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Francis Bacon : the human body [Serials (default)] / David Sylvester.

Author: Sylvester, David
Published: London :Berkeley Hayward Gallery, :University of California Press 1998.

Jubilee Library - Jubilee Library Store - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 759.2BAC - Available - 02023720

The drag dictionary : an illustrated glossary of fierce queen slang / Alba De Zanet, Roberto Garcia.

'No tea no shade, Judy, but your mug looks pretty badly beaten!' With RuPaul's Drag Race catapulting drag into the mainstream, queens are well and truly owning the spotlight. But are you struggling to keep up with the lingo? Well never fear: 'The Drag Dictionary' is here to save you! Featuring bright, fun illustrations of your best-loved girls, as well as 45 classic phrases explained - from 'death drop' to 'squirrel friends', 'tuck' and more - you will be gagging to throw shade! This is a tribute to all things drag, and the amazing artists and superheroes who add sparkle and glitz to our lives.
Author: De Zanet, Alba
Published: London : Hardie Grant Books, 2021.
112 pages ; 19 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 792.028 Pink Label - Available - 95000000018358
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The best of Assigned male / Sophie Labelle.

Sophie Labelle has been chronicling the lives of a small universe of queer cartoon characters in her comic strip, showing how they navigate the daily experiences of being trans and gender diverse. 'The Best of Assigned Male' brings these characters to life for the first time in print, with exclusive bonus material for fans.
Author: Labelle, Sophie, 1988-
Published: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021.
352 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm

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The queer bible / edited by Jack Guinness.

A collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the 'Queer Eye' cast to Mae Martin on Tim Curry, today's queer heroes write about the icons that provided a creative inspiration to them.
Published: London : HQ, 2021.
320 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm

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Black girl, call home / Jasmine Mans.

As a competitive spoken-word poet who draws large crowds of people, Jasmine Mans's collection is divided into six sections, each with a corresponding active telephone number where she has recorded excerpts of her poems. You can listen now, just dial! Using poetry to bring change to the world with positive agitation and hoping to prompt dialogue where there is normally fear, poet Jasmine Mans explores the intersection of race, feminism, and queer identity in her latest collection.
Author: Mans, Jasmine
Published: New York : Berkley, 2021.
245 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

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David Hockney / James Cahill.

David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portaitist, and went on to make a even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. His figurative paintings of the 1970s and 1980s captured the zeitgeist of West Coast living, while he also explored new avenues by constructing mosaics out of polaroids. This book examines Hockney's complete oeuvre.
Author: Cahill, James
Published: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2021.
160 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Lives of the artists

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 759.2 - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - 95000000046798

Legendary children : the first decade of RuPaul's drag race and the last century of queer life / Tom Fitzgerald, Lorenzo Marquez.

Legendary Children centres itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century. In doing so, Drag Race became not only a repository of queer history and culture, but also an examination and illustration of queer life in the modern age.
Author: Fitzgerald, Tom (Thomas), 1966-
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2020.
288 pages ; 20 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 791.4572 Pink Label - Available - 04512552
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Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet [videorecording]

Shakespeare's classic tragedy is directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne in this contemporary version set in an asylum for young people.
Published: [United Kingdom] : Illuminations, 2020.
1 DVD (91 min.) : colour

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult Fiction DVD 12 (Discount) - Available - 95000000025948
Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult Fiction DVD 12 (Discount) - Onloan - Due: 04 May 2024 - 95000000025880

Queer folk tales : a book of LGBTQ stories / Kevin Walker.

In this collection of delightful, fanciful and often magical tales, professional storyteller Kevin Walker seeks to create and adapt a host of stories for the LGBTQ+ community. These sometimes traditional and sometimes new stories show queer people young and old that they belong not only in today's world, but also in a storytelling tradition going back centuries, if not millenia. Suitable for all ages, this is a wonderful collection of stories for the LGBTQ+ community to enjoy and continue to tell through the ages.
Author: Walker, Kevin
Published: Cheltenham : The History Press, 2020.
192 pages ; 20 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Available - 95000000031569

Look again : the autobiography / David Bailey with James Fox.

The extraordinary, riotous life of iconic photographer David Bailey - from the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, from Eighties excess to the present day.
Author: Bailey, David, 1938-
Published: London : Macmillan, 2020.
373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

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Kahlo / Eckhard Hollmann.

Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This book offers full page reproductions of a selection of her works, allowing for a broad appreciation of Kahlo's use of colour, composition, and texture. The biographical text informs readers of her early career, when a bus accident left her bedridden and plagued by pain, but also afforded her the chance to discover herself through painting. It follows her life, her personal relationships, and her years in America. Eckhard Hollmann explores the many themes and images of Kahlo's work, from physical and emotional pain, to Mexican and indigenous folklore, to the flora and fauna of her beloved home.
Author: Hollmann, Eckhard
Published: Munich : Prestel, 2020.
112 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm.
Masters of art

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 759.972 - Available - 95000000010248

Proud / compiled by Juno Dawson ; written by Caroline Bird [and eleven others] ; art by Saffa Khan [and eleven others].

This is an anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, responding to the broad theme of pride. Each story has an illustration by an artist identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Published: London : Stripes, 2019.
351 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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The queeriodic table : a celebration of LGBTQ+ culture / Harriet Dyer.

Celebrate the richness of modern queer culture and its vast history with this fascinating introduction to all the essential elements that helped sculpt the LGBTQ+ community up to the present day.
Author: Dyer, Harriet
Published: London : Summersdale, [2019]
Published: ©2019
126 pages ; 14 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 306.7602 Pink Label - Available - 04460386
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Hockney - Van Gogh - the joy of nature / Hans den Hartog Jager.

Landscape has become an important theme for David Hockney, especially since he returned to his homeland, the Yorkshire Wolds, in the 1990s. The landscapes in this catalogue show a series of in-depth observations of the changing seasons and the way in which light, space and nature are constantly in motion. They are reminiscent of the landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, including his monumental Wheatfield with Crows and The Harvest. The book pays particular attention to these beautiful landscapes alongside Van Gogh's depiction of nature, with a special focus on technique, perspective and colour, and the way Van Gogh and Hockney use these 'formal' elements to create their particular view on the world surrounding them.
Published: London : Thames & Hudson, 2019.
175 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 759.2 HOC - Available - 04469832

Art & queer culture / Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer.

Updated and revised, 'Art & Queer Culture' is a comprehensive and definitive survey of artworks that have constructed, contested, or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexuality. Rather than focusing exclusively on artists who self-identify as gay or lesbian, the book instead traces the shifting possibilities and constraints of sexual identity that have provided visual artists with a rich creative resource over the last 130 years - and it does so in an accessible, authoritative voice, and with a wealth of rarely-seen imagery.
Author: Lord, Catherine, 1949-
2nd edition, revised and updated.
Published: London : Phaidon Press Limited, 2019.
303 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 700.103 ART - Available - 04468014

Queer intentions : a (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture / Amelia Abraham.

In 2016 Amelia Abraham decided to quit everything and move to another country for love, but came home with her tail between her legs when the relationship ended after just ten days. Thinking about her crushed hopes - marriage, kids; things that she never saw as possible for queer people when she was growing up - the breakup becomes a moment to reflect on the idea that for LGBTQ+ people living in the West today, the options are greater than ever before. Yet, before we can take up these rights, she argues that we must ask ourselves a few questions. What were LGBTQ+ people before us fighting for - our right to be the same, or to be different? At what cost does our assimilation come? And which parts of the LGBTQ+ community are getting left behind? Embarking on a journey across the West - where the tensions that come with so called 'equality' are most acute - Amelia searches for the answer to these problems.
Author: Abraham, Amelia
Published: London : Picador, 2019.
327 pages ; 23 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 306.76 Pink Label - Available - 04474226

Queer X design : 50 years of signs, symbols, banners, logos, and graphic art of LGBTQ / Andy Campbell.

This is an illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols and graphic art representing more than five decades of LGBTQ pride and activism, from the evolution of Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag to the NYC Pride typeface launched in 2017 and beyond. Organised by decade, this book will be an empowering, uplifting and colourful celebration of the hundreds of graphics - from shapes and symbols to flags and iconic posters - that have stood for the powerful and ever-evolving LGBTQ movement over the last five-plus decades.
Author: Campbell, Andrew Raymond, 1982-
Published: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2019.
xv, 239 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 700.4538 Pink Label - Available - 04475842
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Pocket queer wisdom : inspirational quotes and wise words from queer heroes who changed the world

'Pocket Queer Wisdom' is a tribute to some of the most inspirational people of all time. LGBTQIA+ people are some of the coolest in history - legendary figures such as Freddie Mercury, Virginia Woolf, Laverne Cox, Harvey Milk and Audre Lorde have made an unforgettable impact. This little book brings you their best pearls of wisdom in your back pocket.
Published: London : Hardie Grant Books, 2019.
96 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 14 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 306.766 Pink Label - Available - 04473544
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Sensible footwear : a girl's guide / Kate Charlesworth.

