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Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Given today{u2019}s news, it would be easy to get the impression that the struggle for LGBT equality is a recent development, but it is only the final act in a struggle that started more than a century ago. This timely resource helps put recent events into context for kids ages 9 & up. After a brief history up to 1900, each chapter discusses an era in the struggle for LGBT civil rights from the 1920s to today. The history is told through personal...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s? In this unique history, Nancy Garden uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and gay in America during the last fifty years. For each decade from the 1950s on, she discusses in an essay the social and political events that...
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK ABOUT THE FIGHT FOR QUEER RIGHTS Around one o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, sparking days of intense rioting. What happened at Stonewall sent shockwaves around the world, and became a defining moment for the LGBTQ+ community. From the impassioned speeches of bold activists Karl Ulrichs and Audre Lorde to the birth of Pride and queer pop culture, Rainbow...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The sweeping story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights from the 1950s to the present{u2014}based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights{u2014}the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the...
Author
Publisher
Smith Street Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dismantle the messy myth of gender, with this a colorful, approachable, and irreverent-AF book. We find ourselves at an exciting moment in history. For the first time, trans and gender diverse people are being seen and heard. Thanks to tireless activism, and an increased visibility worldwide, these lived experiences (the joyful, and the painful) are no longer able to be ignored. And so, The Pronoun Lowdown is here to demystify and celebrate trans...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This colorful digest is a keepsake honoring LGBT+ people and the ongoing fight to gain--and maintain--equality for all. Inside the GAY AGENDA, you'll find trivia, tributes, history, and advice about: coming out, Marsha P. Johnson, pride flags, the Queer Liberation March, the AIDS crisis, safe sex, police raids, Radclyffe Hall, dating, queer terminology, religion (being gay), gender identity, James Baldwin, and the Stonewall Riots." -- cover page...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the fifty years since Stonewall with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philippe Rey
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
"In a viral video filmed in Senegal, we see how a body is defaced and then dragged out of a cemetery by a crowd. As soon as he views it, Ndéné Gueye, a young professor, tired of the moral hypocrisy of his society, becomes concerned or obsessed with this event. Who was he? Why was the body exhumed? The only answer: it was a Góor-Jigean, a "man-woman". In other words, a homosexual. A novel about how to find the courage to be your true self without...
14) A child's introduction to pride: the inspirational history and culture of the LGBTQIA+ community
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An essential and empowering introduction to the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement throughout history with kid-friendly explanations of important terms"--
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A new film that explores the intersection of religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity in current-day America. The arrival of marriage equality was seen by many as the pinnacle achievement of the march toward full equality for LGBTQ people. But for many on the Right, it was the last straw, and their public backlash has been swift, severe, and successful.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The partial inspiration for a forthcoming ABC television miniseries from Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis and up to his present-day involvement with the marriage equality battle. TV tie-in.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph{u2014}both political and sexual{u2014}before the AIDS crisis in the subsequent decade, which, in the view of many, exposed the problems inherent in the so-called "gay...
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring story of Angeline Jackson, who stood up to Jamaica's oppression of queer youth to demand recognition and justice. When Angeline Jackson was a child, she wondered if there was something wrong with her for wanting to kiss the other girls. But as her sexuality blossomed in her teens, she knew she wouldn't "grow out of it" and that her attraction to girls wasn't against God. In fact, she discovered that same-sex relationships were depicted...
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