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Rainbow and Stack of BooksThe Rainbow Reading Group provides LGBT people and friends an opportunity to meet and discuss books. The group has a "no guilt" policy; that is, if you do not finish a book, still feel free to join the discussion!

Meeting time:    7-8:30 pm, 1st Wednesday of each month
Meeting place:   Iowa City Public Library 
                            (123 S. Linn St., in downtown Iowa City)

If would like to join the group's mailing list - or have questions or reading suggestions - send an e-mail to Todd A. DeGraff: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 1st - Sordid Truths

Sordid Truths chronicles the author’s ascent from being just another broke college boy who dabbled with the idea that he could sell his young body for hard cash, to becoming the internationally renowned adult film superstar. After finishing just one year of his degree, Aiden Shaw was twenty-one and easily lured away from study by the heady mix of sex and money in London. Within a short time on the scene, he was something of a celebrity in his field, having been introduced to wealthy, weird, and wonderful eccentrics and famous—and famously closeted—Eurotrash personalities and the celebrated elite. However, working as a prostitute turned minor league once gay adult film legend Chi Chi La Rue took Polaroids of the naked and aroused Shaw and launched his career. The rest is history, as is documented in more than fifty films that won him numerous honors.

- Product description

Sordid truths: selling my innocence for a taste of stardom
Aiden Shaw
235 p.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Alyson ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2009
ISBN: 9781593501372 (pbk.) 1593501374 (pbk.)

The Following Month: October 6th - For Kings and Planets

When Oren Tarcher comes to Columbia University from a tiny Midwestern town, another freshman, sophisticated New Yorker Marshall Emerson, befriends him. The friendship is unlikely: Oren is earnest, naive, plodding ("He felt the word Missouri written on his forehead"), while Marshall, the son of two eminent Columbia professors, is charming, cynical, brilliant and possessed of an astonishing eidetic memory that indelibly records everything he's ever read.... Though Marshall abandons him for months at a time, Oren is always freshly seduced when his mercurial friend lures him from diligent study to debauched gatherings and sexual liaisons, bringing Oren into contact with something chaotic and undisciplined in his own nature.

- Publishers Weekly

For kings and planets : a novel
Ethan Canin
335 p.
New York : Random House, 1998
ISBN: 0679419632 : 9780679419631

Readings 2008-2010

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