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GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH - JUNE 2007 |
June is the designated month for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride in commemoration of an historic event known as the Stonewall Riots. On June 27, 1969, police raided a gay bar named the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York. The raid provoked three nights of rioting, which in turn spurred the organization of gays and lesbians across the country in fighting discrimination. Each year in June, this breakthrough event is acknowledged with Gay Pride festivals and parades across the world.
In recognition of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Pride Month, the San Mateo County Library offers this selection of recommended materials reflecting these communities. In addition to this list the library does offer an extensive collection of resources both for and about the GLBT community.
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And Tango makes three
by Justin Richardson |
| At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. |
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Totally Joe
by James Howe |
| As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of friendship, family, school, and the challenges of being a gay teenager. |
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Antonio's Card
by Rigoberto Gonzalez |
| With Mother's Day coming, Antonio finds he has to decide about what is important to him when his classmates make fun of the unusual appearance of his mother's partner, Leslie. |
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Molly's Family
by Nancy Garden |
| When Molly draws a picture of her family for Open School Night, one of her classmates makes her feel bad because he says she cannot have a mommy and a mama. |
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The Full Spectrum: a new generation of writing about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other identities
by David Levithan |
| A collection of original poems, essays, and stories by young adults in their teens and early twenties explores many sexual issues, including coming out, first kisses, break-ups, religion/faith, and friendship. |
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Between Mom and Jo
by Julie Anne Peters |
| Fourteen-year-old Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky 2, some pet fish, and two mothers, whose relationship complicates his entire life as they face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation. |
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Tale of Two Summers
by Brian Sloan |
| Even though Hal is gay and Chuck is straight, the two fifteen-year-olds are best friends and set up a blog where Hal records his budding romance with a young Frenchman and Chuck falls for a summer theater camp diva. |
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Becoming Chloe
by Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place. |
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Gravitation: the novel
by Jun Lennon |
| Coming home from a tour, rock star Shuichi Shindo finds his boyfriend, novelist Eiri Yuki, missing from his apartment, and becomes worried when he finds out a woman had been stalking Eiri. |
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Getting It
by Alex Sanchez |
| Hoping to impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school. |
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Hit by a farm : how I learned to stop worrying and love the barn
by Catherine Friend |
| Describes how an urban bookworm and children's book author, along with her partner, set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a working farm in Minnesota, offering a heartwarming, frequently humorous take on their crash course in living off and living. |
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Fun home : a family tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel |
| A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. |
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Intimate politics : how I grew up Red, fought for free speech, and became a feminist rebel
by Bettina Aptheker |
| A daughter of a mid-twentieth-century U.S. Communist Party leader recounts how her childhood was marked by sexual abuse and family tension, describes her family's relationships with such figures as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, and discusses her experiences as a lesbian and feminist defender of free speech. |
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Rose of No Man's Land: a novel
by Michelle Tea |
| After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular shop at Square One Mall in Mogsfield, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll finds herself linked up with a chain-smoking, physically stunted mall rat named Rose, in a love story between two weirdo girls who soulfully explore the emptiness of contemporary culture. |
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The Bill From My Father: a memoir
by Bernard Cooper |
| The award-winning author of the memoir collections Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum explores the themes of family, memory, and identity in his life, which he describes through his relationship with his enigmatic and eccentric father. |
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Untold Stories
by Alan Bennett |
| Presents a collection of the author's previously unpublished works, including the title piece, a memoir of his family and growing up in Leeds; diary entries for the years 1996 to 2004; and additional essays, reviews, and comic pieces. |
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Suspension: a novel
by Robert Westfield |
| Secluding himself in his apartment after his boyfriend leaves and September 11th occurs, Andy Green stumbles upon a strange package that draws him into a quest for the truth about the identities of his former friend and of a Russion cabaret singer, whosecareer he had managed. |
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Selected by Laura Siegel, Pacifica-Sanchez & Sharp Park, 6.2007 |
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