LibGuides: Curated Lists 2021: Pride Week

eBooks & Audiobooks

Space Between: Exploration of Love, Sex, and Fluidity by Nico Tortorella
Publication Date: 2019
Expanding on themes explored on their popular podcast, The Love Bomb, Nico shares the intimate details of their romantic partnerships, the dysfunction of their loud but loving Italian family, and the mingling of their feminine and masculine identities into one multidimensional, sexually fluid, nonbinary individual.
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Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
Publication Date: 2019
Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Sully Morales, home cooking hustler lands in Scotland on a quest to find her purpose after spending years as her family's caregiver. Winning the Holiday Baking Challenge is a no brainer if she can convince her grumpy AF baking partner that they make a great team both in and out of the kitchen.
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Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Publication Date: 2017
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost.
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Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis
Publication Date: 2020
In defiance of the brutal military government that took power in Uruguay in the 1970s, and under which homosexuality is a dangerous transgression, five women miraculously find one another as they fight to live authentic lives.
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Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Publication Date: 2017
Story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.
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Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover.
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Films

Moonlight (2016)

MOONLIGHT is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality. (1hr 50mins)

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. (1hr 31mins)

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Retablo (2018)

Segundo Paucar, a 14 year old boy wants to become a master story-box maker just like his father to carry on with the family legacy. On his way to a community celebration in the Andes, Segundo accidentally observes his father in a situation that shatters his whole world. Trapped in a chauvinistic environment, Segundo will try to deal in silence with all that is happening to him. (1hr 41mins)

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