Books & Film

Visit Blue Hill Books on Pleasant Street or the Blue Hill Public Library to access the items on these lists.

Recommended Reading

INDICATES A BOOK CLUB BOOK

Ruby Fruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Word is Out - Stories of Some of Our Lives by Nancy Adair

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Celine Sciamma

When We Were Sisters by Fatima Azgar

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

Just Kids by Patti Smith

How to Fuck Like a Girl by Vera Blosson

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

Miss Stevens Hears the Mermaid Singing by May Sarton

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White

Children’s + Young Adult

Canary by Esteban Mercato

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Geography Club by Brent Hartinger

Recommended Viewing

Bottoms

Paris is Burning

Moonlight

Blue is the Warmest Color

But I’m A Cheerleader

Call Me By Your Name

The Boys in the Band

Disobedience

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Tangerine

Pariah

Love, Simon

The Color Purple

Carol

Brokeback Mountain

Imagine Me and You

Rafiki

The Queen

Boys Don’t Cry

The Watermelon Woman

Young Soul Rebels

My Beautiful Laundrette

A Fantastic Woman

Emilia Perez

A Single Man

Great Freedom

Passages

The Imitation Game

Mysterious skin

Desert Hearts

Out (Pixar)

Ma Vie en Rose