Pierce Library: Book Displays: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month!

Pierce Library invites you to join us in celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride Month! Pride is a time to celebrate the diverse and unique experiences of LGBTQIA+ folks, remember the activism that has helped achieve greater LGBTQIA+ rights and acceptance over the years, and take stock of how the movement still has room for improvement.

Pride is celebrated every June to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising of 1969, when a violent police raid of a popular gay bar in New York City called Stonewall Inn sparked nearly a week of spontaneous protests. While there was plenty of LGBTQ+ activism before 1969, Stonewall is widely regarded as a turning point and catalyst for the modern LGBTQIA+ rights movement in the United States. The first Pride marches were held on June 28, 1970 on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall. Read more about the Stonewall Uprising.

Unfamiliar with any of the terminology in this guide? Check out this helpful LGBTQ+ Glossary.

Whether you are out and proud, in the closet, still figuring things out, or just want to learn something new, we are so glad you're here! Happy Pride, Brahmas!

Nonfiction Books

OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture

American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era

The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

The Rainbow: After the Storm: Marriage Equality and Social Change in the U.S.

Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons

Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

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Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Young Queer America: Real Stories and Faces of LGBTQ+ Youth

In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Sporting Gender: The History, Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America

A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises Behind Military Inclusion

eBook Available

Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games

Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People In Their Own Words

Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift

eBook Available

Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources

Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care

eBook Available

The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community

eBook Available

Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience

eBook Available

The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World

LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers

eBook Available

The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History

eBook Available

Memoirs & Essays

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives

This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

eBook Available

Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

eBook Available

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

eBook Available

Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

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The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation

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Fiction

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel

Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Coming Soon

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Poetry

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Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions

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Graphic Novels

Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare Vol. 1

Movies

Recommended Websites

Los Angeles LGBT Center
Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Services span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, Leadership and Advocacy.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project provides 24/7 crisis support services to LGBTQ youth. Text, chat, or call anytime to reach a trained counselor.
Digital Transgender Archive
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials.
LGBTQIA Pride Month - Los Angeles Public Library
Explore free LGBTQIA+ resources from the Los Angeles Public Library.

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June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month!

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