Black and Ethnic Minorities
| Outhouse East Library | 1 / 5 | |||
| Cover | Details | Summary | ||
 | Sugar Cane | The sequel to "Gabriel's Lament". It features the story of Dr Esther Potocki, a venerologist at a London hospital. She describes her curious friendship with the enigmatic Stephen, who she eventually introduces to her lover, Gabriel Harvey. | ||
| Paul Bailey | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Gay, Relationships | ||||
| Book#: BEM001 | ||||
 | Giovanni's Room | Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two. Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight. | ||
| James Baldwin | ||||
| 1977 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Gay, Romance | ||||
| Book#: BEM002 | ||||
 | Another Country | When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit. | ||
| James Baldwin | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Gay, Music, Romance, Sex | ||||
| Book#: BEM003 | ||||
 | Just Above My Head | James Baldwin first wrote about homosexuality in his famous early novel, Giovanni's Room. Here he brings homosexuality and race together in the story of the great gospel singer Arthur Montana. Arthur was found dead in the basement of a London pub at the age of thirty-nine, yet he lies on in this memoir. Written by Hall, his brother and manager, it is in part a subtle and moving study of the treacherous ebb and flow of memory. Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Just Above My Head explores how Arthur discovers his love for Jimmy - 'with his smile like a lantern and a voice like Saturday nights' - and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love. | ||
| James Baldwin | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Gay, History, Romance | ||||
| Book#: BEM004 | ||||
 | In Another Place, Not Here | Acclaimed by Adrienne Rich as "fierce, sensuous . . . a work of great beauty and moral imagination," In Another Place, Not Here tells of two contemporary Caribbean women who find brief refuge in each other on an island in the midst of political uprising. Elizete, dreaming of running to another place to escape the harshness of her daily life on the island, meets Verlia, an urban woman in constant flight who has returned to her island birthplace with hopes of revolution. Their tumultuous story moves between city and island, past and future, fantasy and reality. | ||
| Dionne Brand | ||||
| 1997 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: BEM005 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 2 / 5 | |||
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 | The Threshing Floor | A short story collection by Barbara Burford. Powerful, well-crafted tales; the cruel realities, dream fantasies, and bitter escapes of Black women. | ||
| Barbara Burford | ||||
| 1986 | ||||
| BEM, Feminism, Fiction, Short Story | ||||
| Book#: BEM006 | ||||
 | The Two Mujeres 1st Edition | Simply and sensually written, this love story between two Mexican Jewish women has been both scandalous and celebrated since its first publication. A romance that explores the constraints that family, community and society place on love, TWO MUJERES is an evocation of a desire that crosses boundaries and the risks of that transgression. | ||
| Sara Levi Calderón | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Lesbian, Religion, Romance | ||||
| Book#: BEM007 | ||||
 | At Fever Pitch | Michael Glym is just twenty, a subaltern serving in an African colony on the eve of independence. His struggles with his sexual needs and his disgust with his fellow countrymen take place against the mounting tension and violence in the colony as the elections draw near. In the desperate heat and electric atmosphere of the last few weeks of British rule the lust for power grows and emotions are at fever pitch - and something must surely break... | ||
| David Caute | ||||
| 1973 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sex | ||||
| Book#: BEM008 | ||||
 | White on Black on White | The first paperback edition of Dowell's humorous, violent and obsessive meditation on race relations. "The most penetrating novel we have ever had about blacks and whites in the United States." - Edmund White "Pyschological acuity, political insight, ferocious energy and authenticity of place." - New York Times Book Review | ||
| Coleman Dowell | ||||
| 1990 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Politics, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: BEM009 | ||||
 | Blackbird | A funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay. Johnnie Ray Rousseau is a high school student upset over losing the lead role in the school staging play, but he’s intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, whom he meets at an audition, surely the sexiest man to walk God’s green earth. | ||
| Larry Duplechan | ||||
| 1986 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Gay, Romance | ||||
| Book#: BEM010 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 3 / 5 | |||
| Cover | Details | Summary | ||
 | Brother To Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | BROTHER TO BROTHER, begun by Joseph Beam and completed by Essex Hemphill after Beam's death in 1988, is a collection of now-classic literary work by black gay male writers. Originally published in 1991 and out of print for several years, BROTHER TO BROTHER "is a community of voices," Hemphill writes. "[It] tells a story that laughs and cries and sings and celebrates...it's a conversation intimate friends share for hours. These are truly words mined syllable by syllable from the harts of black gay men. You're invited to listen in because you're family, and these aren't secrets-not to us, so why should they be secrets to you? Just listen. Your brother is speaking." | ||
| Essex Hemphill | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| Anthology, BEM, Fiction, Gay, Poetry, Short Story | ||||
| Book#: BEM011 | ||||
 | A Married Woman | Astha has everything an educated, middle-class woman could ask for: comfortable surroundings, children and a dutiful loving husband. So why should she be consumed by a sense of unease and dissatisfaction? And when she begins a relationship with another woman, is she liberating herself from her marriage, past and culture - or foolishly jeopardising everything she has? | ||
| Manju Kapur | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| BEM, Coming Out, Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | ||||
| Book#: BEM012 | ||||
 | Buddha of Suburbia | The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, an Englishman born and bred - almost, who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the South London suburbs. It is written by the author of My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. | ||
| Hanif Kureishi | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction | ||||
| Book#: BEM013 | ||||
 | My Deep Dark Pain is Love: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction NULL Edition | This is an in-depth anthology of fiction on gay themes by 24 writers, among them many of the foremost Laton American writers. The book presents Latin American gays as part of a lively, fascinating social reality - as soldier, businessmen, office workers, students, cattle ranchers, circus performers... | ||
| Winston Leyland | ||||
| 1983 | ||||
