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2SLGBTQ+ topic December 2023 |
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Fabulosa! : The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
by Paul Baker
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied--from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' slang--and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne ("Oh hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek!"). Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humor, and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline, and tells of its unlikely reemergence in the twenty-first century.
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Prequel : an American fight against Fascism
by Rachel Maddow
A noted MSNBC anchor traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis
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A power unbound
by Freya Marske
Swearing off magic in the wake of his twin sister's death, Jack is lured back in with the threat of a dangerous ritual in the third and final novel of the trilogy following A Restless Truth. 100,000 first printing.
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The city of the living
by Nicola Lagioia
Based on the true story of one of the most brutal crimes in recent Italian history, this hypnotic literary thriller recounts the murder of 23-year-old Luca Varani at the hands of two“ordinary” young men from good families, taking us into the darkest corners of contemporary Rome and of the human soul.
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Blackouts : a novel
by Justin Torres
A young man tends to the dying soul of a person he knew only briefly and the pair trade stories as they wait for the end, in the new novel from the author of We the Animals. 100,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Your lonely nights are over / : The Search for Mr. Sandman
by Adam Sass
"From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They're beautiful, flirtatious, dangerously clever queen bees, and they're always ready to call out their fellow students. But they've never faced a bigger threat than surviving senior year, when Mr. Sandman, a famous, never-caught serial killer emerges from a long retirement-and his hunting ground is their school Queer Club. As evidence and bodies begin piling up and suspicion points at Dearie and Cole, they will need to do whatever it takes to unmask the real killer before they and the rest of Queer Club are taken down. But they're not getting away from the killer without a fight. Along the way, they must confront dark truths hidden beneath the surface of their small desert community. When the world is stacked against them and every flop they know is a suspect, can Dearie and Cole stop Mr. Sandman's rampage? Or will their lonely nights soon be over . . ."
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Season of love / : It's Time to Make the Yuletide Gay [eBook]
by Helena Greer
When she inherits half of her great-aunt's Jewish-run Christmas tree farm, Miriam Blum, while sitting shiva and avoiding her parents, must save the business from going under with the help of the farm's grumpy manager, Noelle Northwood, who wants her gone until love enters the picture. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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You're a mean one, Matthew Prince
by Timothy Janovsky
"Young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled, Matthew has no intention of being shipped off to some small town in New England to stay with his grandmother for Christmas...or to play nice with the attractive young man he meets there. Find a little "Joy to the World"? Not today, Santa. But when the two are forced to work together to make a charity gala go off without a hitch, Matthew may find the home he's been missing all along"
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