Pride Month Reads | Yavapai College Libraries

1) Pride: the story of the LGBTQ equality movement

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"Pride documents the milestones in the fight for equality, from the victories of early activists, to the gradual acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community in politics, sports, and the media and the landmark court cases that helped to ban discrimination, permit marriage, and help in the fight for equality."--Amazon.com.

2) The Stonewall reader

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"For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. Jason Baumann, the NYPL coordinator of humanities and LGBTQ collections, has edited and introduced the volume to coincide with the NYPL exhibition he has curated on the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation movement of 1969"--

3) We are everywhere: protest, power, and pride in the history of Queer Liberation

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Riemer, Matthew

4) The gay revolution: the story of the struggle

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Faderman, Lillian

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A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.

5) The savvy ally: a guide for becoming a skilled LGBTQ+ advocate

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Gainsburg, Jeannie

6) The engagement: America's quarter-century struggle over same-sex marriage

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Issenberg, Sasha

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"On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, Sasha Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense...

7) In their shoes: navigating non-binary life

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Windust, Jamie

8) The wedding heard 'round the world: America's first gay marriage

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McConnell, Michael

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9) Nonbinary: memoirs of gender and identity

10) The trans guide to mental health and well-being

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Lees, Katy

11) Mission possible: the story of repealing Don't ask, don't tell

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Osburn, C. Dixon

12) Violence against queer people: race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination

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Meyer, Doug

13) Dying to be normal: gay martyrs and the transformation of American sexual politics

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Krutzsch, Brett

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"The first book to detail how gay martyrs influenced national debates over LGBT rights, Dying to be Normal establishes how religion shaped gay assimilation in the United States and the mainstreaming of particular gays as "normal" Americans worthy of equal rights"--

14) The deviant's war: the homosexual vs. the United States of America

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Cervini, Eric

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"A biography of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny"--

15) Information activism: a queer history of lesbian media technologies

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McKinney, Cait

16) Female husbands: a trans history

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Manion, Jen

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"Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands- people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women- were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before World War I, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, and threat of violence. Female...

17) Advancing diversity, inclusion, and social justice through human systems engineering

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"Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice through Human Systems Engineering highlights how scholars and practitioners of HSE (inclusively defined to span many fields) can apply their theories and methods to understand and support healthy communities, include and empower diverse populations, and inspire strategies for a more inclusive future. This volume brings together experts from human factors, ergonomics, psychology, human-computer interaction,...

18) Transgender history: the roots of today's revolution

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Stryker, Susan

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"A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout. Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War...

19) Intimate states: gender, sexuality, and governance in modern US history

20) x + y: a mathematician's manifesto for rethinking gender

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Cheng, Eugenia

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"Eugenia Cheng can't help thinking like a mathematician. She also can't help thinking like a woman. After all, she's both. But there seems like there must be a clear tension. She had to learn to be a mathematician, for one thing, and-in the popular imagination, anyway-mathematics seems very "male," the domain of individualistic geniuses with terrible social skills, pursuing university tenure and fame. Those traits, however, aren't really what it means...