The book club will be meeting this coming Monday January 11 at 7pm at Grounds for Thought....big table at the back. We are talking about the book below...we will also be planning the next few books. The group meets the 2nd Monday of the month at 7pm.
You're Not From Around Here, Are You: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) (Paperback)
~ Louise A. Blum
From Publishers Weekly
A pregnant lesbian living in the middle of God's country: it sounds like the premise of a sitcom, but this personal narrative of love and childbirth in Wellsboro, Penn., is by turns poignant and wonderfully witty. Blum (Amnesty), a novelist and college professor, recounts the difficulties that being gay presents when one simply wants to get a mortgage, fix up a house and attend Lamaze classes in a small town. But to Blum's credit, this is no rose-colored, resolutely middle-class, "we're just like everyone else" kind of gay autobiography. She is refreshingly honest not only regarding her ambivalence about having children, but also regarding the sexual tensions the pregnancy causes in her relationship with her partner. Her descriptions of finding a sperm donor are hilarious ("He's attractive, I'd think, shaking someone's hand. I wonder what his sperm count is?"). And the book is filled with touching surprises such as that Blum doesn't admit to herself that she's gay until a year after moving in with her lover. With astonishing resilience, she describes her family's close-mindedness, as well as the prejudice she encounters from the townspeople she'd come to trust. Unfortunately, there's no escaping the miniature terrors of small-town life; as Blum points out, describing a trip across America, "Wellsboro is everywhere." --
'If you have come to help me you can go home again. But if you see my struggle as part of your own survival then perhaps we can work together.'
Australian Aboriginal Women
BG Lavender Women is a social group in Northwest Ohio for lesbian and bisexual women. We meet the 2nd Saturday of each month at 10:30 am at Grounds for Thought Coffee shop, located at 174 South Main Street, in downtown Bowling Green (parking is available in both the front and the rear). We are usually at the large table in the back. We also sponsor a variety of other social events, details of which are always posted to the e-mail list. For further information, or to unsubscribe, e-mail bglavenderwomen@gmail.com and ask to be taken off the list. To post to the list e-mail BG-LavenderWomen@lists.bgsu.edu.
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