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Pride Month!

June is Pride month in the United States and to celebrate, we would like to share some new books the library has available for checkout!

Memoirs

If you’re looking for a book that offers personal experience as a queer person in the world, try None of the Above by Travis Alabanza or Greedy by Jen Winston. None of the Above walks the reader through seven phrases people have directed at author Travis Alabanza about their gender identity.

Greedy is a book of essays detailing Jen Winston’s experience of identifying as bisexual. This book is funny and so full of pop culture references, your head will spin faster than you can read! Winston discusses what it means to be ‘queer enough’ and if that’s something that can actually be measured.

Story Collections

If you would like to read a book that is a collection of shorter stories, try This is Our Rainbow by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby or Original Plumbing by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos. This is Our Rainbow is an anthology targeted towards middle-grade readers and features stories from a wide variety of genres. There is a story for every letter in the LGBTQIA+ acronym!

Original Plumbing, initially a zine then a larger publication, is a collection of the best features from its twenty-issue run. Covering a wide range of topics, Original Plumbing is a colorful book that shouldn’t be missed.

Nonfiction

If you are looking for a book that takes a more scientific approach to sexuality, then Bisexual and Pansexual Identities by Nikki Hayfield or Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton might be the books for you. In Bisexual and Pansexual Identities, Hayfield draws on research from psychology and social sciences for an in-depth look at plurisexual identities.

Gender(s) discusses the total strangeness of gender as a concept including how race and money can dramatically shape everybody’s gender. Stockton provides an impressive array of exhibits to consider, including dolls and their new gendering, the thrust of Jane Austen and Lil Nas X, gender identities according to women’s colleges, gay and transgender ballroom scenes, and much more.

Further Reading

• Under the Bisexual Umbrella: diversity of identity and experience edited by Corey E. Flanders
• A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni
• Born Both: An intersex life by Hida Viloria
• LGBTQ-inclusive hospice and palliative care: a practical guide to transforming professional practice by Kimberly D. Acquaviva
• Lesbian Love Story: a memory in archives by Amelia Possanza
• Dead Collections by Isaac R. Fellman

Also: check out our blog post for Transgender Day of Remembrance highlighting Trans-specific resources.