CCSF Library: Virtual Book Displays: Pride 2022: Love will Keep us Together

Pride 2022: Love Will Keep Us Together

This display, Pride 2022: Love Will Keep Us Together, was created in honor of Pride, which takes place every year in June. The title of the display was inspired by San Francisco's Pride theme. Thank you to Maggie Frankel, former subject liaison librarian, Michele McKenzie, film librarian, and Miguel Magos, library technical assistant, for their input into this display.

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An Iconic Treasure: The AIDS Memorial Quilt Comes Home

Proud To Call You My Transgender Son

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

2022 marks the 35th anniversary of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Started in San Francisco by activist Cleve Jones, The Quilt, made up of almost 50,000 panels, memorializes the lives of those lost to AIDS and AIDS related illnesses. To mark the 35th anniversary, public events will be held on June 11th and June 12th in Robin Williams Meadow and in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park including a display of nearly 3,000 panels of the Memorial Quilt. You can learn more about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National AIDS Memorial website.

Featured Books

Gender Queer: a Memoir

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write.

LGBTQ Without Borders

With a world population of 7.5 billion, it's likely that there are hundreds of millions of LGBTQ people, many of whom live in places that are hostile to sexual and gender minorities. With 72 countries in which homosexuality is still illegal and 27 countries that now allow same-sex marriage, the range of conditions for LGBTQ people is wide. The purpose of this book is to show you the great global diversity within what we call the LGBTQ community.

Tongzhi Living

Tongzhi, which translates into English as "same purpose" or "same will," was once widely used to mean "comrade." Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity. Tongzhi Living, the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in the metropolitan city of Dalian in northeast China.

Queer Love in Color

A photographic celebration of the love and relationships of queer people of color by a former New York Times multimedia journalist. Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum of gender, race, and age.

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Love Makes a Family

This book explores the wonderful possibilities for LGBTQ relationships that include friendships between people of all kinds, dating for sex, seeking a romantic relationship, falling in love, getting married, and having kids. It includes practical tips for LGBTQ teens to help them navigate the world of potential relationships, how to build up self-esteem, and how to deal with dysfunctional relationships that are toxic. The diversity of LGBTQ teens is uplifted through recommendations about how to find one's own unique expression.

Gay by the Bay

A fabulous montage of word and image, this is the first book ever to chronicle the origin and evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Living Sexuality

There has never been a more crucial time for an intimate and thorough examination of the ways in which sexuality informs people's lives. In Living Sexuality: Stories of LGBTQ Relationships, Identities, and Desires, the authors use autoethnography and personal narrative to provide first-hand accounts of the connections between sexuality, particularly LGBTQ identities, and the everyday experiences of relationships.

Tomorrow Will Be Different: love, loss, and the fight for trans equality

Sarah McBride is on a mission to fight for transgender rights around the world. But before she was a prominent activist, and before she became the first transgender person to speak at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, she was a teenager struggling with her identity. With emotional depth and unparalleled honesty, Sarah shares her personal struggle with gender identity, coming out to her supportive but distraught parents, and finding her way as a woman.

Books

After the Party by Joshua Chambers-Letson
ISBN: 9781479832774
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. After the Party considers performance as it is produced within and against overlapping histories of US colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Benjamin Alire Sáenz
ISBN: 9781442408920
Publication Date: 2012-02-21
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship--the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.
Before Stonewall by Andrea Weiss; Greta Schiller; John Lewis (Illustrator); Barbara Grier (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0941483207
Publication Date: 1988-05-01
This illustrated study guide to the informative and enlightening documentary examines how gay people lived and supported and recognized each other in the days before the landmark disturbance at the Stonewall bar in New York in 1969, an event that gave new impetus to the gay rights movement in the U.S.
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin (Photographer)
ISBN: 9780763673680
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
"Informative, revealing, powerful, and necessary." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender identity.
Black on Both Sides: a racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton
ISBN: 9781517901738
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives--ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects.
Bloom by Kevin Panetta; Savanna Ganucheau (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781626726413
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band--if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. But while interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easygoing guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. As they become closer over batches of bread, love is ready to bloom . . . that is, if Ari doesn't ruin everything.
The Book of Pride by Mason Funk
ISBN: 9780062571700
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or friends, frequently under the threat of violence and persecution.
The Children of Harvey Milk by Andrew Reynolds
ISBN: 9780190460952
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
A testament to the power of individuals to impact social change.The gay rights movement has achieved social transformation at a dizzying pace, upending conventional views on sex, love, marriage, the family, and equality itself. While most scholars understand the movement as a broad-based social movement, Andrew Reynolds argues that the most important catalyst of gay rights is often overlooked: individuals. Specifically, openly gay politicians had a critical role in bringing about a more positive attitude towards homosexuality, both among other politicians and the general public.
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock
ISBN: 9781468315592
Publication Date: 2017-11-21
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today.
Double Challenge by Rebecca Kaplan; Avery Kaplan
ISBN: 9781422242766
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
If you are a teen who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning ... or wonder whether you might ... or know another person who does ... this book is for you. It provides answers that LGBTQ teens need, putting to bed myths and stereotypes about what it means to be queer or questioning.
Expanding the Rainbow by Brandy L. Simula (Editor); J. E. Sumerau (Editor); Andrea Miller (Editor)
ISBN: 9789004414082
Publication Date: 2019-08-01
Expanding the Rainbow is the first comprehensive collection of research on the relationships of people who identify as bi+, poly, kinky, asexual, intersex, and/or trans that is written to be accessible to an undergraduate audience. The volume highlights a diverse range of identities, relationship structures, and understandings of bodies, sexualities, and interpersonal relationships.
Female Husbands by Jen Manion
ISBN: 9781108483803
Publication Date: 2020-03-26
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them.
The Gay Agenda by Ashley Molesso; Chessie Needham
ISBN: 9780062944559
Publication Date: 2020-04-28
A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community's development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full-color illustrations.
Gay by the Bay by Susan Stryker; Jim Van Buskirk; Armistead Maupin (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780811811873
Publication Date: 1996-03-01
A fabulous montage of word and image, this is the first book ever to chronicle the origin and evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Capturing the international center of the gay experience as never before, and published to coincide with the opening of the Gay and Lesbian Center of the new Main San Francisco Public Library; the only publicly funded archive of its kind in the world. Gay by the Bay contains over 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs of historical memorabilia, including correspondence, posters, buttons, and other artifacts.
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
ISBN: 9781549304002
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write.
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780440328810
Publication Date: 1988-04-01
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.
Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763673826
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me by Mariko Tamaki; Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781626722590
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.
Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson
ISBN: 9780520279056
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism.
Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by Andrew Sean Greer
ISBN: 9780316316132
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).
LGBT: San Francisco by Daniel Nicoletta (By (photographer)); Gus Van Sant (Foreword by); Chuck Mobley (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781909526396
Publication Date: 2017-06-27
LGBT: San Francisco is the first book dedicated to photographer Daniel Nicoletta's archive of powerful images tracing the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s to its present. Nicoletta is perhaps most well-known for his iconic images of Harvey Milk, one of the world's first openly gay elected officials who was assassinated by a homophobic colleague in 1978, but Nicoletta's oeuvre is also a unique insider's perspective on the years that followed Milk's death taking us through the ebullience and the pathos of the times.
LGBTQ Without Borders by Jeremy Quist
ISBN: 9781422242797
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
With a world population of 7.5 billion, it's likely that there are hundreds of millions of LGBTQ people, many of whom live in places that are hostile to sexual and gender minorities. With 72 countries in which homosexuality is still illegal and 27 countries that now allow same-sex marriage, the range of conditions for LGBTQ people is wide. The purpose of this book is to show you the great global diversity within what we call the LGBTQ community.
Living Sexuality by Keith Berry; Catherine M. Gillotti; Tony Adams
ISBN: 9789004418776
Publication Date: 2019-10-17
There has never been a more crucial time for an intimate and thorough examination of the ways in which sexuality informs people's lives. In Living Sexuality: Stories of LGBTQ Relationships, Identities, and Desires, the authors use autoethnography and personal narrative to provide first-hand accounts of the connections between sexuality, particularly LGBTQ identities, and the everyday experiences of relationships.
Love Falls on Us by Robbie Corey-Boulet
ISBN: 9781786997081
Publication Date: 2019-07-15
In 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared "Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights," but still today there is little consensus on how to advance those rights beyond the U.S. and Europe.
Love Makes a Family by Willi Vision
ISBN: 9781422242803
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
This book explores the wonderful possibilities for LGBTQ relationships that include friendships between people of all kinds, dating for sex, seeking a romantic relationship, falling in love, getting married, and having kids. It includes practical tips for LGBTQ teens to help them navigate the world of potential relationships, how to build up self-esteem, and how to deal with dysfunctional relationships that are toxic. The diversity of LGBTQ teens is uplifted through recommendations about how to find one's own unique expression.
Nonbinary by Micah Rajunov (Editor); A. Scott Duane (Editor)
ISBN: 9780231185332
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female?
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
ISBN: 9781250178145
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love--only to learn the pain of loss. With interwoven timelines and stunning art, award-winning graphic novelist Tillie Walden creates an inventive world, breathtaking romance, and an epic quest for love.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
ISBN: 9780525562023
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
An instant New York Times Bestseller! Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
Our Time by Josh Seefried
ISBN: 9780143122197
Publication Date: 2012-08-28
Our Time marks the end of more than a decade of silence, giving voice to the LGBT men and women who served under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." These individuals enlisted knowing that the military would ask them to bury an integral part of themselves and yet joined because of their deep belief that the values of the military were worth the tremendous sacrifice. Our Time shares their stories for the first time, revealing an intimate portrait of military life.
Out in the Periphery by Omar G. Encarnación
ISBN: 9780199356645
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Known around the world as a bastion of Catholicism and machismo, Latin America has emerged in recent years as the undisputed gay rights leader of the Global South.
Paris Noir by Tyler Stovall
ISBN: 9780395683996
Publication Date: 1996-12-04
"Paris Noir fills a grievous gap in the absorbing chronicle of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century. For alongside Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and Henry Miller was an avant-garde and tightly knit community of black American writers, artists, musicians, and political exiles who found in Paris the creative and personal freedom denied them back home."
Pride and Joy by Kathleen Archambeau; Dustin Lance Black (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781633535503
Publication Date: 2017-06-22
Stories of success, happiness and hope from the LGBT community. Stories that comprise the best of LGBT history: Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes tells the stories of queer citizens of the world living OUT and proud happy, fulfilling, successful lives. Diverse and global. Famous and unsung. There is a story here for everyone in the LGBT community who has ever questioned their sexual orientation or gender identity, or discovered it.
A Promise to Remember: the NAMES Project book of letters by Joe Brown (Editor)
ISBN: 0380767112
Publication Date: 1992-08-01
Hundreds of brief letters, most written by people who contributed panels to the huge NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, help humanize the disease by showing how family and friends remember the diverse victims and cope with their losses. Edited by a reporter for the Washington Post, the letters range from mundane to powerful and express a variety of emotions: tenderness, anger, sadness and hope.
Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager; Zoe More O'Ferrall (As told to)
ISBN: 0062474316
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals--and you've never heard of many of them. Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile figures like Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt to the trailblazing gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a bisexual blues singer who didn't make it into your history books, these astonishing true stories uncover a rich queer heritage that encompasses every culture, in every era. By turns hilarious and inspiring, the beautifully illustrated Queer, There, and Everywhere is for anyone who wants the real story of the queer rights movement.
Queer: a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker; Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781785780714
Publication Date: 2016-09-08
Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly.
Queer : the ultimate LGBTQ guide for teens by Kathy Belge; Marke Bieschke
ISBN: 9781541578586
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Teen life is hard enough, but for teens who are LGBTQ, it can be even harder. When do you decide to come out? Will your friends accept you? And how do you meet people to date? Queer is a humorous, engaging, and honest guide that helps LGBTQ teens come out to friends and family, navigate their social life, figure out if a crush is also queer, and challenge bigotry and homophobia. Personal stories from the authors and sidebars on queer history provide relatable context. This completely revised and updated edition is a must-read for any teen who thinks they might be queer or knows someone who is.
A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski; Richie Chevat (Adapted by)
ISBN: 9780807056127
Publication Date: 2019-06-11
Queer history didn't start with Stonewall. This book explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity, contributing to the country and culture for over 400 years.
A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities by Mady G. (Illustrator); Jules Zuckerberg (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620105863
Publication Date: 2019-04-23
A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys! In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and Jules Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBT+ world! Covering essential topics like sexuality, gender identity, coming out, and navigating relationships, this guide explains the spectrum of human experience through informative comics, interviews, worksheets, and imaginative examples. A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys! And don't miss A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson!
Real Queer America by Samantha Allen
ISBN: 9780316516037
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
ISBN: 9781476709130
Publication Date: 2014-12-02
New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize * Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist * Books for a Better Life Award Finalist * Lambda Literary Award Finalist * Time Magazine "30 Most Influential People on the Internet" * American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book In her profound and courageous New York Times bestseller, Janet Mock establishes herself as a resounding and inspirational voice for the transgender community--and anyone fighting to define themselves on their own terms.
San Francisco's Castro by Strange de Jim
ISBN: 9780738528663
Publication Date: 2003-11-18
Nestled in the Eureka Valley area, the Castro is arguably the most well-known of San Francisco's neighborhoods, having been the epicenter of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. This new collection of photographs shows the area's growth from a smattering of Victorian houses built for working-class families in the 1870s to the flood of young gay men who settled in the neighborhood during the 1970s.
Sewing the Rainbow: The Story of Gilbert Baker and the Rainbow Flag by Gayle E. Pitman; Holly Clifton-Brown (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781433829024
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Gilbert loved visiting his grandmother's clothing store. He'd sit next to her while she sewed and draw beautiful gowns and costumes. Gilbert dreamed of someday bringing these drawings to life. But one day, his father took away his art supplies and tore up his drawings. Surrounded by building blocks and Erector sets, sports gear and slingshots, Gilbert's colorful, sparkly, glittery personality started to fade, and he, too, became gray and dull and ﬂat, just like the Kansas landscape. "When I grow up," he dreamed, "I'll go somewhere that's ﬁlled with color."
Sissy by Jacob Tobia
ISBN: 9780735218826
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.
Stitching a Revolution by Cleve Jones; Jeff Dawson
ISBN: 0062516418
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
