First meeting success!!

:D the first meeting was a success if I do say so myself!
We met in the Ginormous State Library, had our little room booked, it was so fancy. (thanks Felicity!). We socialised, talked about books and got to know one another :) which is, the main aim of any bookclub. After our booked time was over, we continued on to Southbank to get icecream and sat and chatted some more.

Those present decided on our first book "Written On the Body" by Jeanette Winterson. So for next meeting, hopefully some people have read it, and some read parts of it for interactive discussion! The date of our next meeting is unknown at present, but the location is West End at the Forrest vegan/cafe/restaurant place (please forgive me I have never been there myself, tho Felicity has, and I have heard nothing but good reports about the place from people I know!).

Some of what we discussed at the first meeting was the concept of Queer literature. Here is an exerpt from good ol' Wikipedia:

LGBT literature is an all encompassing term for literature produced by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, or which involves characters, plot lines or themes concerning this community.

“	In a historical sense, literature as we understand it is a fairly new innovation, and the current concept of homosexuality is even fresher from the cultural oven. It's no great surprise, then, that gay literature ­­­­­­­­— or even gay characters in literature ­­­­— are so relatively new as to still be shiny.	”
	— Kilian Meloy , "Influential Gay Characters in Literature" from AfterElton.com

(there are also Subgenres)

Lesbian literature, gay pulp and gay science fiction are genres of LGBT fiction which represent some of the earliest incorporation of these "taboo" subjects in contemporary literature. Novels like La Garçonne by Victor Margueritte (1922) and The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (1928) are early examples of books with lesbian themes.

LGBT authors, characters and themes are present in all genres of literature, but the increasing amount of LGBT fiction emerging in recent years has established several (if unofficial) subgenres, including LGBT mystery, horror and romance, as well as gay teen and lesbian teen fiction and humor handbooks.