Celebrating Diversity

A collection of essays that demonstrate how LGBT people played critical roles in local, state, and national politics In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politics. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s made the battles for access to welfare, health care, and social services for HIV-positive Americans, many of them gay men, a critically important story in the changing relationship between sexual minorities and the government. Summary taken from the book.

Growing Up Queer explores what it is like being young and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) in the United States today. Using interviews and ethnographic research conducted at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, it shows how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. Summary taken from book.

Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols--they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging.
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The life experiences and sexual identity development of three generations of gay men, the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations, are explored. Summary taken from book.

This is an accessible, data-driven account of how the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory - the liberalization of mass opinion on gay rights. Summary taken from book.

Gender Queer is Maia Kobabe's autobiography and is also guide to gender identity for friends, family and allies.

A guide to nonbinary pronouns.

Tan France's memoir about growing up gay in a South Asian family.