June is Pride Month: History of LGBTQ Activism

Books not owned by the Scotch Plains Public Library can be delivered from area libraries by placing a "hold." Selection assistance from New York Public Library.

Updated June 1, 2023
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June is Pride Month: History of LGBTQ Activism

Books not owned by the Scotch Plains Public Library can be delivered from area libraries by placing a "hold." Selection assistance from New York Public Library.

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Love and resistance : out of the closet into the Stonewall era
Tobin, Kay
Paper Book
A ragtag group of women behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, "Hi Mom, Guess What!" at an LGBT rights rally. Two lovers kissing under a tree. These indelible images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of...
The gay revolution : the story of the struggle
Faderman, Lillian
Paper Book
The fight for gay, lesbian and trans civil rights 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, with all...
When we rise : my life in the movement
Jones, Cleve
Paper Book
This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was...
The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world
Funk, Mason
Paper Book
THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought...
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