GLBT Book Month

June is GLBT Book month, a celebration of authors and writings that “reflect the lives and experiences of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community,” according to the American Library Association.

What Does LGBTQ Stand for? 

Here are some web guides to LGBTQ terminology:

 

Books

Stonewall Book Awards (2018)
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Children’s & Young Adult
Journals
Stonewall Book Awards (2018)

Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Cat Fitzpatrick (Editor); Casey Plett (Editor)
ISBN: 9781627290180

Queer Threads by Todd Oldham (Editor)
ISBN: 9781623261054

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
ISBN: 9780374303235

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
ISBN: 9780316349000
Fiction

Fiction in Our Library

Angels in America: a Gay Fantasia on National Themes  by Tony Kushner 

For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu 

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Call Number: 818 B181g

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 

Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Call Number: 828 W913o

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Call Number: 813.54 F299s

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin 

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin 

Literature

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S. J. Sindu
ISBN: 9781616959470

A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
ISBN: 9781551526799

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
ISBN: 9781617755880

When I Grow up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
ISBN: 9781942683339

New York Public Library

Don’t forget, if you are a New York State resident you are eligible for a New York Public Library card, which will give you access to their audio and ebook collection. You can apply for a card here. 

NYPL recently posted Librarians on Meaningful Books in Their LGBTQ Journeys, which contains recommendations from librarians on LGBTQ reading materials. 

Book Lists

Non-Fiction

Nonfiction in Our Library

Another Mother Tongue by Judy Rae Grahn; Merriam
Call Number: 306.766 G742a, 1990

Covering by Kenji Yoshino
Call Number: 342.7308 Y65c

Defining Documents in American History – Lgbtq+ by Michael Shally-Jensen (Editor)
Call Number: 323.3 L623 2018 c. 1

Finding Out by Jonathan F. Alexander; Deborah T. Meem; Michelle A. Gibson
Call Number: 306.76 M494f2

The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: 306.76 F144g

Gender Outlaws by Kate Bornstein; S. Bear Bergman
Call Number: 306.76 G325 2010

Genderqueer by Joan Nestle; Riki A. Wilchins; Clare Howell
Call Number: 306.76 G325 2002

Homophobia by Suzanne Pharr; Susan G. Raymond (Illustrator)
Call Number: 306.766 P536h


Interpreting LGBT History by Susan Ferentinos
Call Number: 306.76 F349i

Losing Matt Shepard by Beth Loffreda
Call Number: 306.766 L828L

My Gender Workbook, Updated by Kate Bornstein
Call Number: 305.3 B736m

Not Straight, Not White by Kevin Mumford 

Out and about Campus by Kim Howard (Editor); Annie Stevens (Editor)
Call Number: 378.1 O94

Reconstructing Gender Reconstructing Gender by Estelle Disch
Call Number: 305.3 R311 2009

Sexual Injustice by Marc Robert Stein 

Stonewall by David Carter
Call Number: 306.7660973 C323s

Other Non-Fiction

Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton
ISBN: 9781517901738

The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans
ISBN: 9780299311445

LGBTQ Stats by David Deschamps
ISBN: 9781620972441
Children’s & Young Adult

Children’s & Young Adult

As the Crow Flies Charlie Lamonte is thirteen years old, queer, black, and questioning what was once a firm belief in God. So naturally, she’s spending a week of her summer vacation stuck at an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp. As the journey wears on and the rhetoric wears thin, she can’t help but poke holes in the pious obliviousness of this storied sanctuary with little regard for people like herself . . . or her fellow camper, Sydney.by Melanie Gillman
ISBN: 9781945820069

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 
Journals

Our library has access to journals on gender and sexuality studies as well, including: 

You may also find these journals helpful:

Browsing

Our library uses the Dewey Decimal system. If you’re looking to browse our collection, you may want to check these Call # areas:

On Campus Resources