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Celebrate PRIDE!

It's LGBTQIA Pride Month! Explore queer history, heroes, and literature. This list includes streaming movies, eBooks and eAudiobooks for convenient access. Happy Pride Month!

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  • This Arab Is Queer

    An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

    "This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside…
    Book, 2022London : Saqi Books, 2022. — 306.76 THI
  • "For those chasing the American Dream and those jaded by it, Gomez's unforgettable story is a testament to finding love, purpose, and community on your own terms, smiling with all your fake teeth."
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, [2025] — 921 GOMEZ
  • Trans History

    From Ancient Times to the Present Day

    Combs, Alex L.,
    Graphic Novel, 2025Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2025.
  • Hollywood Pride

    a Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film

    Duralde, Alonso,
    "Just in time for Pride Month, this book is a first-of-its-kind in-depth exploration of LGBTQ+ representation from the dawn of cinema through today, from noted film critic Alonso Duralde and Turner Classic Movies."
    Book, 2024Philadelphia : Running Press, 2024. — 791.4365 DUR
  • "A gorgeously wrought exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between."
    Book, 2024Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2024. — F-CHO
  • Both thought-provoking and eye-opening, this radical new history of seven queer lives, including Josephine Baker in Paris and E.M. Forster in Cambridge, illuminates the connections to where they lived, who they loved and the art they created, and…
    Book, 2024New York : Pegasus Books, 2024. — 306.76 H469n
  • Long Live Queer Nightlife

    How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

    Ghaziani, Amin,
    "In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay…
    Book, 2024Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024] — SOC SCI ISSUE
  • "In this collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled--and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society."
    Book, 2024New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — BIO 814.6 ARCENEAU
  • From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2024] — 791.45 RUPAUL
  • Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. Also available in…
    Book, 2022New York : Doubleday, [2022] — F-YAN
  • Diary of a Misfit

    a Memoir and a Mystery

    Parks, Casey,
    "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking…
    Book, 2022New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] — 306.76 PARKS
  • "A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love."
    Book, 2020[New York] : Viking, [2020] — 921 TALUSAN
  • Love That Story

    Observations From a Gorgeously Queer Life

    Van Ness, Jonathan,
    These stories speak to doing the work to challenge internalized beliefs, finding compassion and confidence, and learning more about what makes us all so messy and gorgeous. Balancing the dark and the light, the serious and the signature humor that…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — 791.459 VAN NESS
  • "A young Black woman contends with New York media culture."
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. — F-DEN
  • "Spanning childhood to an elite college in the US and early adult life in New York City, each essay places Lamya's struggles and triumphs in the context of some of the most famous stories in the Quran."
    Book, 2023New York : The Dial Press, [2023] — BIO H
  • Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a…
    Book, 2022Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022] — BIO HORN
  • Asegi Stories

    Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory

    Driskill, Qwo-Li,
    "The book focuses on the concept of asegi stories--stories that revise and revive Cherokee cultural memories of same-sex relationships and non-binary gender systems. It is the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific…
    Book, 2016Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016. — 970.1 DRI
  • "In 2003 New York, a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, ill-fitting relationship, and artistic block discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author."
    Book, 2023Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023. — FICTION Kelly J.
  • "With her first book, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In her follow-up, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes, and…
    Book, 2023Chicago : Agate, 2023. — 641.5092 REGAN 2023