Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A wonderful collection of essays written by today's queer heroes, featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. In 2016, model and queer activist Jack Guinness decided that the LGBTQ+ community desperately needed to be reminded of its long and glorious history of stardom, and he was spurred to action. The following year, QueerBible.com was born, an online community...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
"Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives. "You Can Tell Just by Looking" unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths, such as "all religions condemn homosexuality," have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Other myths, such as "LGBT...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Being gay in Las Vegas until the 1990s was a felony with a hefty fine and long prison sentence. The Las Vegas LGBTQ community did not organize to fight for its rights until the late 1970s and by the early 1980s had made headway, before AIDS stopped their momentum. While AIDS was devastating, it taught compassion, self-reliance, and political savvy. By 2017, Las Vegas was a city among the most welcoming of the nation's queer community.
10) Pride month
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Pride Month is about celebrating the lives and activism of LGBTQ+ people around the world. It started as a way of remembering the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City. During Pride Month, communities have festivals, parades, and marches. Some organize events in places where LGBTQ+ people face discrimination to help fight for equal rights. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
On the night of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. They didn't expect much trouble. But the bar's customers decided to take a stand. They hurled rocks and bricks at the police and chanted "Gay Power." This uprising gave birth to a new liberation movement. This history explores the decades of discrimination and abuse that gay people endured in earlier eras, the liberation movement of the 60's and 70's, and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Learning about the LGBTQ+ community involves much more than just learning what each letter in this acronym stands for, and readers are introduced to the many different kinds of people who identify as part of this community as they discover facts about each group's struggle for basic rights and acceptance. Informative, empathetic text presents this sensitive topic in a way that's easy for young readers to understand, and fact boxes give them additional...
15) Stonewall
Publisher
Centropolis Productions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Passions and politics make a volatile mix in this dynamic drama that follows the groundbreaking events that led to the birth of the modern Gay Rights movement in 1969 at New York City's Stonewall Inn.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 1969, when thirteen-year-old transgender runaway Flor and her new trans friend Tami try to make their way into the queer and trans community of New York City, they find themselves at the Stonewall Inn on a night that leads to a police raid and violence.
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Not just focusing on the history of African American civil rights in the United States, this new edition has been expanded to include other civil rights movements--the women's movement, the LGBT movement, the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, and the disability rights movement--while still maintaining a comprehensive overview of African American civil rights" --
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request