Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you donâ??t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .
At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, raven-haired beauty Victoria â??Vicâ? Savedge finds her future mapped out in detail. She will marry Charly Harrison, the son of one of Virginiaâ??s most prominent families. Though branded by a fiery streak of independence, Vic hasnâ??t really considered any other options. Until she meets a woman named Chris.
A transfer from Vermont, Chris is new to Southern mores and attitudes. Though instantly captivated by Vic, she is also drawn to the entire quirky but charming Savedge family. But the young womenâ??s friendship is not your basic college-girl variety. For neither can resist their mutual attractionâ??an attraction that erupts into a passion that will forever change the course of both their lives.
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Alma Mater
In Her Day
For years a “lost” collector’s item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it’s bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown’s trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lustâ??until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged down in talk. After all, says Carole’s best friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to McDonald’s. In Her Day, with its infectious merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate restorative.
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Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community [VHS]
Before Stonewall is a documentary about evolution, namely the evolution of gay culture in the U.S. from the early 1920s to the Stonewall riot of 1969. Embellished with archival footage and photography from five decades, the film most prominently features the gay underground of the ’20s and ’30s, the rise of gay service in the military and workforce during WWII, the persecution of gays as “subversives” and “sexual perverts” in the state department by Senator McCarthy, the growth of the first grassroots political organizations for gay men and lesbians in the ’50s, and of course, the civil rights movement. Commentary is provided by the gay men and lesbians who came of age in the years leading up to Stonewall.
Overall, Before Stonewall does an admirable job of illustrating the rise of American gay culture and pinpointing the various social and political issues that were most instrumental. Perhaps the film’s only weakness lies in the vast ground it tries to cover in such a short amount of time, leaving certain themes without much in-depth coverage. However, as a snapshot of the years leading up to Stonewall, it succeeds remarkably well. –Katy Ankenman
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Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
Starting from Scratch
From the best-selling author of  Rubyfruit Jungle and  Bingo, here is a writers’ manual as provocative,  frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most  writers’ guides, this one had as much to do with how  writers live as with mastering the tools of their  trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal  account of her own career, from her days as a young  poet who had written a novel no publisher wanted  to take a chance on, right up to her recent  adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy style  that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining as  it is useful, she provides straight talk about  paying the rent while maintaining the energy to  write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics,  and the publicity circus; about pursuingj  ournalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejecting  the Hemingway myth of the hard-living,  hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher or  writing, offers a serious examination of the  writer’s tool–language, plotting, characters,  symbolism–plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue,  and a fascinating, annoted reading list of  important works from the seventh century to the late  twentieth.
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