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- Beginners [videorecording] / by Laurent, Mľanie,1983-; Mcgregor, Ewan,1971-; Mills, Mike.; Plummer, Christopher.; Visnjic, Goran.; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Alliance Films.; Focus Features.; Olympus Pictures (Firm);
Music by Roger Neill, Dave Palmer, Brian Reitzell ; cinematography, Kasper Tuxen ; edited by Olivier Bugge Coutt.̌Christopher Plummer, Ewan Mcgregor, Melanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic.Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is an illustrator with a history of failed relationships. Growing up, he spent much of his time with his eccentric mother, Georgia (Mary Page Keller), while his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), supported the arts as the curator of a local museum. Though Oliver's parents never divorced, as a young boy he always sensed a distance between them -- a distance, Oliver discovers following his mother's death years later, that resulted from the fact that his father had lived most of his life as a closeted homosexual. With his wife gone and his son grown up, 75-year-old Hal decides to finally embrace his sexuality and takes a young boyfriend (Goran Visnjic). When Hal's health takes a turn for the worse, Oliver steps up to care for him while recalling quiet conversations and eventful trips to the museum with his unpredictable mother -- a dyed-in-the-wool eccentric. Gradually, Oliver begins to see his father in a whole new light. Later, Oliver falls for pretty French actress Anna (Mľanie Laurent) after a chance meeting at a costume party. The more intimate Oliver and Anna become, the more they both realize they share one defining character flaw -- the moment any relationship turns serious, they run away. For Oliver it means shutting himself in and obsessing over his work; for Anna it's as easy as checking into another empty hotel room in yet another strange city -- one of the perks, as it were, of having an itinerant job. After moving in together, the dysfunctional couple realizes that overcoming their hard-wired relationship issues is more difficult than either of them expected.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
- Subjects: Comedy films.; Coming out (Sexual orientation); Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Gay men; Man-woman relationships;
- © c2011., aFocus Features ; Distributed by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm,
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- Much ado about dying [videorecording] / by Chambers, Simon,1960-film director,on-screen participant,screenwriter.; Gale, David N.,on-screen participant.; First-Run Features (Firm),publisher.;
Simon Chambers, David N. Gale.When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle "I think I may be dying!" he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance (constantly acting out passages of King Lear) and anarchic charisma (swinging from boisterous humor to short temper), as various people (including a sexy young hustler) possibly take advantage of him. As their lives become encumbered by hospital visits, a house fire, and Britain's inadequate eldercare system, the younger man (also single and queer) reflects with aching honesty on what may await him in the years to come, in this moving yet hilarious film.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Personal narratives.; Gale, David Newlyn.; Terminally ill; Older gay men; Older people; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Uncles.;
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- Our evenings : a novel / by Hollinghurst, Alan,author.;
"Dave Win, the son of a a Burmese man he's never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates. Alan Hollinghurst's new novel follows Dave from the 1960s on--through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security"--
- Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Actors; Elite (Social sciences); Gay men; Mothers and sons; Race discrimination; Social classes;
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- Boy erased [videorecording] / by Alwyn, Joe,actor.; Crowe, Russell,1964-actor.; Edgerton, Joel,1974-film director,screenwriter,film producer,actor.; Golin, Steve,film producer.; Hedges, Lucas,1996-actor.; Kidman, Nicole,1967-actor.; Kohansky, Kerry,film producer.; Focus Features,presenter.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joe Alwyn, Victor McCay, David Craig, Joel Edgerton.Cruel circumstance provided college freshman Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) with a traumatic and humiliating outing to his conservative Baptist parents (Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe). After they push him into gay conversion therapy, his experiences within the program may permanently fissure the family they thought they were repairing.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for sexual content including an assault, some language and brief drug use.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
- Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Gay films.; Biographical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Ex-gay movement; Gay men; Closeted gays; Parents of gays; Sexual reorientation programs;
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- The imitation game [videorecording] / by Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-; Dance, Charles.; Goode, Matthew,1978-; Knightley, Keira,1985-; Moore, Graham,1981-; Strong, Mark,1963-; Tyldum, Morten.; Black Bear Pictures.; Elevation Pictures.;
Director of photography, Oscar Faura ; film editor, William Goldenberg ; music by Alexandre Desplat.Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance.During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of 'gross indecency', an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality. Little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954; Biographical films.; Enigma cipher system; Feature films.; Gay men; Mathematicians;
- © c2015., Disbtributed by Elevation Pictures,
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- The tiger and the cosmonaut / by Boudel Tan, Eddy,1983-author.;
"A noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town. Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose white privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his hometown, the site of a grief his family doesn't discuss: the loss of his identical twin, Sam. Over twenty years have passed since Sam went missing, and a pressing crisis has brought Casper and his siblings back. Their father has vanished, only to be found wandering the vast woods beyond the family home, confused and showing signs of memory loss. In order to move forward, the Han family, accustomed to fleeing their problems and accepting the hand dealt to them, must stay put and finally confront the past--untangling the mystery of what really happened the night of Sam's disappearance, and how the town failed them in the aftermath of it."--
- Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Gay men; Grief; Loss (Psychology); Missing persons; Chinese Canadians;
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- Genius Jolene / by Cassidy, Sara.; Chua, Charlene.;
On her annual trip in her father's 18-wheeler, eight-year-old Jolene is headed to Los Angeles on a six-day road trip to deliver some newsprint with her dad. Just like last year, they tell each other stories and listen to music. They also keep up their favorite tradition: critiquing one type of food at every stop. This time it's onion rings. But this year is also different. Unlike last year, Jolene's parents are no longer together. They split up when her father came out as gay. These are big changes for Jolene, but she is spunky and smart and has a good heart. She's ready for new adventures and to stand up for what's right -- both on and off the road.LSC
- Subjects: Road fiction.; Fathers and daughters; Truck drivers; Gay men; Children of divorced parents;
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- A marvellous light / by Marske, Freya,author.;
"Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it-not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else. Robin's predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they've been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles-and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep"--
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Gay fiction.; Historical fiction.; Gay men; Magic; Missing persons; Nobility; Secret societies;
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- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto / by Johnson, George M.(George Matthew),1985-author.;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.
- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-; Banned book sanctuary.; African American gay men; Gays; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / LGBT.; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists.; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Boys & Men.; African American gay men;
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- Mothers and sons : a novel / by Haslett, Adam,author.;
"At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart. With unsurpassed emotional depth, Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and the love that might be restored by facing it. In his spellbinding new novel, Adam Haslett demonstrates yet again his mastery of "a rich assortment of literary gifts" (New York Times)."--
- Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Alienation (Social psychology); Estranged families; Family secrets; Gay men; Immigration lawyers; Mothers and sons; Psychic trauma;
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