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Pride Reads

A selection of resources from TU Dublin Library Collections to celebrate Pride

Stage & Screen

Fragmented photos of a face in shades of pink and red

Queer performance and contemporary Ireland : dissent and disorientation / Fintan Walsh

LGBTQ Culture: the changing landscape / edited by Bruce E. Drushel

Positive images: gay men and HIV/AIDS in the culture of 'post crisis' / Dion Kagan

An older man in a pub holding a pint, peering around the booth wall.

Irish queer cinema / Allison Macleod [eBook]

From behind a man in a white sailor suit reaches for red flowers on a green tree.

Queer cinema in Europe / Robin Griffiths [eBook]

A black and white photo of a person dressed as an angel towering over others, with text over top.

Out on stage : lesbian and gay theatre in the twentieth century / Alan Sinfield

A black and whit ephoto close up of a man's face smoking a cigar

Bike boys, drag queens & superstars : avant-garde, mass culture, and gay identities in the 1960s underground cinema / Juan A. Suarez

Also available as an eBook here.

In a queer time and place: transgender bodies, subcultural lives / Judith Halberstam

A photo of a masked person in a blue afro

The Oxford handbook of queer cinema / edited by Ronald Gregg and Amy Villarejo

Also available as an eBook here.

Burgerz / Travis Alabanza [Play script]

A multi coloured overlapping pattern with a box and title in the centre

Straight skin, gay masks and pretending to be gay on screen / Gilad Padva

Queering masculinities in language and culture / Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano [eBook]

Black cover dominated by text with small shots from films at the bottom.

Images in the dark : an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video / Raymond Murray

LGBTQ+ Authors & Fiction

QDA: a queer disability anthology / Raymond Luczak

Photos of 8 different actorsin a grid

Queers: eight monologues / created by Mark Gatiss

Twomen sitting, leaning in to kiss

Gay drama now : an anthology / edited by John M. Clum

An illustration of a shadowed person bent over with their head in their hands, colourfulwings coming from their back

Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes / Tony Kushner

A black and white photo of two men sitting on a cresent moon prop

Lovesick : modernist plays of same-sex love, 1894-1925 / edited by Laurence Senelick

The collected stories of Elizabeth Bowen / Elizabeth Bowen

The queer transnational in Kate O’Brien and Elizabeth Bowen / Naoise Murphy

In: eJournal Review of Irish Studies in Europe, Vol. 5(1), 2022.

Elizabeth Bowen: new critical perspectives / edited by Susan Osborn

Queer Decorum: an episode on translation and marginalized sexualities / María Julia Rossi

In: eJournal Latin American Literary Review, Vol. 49(98), 2022.

The Blackwater lightship / Colm Tóibín

Bad feminist : essays / Roxane Gay

Half a photo of Wilde, a white man, split down the centre.

Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde / introduced by Merlin Holland

A print of leaves on a branch in shades of brown

Giovanni's room / James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Caryl Phillips

Brendan Behan: the complete plays / Brendan Behan; introduction by Alan Simpson

Borstal boy / Brendan Behan

A pink illustration of a head thrown back, text in geometric font

Queer notions : new plays and performances from Ireland / edited by Fintan Walsh

A painting of nude boys on a beach, on a blue cover.

Out in the open / Cathal Ó Searcaigh ; translations by Frank Sewell

A largely black cover with blending into a black and white photo at the top of a masked personwith dramatic eye make up

The torch song trilogy: three plays / Harvey Fierstein

A painting of a desert like landscape on a dark green cover

Plays one / Frank McGuinness

A painting of a white man in a shirt and tie on a dark green cover

Plays two / Frank McGuinness

A blue cover with a blue illustration of a house on a hill, light pouring from the door and windows.

Holding / Graham Norton

Music

The singing teacher's guide to transgender voices / Liz Jackson Hearns and Brian Kremer

Also available as an eBook on the Online Library

Gay guerrilla : Julius Eastman and his music / edited by Renee Levine Packer, Mary Jane Leach.

