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The Lesbian Discussion Group

The Lesbian Discussion Group has been going for over 15 years, and meets every Wednesday evening at the shop. They turn up at 7.45pm for an 8.00pm start, and the discussion lasts about an hour. Afterwards they go to a local women's bar called The Glass Bar, where all are welcome. The subjects discussed cover a wide range e.g.: coming out; parenting; lesbians in the media; issues of class, race, gender identity; relationships, etc. They also discuss new books and sometimes have authors in to discuss their work. A fresh mix of women show up each week, so it avoids being cliquey or unfriendly.

Where they meet:

A selection of our stock

THE BIG GAY READ
A Campaign to discover the Nation's favourite Queer Novel
...selected gay titles...

	Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx £7.99	This novella recounts the 20 year relationship of Ennis & Jack, two ranch-hand drop-out country boys herding sheep in the wilds of Wyoming. Their companionship gradually develops into an intense sexual intimacy.
	The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst £7.99	Winner of the Man Booker 2004. Set in the 1980s, the novel follows the progress of Nick Guest from his first homosexual relationship to his passionate affair with a Lebanese millionaire.
	Story of the Night Colm Toibin £7.99	Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel tells the story of Richard Grey, a lonely young man coming to terms with homosexuality, backdropped by the reign of the Generals and the Falklands.
	Rough Music Patrick Gale £7.99	The story of Julian, a gay man of 40 having an affair with his brother-in-law, is interwoven with the events of a summer holiday in Cornwall, when the arrival of glamorous American cousins led to unexpected outcomes.
	The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things J.T.Leroy £6.99	7-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah. A shocking story of abusive love and dysfunctional sexuality.

THE BIG GAY READ
...selected lesbian titles...

	Calendar Girl Stella Duffy £6.99	Maggie has fallen for a mysterious woman who can't commit herself. Meanwhile, Saz Martin is hot on the trail of a woman known only as September, who commutes between London and New York in a whirlwind of drug smuggling, gambling and high-class prostitution.
	Carol Patricia Highsmith £6.99	First published under a pseudonym in 1952. Therese, a sales assistant, first sees Carol, a married women, in a department store. Shocked into the realisation of first true love, Therese becomes determined they meet.
	Oranges are not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson £6.99	Jeanette Winterson's semi-autiobiographical first novel is a humorous depiction of the claustrophobia of growning up in a small town, with a manically religious mother, and the realisation that you fancy other girls.
	Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters £6.99	Nancy's led a sheltered life with limited horizons but all that changes after a visit to the Music Hall and her first encounter with gender-bending male impersonator, Miss Kitty Butler. A Victorian lesbain romp.
	Desert of the Heart Jane Rule £8.99	English professor, Evelyn, meets casino-worker, Ann, in narrow-minded, small-town America. Ann is sexy, vivacious, vibrant and lesbian. She sets out to seduce the older women, Evelyn, who finds she just can't help herself.