Happy Pride Month from BCPL!

Happy Pride Month to all of our LGBTQIA+ patrons! Pride Month, which came into being due to the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, is dedicated to celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture and everybody that encompasses the various LGBTQIA+ identities. It commemorates the contributions and activism of the lesbian, gay, bi, pan,  transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, questioning, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other queer communities.The Library of Congress website provides more information about the history of Pride month. We have many books by LGBTQIA+ authors, as well as books featuring protagonists of various identities other than cisgender, heteroromantic, heterosexual, alloromantic, and allosexual.  Some of our recent acquisitions are listed below. You can also find more options by checking our Pride Month book displays.

Fiction

• The unbecoming of Margaret Wolf- Arsén, Isa
• I can't even think straight- Atta, Dean
• Isaac's song- Black, Daniel
• Dream on, Ramona Riley- Blake, Ashley Herring
• Motheater- Codega, Linda H.
• Killer potential- Deitch, Hannah
• The three lives of Cate Kay- Fagan, Kate
• Notes from a regicide- Fellman, Isaac R.
• Futbolista- Garza Villa, Jonny
• Eat the ones you love- Griffin, Sarah Maria
• Flirting lessons- Guillory, Jasmine
• Yesterday will make you cry- Himes, Chester B.
• The fantasies of future things- Jones, Doug
• Faithbreaker- Kaner, Hannah
• When the tides held the moon- Kelley, Venessa Vida
• Zoe Brennan, first crush- Lee, Laura Piper
• When the harvest comes- Norris, Denne Michele
• The case of the missing maid- Osler, Rob
• Awakened- Osworth, A. E.
• Homegrown magic- Pacton, Jamie
• The rivals- Pek, Jane
• Stag dance : a novel & stories- Peters, Torrey
• Francine's spectacular crash and burn- Swindle, Renée
• Hotter in the Hamptons- Tinx
• Everything is fine here- Tushabe, Iryn

Nonfiction

• We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics- Abi-Karam, Andrea 808.819 WE
• Real queer America : LGBT stories from red states- Allen, Samantha- 306.766 ALLEN
• The modern queer tarot : a seventy-eight card deck & LGBT history primer- Barber, Robert- 133.3242 BARBER
• Fair play : how sports shape the gender debates- Barnes, Katie- 796.082 BARNES
• Moby dyke : an obsessive quest to track down the last remaining lesbian bars in America- Burton, Krista- 306.7663 BURTON
• Ace : what asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex- Chen, Angela- 306.76 CHEN
• Sounds fake but okay : an asexual and aromantic perspective on love, relationships, sex, and pretty much anything else- Costello, Sarah- 306 COSTELLO
• The ace and aro relationship guide : making it work in friendship, love and sex- Daigle-Orians, Cody- 302 DAIGLE-ORIANS
• American poly : a history- Gleason, Christopher M.- 306.8423 GLEASON
• The Pride Atlas: 500 Iconic Destinations for Queer Travelers- Hensen, Maartje 910.8664 HENSEN
• Ace notes : tips and tricks on existing in an allo world- Kirichanskaya, Michele- 306.762 KIRICHANSKAYA
• American teenager : how trans kids are surviving hate and finding joy in a turbulent era- Lang, Nico- 306.76 LANG
• A quick & easy guide to asexuality- Muldoon, Molly- YA 306.762 MULD
• A comprehensive guide to intersex- Petersen, Jay Kyle-  306.7685 PETERSEN
• Marsha : the joy and defiance of Marsha P. Johnson- Tourmaline- 306.768 JOHNSON T
• The women's house of detention : a queer history of a forgotten prison- Ryan, Hugh-  365.43 RYAN
• Bi : the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality- Shaw, Julia- 306.765 SHAW
• Friends of Dorothy : a celebration of LGBTQ+ icons- Uzarowski, Anthony- 306.76 UZAROWSKI
• The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports- Waters, Michael 796.086 WATERS
• Say the Right Thing: How to Talk about Identity, Diversity, and Justice- Yoshino, Kenji-  305.3 YOSHINO

