June is Pride Month.
To get in the spirit, try some of the titles from the 2016 Over the Rainbow Project book list. The list is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association. These are books for adults that are recognized for their “authentic expression of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experiences.”
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Mislaid Zink, Nell 2015-05 – Ecco Press 9780062364777 Check Our Catalog
In 1960s Virginia, college freshman and ingenue Peggy falls for professor and poet Lee, and what begins as an ill-advised affair results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. Mismatched from the start she’s a lesbian; he’s gay Peggy eventually finds herself in crisis and runs away with their daughter, leaving their son behind. Estranged from the rest of the family, Peggy and her daughter |
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Nelson, Maggie
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson’s “The Argonauts “is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with the artist Harry |
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Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South |
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Tea, Michelle
As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house; she drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on; she toiled for the minimum wage; and she dated men and women, and sometimes both at once.But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in |
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Berg, Ryan
In this lyrical debut, Ryan Berg immerses readers in the gritty, dangerous, and shockingly underreported world of homeless LGBTQ teens in New York. As a caseworker in a group home for disowned LGBTQ teenagers, Berg witnessed the struggles, fears, and ambitions of these disconnected youth as they resisted the pull of the street, tottering between destruction and survival. Focusing on |
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Peck, Dale
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Humphreys, Helen 2015-02 – Mariner Books 9780544348691 Check Our Catalog
“The Evening Chorus” serenades people brutally marked by war, yet enduring to live and relish the tiny pleasures of another day. With her trademark prose exquisitely limpid Humphreys convinces us of the birdlike strength of the powerless. Emma Donoghue Downed during his first mission, James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide the time, he studies a nest of redstarts at the edge of |
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Faderman, Lillian
The most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement. “The Economist” A “New York Times” Notable Book of 2015 The sweeping story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights from the 1950s to the present based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these |
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Sears, Clare
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Moon, Allison
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