Pride Month - Non-Fiction for Adults
Happy Pride Month! In the spirit of diversity, inclusion, and freedom to read, Glendale Library, Arts & Culture is committed to supporting our LGBTQIA+ residents by providing information and resources to raise awareness and advocate for the community.
Click on the links below to access the library’s copy of each title.
Alive Still: Nell Blaine, American Painter by Curtis Cathy [Book]
Cathy Curtis tells the story of Blaine's life and career for the first time by investigating the ways her experience of illness colored her personality and the evolving nature of her work, the importance of her Southern roots, and the influence of her bisexuality (and, in the latter part of her life, long term lesbian relationships) on her understanding of the world.
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet Into the Stonewall Era by Jason Baumann [Book]
This powerful collection [of photographs]…captures the energy, humor, and humanity of the groundbreaking protests that surrounded the Stonewall Riots…
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes who Changed the World by Mason Funk
[Book] [eBook]
Captures the true story of the LGBTQ civil rights movement from the 1960s to the present through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the revolution and made it happen.
Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir by Jake Shears [Book]
Shears, lead singer of the glam rock band Scissor Sisters, examines his life and career. First performing in the smoky gay nightclubs of New York, then finding success in the United Kingdom, Scissor Sisters became revered by the LGBTQ community. A raucously entertaining memoir that will be an inspiration to anyone with determination and a dream.
Tomorrow Will be Different : Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah Mcbride
[Book]
Tomorrow Will Be Different is McBride's story of love and loss and a powerful entry point into the LGBTQ community's battle for equal rights and what it means to be openly transgender. From issues like bathroom access to health care to gender in America, McBride weaves the important political and cultural milestones into a personal journey that will open hearts and change minds.
Unconditional : a Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child by Telaina Eriksen [Book] [eBook]
Eriksen, the mother of a gay daughter, explains what she and her husband have learned through experience. She covers the science on gender and sexuality and offers advice on how to help a transgender child through the various stages of development, deal with everyday problems, and keep your child talking after he or she comes out.
Real Queer America : LGBT Stories From Red States by Samantha Allen [Book]
Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, this is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times.
David Bowie Made Me Gay : 100 years of LGBT music by Darryl W Bullock [Book] [eBook]
Bullock discusses the invaluable influence gay men, lesbians and bisexuals had on the growth of Jazz and Blues; looks at the almost forgotten world of gay life in the years between the two World Wars when many LGBT performers enjoyed a fame and freedom that would not be seen again until the 1970s and '80s; explores the emergence of Disco and Glamrock that gave birth to today's most legendary out-gay pop stars: Elton John, Boy George, Freddie Mercury, George Michael; and asks where we are today.
A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples by Frederick Hertz [Book]
This plain-English guide shows you how to: have and raise children through adoption, donors, surrogacy, or foster parenting; jointly buy a house or other property; make decisions about living together, marrying, or registering as legal partners; make a will or living trust; make medical decisions for each other if needed; and deal with the end of a relationship.
Karamo : My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope by Karamo Brown [Book]
An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown--Queer Eye's beloved culture expert--as he shares his story for the first time, exploring how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need.
Over the top : a Raw Journey to Self-love by Jonathan Van Ness [Book] [eBook]
On every page, Van Ness comes across as genuine, and genuinely trying to help others, especially young LGBTQ+ people, by sharing his story. Fans will and should flock to Van Ness' celebration of hard work and hard-earned self-love, and they'll only love him more after reading it.
Art & Queer Culture by Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer [Book]
Art & Queer Culture is a comprehensive and definitive survey of artworks that have constructed, contested, or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexuality.
Out of the Shadows : Reimagining Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets [Book] [eAudio]
Odets considers how experiences early in life launch men on trajectories to futures that are not authentically theirs. He reimagines how we might reframe gay life by considering everything from the misleading and constraining idea of "the homosexual," to the diversity and richness of gay relationships, to the historical role of stigma and shame and the significance of youth and aging.
Pride - the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement : a Photographic Journey by Christopher Measom [Book]
With more than 120 photos, posters, artworks, ads, and other rarely seen memorabilia; profiles of icons in the movement such as Christine Jorgensen, Marsha P. Johnson, Harry Hay, and Stormé DeLarverie; excerpts from key news reports; speeches by leading activists and political figures including Harvey Milk, Urvashi Vaid, and Barack Obama; and passages from important dramatic, musical, and literary works such as Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, this book is a groundbreaking homage to a historic movement and its milestone achievements and hurdles.
Ordinary Girls: a Memoir by Jaquira Diaz
[Book] [eBook-hoopla] [eBook-Cloud] [eAudio]
Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism.
A Politically Incorrect Feminist : Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women by Phyllis Chesler [Book]
Chesler is an outspoken veteran of second-wave feminism (1967–72), and her memoir is an unsentimental look at the pioneers of one of the most important political movements of the twentieth century.
We are Everywhere : Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer [Book]
With power and insight, Riemer and Brown visit the dark era of the AIDS crisis, moving onward to the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in support of same-sex marriage. This rich compendium of images, stories, and reflections carries readers into the future of queer liberation.
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe [eBook]
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be non-binary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity-what it means and how to think about it-for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Indecent Advances : a Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin [Book] [eBook - hoopla] [ebook - cloud]
Indecent Advances is a skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the often-coded portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall.
Drag : the Complete Story by Simon Doonan [Book]
DRAG is transformation, communication and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. In this arresting book, Simon Doonan observes an increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey through history - from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to the radical - from the heady days of Caligula right up to our gender-fluid present..
Claiming the B in LGBT : Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative by Kate Harrad [Book]
Kate Harrad's anthology of a thriving identity yearning to realize itself provides a vision of bisexuality that is beyond gay and straight, rather than left to merely occupy the space between.
Cruising : an Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza [Book]
Combining historical research and oral history with his own personal experience, Espinoza examines the political and cultural forces behind this radical pastime. From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr, Oscar Wilde to George Michael, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale--one in which men of all races and classes interact, even in the shadow of repressive governments.
Amateur : a True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page Mcbee [Book]
"In this book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing--learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body--McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes, and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a new way forward, a new kind of masculinity, inside the ring and outside of it. In this graceful, stunning, and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting, and healing, we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man".