Memoirs and Personal Narratives

• You're Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies- Akhavan, Desiree 791.4302 AKHAVAN
• The tiger and the cage : a memoir of a body in crisis- Bolden, Emma  618.142 BOLDEN
• ¡Hola Papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons- Brammer, John Paul- 306.766 BRAMMER
• Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land- Brorby, Taylor- 306.766 BRORBY
• Memories of a gay Catholic boyhood : coming of age in the sixties- D'Emilio, John-  306.7662 D'EMILIO
• Dinner on monster island : essays- De Rozario, Tania- 824.92 DE ROZARIO
• Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir- Glass, Sara Dr- 296.8332 GLASS
• Hijab butch blues : a memoir- H, Lamya- 306.7663 H
• My race is my gender : portraits of nonbinary people of color- Hsu, Stephanie- 306.7680 MY
• Love is an ex-country : a memoir- Jarrar, Randa- 813.6 JARRAR
• Zami : a new spelling of my name- Lorde, Audre 813.54 LORDE
• My race is my gender : portraits of nonbinary people of color- Hsu, Stephanie- 306.7680 MY
• Paper doll : notes from a late bloomer- Mulvaney, Dylan- 306.768 MULVANEY
• Sipping Dom Pérignon through a straw : reimagining success as a disabled achiever- Ndopu, Eddie- 362.4092 NDOPU
• Pageboy : a memoir- Page, Elliot 791.43 PAGE
• Nobody needs to know : a memoir- Pagonis, Pidgeon- 306.7685 PAGONIS
• I spoke to you with silence : essays from queer Mormons of marginalized genders- Pray, Kerry Spencer- 289.332 I
• Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance- Royster, Francesca T. - 306.874 ROYSTER
• The race to be myself- Semenya, Caster 796.42 SEMENYA
• When They Tell You to Be Good: A Memoir- Shakur, Prince- 305.896 SHAKUR
• Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes- So, Anthony Veasna 814.6 SO
• Hiding for my life : being gay in the Navy- Solt, Karen 355.0086 SOLT
• It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror- Vallese, Joe, editor 791.4361 VALLESE     
• Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life- Van Ness, Jonathan- 791.4502 VAN NESS
• Another word for love : a memoir- Wallace, Carvell- 070.92 WALLACE
• Rebel rising : a memoir- Wilson, Rebel- 791.43 WILSON

Documentaries

• My big gay Jewish conversion- DVD 296.714 MY
• Serving in secret : love, country, and don't ask, don't tell- DVD 355.0086 SERVING
• Are you proud?- DVD 306.76 ARE
• Homosaywhat- DVD 306.76 HOMESAYWHAT
• This is me- DVD 306.76 THIS
• Before Stonewall the making of a gay and lesbian community- DVD 306.766 BEFORE
• Cherry grove stories : Fire Island's best kept secrets- DVD 306.766 CHERRY
• Gay USA : snapshots of 1970s LGBT resistance- DVD 306.766 GAY
• Southern pride- DVD 306.766 SOUTHERN
• The Stonewall Riots : a documentary history- 306.766 STEIN
• In full bloom : transcending gender- DVD 306.768 IN
• The most dangerous year-  DVD 306.768 MOST
• Transgender nation-  DVD 306.768 TRANSGENDER
• What's the t?- DVD 306.768 WHAT'S
• TransMilitary-  DVD 355.0082 TRANSMILITARY
• All the beauty and the bloodshed- DVD 770.92 ALL
• Light in the water-  DVD 797.21 LIGHT

BCPL  Pride Events

• Monday, June 2nd, 2:30pm in the Decker Room: Pride Month Monday Matinee- Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13)
• Wednesday, June 4, 5:30pm at Your Home Public Library: You Belong for Teens
• Monday, June 9th, 2:30pm in the Decker Room: Pride Month Monday Matinee- Love, Simon (PG-13)
• Wednesday, June 11th, 6:00pm in the Creation Station: Queer Tea Hour for Adults
• Saturday, June 28th, 1:00pm in the Reading Garden: All Ages Pride Party

Other Local Pride Events

The Binghamton Pride Coalition has compiled a list of local Pride Month events. Their list of local events can be found at https://binghamtonpride.org/events/