Hello everyone!

I am looking for recommendations, so if you would, please share your top picks for the following:

Top 3  LGBT books:

Top 3  LGBT Movies:

Top 3 LGBT Artists:

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Thanks a bunch, I really appreciate it!!

I thought of two more!!

Top 3 LGBT Vacation spots:

Top LGBT Magazines:

Ooooh fun!  I'll do my best!

Top 3  LGBT books:

Valencia by Michelle Tea
Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson
Tipping The Velvet or The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Top 3  LGBT Movies:

But I'm a Cheerleader
Boys Don't Cry
Fried Green Tomatoes

Top 3 LGBT Artists:

KEITH HARING!!!!
Cara Taylor

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Alix Olson
Indigo Girls
Ani Difranco!

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

www.rainbowlaw.com (my favorite right now)

I'm going to start & then come back to this when I have time!  I can't wait to see what people like!

Top 3  LGBT books:

Top 3  LGBT Movies:

Princella: the Queen of Desert (I love the fact that the main character also is Mr Smith from The Matrix), If these Walls Could Talk 2, watched this when I was 'straight' and the first part of the movie still haunts me.

Top 3 LGBT Artists:

Annie Leibovitz

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Indigo Girls, Melissa Ethridge, K.D. Lang

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

OF course my favorite one: http://www.outcenter.org/  The Out & Affirmation  Center

Top 3  LGBT books: Luna or anything by Julie Ann Peters,

Top 3  LGBT Movies: Being at Home with Claude (depressing but well done), Better than Chocolate, Brokeback Mountain, or

Princella: the Queen of Desert


Top 3 LGBT Artists:

Keith Haring,

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Indigo Girls, Melissa Ferrick, Erin McKeown

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

  HRC, orphandoctor.com (website of Dr. Jane Aronson, international adoption doctor, and advocate for children across the world),

Thats all I can think of right now.  I'll edit later

ooh, I'm gonna have to check out the orphandoctor.com website.  Sound intruiging!

Ok, don't know if this will help much, but here goes:

Top 3  LGBT books: 1) Fingersmith, Sarah Waters   2) Desert Hearts, Jane Rule   3) Curious Wine, Katherine Forrest  +(Anything by Sarah Waters)

Top 3  LGBT Movies:  1) Mulholland Drive  2) The Hours 3) Brokeback Mountain

Top 3 LGBT Artists:  1) Frida Kahlo  2) Gustav Klimt (not sure about sexual orientation, but he paints a lot of girl on girl action)   3) Egon Schiele (same for this guy)

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:  1) Le Tigre  2) Scissor Sisters  3) Neko Case

Top 3 LGBT Websites:  1) Datalounge: Awesome website.  As a matter of fact, right now, if you search the forum, there is a thread about good lesbian books with LOTS of responses. Good stuff.   2) Afterellen.com  3) ?

Whitney D,

News to me about Neko Case. Is she Out and about?

Anne J

Obviously, narrowing down to three selections is extremely difficult, but I hope the following is what's saught:

Top 3  LGBT books:  "Another Country" by James Baldwin, "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, and "On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978," by Adrienne Cecile Rich.

Top 3  LGBT Movies:   "About my Mother," "Angels in America," and "TransGeneration."

Top 3 LGBT Artists:   Sir Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, and Tom of Findland (Touko Laaksonen).

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:   Elton John, Freddie Mercury, and Moby

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Service Member's Legal Defense Network    http://www.sldn.org

365 Gay News    http://www.365gay.com/

Thousands of Free Twink Photos    http://www.boyreview.com/home.php?boys=nude_boys

Top 3  LGBT books: When I Knew, Three

Top 3  LGBT Movies: Bob & Rose, Different for Girls, Bedroom and Hallways.

Top 3 LGBT Artists: Joe Phillips, Howard Roffman, Kris Dresden

Top 3 LGBT Musicians: Freddy Mercury, Elton John

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Will edit if I can think of any more.

I didn't expect to have so many answers already!!  Thanks a bunch to everyone who has posted!  I am familiar with some recommendations, others I need to google!

You all are GREAT!   Peace  = ) =) =) 

Top 3  LGBT books:  Oranges Aren't The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson; Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides,

Top 4  LGBT Movies: Prey for Rock and Roll, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Incrediable Adventures of Two Girls in Love, If These Walls Could Talk 2,

Top 3 LGBT Artists:  Alix Olsen, Frida Kahlo,

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:  Meg Hutchinson, Chris Pureka, Brandi Carlile

Top 3 LGBT Websites: hrc.org

Anne J,

I don't know if she's officially out, but I saw her in concert recently, and she was very open and into flirting with her female fans hard-core onstage.  Until then, I didn't think anything!

~Whitney D

Thanks Whitney,

I really love her music, but have never seen her live.

Anne J

She's great live.  Awesome is actually the word I would use. 

I just realized I never answered my own question!

Top 3  LGBT books:   I've only read one Rita Mae Brown

Top 3  LGBT Movies:  

Top 3 LGBT Artists:

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Top 3 LGBT Vacation spots:

Top LGBT Magazines:

I just realized I never answered my own question!

Top 3  LGBT books:   I've only read one Rita Mae Brown

Top 3  LGBT Movies: 

Top 3 LGBT Artists:

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Top 3 LGBT Vacation spots:

Top LGBT Magazines:

I just realized I never answered my own question!

Top 3  LGBT books:   I've only read one Rita Mae Brown

Top 3  LGBT Movies:

Top 3 LGBT Artists:

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Top 3 LGBT Vacation spots:

Top LGBT Magazines:

I just realized I never answered my own question!

Top 3  LGBT books:   I've only read one Rita Mae Brown

Top 3  LGBT Movies:   

Top 3 LGBT Artists:

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Top 3 LGBT Vacation spots:

Top LGBT Magazines:

I just realized I never answered my own question!

Top 3  LGBT books:   I've only read one Rita Mae Brown

Top 3  LGBT Movies:     Batter than Chocolate, Girl Play &  If These Walls Could Talk 2

Top 3 LGBT Artists:     

Top 3 LGBT Musicians:     Melissa Etheridge,

Top 3 LGBT Websites:

Top 3 LGBT Vacation spots:

Top LGBT Magazines:    The Advocate

I'm drawing a blank! I'll have to come back to it! =)

I thought I'd add a couple that I didn't see in other people's lists:

Top 3  LGBT books:  Dish It Up, Kristie Helms; Trash, Dorothy Allison

Well, I am new to all things LGBTQ but I do have a few faves...

Top 3  LGBT books: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Bechdel) and Three Junes (Glass) Those are the ones that I have read recently and I am still looking for more good ones to read. This thread will help my search!

Top 3  LGBT Movies: Love Zerophelia, Philadelphia, Brokeback Mountain (did not like all the hubub associated with it though) and I love Judi Dench's character in Notes on a Scandal (very strange lady =p). Probably more but I will have to come back when I remember them.