Item category 2: LGBT

1979. The Pope visits Ireland, and things will never be the same again. At the Pontiff's mass in Knock, one little boy has an epiphany that will set him on the road to become the biggest, boldest, and most opinionated drag queen Ireland has ever known. This is the story of Rory O'Neill's journey ...

Based on Charlie Mortimer's life with HIV/Aids during the early years (1984-1996), when there was neither treatment nor cure, this is a poignant yet light-hearted memoir from the bestselling author of 'Dear Lupin'. Using a combination of good luck, gallows humour, Fray Bentos pies and copious qua...

What if discovering who you really are means letting go of who you've been? Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. They're hopelessly in love. When they separate for their first year at college they're sure their relations...

There are a whole range of issues currently troubling the Church of England, from gay marriage via women bishops to how much it should speak out on social justice. Can the Anglican Communion worldwide find ways of disagreeing profoundly on these and other concerns, without splitting off from each...

Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives' sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this updated edition of her ground-breaking work, feminist Muslim scholar Dr Kecia Ali...

Forbidden Love interweaves an historical dramatisation with interviews with women who speak frankly about their experiences living as lesbians in times when they could not be out, as well as with Ann Bannon, the American writer who wrote lesbian pulp fiction novels from 1957 to 1962 known as The ...

Alison Bechdel chronicled the lives of a small universe of cartoon characters in her strip 'Dykes to Watch Out For', which is syndicated in 50 alternative newspapers in the USA and has been published in 11 volumes. This book gathers the best of those volumes, together with 60 of the newest strips.

Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals & rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. Unfortunatey when Bailey awakes, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Then Bailey meets Laurel, an older girl who is touched & inspired by Bailey'...

Welcome to Palmerino, the British enclave in rural Italy where Violet Paget, known to the world by her pen name and male persona, Vernon Lee, held court. The author imagines the real life of this brilliant writer known for her chilling supernatural stories, and creates a multilayered tale in whic...