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LGBTQIA Resources

This guide provides information about LGBTQ resources found in the Durham Tech libraries and online.

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Essays

A Burst of Light and Other Essays. Audre Lorde, 2017.

The Full Spectrum: A new generation of writing about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other identities. David Levithan and Billy Merrell, 2006.

Hear Us Out! Lesbian and gay stories of struggle, progress and hope, 1950 to the present. Nancy Garden, 2007.

Here for It: Or, how to save your soul in America: essays. R. Eric Thomas, 2020.

It Gets Better. Ed. by Dan Savage and Terry Miller, 2011.

The Queer South. Ed. by Douglas Ray, 2014.

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. Ed. by Roxanne Gay, 2020.

Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde, 1984.

Selected Nonfiction

The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world. Mason Funk, 2019

Pocket guide to LGBTQ mental health: understanding the spectrum of gender and sexuality. Edited by Petros Levounis and Eric Yarbrough, 2020.

The pride guide: a guide to sexual and social health for LGBTQ youth. Petros Levounis, 2018.

Bi by Julia Shaw

Bi: the Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality. Julia Shaw, 2022.

Becoming who I am: young men on being gay. Ritch C. Savin-Williams, 2016

Before I do: a legal guide to marriage, gay and otherwise. Elizabeth F. Schwartz, 2016.

The children of Harvey Milk : how LGBTQ politicians changed the world. Andrew Reynolds, 2019.

The gay revolution: the story of the struggle. Lillian Faderman, 2015.

A legal guide for lesbian and gay couples. Frederick Hertz, 2018.

Living out Islam : voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims. Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, 2014.

How to Transform Your School into an LGBT+ Friendly Place. Elly Barnes and Anna Carlile, 2018.

Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality. Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell, 2016.

Transgender cinema. Rebecca Louise Bell-Metereau, 2019.

Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality. Edited by Butler-Wall, Annika, et al., 2016.

Sex, gender, and sexuality: the new basics. Edited by Abby Ferber, 2017.

Stonewall: breaking out in the fight for gay rights. Ann Bausum, 2015.

A quick & easy guide to they/them pronouns. Archie Bongiovanni, 2018.

This book is gay. Juno Dawson, 2015.

Trans bodies, trans selves: a resource for the transgender community. Laura Erickson-Schroth, 2014.

Transgender lives: complex stories, complex voices. Kirstin Cronn-Mills, 2015.

Transgender 101: a simple guide to a complex issue. Nicholas M. Teich, 2012.

Trans love: an anthology of transgender and non-binary voices. Edited by Freiya Benson, 2019 (OCC)

Trans people in higher education. Edited by Genny Beemyn, 2019.

Trans/portraits : voices from transgender communities. Jackson Wright, 2015.

Trans teen survival guide. Owl and Fox Fisher, 2019.

We are everywhere: protest, power, and pride in the history of Queer Liberation. Matthew Reimer and Leighton Brown, 2019.

Memoirs and Biographies

Being Jazz: my life as a transgender teen. Jazz Jennings, 2016.

Harvey Milk: his lives and death. Lillian Faderman, 2019.

Karamo : my story of embracing purpose, healing, and hope. Karamo Brown, 2019.

Boy Erased: A memoir of identity, faith, and family. Garrard Conley, 2017.

At the Broken Places: A mother and trans son pick up the pieces. Mary Collins and Donald Collins, 2017.

How to Grow Up. Michelle Tea, 2019.

How We Fight for Our Lives. Saeed Jones, 2019.

Love Lives Here: a story of thriving in a transgender family. Amanda Jetté Knox, 2019.

Nonbinary: memoirs of gender and identity. Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, 2019.

Ordinary Girls. Jaquira Diaz, 2019.

The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami childhood. Richard Blanco, 2014.

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A mother and son on life, love, and loss. Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt, 2016.

Redefining Realness. Janet Mock, 2014.

The Rules Do Not Apply. Ariel Levy, 2017.

Saving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began. Alex Cooper, 2016.

When We Rise: My life in the movement. Cleve Jones, 2016.