Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month
The Library is proud to recognize & celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month. All items on display are available for checkout!
Our first-floor display features books and films with LGBTQ+ themes, subjects, and content, such as resources for the transgender community, history of LGBTQ social movements, and cultural examinations of LGBTQ+ Black and Latinx populations. Studies of media depictions, personal coming out stories, and cultural revolutions – all are here.
Representative cinema include the film adaptation of “Angels in America,” classic and contemporary documentaries “Looking for Langston,” “Paris Is Burning,” “After Stonewall,” and the “Archivettes,” as well as contemporary portrayals of LGBTQ+ identity in “Moonlight,” “The Danish Girl,” “Mosquita y Mari,” and “Carol.”
Feel free to make suggestions about our LGBTQ collection: What can we add? What would you like to see or read? Make a recommendation.
The Library display will be up for the month of October. All items are available for checkout.
Curated by L. LaPrade and J. Swatski
More ways to explore LGBTQ+ History:
- Visit the Outwords story archive to hear LGBTQ+ elders, like community organizer and trans rights activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, share their experiences with marching on Washington, taking a stand during the Stonewall Riots, and advocating for LGBTQ+ rights and liberation.
- Learn more about historical LGBTQ+ icons on the History Is Gay podcast. *Not all of the episodes are transcribed.
- Browse the National Museum of American History’s LGBTQ History collection.