Original post by Pink Dot : http://pinkdot.sg/community-statement/ To Singapore’s LGBT Community and Friends, Recent events have caused much grief to many of us. Issues surrounding being LGBT are once again cast in the limelight and being discussed in the media. Hateful words have been used, disinformation has been spread as fact, and our leaders’ positions […]
Month: January 2013
Book Review: Love, Ellen
Author: Betty DeGeneres Title: Love, Ellen Call no: DEG Insightful, universally touching, and uncommonly wise, Love, Ellen is a story of friendship between mother and daughter and a lesson in understanding for all parents and their children. “Mom, I’m gay.” With three little words, gay children can change their parents’ lives forever. Yet at the […]
Book Review: Open Secret – Gay Hollywood 1928-2000
Author: David Ehrenstein Title: Open Secret – Gay Hollywood 1928-2000 Call No: 791.43 EHR Part social history and part expose, this revealing, entertaining and provocative book spans nearly seventy years as it explores the lives and careers of some of the silver screen’s foremost gays and lesbians and the effects of their high-profile lifestyles on […]
Book Review: Don't Get Me Started
Author: Kate Clinton Title: Don’t Get Me Started Call no: CLI The product of an upstate New York Catholic girlhood, Clinton spent eight years teaching English before she took a leave, developed her feminist and lesbian consciousness and began writing. That writing turned into stand-up comedy. Since 1981, Clinton has been performing at festivals, universities […]
Book Review: Fledgling
Author: Octavia E. Butler Title: Fledgling Call no: BUT While I’ve studiously avoided the current Twilight craze, I’ll admit that I’m not averse to reading novels about vampires. I loved Anne Rice’s early work (which I read in my 20s), very much enjoyed Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and thought John Ajvide […]