Breaking down the walls of heartache : how music came out / Martin Aston.

Queer episodes in music and modern identity / edited by Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell.

Queer noises : male and female homosexuality in twentieth century music / John Gill.

Opera, sex, and other vital matters / Paul Robinson

Musicology and difference : gender and sexuality in music scholarship / Ruth A. Solie

Music, sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte / Charles Ford.

Audible traces : gender, identity, and music / Elaine Barkin & Lydia Hamessley

"That's What Music Is About-It Strikes a Chord": Proposing a Queer Method of Listening to the Lives and Music of LGBTQs / Marion Wasserbauer

Dolly Parton's mythologised persona, collective life writing, and building a home for LGBTQ+ listeners in country music / James Barker

[Thesis] An examination of the representation of race and sexuality in disco record cover design / Christopher Hanna, DIT 2019

Art, Fashion & Photography

John Craxton / Ian Collins

From Protestant peasant dress to Gay Pride T-shirt: Transformations in sartorial strategy amongst the körtti movement in Finland / Anna-Mari Almila

In: eJournal Religions, Vol. 10(6), 2019.

A pink toned image of flowers

Art & queer culture / Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer

A cream chair on a white background

Eileen Gray : her work and her world / Jennifer Goff

A black and white photo of two men holding hands from behind, a landscape framed between them

We were here : sexuality, photography, and cultural difference : selected writings by Sunil Gupta / Sunil Gupta

A red and black circle patterened cover

Coming Out : sexuality, gender & identity. / Charlotte Keenan McDonald

An illustration of a man in a cabaret style look sitting on a chair infront of red curtains

Liberated : the radical art and life of Claude Cahun / Kaz Rowe

A colourful illustration of geometric shapes with a drawing of Keith Haring, a white man with glasses.

Keith Haring / Simon Doonan

An old sepia photo of two men smiling at the camera, arms around the other's neck.

Loving : a photographic history of men in love, 1850s-1950s : Nini-Treadwell Collection / with text by Paolo Maria Noseda

A painted close up of a woman's face with short, cropped dark hair.

Queer British Art / edited by Clare Barlow

The lives of Lucian Freud: youth, 1922-68 / William Feaver

Lucian Freud: the copper paintings / Martin Gayford and David Scherf

Crossing the Channel : friendships and connections in Paris and London 1946-1965 : Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Alberto Giacometti / Gagosian Gallery, London

Francis Bacon: studies for a portrait: essays and interviews / Michael Peppiatt

A blue photo of a white man from the shoulders up, head tilted back

Andrew Kearney / editor, John O'Regan

A textured, studded image of a blackwoman in a colourful suit reclining.

Mickalene Thomas / Kellie Jones, Roxane Gay

A black and white photo of a woman. A pink box with the title covers her eyes and nose.

Pictures from here / Sunil Gupta

A photo of a black person in an almost superhero using powers pose.

Kiss my genders / Amrou Al-Kadhi

A pink toned photo of two smiling men, one in drag.

Don we now our gay apparel : gay men's dress in the twentieth century / Shaun Cole

A small pbacl and whit ephoto og Gray, a white woman with short dark hair, on a purple cover.

Eileen Gray : her life and work : the biography / Peter Adam

A classical painting of a nude man from the side, head down holding his knees.

A hidden love : art and homosexuality

A black and white photo of a stylish room on a red cover.

Eileen Gray and the design of Sapphic modernity : staying in / Jasmine Rault

A painting of a naked man

The sexual perspective : homosexuality and art in the last 100 years in the West / Emmanuel Cooper

A photo of a drag queen making a silly face wearing a cartoonish blonde wig.

Absolutely Mardi Gras : costume and design of the Sydney gay & lesbian Mardi Gras / Glynis Jones, Judith O'Callaghan and Robert Swieca

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