LibGuides: Recommended Reading: October

About this Guide

October is LGBT History Month, a time to observe the achievements and history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Check out these reads!

Online Resources

Gay City - Seattle
Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City is the leading provider of HIV and STI testing in King County.
Rainbow Center - Tacoma
Through education, advocacy, and celebration, the Rainbow Center expands resources and safe space for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and allied (LGBTQA) community.
The New York Times: 20 Years of LGBTQ Literature: A Timeline
A list of 25 recent works that have shaped the LGBTQ literary genre over the last two decades.

Books in the Library

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
Call Number: 306.7660973 B869q 2011
ISBN: 9780807044391

Main Collection--3rd Floor
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: 306.7660973 F144g 2015
ISBN: 9781451694116

Main Collection--3rd Floor
The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature by Scott Herring (editor)
Call Number: 810.80353 C178 2015
ISBN: 9781107646186

Main Collection--4th Floor
Queer Wars: The New Global Polarization Over Gay Rights by Dennis Altman; Jonathan Symons
Call Number: 306.766 A468q 2016
ISBN: 9780745698687

Main Collection--3rd Floor

eBooks

Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family by Joel Derfner
ISBN: 9780299294908
Publication Date: 2013

Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights by Richard D. Mohr
ISBN: 0231509448
Publication Date: 2005

Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance by Erin J. Rand
ISBN: 081738751X
Publication Date: 2014

Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
A Time to Embrace: Same-Sex Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics by William Johnson
Publication Date: 2012

Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities by Jackson Wright Shultz
Call Number: 306.768 S562t 2015
ISBN: 9781611688078

Main Collection--3rd Floor
Also available online through EBSCO eBook Collection