From the frontlines of one of the greatest human struggles of our time comes this powerful and moving tale. Both an important cultural history of the AIDS crisis and an intimate personal memoir, Stitching a Revolution is the story of a man who, besieged by discrimination, death, and despair, found the courage and strength of spirit to conceive and create a unique healing vision-the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
The Stonewall Generation by Jane Fleishman; Kate Bornstein (Foreword by); Barbara Carrellas (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781558968530
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
"It deserves prominent placement on LGBTQ history bookshelves. . . . An indelible collection of wise voices resonating with experience, pride, resilience, and revolution." --Kirkus starred review
The Stonewall Riots by Marc Stein (Editor)
ISBN: 9781479816859
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history--depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night.
Tomorrow Will Be Different: love, loss, and the fight for trans equality by Sarah McBride; Joe Biden (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1524761478
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Sarah McBride is on a mission to fight for transgender rights around the world. But before she was a prominent activist, and before she became the first transgender person to speak at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, she was a teenager struggling with her identity. With emotional depth and unparalleled honesty, Sarah shares her personal struggle with gender identity, coming out to her supportive but distraught parents, and finding her way as a woman. She inspires readers with her barrier-breaking political journey that took her, in just four years, from a frightened, closeted college student to one of the nation's most prominent transgender activists walking the halls of the White House, passing laws, and addressing the country in the midst of a heated presidential election.
Tongzhi Living by Tiantian Zheng
ISBN: 9780816691999
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
Tongzhi, which translates into English as "same purpose" or "same will," was once widely used to mean "comrade." Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity. Tongzhi Living, the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in the metropolitan city of Dalian in northeast China.
Trans by Jack Halberstam
ISBN: 9780520966109
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people.
Trans Exploits by Jian Neo Chen
ISBN: 9781478000662
Publication Date: 2019-11-06
In Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color.
Transgender History, Second Edition by Susan Stryker
ISBN: 9781580056892
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.
Transgender Teen by Stephanie A. Brill; Lisa Kenney
ISBN: 9781627781749
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Is it just a phase, a fad, or a real issue with your teen? This comprehensive guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, gender-variant or gender-fluid. Covering extensive research and with many personal interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the author covers pressing concerns relating to physical and emotional development, social and school pressures, medical options, and family communications. Learn how parents can advocate for their children, find acceptable colleges and career paths, and raise their gender variant or transgender adolescent with love and compassion.
The Unsinkable Bambi Lake by Bambi Lake; Alvin Orloff; Manic D Press Inc. Staff
ISBN: 9780916397425
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Introduction by Exene Cervenka In the wake of hit movies TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERY THING, and PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT comes a personal account of one individual's evolution from innocent, suburban Johnny Purcell into fabulous, sophisticated Bambi Lake.
We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer; Leighton Brown
ISBN: 9780399581816
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
A rich photographic history of the queer liberation movement from the massively popular Instagram @lgbt_history, released in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
ISBN: 9781250169914
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
The never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history--a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time.
When We Rise by Cleve Jones
ISBN: 9780316315432
Publication Date: 2016-11-29
2017 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER The partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series! "You could read Cleve Jones's book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants--maybe heroes--but really, you should read it for pleasure and joy." -- Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
ISBN: 9781770463356
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
The hilarious and wildly popular Instagram comic about a world with no men. With her startling humor, it's no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal's web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 120,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000 likes. Now, readers everywhere will delight in the print edition as Dhaliwal seamlessly incorporates feminist philosophical concerns into a series of perfectly-paced strips that skewer perceived notions of femininity and contemporary cultural icons.

