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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], 1993
Physical Desc
x, 119 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Angels in America: a Gay Fantasia on National Themes consists of two full-length plays, "Millennium Approaches" (Part 1) and "Perestroika," (Part 2). In Part 1, Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior Walter is a man living with AIDS whose partner, Louis, has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These...
2) Days
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For decades the great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang has been directing exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation, and the fleeting beauty of human connection featuring his muse Lee Kang-sheng. This is one of his best, sparest, most intimate works. Lee once again stars as a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment in Hong Kong for a chronic illness; at the same time, a young Laotian immigrant...
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (31 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A short film by director Pedro Almodovar. After twenty-five years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his ex-lover, now friend, Sheriff Jake. A lifetime after their shared stint as hired gunmen, they celebrate their reunion. However, the next morning, it is revealed the trip is not to revel in the memory of their friendship.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film follows retired hairdresser and local bar performer icon Pat Pitsenbarger who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client's dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an epic journey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past, and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. A comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raul, Eduardo and Santiago have led a happy and masculine life from their childhood, until one day, Santiago confesses to them that he is gay. Raul, the alpha male and more homophobic of the three, will try to convince his friend that his is nothing more than a simple sexual confusion, until, when the situation becomes unsustainable, Eduardo and Raul will leave aside their prejudices and decide to help Santiago to venture into his new gay life.
6) Other people
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling gay comedy writer in New York City, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worse year of his life, returns home to Sacramento to care for his dying mother in this affecting family drama from "Saturday Night Live" writer Chris Kelly.
7) Straight up
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that's all talk and no sex.
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 352 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985 and the Reagans are in the White House. Death is swinging the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior tells Lou, his lover, he's ill and Lou decides to bolt. As disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Lou. Joe is an attorney, who is Mormon and Republican, is pushed by right-winger Roy toward a job at the Justice Dept. Both Joe and Roy are in the closet: Joe out of shame and religious turmoil; Roy to preserve...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After nearly four decades together, Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. George moves in with two cops who live down stairs while Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife, and their teenage son. While struggling with the pain of separation, they are challenged...
10) Perestroika
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xi, 158 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Mormon couple, and a young man called Prior Walter.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom and Joe have been together for years. And to some extent, have been together alone. The film charts their humble beginnings in a world only just waking up to homosexuality, to present day, and a world facing their elder selves. As present day brings further conflict as well as the potential change in the air, Tom and Joe's story will be shown from its first monumental day all the way to its loving last.
12) Sublet
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael, a travel columnist for The New York Times, goes to Tel Aviv to write an article after suffering a tragedy. He is still grieving and the loss has caused problems between him and his husband. He just wants to do his research and go home. But when he sublets an apartment from Tomer, a young film student, he finds himself drawn into the life of the city.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nina is a young woman who falls in love with her new roommate, George, even though he's gay and loves her purely as a friend. When Nina becomes pregnant, she realizes she'd rather raise her child with George than with her boyfriend, a decision that forces the threesome to explore the fine line between love, sex, and friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.
In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. With narration...
In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. With narration...
15) Supernova
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
16) Beginners
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
17) The extra man
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aspiring playwright Louis Ives moves to New York, taking an environmental job with a beautiful, infatuating co-worker. Louis rents a room from an eccentric former playwright who moonlights as an 'extra man,' a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society. The two men develop a volatile mentorship, which leads to a series of comic adventures.
18) Bros
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bobby is a struggling podcast host who hates commitement. That all changes when he meets Aaron, a detached lawyer who likes to play the field. Repeatedly drawn to each other, both men begin to show their vulnerable sides as their undeniable attraction turns into something resembling a commitment.
19) Any day now
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their living arrangement is discovered, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
20) The normal heart
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 143 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
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