LGBTQ+ History Month Display: Home
Non-fiction
Pride : an Inspirational History of the LGBTQ+ Movement
Young Reader's Guide to LGBTQ+ history.
The Pink Line
A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today
All Boys Aren't Blue
Personal essays by LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson exploring his childhood, adolescence, and college years.
Queer Brown Voices
Personal narratives of Latina/o LGBT activism.
The Children of Harvey Milk
Tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights.
When We Rise : My Life in the Movement
Account from LGBTQ and AIDS activist of his life from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis and marriage equality.
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Essay collection offering personal reflections on grief, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, and writing.
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
Essays on grief and healing, cannabis reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, imposter syndrome, personal style, the HIV safety net, and how to make your hairdresser love you.
Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto
An call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo.
How We Fight for Our Life: a memoir
A memoir telling the story of a young, black, gay man from the South.
Seeing gender : an Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression
An investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today, touching on history, science, sociology, and the author's own experience.
What's your pronoun? : Beyond He & She
Tells the untold story of gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns by a linguist.
How to They/Them
Gender-friendly primer on non-binary and gender non-conforming identities in an accessible, infographic style.
A Visible Man : a Memoir
Memoir of first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue.
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals) : the Natural World of Animal Sexuality
A research-based exploration of queer behavior in different animal species.
Fiction
The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
Historical graphic novel set during the Stonewall riots and gay liberation movement.
Like a Love Story
YA novel, set in 1989 in New York, featuring AIDS activism.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
YA novel set in Chinatown San Francisco in 1954. Featuring a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.
The Vanishing Half
Adult Literary Fiction, spans three generations, one in the 1980s featuring a trans character.
A Marvellous Light
Adult Historical Fantasy Romance set in Edwardian England.
Another Brooklyn
Set in Bushwick, New York, in the 1970s, where three girls grow into young women.
She Who Became the Sun
Adult historical fantasy, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
All Out
Short story collection of queer teens through the ages.
A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
YA historical fiction following a British teen in the 1700s as he goes on his Grand Tour of Europe.
The Death of Vivek Oji
Adult Literary Fiction, set in Southeastern Nigeria in the 1980 and 1990s.
The Witch's Heart
Adult Norse mythology retelling.
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure
YA Graphic Novel about a trans teen.
Films (on DVD)
Stonewall Uprising
Explores the event that launched a worldwide rights movement when police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969.
Paris Is Burning
This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene
The Normal Heart
Story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s.
Milk
Based on the true story of Harvey Milk, a New Yorker who moves to San Francisco and becomes a gay rights activist.
Pride
U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
The Color Purple
Story of a young black girl in the early 20th century living in the rural American south.
We Were Here
A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco.
Before Stonewall
Traces the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969; the beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement after a police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City; and the three-day riot that followed.
After Stonewall
Chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement.
The Celluloid Closet : Homosexuality in the Movies
Exuberant, eye-opening documentary serves up a dazzling hundred year history of the role of gay men and women on the silver screen.
Maurice
E.M. Forrester's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge students that fall in love
The Imitation Game
Set during WWII about English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code.
Rocketman
An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Set in France, 1760 about an artist commissioned to paint a portrait.
Classics
Giovanni's Room
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates
The Color Purple
the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the South
Maurice
set early 20th-century England, following Maurice Hall, a gay man, from his schooldays through university and beyond
Orlando
A fantastical biography, and a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality