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Added DVDs:

		Aimee & Jaguar in German w/ English subtitles
		Aimee tells the true story of Lilly and Felice, lovers in WWII Germany. Lilly Wust is married to a Nazi officer away on the war front. Felice is the leading light of her circle of lesbians. Felice, not only a lesbian, but also a Jew in Nazi Germany, knows that a relationship is impossible, but she doesn't care, she's headstrong and she's met her soul mate.
		Better Than Chocolate
		Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookstore, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce.
		Divine Trash
		According to Pierson in this 1998 documentary, Waters had an even more profound impact on American cinema. Director Steve Yeager, a Waters intimate for decades (he plays a bit part in Pink Flamingos), gathers the surviving members of his stock company for a portrait of the director, from backyard puppet show impresario to the transgressive underground and exploitation director who grossed out America in the 1970s.
		Fire Indian made w/ English subtitles
		From India comes original and emotionally charged drama about the forbidden love between two women. The newly wed Sita is a young and beautiful woman who comes to live with her husband's brother and his wife Rahda in New Dehli. Restless and independent and realizing that her arranged-marriage husband is far from faithful, Sita quickly finds her new world stifling.
		Hedwig and the Angry Inch
		The title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany, undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle America. Hedwig gets involved with Tommy, an adolescent boy who steals her songs and becomes a stadium-filling musical act.
		Margaret Cho – I’m the One That I Want.
		This concert film becomes gripping, moving, and triumphantly funny when Margaret Cho stops with the "fag-hag" jokes and gets real in recounting her ill-fated sitcom and its devastating effects on her mental and physical well-being.
		Margaret Cho – Notorious C.H.O.
		Leave it to Cho to reference September 11 with a joke that is at once profane and respectful. Like Richard Pryor, the Korean-American outlaw comedian has found her niche with concert films that allow her the freedom to be her "actual self." She riffs unabashedly about relationships gone sour and relates her experiences as a sexual Captain Kirk, boldly going where she has never gone before.
		Ma Vie En Rose French w/ English subtitles
		Alain Berliner's Ma Vie en Rose is the story of an innocent little boy, Ludovic,who wants to be a girl. Convinced that he's the product of misplaced chromosomes. The otherwise friendly suburban neighborhood becomes horrified by the gender confusion, though tellingly the cruelest blows come not from the teasing classmates but intolerant adults.
		Nico & Dani Spanish w/ English subtitles
		They have the typical male teenager obsessions with masturbation and girls--but Dani is just beginning to realize that he's more interested in Nico than the local girls they've been flirting with. The setup isn't unusual, but what is remarkable about Nico and Dani is the unforced naturalism of the acting and the way the story unfolds.
		Queer As Folk (British--Series 1 & 2).
		When it appeared on British television in 1999, Queer as Folk caused quite a ruckus. There was the sex, as graphic as most anything you'd see in an R-rated film. There were the questionable morals--after all, one of the lead characters knowingly seduced a virginal 15-year-old boy. There was, of course, the rampant homosexuality, seeing as the series followed a group of gay men living in Manchester. But what really got people talking was the quality of the series: no leaden soap opera or exploitative sex romp, Queer as Folk is an engrossing, incredibly well-written series that ranks with some of the best ever produced for British TV.
		Queer As Folk (US--Season 1).
		They're here, they're queer, and they make Sex and the City look like a demure tea party. Showtime's quintessentially American Queer As Folk--based on the British miniseries--pours on copious amounts of hot and steamy sex. This slick (and slickly entertaining) series shares the same basic concept as its British counterpart--centering on a group of gay friends living in a primarily industrial city--but after that, all bets are off.
		Queer As Folk (US--Season 2)
		The gay cultural event of the millennium keeps on marching along. While the writing on this second season doesn't seem as strong, the character development has been tremendous and there is tons more sex, nudity and trashy soapy fun! All of the actors seem quite comforfortable in their roles and one more has even come out - Michael's new boyfriend, Ben (played by Advocate cover-man Robert Gant).

Added CDs

Rufus Wainwright by Rufus Wainwright. Rufus Wainwright is quite an anomaly--but, then again, he's the son of Loudon Wainwright IIIand Kate McGarrigle. Wainwright has been compared to Randy Newman for his piano-based orchestral sense, but unlike Newman, he rarely turns those poppy conventions against themselves: he's always sentimental and sincere about the fluff he explores.

Poses by Rufus Wainwright. Rufus Wainwright's sophomore album, Poses, advances beyond the earlier, cabaret-inspired effort with a suite of songs marvelously varied in arrangement and texture but linked by Wainwright's characteristic theatrical panache.

Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction, by Naomi Holoch (Editor), Joan Nestle (Editor).

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay : Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Series Q), by Esther Newton, William L. Leap, Judith Halberstam.

Welsh Boys Too (Parthian Shorts), by John Sam Jones

Harris Guide 2001: The Comprehensive Guide to GLBT Press, by Paul Harris (Editor)

Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality, by Calvin Thomas (Editor), Joseph O. Aimone (Editor), Catherine A. F. Macgillivray (Editor).

 

What We Do:

* Acquire items with Queer content for Cole Library.

* Annually organize a Queer History Month in Cole Library (National LGBT History Month is in October).

* Work with the Cole Library staff in the maintenance of the collection's materials that contain Queer content.