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LGBTQ+ stories

The voices and experiences of the LGBTQIA. Streaming videos are also included.

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  • A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, this memoir is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.
    Book, 2015Boston : Beacon Press, 2015. — 920 HER
  • Graphic Novel, 2019[Place of publication not identified] : Lion Forge, LLC, 2019. — GN BIO KOBABE
  • Book, 2021Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2021] — YA 306.76 DAW
  • The author grew up in Pakistan as an Ahmadi Muslim, considered blasphemous by other Muslims, and gay. Not until her family was able to emigrate to Canada was she able to start finding herself.
    Book, 2019Toronto : Penguin Random House Canada, 2019. — B H114a
  • "Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as "a fierce new voice" and "queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea." But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public…
    Book, 2021New York : Random House, [2021]
  • Black Like Us

    a Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction

    Chronicles one hundred years of African-American homosexual literature, from the turn-of-the-century writings of Alice Dunbar Nelson, to the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes, to the emerging sexual liberation movements of the later postwar era…
    eBook, 2012Berkeley, Calif. : Cleis Press, 2012.
  • Award-winning author Alex Gino explores what it means to search for your own place in the world . . . and all the steps you and the people around you need to take in order to get where you need to be.
    Book, 2020New York : Scholastic Press, 2020. — J Gino A.
  • The YouTube personality and social advocate presents a courageous firsthand account of his life, struggles and victories as a transgender youth, discussing his private battles with identity, the challenges of the healthcare system and what he…
    Book, 2019New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — YA306.768 BER
  • "El Canto del Colibri," is a story of Latino fathers dealing with issues of immigration, faith, marriage equality, machismo, culture, and the process of their LGBTQ children coming out.
    Streaming Video, 2015Frameline, 2015.
  • In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.
    Book, 2020New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020. — YA921 JOHNSON, G
  • In this extraordinarily candid memoir, the author articulates her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship.
    Book, 2019Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019] — BV 813.6 MACHADO
  • Book, 2018Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. — FIC EVISON
  • This is 2014 documentary tells the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent woman director in Hong Kong in the 1930s.
    Streaming Video, 2014Women Make Movies, 2014.
  • Combining private and personal stories alongside an analysis of emerging trends in popular culture that signal a massive shift in our understanding of gender and sex, Me, Myself, They promises to counter non-binary trans exclusion, erasure, and…
    Book, 2019Toronto : Anansi, [2019] — BIO 305.3 FERGUSON
  • A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
    Streaming Video, 2016A24, 2016.
  • The author grew up in Iraq knowing he was gay. During the US occupation while a student at the University of Baghdad, he met Morise, an African American soldier, and they fell in love. Told in flashbacks interspersed with stories of his life in…
    Book, 2021Seattle : Amazon Crossing, 2021.
  • The Year We Thought About Love goes behind the scenes of the oldest queer youth theater in America. In a twist on the common image of LGBTQ youth as victims, the film reveals the troupe members as artists and activists, celebrating the fullness of…
    Streaming Video, 2016[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
  • This 2011 documentary offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years and…
    Streaming Video, 2015[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
  • In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the Boots seizes the opportunity to force communities of colour, the disabled and the LGBTQ2S into…
    Book, 2020New York : Atria Books, 2020. — F HERNA
  • 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' follows the titular character as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth.
    Streaming Video, 2018FilmRise, 2018.