Author: Heinz Heger Title: The Men with the Pink Triangle Call No: 940.547 HEG For decades history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970’s did historians finally recognize that homosexuals, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hads of the Third […]
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: Positive Image – A Portrait of Gay America
Author: Stephen Steward Title: Positive Image – A Portrait of Gay America Call No: 779.930 STE “Only in the past few decades has photography realized its paramount role in creating and capturing a positive image of gay men and lesbians in America. In our visually oriented Western culture, ‘seeing is believing,’ and photographs have a […]
Book Review: So You Want To Be A Lesbian?
Authors: Liz Tracey and Sydney Pokorny Title: So You Want To Be A Lesbian? Call No: 646.7 TRA So you’ve heard that lesbians are chic, hot, and the ‘next big thing’ but you still wonder what is all the fuss about a Middle Eastern country? Well, So You Want to be a Lesbian?’ is here […]
Book Review: The Night Watch
Author: Sarah Waters Title: The Night Watch Call no: WAT Genre: Fiction Set in the 1940s in London during and after the World War II, the story unfolds backward from the 1940s to end with the beginning in 1941. Written in a third person perspective, one follow the lives of now seemingly strangers back to […]
Book Review: Sputnik Sweetheart
Author: Haruki Murakami Title: Sputnik Sweetheart Call no: MUR Genres: Fiction Sputnik Sweetheart is another novel that has Haruki Murakami’s signature of questioning dreams and reality in the real world. It explores how misfits live in a conformist society and how others who wish to follow their dreams often had to give up on them […]