Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month - explore the resources on this page to learn and read more about LGBTQ+ history, important figures, literature, and more!
*Check out this dedicated page for Pride Month at the Library of Congress, with their extensive collections and exhibits; many other government institutions such as the National Archives also have their own sites.*
New Books
Important LGBTQ+ Biographies
Radically Gay: gay liberation in the words of its founder by Call Number: HQ75.8.H39 A3 2001ISBN: 0807070807Publication Date: 1996-06-01"This is the first collection of the words and speeches of the founder of the Mattachine Society and the modern gay movement."
- QueerBio.comThis wiki database lists "over 17,000 contemporary and historical figures who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, two-spirit, or gender fluid..., [including] artists, sports figures, politicians, entertainers, business leaders, academics, activists, and more"
- Biography Reference Center (EBSCO)
Find more biographies on important figures of lgbtq+ history through the Biography Reference Center, an excellent scholarly database with short summaries on famous figures
Special Topics
LGBTQ Social Movements by Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S78 2018ISBN: 9780745656076Publication Date: 2018-02-20"LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the US, illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-twentieth century."
Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History by Call Number: HQ75.16.U6 U53 2017ISBN: 9780299313043Publication Date: 2017-03-14"Taken as a whole, Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History will help teachers at all levels navigate through cultural touchstones and political debates and provide a fuller knowledge of significant events in history."
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ heroes who changed the world by Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 F86 2019ISBN: 9780062571700Publication Date: 2019-05-21Captures the true story of the LGBTQ civil rights movement from the 1960s to the present through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the revolution and made it happen
Awakening: how gays and lesbians brought marriage equality to America by Call Number: HQ1034.U5 F73 2017 (EBOOK)ISBN: 9780674977563Publication Date: 2017-04-24
Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United StatesCall Number: PS153.S39 E53 2009 V.1-2This encyclopedia “seeks to offer a comprehensive and inclusive introduction to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer writing in the contemporary United States.”
The Stonewall Reader by Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S77 2019ISBN: 9780143133513Publication Date: 2019-04-30For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White"
The World Only Spins Forward: the ascent of Angels in America by Call Number: PS3561.U778 A8533 2018ISBN: 9781635571769Publication Date: 2018-02-13"When Tony Kushner's Angels in America hit Broadway in 1993, it won the Pulitzer Prize, swept the Tonys, launched a score of major careers, and changed the way gay lives were represented in popular culture."
Sex Itself: the search for male and female in the human genome by Call Number: QH600.5 .R53 2013 (EBOOK)ISBN: 9780226084718Publication Date: 2013With the completion of the Human Genome Project, genes and chromosomes are moving to the center of the biology of sex. Sex Itself offers a compelling argument for the importance of ongoing critical dialogue on how cultural conceptions of gender operate within the science of sex."
Understanding Gender Dysphoria by Call Number: BT708 .Y37 2015ISBN: 9780830828593Publication Date: 2015-05-22Mark Yarhouse, an expert in sexual identity and therapy, challenges the church to rise above the political hostilities and listen to people's stories. In Understanding Gender Dysphoria, Yarhouse offers a Christian perspective on transgender issues that eschews simplistic answers and appreciates the psychological and theological complexity. The result is a book that engages the latest research while remaining pastorally sensitive to the experiences of each person.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare by Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9783319197524Publication Date: 2016-02-17
Beyond Trans: does gender matter? by Call Number: HQ77.95.U6 D39 2017ISBN: 9781479855407Publication Date: 2017"Heath Fogg Davis... himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters"
Transforming: the Bible and the lives of transgender Christians by Call Number: BR115.T76 H37 2018ISBN: 9780664263102Publication Date: 2018-03-13"By introducing transgender issues and language and providing stories of both biblical characters and real-life narratives from transgender Christians living today, Hartke helps readers visualize a more inclusive Christianity, equipping them with the confidence and tools to change both the church and the world."
The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights by Call Number: HQ77.9 .T39 2018 (EBOOK)ISBN: 9780472124275Publication Date: 2018-10-17
Costly Obedience: what we can learn from the celibate gay Christian community by Call Number: BV4596.G38 Y37 2019ISBN: 9780310521402Publication Date: 2019-06-25
God Believes in Love by Call Number: BX5979.5.H65 R63 2013Written by the first openly gay person elected to the episcopate this book makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.
The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender by Call Number: BT708 .O94 2015ISBN: 9780199664153Publication Date: 2015Examines the history of theologies of sexuality and gender, with close analysis of the Bible and the Christian tradition
Fun Home by Call Number: PN6727 .B3757 Z46 2006ISBN: 0618477942Publication Date: 2006-06-08Memoir, "alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny" about a girl's closeted homosexual father, her childhood and her own later experience coming out
I'll Give You the Sun by Call Number: PZ7.N433835 ILL 2014ISBN: 9780803734968Publication Date: 2014-09-16"Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways ..."
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Call Number: PZ7.S1273 AR 2012ISBN: 9781442408920Publication Date: 2012-02-21Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked beforeThe Color Purple by
Call Number: PS3573.A425 C6 1982ISBN: 0151191530Publication Date: 1982-06-01An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Before Stonewall : the making of a gay and lesbian community by Call Number: HQ76.8.U6 B44 2000Publication Date: 2000"On June 28, 1969, the NYPD raided the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-run gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay pride movement had begun."
Brokeback Mountain by Call Number: PN1997 .B7523259 2006Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. They develop a close intimate relationship.Milk by
Call Number: PN1997 .M55759 2009(Based on a true story). Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States.
Call Me By Your Name by Call Number: PN1997 .C2436 2018ISBN: 9786317165465Publication Date: 2018Elio, a teenager, develops feelings for Oliver, his father's temporary assistant. Although their relationship is temporary, Elio realises his sexual orientation and tries to come to terms with it.