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October is LGBTQIA+ History Month

Historical Fiction, Historical Fantasy, and Biographical Fiction

  • Not for the faint of heart- Croucher, Lex
  • Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team- Hooper, Elise
  • A power unbound- Marske, Freya
  • Cinder house- Marske, Freya
  • They : a biblical tale of secret genders- Mason, Janet
  • Any other city- Plante, Hazel Jane
  • Lavender house- Rosen, Lev AC
  • Mutual interest- Wolfgang-Smith, Olivia

 

 

Nonfiction 

  • The modern queer tarot : a seventy-eight card deck & LGBT history primer- Barber, Robert- 133.3242 BARBER
  • Sounds fake but okay : an asexual and aromantic perspective on love, relationships, sex, and pretty much anything else- Costello, Sarah- 306 COSTELLO
  • Refusing compulsory sexuality : a Black asexual lens on our sex-obsessed culture- Brown, Sherronda J.- 306.7097 BROWN
  • The LGBTQ+ history book- Bronski, Michael-  306.76 BRONSKI
  • The Queens' English : the LGBTQIA+ dictionary of lingo and colloquial phrases- Davis, Chloe O.- 306.76 DAVIS
  • Real queer America : LGBT stories from red states- Allen, Samantha- 306.766 ALLEN
  • A queer history of the United States- Bronski, Michael- 306.766 BRONSKI
  • Pride : the LGBTQ+ rights movement : a photographic journey- Measom, Christopher- 306.766 MEASOM
  • The gay agenda : a modern queer history & handbook- Molesso, Ashley- 306.766 MOLESSO
  • Queer history A to Z : 100 years of LGBTQ+ activism- Stevenson, Robin- YA 306.766 STEV
  •  Love is the cure : on life, loss, and the end of AIDS- John, Elton- 614.5993 JOHN
  • David Bowie made me gay : 100 years of LGBT music- Bullock, Darryl W. - 780.866 BULLOCK
  • Queer country- Goldin-Perschbacher, Shana-  781.642 GOLDIN-PERSCHBACHER
  • Hollywood pride : a celebration of LGBTQ+ representation and perseverance in film- Duralde, Alonso- 791.4365 DURAIDE
  • Fair play : how sports shape the gender debates- Barnes, Katie- 796.082 BARNES
  • The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports- Waters, Michael- 796.086 WATERS
  • Jocks : true stories of America's gay male athletes- Woog, Dan- 796.0866 WOOG PAPER
  • Athlete is agender : true stories of LGBTQ+ people in sports- Locke, Katherine- YA 796.0926 LOCKE

 

Biographies and Memoirs

  • I once was lost : my search for God in America- Lemon, Don-  070.92 LEMON
  • Gender queer : a memoir- Kobabe, Maia- YA 306.762 KOBA
  • Manboobs : a memoir of musicals, visas, hope, and cake- Aijazuddin, Komail- 306.7662 AIJAZUDDIN
  • Trans figured : my journey from boy to girl to woman to man- Belovitch, Brian- 306.768 BELOVITCH
  • Maybe this will save me : a memoir of art, addiction and transformation- Dorfman, Tommy- 306.768 DORFMAN
  • Marsha : the joy and defiance of Marsha P. Johnson- Tourmaline- 306.768 JOHNSON T
  • Tomorrow will be different : love, loss, and the fight for trans equality- McBride, Sarah-  306.768 MCBRIDE M
  • Paper doll : notes from a late bloomer- Mulvaney, Dylan- 306.768 MULVANEY
  • A trans man walks into a gay bar : a journey of self (and sexual) discovery- Nicholas, Harry-  306.768 NICHOLAS
  • Frighten the horses : a memoir- Radclyffe, Oliver- 306.768 RADCLYFFE
  • Nobody needs to know : a memoir- Pagonis, Pidgeon- 306.7685 PAGONIS
  • The tiger and the cage : a memoir of a body in crisis- Bolden, Emma-  618.142 BOLDEN
  • Strayhorn : an illustrated life- Claerbaut, A. Alyce- Q781.65 STRAYHORN C
  • Undivided : coming out, becoming whole, and living free from shame- Beeching, Vicky- 782.25 BEECHING
  • Me- John, Elton- 782.4166 JOHN
  • Pageboy- Page, Elliot- 791.43 PAGE
  • So gay for you : friendship, found family, & the show that started it all- Hailey, Leisha- 791.4502 HAILEY
  • The race to be myself : a memoir- Semenya, Caster-  796.42 SEMENYA
  • Make it count : my fight to become the first transgender Olympic runner- Telfer, CeCé- 796.4209 TELFER
  • On top of glass : my stories as a queer girl in figure skating- Manta, Karina- YA 796.912 MANTA
  • Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop- Travisano, Thomas J.- 811.54 BISHOP T
  • Couplets : a love story- Millner, Maggie- 811.6 MILLNER
  • The talented Miss Highsmith : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith- Schenkar, Joan- 813 HIGHSMITH S
  • Baldwin : a love story- Boggs, Nicholas- 818.5409 BALDWIN B

 


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