LGBT Reading Group

The next LGBT Community Reading Group meeting will be Tuesday 17th Jan, 7pm at the Mailcoach. If you want to look at any of the books you can either sign them out of the book bag at the Mailcoach or they're available at the Central Library as part of the new LGBT collection.

TONIGHT!!

The first session of the Swindon LGBT Reading Group will kick off tonight, 7pm at the Mailcoach! I'm hoping to see lots of people there, either to sign up to the reading group or just to find out more about what the LGBT Alternative Scene & LGBT in Libraries community projects are about!

Merry Christmas!

Green Carnation Book Group

The 1st meeting of Swindon's Green Carnation Award will be hosted as a drop-in session at The Mailcoach (59 Fleet Street) at 7pm on 14th December 2011.
Once we have an idea of interested numbers & availability we'll be able to decide on when we'll be meeting each month.

Change of venue

We're trying to change the venue of the reading group to The Mailcoach, 7pm Wednesday 14th December 2011.

LGBT Reading Group

The first session of the Swindo LGBT Reading Group will be held as a drop in/sign up session to discuss how we want to run the group, what dates are good for everyone, how to access copies of the Green Carnation Shortlist books & any other questions you may have.

The session will start at 7pm Wednesday 14th December 2011.

Everyone is welcome or if you can't make the drop in session but want to come to meetings in the future then just send me a message through the blog & I will get all the information to you.

Green Carnation Shortlist

Hi All,
To celebrate the launch of the Green Carnation Award shortlist, & to kick start the Swindon LGBT Alternative Scene, we're trying to put together an LGBT reading group. The group would be based in Swindon's Central Library & would meet, where copies of the shortlist candidates would be made available in the new LGBT Collection.

If anyone is interested in taking part please let me know as soon as possible so we can start making arrangements & the library can order in enough books.

LGBT Launch Poster

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Apologies for these not being attached to the previous post but there was a glitch in the upload.

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The Swindon Libraries 'LGBT in Libraries' launch is here. The launch will be held on the evening of the 6th October & will include a screening of tge film A Single Man courtesy of the Swindon Film Society. There will also be the opportunity to just drop in & chat with the team about the project. Full details of the event are on the attached poster please pass on to anyone you think may be interested.

LGBT in Libraries Launch

The launch for the LGBT in Libraries collection has been set for the 6th October (time to be confirmed). It will be free entry with tickets on the door (open to all) & will include a viewing of the film A Single Man, courtesy of Swindon Film Society. If you want to learn more about the collection & community projects feel free to come & see the film or just drop in for  chat.

Potential LGBT collection

We're building up a list of LGBT books & DVDs to try & get for tge new collection. If anyone has any they would like to suggest please list them here & they will be passed to the library for consideration. We can't promise that we'll be able to get everything but the more input we have the better the collection range will be.
LGBT DVDs (lesbian)
Action/thriller/Drama:
In her line of fire - 2006
Listen - 1996
Trapped - 2006
Young blades - 2005
Bobbie's girl - 2002
The children's hour - 1961
Gillery's little secret - 2006
Happy birthday - 2002
The investigator - 1997
Maple palm - 2006
Serving in silence - 1995
What makes a family - 2001
When love comes - 1998
Between two women - 2000
Common ground - 2000
Desperate remedies - 1993
Fingersmith - 2005
I shot andy warhol - 1996
Kinsey - 2004
My brother's war - 2005
Oranges are not the only fruit - 1990
Queen christina - 1933
Tipping the velvet - 2002
Waiting for the moon - 1987
The war widow - 1976
Elephant - 2003
Foxfire - 1996
Totally f***ed up - 1993
Comedy:
Almost normal - 2005
Another gay movie - 2006
Better than chocolate - 1999
Coming out party - 2003
The d word - 2005
It's in the water - 1997
Laughing matters - 2004
Nine dead gay guys - 2002
Outlaugh - 2006
Some prefer cake - 1998
Tick tock lullaby - 2007
Metrosexuality - 1999
Documentaries/Reality:
Before stonewall - 1984
The celluloid closet - 1995
Dangerous living, coming out in the developing world - 2003
Fabulous! The story of queer cinema - 2006
Forbidden love, the unashamed story of lesbian lives - 1992
F2F, female to femme - 2006
Gertrude stein, when this you see remember me - 1970
I exist - 2003
Keep not silent, orthodykes - 2004
Lesbian grandmothers from mars - 2005
Paragraph 175 - 2000
Silent pioneers - 1985
This film is not yet rated - 2006
Tying the knot - 2004
Fire island - 1999
Gay weddings - 2002
Romance:
Girl play - 2004
Intentions - 2003
Loving annabelle - 2006
Nina's heavenly delights - 2006
Robin's hood - 2003
Salmonberries - 1991
When night is falling - 1995
Sugar rush - 2005
Sci-fi/Horror:
Dante's cove - 2005
Dark harvest - 2003
Don't ask don't tell - 2002
Eternal - 2004
Hallow's end - 2003
Hex - 2004
Make a wish - 2004
The new women - 2001
CJ Crennell

Pride

Hi All,

The LGBT in Libraries team had a stall at last weekend's Pride event. Hope everyone who attended had a great time & managed to pick up either one of the Library leaflets or one of the LGBT Community project leaflets from the organisers stall, which should tell you a bit more about what we are trying to create. As I was going round the Pride stalls I meet the group from Gay West who have set up a similar community 'Alternate Scene' project in Bath & the surrounding area including a Rainbow Cafe club, social outings & much more. One of the organisers of Gay West has agreed that if we want to put a group together to visit them & find out more about what they do & how they set it up we can, so if there is anyone out there who would like to go on a trip to Bath please respond to this post & as soon as we have enough people we can make arrangements. Or if you have any other comments to make about Pride or other potential events feel free.

Welcome to LGBT in Libraries

Swindon Public Libraries are working on a project to expand & improve
their services for LGBT readers - starting with improving LGBT stock &
making it easier to search & access. This part of the project will be
launched in Sept/Oct 2011.
The project is also looking at other ways of supporting the LGBT
community. For instance we are looking at ways of using online formats
such as blogs, tweets or facebook groups, to build an archive of LGBT
history in Swindon for LGBT History Month as well as looking for
in-person services, such as reading & community groups, we can
support.
To do any of this we will need input & advice from the community -
whether you suggest specific titles, or ideas for events or give us
information on other groups we could work with it will all help us to
continue to improve the service. Or you may just want to use this blog
as a forum for communicating with other LGBT members which is why this
blog is open to all.
All we ask is that you remember it's an open blog, which means it can
be accessed by people of all types & ages, so posts will be regularly
checked & any that are too abusive, offensive or explicit will be
removed.
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