentra con sus mejores amigos Santiago y Samanta,...
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"Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
94) Cleanness
Author
Series
What belongs to you volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A queer American teacher describes a series of intimate encounters with lovers, friends, and students in and around Sofia, Bulgaria"--
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This stirring feature portrait of Lucha libre star in his waning years in the ring is less a swan song than a meteor shower rendered in Technicolor. Famed as much for his flamboyant drag and sky-high pompadour as for his show-stopping kicks and flips, his trailblazing ascent as one the industry's first openly gay wrestlers has resonated internationally for a quarter-century.
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Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vii, 241 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Description
"When Darnell L. Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire as he was walking home from school. Darnell was tall and awkward and constantly bullied for being gay. That afternoon, one of the boys doused him with gasoline and tried lighting a match. It was too windy, and luckily Darnell's aunt arrived in time to grab Darnell and pull him to safety. It was not the last time he would face death. What happens...
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Growing up a Guyanese Indian immigrant in Central Florida, Rajiv Mohabir is fascinated by his family’s stifled Hindu history and the legacy of his ancestors, who were indentured laborers on British sugarcane plantations. In Toronto he sits at the feet of Aji, his unlettered grandmother, listening to her stories and songs in her Caribbean Bhojpuri. By now Aji’s eleven children have immigrated to North America and busied themselves with ascension,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.
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"In Treehab?named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario?Smith muses how he has “always sought the path less traveled.” He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable stand-up comic could (“Lou Gehrig?s Disease? But I don?t even like baseball!”) and explores his complex, fulfilling experience of fatherhood, both before and after the onset of the disease. Stories of his writing and performing life?punctuated by hilariously cutting...
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