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International Pride Month 2025

Stonewall Riots anniversary: let's celebrate the achievements and beautiful lives of the past, present and future. These are some of the publications of 2024-25.

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  • So Gay for You

    Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All

    Hailey, Leisha, 1971-
    An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family, written and read by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of 'The L Word'--including never-before-shared stories from behind the scenes of the show and their personal…
    eBook, 2025New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — DIGITAL
  • About Face

    Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art

    D. Katz curates a tapestry of works that connect historical threads and reveal how gender and sexual identity have been interwoven by artists contemporaneous to and since Stonewall.
    Book, 2024New York : Monacelli ; Chicago : Alphawood Foundation, [2024] — 704.9493 ABO
  • Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend

    a Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints and Queerness Through the Ages

    Jones, Dan, 1981-
    Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.
    Book, 2023London : Radar/Conran Octopus, 2023. — 306.766 JON
  • Super Gay Poems

    LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall

    Burt, Stephanie, 1971-
    Stephanie Burt anthologizes five decades of verse, tracing the flourishing queer lives from Stonewall to the present day.
    eBook, 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025. — DIGITAL
  • Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s while also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. 'Thank You for Calling the…
    Book, XX(1563677.1)
  • Cleavage

    Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

    Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 1958-
    How does gender affect our sense of self? Our body image? The passage of time? The friends we lose and keep? Boylan considers her womanhood, reflects on the boys and men who shaped her, and reconceives of herself as a writer, activist, parent, and…
    Book, 2025New York : Celadon Books, 2025. — 306.768 BOY
  • Julie Bindel examines what defines lesbian culture, love, friendship and happiness today. She distinguishes the particular challenges facing lesbians from the very different experiences of gay men, and asks: why do lesbians so often seem to face…
    Book, XX(1568317.1)
  • Gay Shame

    the Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia

    Roberts, Gareth, 1968-
    Homophobia is making a major comeback under the guise of the ideology of 'gender identity'. The enforcers of this new creed insist that attraction to people of the same sex is 'hateful'. They argue that effeminate men and butch women can't just be…
    Book, 2024[London] : Forum, 2024. — 306.76 ROB
  • On a quiet night in 1972, two teenage girls are caught kissing and one of them is kicked out of home by her father. The other girl decides to swallow it and all her feelings. Over the following three decades, these two unnamed women almost intersect…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024[Victoria] : Bolinda/Macmillan Australia, 2024. — DIGITAL
  • Davis considers how, in many different organisms both animals and plants sexual reproduction and determination rely on a surprisingly complex interaction between genes, hormones, environment and chance. We meet turtles whose sex is determined by the…
    Book, 2024London : National History Museum, [2024] — 571.8 DAV
  • Queer as Folklore

    the Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

    Coward, Sacha
    Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the…
    Book, 2024London : Unbound, 2024. — 398 COW
  • Our Evenings follows the life od Dave Win from a schoolboy and student days, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024[Hampshire] : Macmillan Digital Audio, 2024. — DIGITAL
  • Stag Dance

    a Novel & Stories

    Peters, Torrey
    In Stag Dance, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — FICTION
  • No One Taught Me How to Be a Man

    What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals About Masculinity

    Kearns, Shannon T. L., 1980-
    In 'No One Taught Me How to Be a Man', Kearns takes masculinity head-on. He uses his experience to "see" gender in ways cis men cannot, making masculinity visible. Without arguing that masculinity should be done away with, or that there is no real…
    eBook, 2025Minneapolis : Broadleaf Books, 2025. — DIGITAL
  • A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer - about family, desire, and what we inherit. Over the course of hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, different from him in every way except for…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025Glasgow : Fourth Estate, 2025. — DIGITAL
  • It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood,…
    eBook, 2025London : Penguin Books, 2025. — DIGITAL
  • Before Mardi Gras

    Lesbian and Gay Activism in Australia, 1969-1978

    Willett, Graham
    In the more than 40 years since the first Mardi Gras, Australian society and the lives of all those who live here have been transformed. This is the story of the 1970s: the Homosexual Law Reform Society of the ACT (1969), the Daughters of Bilitis…
    Book, 2024Melbourne, Victoria : Interventions, 2024. — 306.766 WIL
  • Her Name Is Alice

    My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must Remember Her

    Litman, Caroline
    Alice Litman died by suicide in May 2022, aged just twenty years old, having already waited almost three years for her first appointment at an NHS gender-identity clinic. In beautiful prose, Caroline Litman captures the realities of an often-messy…
    Book, 2025London : Mudlark, 2025. — 306.768 LIT
  • Featuring works by, among others, Egon Schiele, Duncan Grant, Claude Cahun, Hannah Hoch, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, Glenn Ligon, Zanele Muholi, Allyson Mitchell and Tomoko Kashiki all of whom subverted the norms of their day via bold, new forms of…
    Book, 2023London : Tate Publishing, [2023] — 704.086 PIL
  • An exploration of family, grief, queer identity, and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Can you imagine it? I'd say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter's Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint.Brought…
    eBook, 2025London : Manilla Press, 2025. — DIGITAL