June is Pride Month: History of LGBTQ Activism

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Updated June 1, 2023
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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...
Rainbow warrior : my life in color
Baker, Gilbert
Paper Book
In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker's Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade. Baker had no idea his creation would become an international emblem of liberation,...
Awakening : how gays and lesbians brought marriage equality to America
Frank, Nathaniel
Paper Book
The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates....
Harvey Milk : his lives and death
Faderman, Lillian
Paper Book
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities "This elegantly written and well-researched book...
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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