Rainbow Book Month
June is Rainbow Book month, a “celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, genderqueer, queer, intersex, agender, and asexual community” according to the American Library Association.
What Does LGBTQ Stand for?
Here are some web guides to LGBTQ terminology:
Books
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
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Nonfiction in our Library
Another Mother Tongue by Judy Rae Grahn
LGBTQ+ (1923-2017) by Michael Shally-Jensen
Finding Out by Jonathan F. Alexander; Deborah T. Meem; Michelle A. Gibson
The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman
Gender Outlaws by Kate Bornstein; S. Bear Bergman
Homophobia by Suzanne Pharr; Susan G. Raymond (Illustrator)
Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos
Losing Matt Shepard by Beth Loffreda
My New Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein
Not Straight, Not White by Kevin Mumford
Out and about Campus by Kim Howard (Editor); Annie Stevens (Editor)
Reconstructing Gender by Estelle Disch
Sexual Injustice by Marc Robert Stein
Stonewall by David Carter
Journals
- European Journal of Women’s Studies
- Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review
- Intersections: Gender & Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Sexualities
- Transgender Health
- A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology
- Columbia Journal of Gender & Law
- Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Browsing
Our library uses the Dewey Decimal system. If you’re looking to browse our collection, you may want to check these Call # areas:
- Social Sciences – 300s
- Social Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology – 330s
- Culture and Institutions – 306
- Relations Between the Sexes – 306.7
- Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity – 306.76
- Bisexuality – 306.765
- Homosexuality – 306.766
- Transsexual, Transgender, Genderqueer – 306.768
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.