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June is Pride Month!

A list of books and media focusing on the history, art, love, and lives of LGBTQ+ people. Happy Pride!

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25 items

  • Redefining Realness

    My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

    Mock, Janet, 1983-
    Although the book is ostensibly one woman’s coming-of-age story, Mock fulfills grander purposes here; in coming to terms with her own difficult journey she also uses that experience didactically, as if to take the uninitiated, non-transgender reader…
    Book, 2014New York : Atria Books, 2014. — 306.768 MOCK MOCK
  • I Hope We Choose Love

    a Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World

    Thom, Kai Cheng,
    In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today.
    Book, 2019Vancouver, BC, Canada : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2019] — 306.768 THOM THOM
  • Trans/portraits

    Voices From Transgender Communities

    Shultz, Jackson Wright
    In this remarkable book, Jackson Shultz records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender. They range in age from 15 to 72; come from twenty-five different states and a wide array of racial, religious, and socioeconomic…
    Book, 2015Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, [2015] — 306.768 SHULT
  • Complemented by educational worksheets and helpful examples, a comics-illustrated guide to queer and transgender life covers essential topics ranging from sexuality and gender identity to coming out and navigating gender-diverse relationships.
    Book, 2019Portland, OR : Limerence Press, 2019. — YA 306.76 MADY
  • Transgender Lives

    Complex Stories, Complex Voice

    Cronn-Mills, Kirstin, 1968-
    Offers a look into the lives of transgender people and how they came to better understand, accept, and express their gender identities. Non-Fiction Young Adult selection.
    Book, 2015Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2015] — YA 306.768 CRONN
  • Queer as All Get Out

    10 People Who've Inspired Me

    Criswell, Shelby,
    The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired by these historical LGBTQIA+ people to live their own truth. Young Adult Graphic…
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York : Street Noise Books, 2021. — YA GRAPHIC CRISW...S
  • Radiant

    the Life and Line of Keith Haring

    Gooch, Brad, 1952-
    Based on interviews with those who knew Haring best and drawing from the rich archival history, Brad Gooch sets out to capture the magic of Keith a visionary and timeless icon.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 709.2 HARIN GOOCH
  • Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

    Queer Writing on Growing Up With the AIDS Crisis

    An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives.
    Book, 2021Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2021] — 362.1969 BETWE
  • Available on Hoopla. Stream SOPHIE's debut and only studio album. RIP.
    Downloadable Music, 2018[United States] : MSMSMSM/Future Classic, 2018. — DOWNLOADABLE MUSIC
  • Available on Hoopla. Against Me! ‘s 6th studio album deals with gender dysphoria following Laura Jane Grace’s gender transition and coming out.
    Downloadable Music, 2014[United States] : Total Treble : Made available through hoopla, 2014. — DOWNLOADABLE MUSIC
  • We See Each Other

    a Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

    Anderson, Tre'vell, 1991-
    In this groundbreaking look at transgender representation in TV and film, the author weaves together the history of trans people on screen with stories of their life growing up and their formative experiences as a black, trans journalist.
    Book, 2023New York, New York : Andscape Books, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc., 2023 — 791.4365 ANDER
  • An unblinking behind-the-scenes story of fashion-obsessed New Yorkers who created "voguing" and drag balls.
    DVD, 2020[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020] — DVD FEATURE PARIS
  • In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York.
    DVD, 2023Arlington, VA : PBS, [2023] — DVD FEATURE CASA
  • At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly…
    Book, 2023New York : Catapult, 2023. — 306.7663 POSSA
  • Brings together a new collection of cartoons recounting the lives and loves of a diverse group of lesbian friends.
    Book, 2008Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. — 741.5697 BECHD
  • Welcome to St. Hell

    My Trans Teen Misadventure

    Hancox, Lewis, 1989-
    In WELCOME TO ST. HELL, author-illustrator Lewis Hancox takes readers on the hilarious, heartbreaking, and healing path he took to make it past trauma, confusion, hurt, and dubious fashion choices in order to become the man he was meant to be. YA…
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2022. — YA GRAPHIC HANCO...L
  • One of the most formidable Black trans activists in history, in this passionate and powerful memoir, recounts the possibility of transformation after tragedy, and how complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks and bloom toward…
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — 306.76 WILLI
  • Tagame follows the phenomenal success of My Brother’s Husband with another poignant, empowering, gay-centered narrative.
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York : Pantheon Books, [2022] — GRAPHIC TAGAM...G
  • This lavishly illustrated volume brings together more than two hundred images—works created in public spaces, paintings, sculptures, objects, works on paper, photographs, and more. These rich visuals are accompanied by essays and interviews from…
    Book, 2019Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. — 709.2 HARIN KEITH
  • We Are Everywhere

    Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation

    Riemer, Matthew, 1982-
    Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this essential and empowering introduction to the history of queer liberation traces queer activism from its roots in late-19th-century Europe to the gender warriors leading the…
    Book, 2019California : Ten Speed Press, [2019] — 306.766 RIEME