| Anthology, BEM, Fiction, Gay, Short Story | ||||
| Book#: BEM014 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 4 / 5 | |||
| Cover | Details | Summary | ||
 | Om Shanti, Babe | Cassia can't wait for her first visit to India - Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves...But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected...Cass is with her mum in Kerala, on a buying trip for their Fair Trade craft shop, and everything seems to be going wrong. There's Mum's new romance with "call-me-V" Mr Chaudury for a start, her own prickly stand-off with pretty, fashion-mad Priyanka, and the devastating news that her mum's business may be on the rocks. But then pop idol Jonny Gold arrives at the beach to promote his new song, Om Shanti Babe, sparking a mystery, new friendships and a race to save the mangrove swamps...Fizzing with energy, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is a roller-coaster journey of discovery, which also has an exciting environmental twist - all against the backdrop of beautiful Kerala. | ||
| Helen Limon | ||||
| 2012 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction | ||||
| Book#: BEM015 | ||||
 | Forbidden Colours | From one of Japan's greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating poisoned cocktail. An aging, embittered novelist sets out to avenge himself on the women who have betrayed him. He finds the perfect instrument in Yuichi, a young man whose beauty makes him irresistible to women but who is just discovering his attraction to other men. As Yuichi's mentor presses him into a loveless marriage and a series of equally loveless philanderings, his protégé enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan. In that hidden society of parks and tearooms, prostitutes and aristocratic blackmailers, Yuichi is as defenseless as any of the women he preys on. Mordantly observed, intellectually provocative, and filled with icy eroticism, Forbidden Colors is a masterpiece. | ||
| Yukio Mishima | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Gay | ||||
| Book#: BEM016 | ||||
 | Confessions of a Mask | The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic. Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his homosexuality, he courts a woman, Sonoko, but this exacerbates his feelings for men. As news of the War reaches Tokyo, Kochan considers the fate of Japan and his place within its deeply rooted propriety. Confessions of a Mask reflects Mishima’s own coming of age in post-war Japan. Its publication in English―praised by Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, and Christopher Isherwood― propelled the young Yukio Mishima to international fame. | ||
| Yukio Mishima | ||||
| 1977 | ||||
| BEM, Coming Out, Fiction, Gay | ||||
| Book#: BEM017 | ||||
 | Not Otherwise Specified | From the award-winning author of Break and Teeth comes a raw and honest exploration of complicated identities in a novel about a girl living on the fringe of every fringe group in her small town. Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown. Everywhere she turns, someone feels she’s too fringe for the fringe. Not gay enough for the Dykes, her ex-clique, thanks to a recent relationship with a boy; not tiny and white enough for ballet, her first passion; not sick enough to look anorexic (partially thanks to recovery). Etta doesn’t fit anywhere—until she meets Bianca, the straight, white, Christian, and seriously sick girl in Etta’s therapy group. Both girls are auditioning for Brentwood, a prestigious New York theater academy that is so not Nebraska. Bianca might be Etta’s salvation…but can Etta be saved by a girl who needs saving herself? | ||
| Hannah Moskowitz | ||||
| 2015 | ||||
| BEM, Bisexual, Fiction, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: BEM018 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 5 / 5 | |||
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 | Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry | A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of today's most notable authors - including Maya Angelou, Terry McMillan, Alice Walker - and some of literature's newest voices that speak directly to the lives and concerns of African-American women in the nineties. Sonia Sanchez, Gloria Naylor, ntozake shange, and J. California Cooper join fifty-four other women from the African-American literary scene to lend their voices to the concerns, frustrations, joys, and experiences of Black women today. With courage, anger, and passion they confront the social issues of AIDS, crack, violence, abortion, and sexual abuse. They write of the sustaining bonds between women - among mothers, daughters, sisterfriends, lovers - and of the love of men and the absence of men in their lives. It is a celebration of the strength, diversity, and spirit of African-American women in the past, present, and into the future. | ||
| Charlotte Watson Sherman | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| AIDS/HIV, Anthology, BEM, Feminism, Fiction, Lesbian, Poetry, Short Story | ||||
| Book#: BEM019 | ||||
 | Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies | Here is the first major work published about sexuality and eroticism between males in Islamic society. Through narratives, analytic essays, descriptions, and academic treatises, Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies provides a revealing and most fascinating look into what is--for most Westerners--still a very hidden, very foreign culture. Until now there has existed a lack of solid information about sexuality in Islamic society, but this volume portrays very clearly the relationship between same-sex eroticism and the ideal of the man as penetrator. As a result, Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies illuminates not only homosexuality but the whole sexual culture and role of gender in the Muslim world. The chapters focus on homosexuality among men in Morocco, Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Israel. | ||
| Jehoeda Sofer, Arno Schmitt | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| Anthology, BEM, Erotica, Gay, Religion, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: BEM020 | ||||
 | In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women | Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker’s power to depict black women - women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. | ||
| Alice Walker | ||||
| 1986 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction, Short Story | ||||
| Book#: BEM021 | ||||
 | The Messenger | In The Messenger, Wright draws extensively on his life. Realistically narrated in the first person by Charles Stevenson -- a light-skinned African American newcomer to Manhattan from small-town Missouri -- the novel dramatizes the isolation and alienation of those who fall prey to America's social, economic, and racial caste systems. Stevenson works as an office messenger and constantly finds himself on the edges of power, yet is utterly devoid of any. A man perceived as neither black nor white, “a minority within a minority,” he drifts through the naturalistic city of New York, where victory and defeat are accepted “with the same marvelous indifference.” | ||
| Charles Wright | ||||
| 1965 | ||||
| BEM, Fiction | ||||
| Book#: BEM022 | ||||
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