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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, Every two months:  February, April, June, August, October, December.


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 spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 (7 pm, Iowa City Public Library)


 

The notorious Dr. August : his real life and crimes

Christopher Bram

New York : Morrow, 2000 1st ed.

498 p.

ISBN: 0688175694 9780688175696

 

Christopher Bram tells the story of Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, a clairvoyant pianist who communes with ghosts, and who finds meaning in his life through a strange love triangle with a righteous ex-slave and nervous white governess. Spanning the years between the Civil War and the early 1920's, this riveting and ambitious historical novel displays the immense talents of a prodigious, highly esteemed author working at the height of his powers.

 

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And the following month: Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 (7 pm, Iowa City Public Library)


 

The mask of Apollo

Mary Renault

London : Arrow, 2004, 1966

346 p.

ISBN: 0099469413 9780099469414

 

Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two looses all the pent-up violence in the city.

 

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Readings 2008-2012

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Suggested Readings

All I could bare : my life in the strip clubs of gay Washington D.C. / Craig Seymour

 

Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison

The best little boy in the world grows up / Andrew P Tobias; John Reid

Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of the two sexes / Gerald N Callahan

 

Beyond paradise: the life of Ramon Novarro / Andre Soares

 

Born to be gay: a history of homosexuality / William G. Naphy

Chronicle of a plague, revisited : AIDS and its aftermath / Andrew Holleran

The color purple / Alice Walker

Faggots / Larry Kramer

Full service : my adventures in Hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars / Scotty Bowers and Lionel Friedberg

Gender outlaws: the next generation / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman

Giovanni's room : a novel / James Baldwin

A home at the end of the world / Michael Cunningham

The house on Brooke Street / Neil Bartlett

If you knew then what I know now / Ryan Van Meter

Jeb and Dash : diary of gay life, 1918-45 / Jeb Alexander; Ina Russell

Mean little deaf queer : a memoir / Terry Galloway

The Meaning of Matthew: my son's murder in Laramie, and a world transformed / Judy Shepard; Jon Barrett

Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides

Missed her: stories / Ivan E. Coyote

Mississippi sissy / Kevin Sessums

My two moms: lessons of love, strength, and what makes a family / Zach Walls and Bruce Littlefield

My undoing : love in the thick of sex, drugs, pornography, and prostitution / Aiden Shaw

On the down low: a journal into the lives of "straight" black who sleep with men / J.L. King

Persistence: all ways butch and femme / Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman

A queer and pleasant danger: a memoir / Kate Bornstein

Rag and Bone / Michael Nava

Seminal murder / Mary Vermillion

Straight to Jesus: sexual and Christian conversions in the ex-gay movement /  Tanya Erzen

Sugar-baby Bridge : a novel / Brett Edward Stout

Two or three things I know for sure / Dorothy Allison

Unfinished lives : reviving the memories of LGBTQ hate crimes victims / Stephen Sprinkle

Why are faggots so afraid of faggots? : flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification, and the desire to conform / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

- EDMUND WHITE TRILOGY -

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