Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Alison's father is a funeral director in a town so small he teaches part time to supplement his income. Both he and Alison's mother Helen are distant and emotionally unavailable leading to Alison's siblings and parents existing in the home behind the funeral home, the 'fun home' of the title in separate bubbles, like an artist's enclave. It is Alison's relationship with her father she focuses on in this brutally honest but gently wry and revelatory autobiography. He is a repressed homosexual obsessed with asthetisism, consumed with restoring their home to it's historical glory at the expense of his wife and children's own tastes and personal space. As Alison goes to college and discovers her own emerging homosexuality the truth about her father's affairs with boys comes out and she struggles with her deep love for a man unable to express affection for her. Compelling and well drawn.

The Future is Queer by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel

A good collection of stories and one piece of graphic fiction by a variety of authors, all queer visions of the future for GLTBs.  As with all good science fiction, each story reflects on a different aspect of gay or lesbian society and issues such as identity by differentiation from the 'norm', self esteem and how a sense of self is refracted through the lens of sexuality.  Thought provoking and interesting.

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (AUDIO)

With this book I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about, it was a good depiction of a gay man's coming of age during the 80s and the beginning of awareness of AIDS, and of social structures and prejudices, but somehow I expected more of it.