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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. Jones found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city's bathhouses...
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"Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago's gay subculture: cruising Bughouse Square, getting arrested for "disorderly conduct," and falling in love. He was institutionalized for being gay, branded an "enemy alien" at the end of World...
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University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2016.
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English
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"On September 3, 1971, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. Their remarkable story is told here for the first time--a unique account of the passion and energy of the gay liberation movement in the sixties and seventies. At the dawn of the modern gay movement (while New York's Stonewall riots and San Francisco's emerging political activism bloomed), these two young men insisted on...
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory--transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of...
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White Lion Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. A sister title to Great Women's Speeches (2021), and the pocket edition of Loud and Proud (2020), Great Queer Speeches is a pioneering collection of over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement. Photocollage portraits and enlightening commentaries accompany the words of Audre Lorde, Harvey Milk, Munroe Bergdorf,...
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ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender face unique challenges. Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full color illustrations this title examines questions such as, What Issues Do LGBT Teens Have with Identity?; What Issues Do LGBT Teens Face at School?; What Issues Do LGBT Teens Face in Society?; and What Types of Help and Support Are Available to LGBT Teens?.
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English
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"Captures the true story of the LGBTQ civil rights movement from the 1960s to the present through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the revolution and made it happen"--Page 2 of cover.
8) LGBTQ events
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Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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This series chronicles important historical events that have identified, defined, and legally established the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities. The essays provide a summary of the event and discuss the event's significance and historical impact.
9) Art and Pep
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Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are civil rights leaders whose life and love is a force behind LGBTQ+ equality in the heart of the country. Their iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has helped fuel movements and create community for decades in Chicago's queer enclave. But, behind the business and their historic activism exists a love unlike any other. The documentary film ART AND PEP tells the inspiring story of the long struggle for equality and their fight to...
10) Are You Proud?
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Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A docu-celebration of the LGBT rights movement featuring rare archive footage and interviews across a spectrum of historical campaigns while current activists in the United Kingdom celebrate the LGBTQ+ Pride movement's landmark achievements. From the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Stonewall, AIDS crisis, Pulse night club shooting to today's treatment of Trans individuals. ARE YOU PROUD presents an extensive history that shows how more work needs to be...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s? In this unique history, Nancy Garden uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and gay in America during the last fifty...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking...
15) Before Stonewall
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First Run Features
Pub. Date
1984.
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English
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In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun.BEFORE STONEWALL pries open the closet door--setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s. Revealing and often humorous,...
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English
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The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heartbreaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this unfinished story not through dry facts but through dramatic accounts of passionate struggles,...
17) Cured
Publisher
Good Docs
Pub. Date
[2021?]
Language
English
Description
"CURED takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBTQ equality: the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Combining eyewitness testimony with newly unearthed archival footage, the film reveals how a small group of impassioned activists achieved this unexpected victory"--Container
18) A child's introduction to pride: the inspirational history and culture of the LGBTQIA+ community
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An essential and empowering introduction to the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement throughout history with kid-friendly explanations of important terms"--
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Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Based on true events that ensued in a Kingdom in the Middle East, Louie, a closeted young gay man, has been forcibly brought back from California because of a drug rumor less than two months from his arrival. Just a few weeks after his regression back into the Kingdom, his mother dies under suspicious circumstances, and Louie is alone with a secret―a secret that, if revealed, could lead to him being disowned by his family, or even killed. While...
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