June is Pride Month: History of LGBTQ Activism

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Updated June 1, 2023
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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...
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 recovers...
And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality
Segal, Mark
Ebook
A gay-rights pioneer shares his stories, from Stonewall to dancing with his husband at the White House, in a memoir full of "funny anecdotes and heart" ( Publishers Weekly). On December 11, 1973, Mark Segal disrupted a live broadcast of the  CBS Evening News ...
Smahtguy : the life and times of Barney Frank
Orner, Eric
Paper Book
Eric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, presents his debut graphic novel--a dazzling, irreverent biography of the iconic and iconoclastic Barney Frank, one of the...

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