The curtains of lesbian history from the 1950s to the present day are opened by celebrated cartoonist Kate Charlesworth, with a little help from Gilbert and Sullivan and a side of Nancy Spain.
Author: Charlesworth, Kate
Published: Oxford, UK : Myriad Editions, 2019.
320 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm

12 copies

Fabulosa! : the story of Polari, Britain's secret gay language / Paul Baker.

Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, erudition and tenderness. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Richly evocative and entertaining."-Guardian"An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari bona!"-Attitude"Exuberant, richly detailed. . . . A delightful read."-Tatler Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied-from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' slang-and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne ("Oh hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek!"). Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humor, and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline, and tells of its unlikely reemergence in the twenty-first century. With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, Fabulosa! is an essential document of recent history-a fascinating and fantastically readable account of this funny, filthy, and ingenious language.
Author: Baker, Paul, 1972-
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2019.
328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 427.0086 Pink Label - Available - 04476999
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We have always been here : a queer Muslim memoir / Samra Habib.

A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Canada as a refugee, before escaping an arranged marriage at sixteen. When she realised she was queer, it was yet another way she felt like an outsider. So begins a journey that takes her to the far reaches of the globe to uncover a truth that was within her all along. It shows how Muslims can embrace queer sexuality, and families can embrace change.
Author: Habib, Samra
Published: London : riverrun, 2019.
220 pages ; 20 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920 HAB - Onloan - Due: 11 Jun 2024 - 95000000137576

Queer objects / edited by Chris Brickell and Judith Collard.

Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters in 'Queer Objects' consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space.
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
400 pages

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 306.766 Pink Label - Available - 04493280
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Me / Elton John.

In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the upcoming film 'Rocketman'. The result is 'Me' - the joyously funny, honest, and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.
Author: John, Elton
Published: London : Macmillan, 2019.
376 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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Frost fair / Carol Ann Duffy.

This is the tenth and final Christmas book, set in the frost fairs on London's Thames in the sixteenth century. Produced here in small format, this is an irresistable festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for all book lovers.
Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
Published: London : Picador, 2019.
48 pages : illustrations ; 14 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 821 Pink Label - Available - 04492611

Sincerity / Carol Ann Duffy.

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with 'Sincerity', her last full collection as Poet Laureate, a magesterial achievement from the greatest living poet of our times.
Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
Published: London : Picador, 2018.
ix, 75 pages ; 23 cm

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You are always with me : letters to Mama 1923-1932 / Frida Kahlo ; edited, translated and introduced by Héctor Jaimes.

Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over 60 years ago. But beyond the familiar images there is a private story about a daughter who confided in her beloved mama, Matilde Calderon Kahlo. Until now Frida's handwritten letters have only been available to scholars. Funny, observant and honest, they chart Kahlo's relationship with her mother; a relationship that was sometimes fraught - as with most mother and daughters - but was always alive and honest.
Author: Kahlo, Frida, 1907-1954
Published: London : Virago, 2018.
175 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

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Butch heroes : reinscribing the narrative from the 15th to the 20th century / Ria Brodell.

Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the 15th through the 20th centuries.
Author: Brodell, Ria
Published: Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2018.
96 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 759.13 Pink Label - Available - 04456974

The Oberon book of queer monologues / edited by Scottee.

Ranging from the early 20th century to today's contemporary plays and performance, 'The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues' gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by queer playwrights and performers, over the last fifty years. This collection features over thirty speeches by Britain's most prominent queer dramatists. The monologues represent a wide-range of themes, characters, dialects and styles and includes gay, lesbian and trans parts.
Published: London : Oberon Books, 2018.
199 pages ; 22 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 822.045 - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 04451015

Andy Warhol / Carolyn Lanchner.

Through his art, ideas, and style, Andy Warhol made an indelible mark on the history of modern art and on popular culture. This book features ten paintings by Warhol selected from The Museum of Modern Art's collection of his work. His famous Gold Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup Cans are here, along with other equally groundbreaking and iconic silkscreen paintings - from his early work of 1961 to The Last Supper, a painting in progress at the time of his death, in 1987.
Published: New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2017.
1 volume : illustrations.
MoMA artist series

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 759.13 WAR - Available - 04420800

David Bowie made me gay : 100 years of LGBT music / Darryl W. Bullock.

'David Bowie Made Me Gay' is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community: How have those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today? How have they inspired whole generations of disenfranchised youth? How could we ever have the Scissor Sisters or Lady Gaga without Billie Holiday, Disco and David Bowie?
Author: Bullock, Darryl W.
Published: London : Duckworth Overlook, 2017.
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 781.64 - Available - 04414428