Ebooks

Buying Gay by David K. Johnson
ISBN: 0231548176
Publication Date: 2019-05-06
David K. Johnson tells the story of the physique magazine produced by and for gay men to show how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-rights movement but an important catalyst for it.
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Teacher by William DeJean; Jeffrey Lynn Sapp
ISBN: 9781681237527
Publication Date: 2017-05-01
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher: Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way is full of the voices of queer educators and calls for educational leaders to be allies in their social justice leadership roles. Queer professionals write personal letters to junior queer colleagues answering the general prompt, "What have you learned as a queer educator that you believe is essential to the success of current or future gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered educators?" The responses are thoughtful, powerful, poignant, and direct.
Gay on God's Campus by Jonathan Coley
ISBN: 1469636247
Publication Date: 2018
"Jonathan Coley explores the unique pathways along which students join and work within movements for LGBT inclusion at Christian institutions of higher learning across the country. Having interviewed dozens of students in LGBT advocacy groups at four conservative, religious schools of different denominations, Coley is able to use students' own words to analyze their self-conceptions and activist tactics, while shedding new light on faith-based LGBT activism on college campuses. Moreover, Coley shows that there is no single pathway to activism and, perhaps most importantly, that religion and pro-LGBT activism are not mutually exclusive categories"
Hidden Mercy : AIDS, Catholics, and the untold stories of compassion in the face of fear by Michael J. O'Loughlin
ISBN: 9781506467719
Publication Date: 2021-11-30
The 1980s and 1990s, the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, was decades ago now, and many of the stories from this time remain hidden: A Catholic nun from a small Midwestern town packs up her life to move to New York City, where she throws herself into a community under assault from HIV and AIDS. A young priest sees himself in the many gay men dying from AIDS and grapples with how best to respond, eventually coming out as gay and putting his own career on the line. A gay Catholic with HIV loses his partner to AIDS and then flees the church, focusing his energy on his own health rather than fight an institution seemingly rejecting him. Set against the backdrop of the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the late twentieth century and the Catholic Church's crackdown on gay and lesbian activists, journalist Michael O'Loughlin searches out the untold stories of those who didn't look away, who at great personal cost chose compassion--even as he seeks insight for LGBTQ people of faith struggling to find a home in religious communities today.
The Lesbian South by Jaime Harker
ISBN: 1469643367
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture.
Mouths of Rain : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Jones, Briona Simone, editor.
ISBN: 1620976250
Publication Date: 2021
African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall's classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century. Using “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy.
The Politics of Love in Myanmar by Lynette Chua
ISBN: 9781503607453
Publication Date: 2019
The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement.
The Pride Guide by Jo Langford
ISBN: 9781538110768
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
The Pride Guide is an indispensable resource written explicitly for the almost 10 percent of teenagers who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, or any of the unique identities that are not heterosexual/cisgender. It explores sex, dating, relationships, puberty, and both physical and online safety. The issue today is not whether or not queer youth will get sex education; the issue is how and where they will gather information and whether or not the information they gather will be applicable, reliable, or exploitative. Equipping teens and their families with knowledge and self-confidence, this book provides the best protection against the unfortunate backlash that is sometimes encountered by those who grow up queer.
Queer Love in Color by Jamal Jordan
ISBN: 9781984857644
Publication Date: 2021-05-04
A photographic celebration of the love and relationships of queer people of color by a former New York Times multimedia journalist "Thank you, Jamal Jordan, for showing the world what true love looks like."--Billy Porter Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum of gender, race, and age.
Remembering the AIDS Quilt by Charles E. Morris (Editor)
ISBN: 9781611860078
Publication Date: 2011-06-01
A collaborative creation unlike any other, the Names Project Foundation's AIDS Memorial Quilt has played an invaluable role in shattering the silence and stigma that surrounded the epidemic in the first years of its existence. Designed by Cleve Jones, the AIDS Quilt is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. Since its conception in 1987, the Quilt has transformed the cultural and political responses to AIDS in the U.S. Representative of both marginalized and mainstream peoples, the Quilt contains crucial material and symbolic implications for mourning the dead, and the treatment and prevention of AIDS.
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate by Jeannie Gainsburg
ISBN: 9781538136775
Publication Date: 2020-03-12
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: -Current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language -Tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you -LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations -Common bloopers to avoid -Tools for effectively navigating difficult conversations -Suggestions for addressing common questions and concerns -Actions for creating more LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces -Recommendations for self-care and sustainable allyship This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians, and college professors, as well as parents who want to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but don't know how.
That's So Gay! by Jonathan Charlesworth
ISBN: 0857008374
Publication Date: 2015-02-28
Is there a need to challenge homophobic name-calling and other homophobic bullying in your school but uncertainty about how to address it? That's So Gay! is a practical guide to making your school a safer place and creating an inclusive bully-free culture. It shows what homophobic bullying looks like, who experiences it and explores the reasons why young people bully others homophobically.
The Trans Self-Care Workbook by Theo Lorenz
ISBN: 9781787753440
Publication Date: 2020-10-21
If you're transgender, non-binary, or any other gender under the wide and wonderful trans umbrella, this book is for you. A creative journal and workbook with a difference, this book combines coloring pages celebrating trans identity, beauty and relationships, with practical advice, journaling prompts and space for reflection to promote self-affirmation and wellbeing.
With Honor and Integrity: transgender troops in their own words by Máel Embser-Herbert (Editor); Bree Fram (Editor)
ISBN: 9781479801039
Publication Date: 2021-11-09
On January 25, 2021, in one of his first acts as President, Joe Biden reversed the Trump Administration's widely condemned ban on transgender people in the military. In With Honor and Integrity, Máel Embser-Herbert and Bree Fram introduce us to the brave individuals who are on the front lines of this issue, assembling a powerful, accessible, and heartfelt collection of first-hand accounts from transgender military personnel in the United States. Featuring twenty-six essays from current service members or veterans, these eye-opening accounts show us what it is like to serve in the military as a transgender person.