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1861) LGBTQIA+ rights
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the LGBTQIA+ experience has changed dramatically. Progress, while remarkable, has not been quick or expansive enough. And now, fears arise that advances to established rights could be rolled back. What rights do these Americans enjoy, and in what ways do they continue to be discriminated against? Do anti-LGBTQIA+ policies put lives at risk? What are the issues that matter most to these individuals in pursuit of...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The editor-in-chief of a queer style magazine demonstrates how fashion is both beauty and art and exposes the oppressive rules that had been used to exclude those with different gender identities or presentations, encouraging everyone to express their personal style."--
1863) Laverne Cox
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Presents and illustrated look at the life American actress and LGBT advocate, Laverne Cox.
1865) Synchro boy
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Sure, he's a competitive swimmer, but being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim club is wearing him down. At the same time, he becomes drawn to the art and athleticism of synchronized swimming, the idea of the human form moving to music under water. So he jumps at the opportunity to become the first boy on the synchro...
1866) Black queer hoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her . . . voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power in a world that refuses Black Queer women permission to define their own lives and boundaries"--
Author
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Darius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up navigating school, friendship, and his own family life in a context that often felt perilous. As we learn about his life in Tennessee, Texas, and Iowa, he details the obstacles to his most crucial desires: hiding his earliest attraction to boys in his neighborhood, doomed affairs, his struggles with alcohol addiction, and his eventual diagnosis with HIV. A...
Author
Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"We see each other is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment of increased representation. The films and television shows that Tre'vell covers include: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Psycho, Holiday Heart, Boys Don't Cry, America's Next...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Paying homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary, this first-hand account of the album's impact on the LGBTQIA+ community captures a pivotal moment when those long silenced were finally given a voice."--
1870) The brother/sister plays
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This is the first collection by Tarell Alvin McCraney, a major new playwright of the American theater. Lyrical and mythic, provocative and contemporary, McCraney’s dramas of kinship, love, and heartache are set in the bayou of Louisiana and loosely draw on West African myths. In the Red and Brown Water charts the story of Oya, a fast and beautiful track star who must make difficult choices on her journey to womanhood. The Brothers Size dramatizes...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Edith Hamilton (1867-1963), famed popularizer of the classics, whose books include Mythology and The Greek Way, introduced millions-literally millions-of general readers and young adults to the myths and culture of the Greco-Roman world. In the middle of the 20th century, she was arguably the most visible and widely read person on classics and mythology. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and then a successful teacher and administrator at the Bryn Mawr...
1872) The Heart Hunter
Author
Series
Publisher
Legendary Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On the cursed island of Envecor, everyone is doomed to wear their heart outside their bodies, and are immortal--unable to die, to change, to have children-- until they find their soul mate. Paired soul mates are then turned mortal, freed from the curse, and able to leave. But all fairy tales have a dark side: those who don't want to lose their immortality pay "Heart Hunters" to find their soul mates and kill them so they may remain immortal. Psyche,...
1873) Nothing lasts forever
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Chronicling a year of heartbreaks, writer's block, career highs, emotional lows, and the emergence of a mystery illness, Nothing Lasts Forever is Grace's unflinching exploration of how to pick up the pieces and find hope when absolutely everything falls apart"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive collection of Sam Szabo's "ETC" comics series, serving up a psychedelic stew of social satire and gonzo gender theory! The year is 2023. The astral plane has entered a tailspin. Fortunately, an ancient cosmological entity is on a mission to spread her fluidity across the galaxy. Our raw, uncut heroine roams the wasteland in defense of trans rights and trans wrongs. Will the Enlightened Transsexual convince humanity to chill out at...
1875) Prokaryote season
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sydney and Laurelie are best friends searching for the contentment of oblivion. Failing that, they'd like to be adored. Laurelie, by their caustic boyfriend Trip, and Sydney by Laurelie. On a typical night partying in the woods, Sydney grows frustrated with their unrequited obsession for Laurelie, and asks for a wish to be granted by the curious cosmic creature Starman. Not only will Laurelie love Sydney, but Laurelie will be dependent on them --...
Author
Series
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dez's grandmother has passed away. Frieving, and with nowhere else to go, she's living in a group home. On top of everything else, Dez is navigating a new relationship and coming into her identity as a Two-Spirit person. Miikwan is crushing on a new kid Riel, but doesn't really understand what Dez is going through. Can Miikwan learn how to be a better ally to her best friend? Elder Geraldine is doing her best to be supportive of the teens, but she...
1877) Chéri, my destiny!
Author
Series
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A pastry chef from France is confident about his pastries until he hears word of a popular Japanese confectionary nearby. He starts a food war, saying that the owner doesn't understand the greatness of Western sweets, but he gets in a little over his head"--
1878) Phoenix gets greater
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Phoenix isn't like other boys. He loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance--whether it's ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Not everyone understands Phoenix, but his mom and brother are proud of him. With their help, Phoenix learns about Two Spirit/Niizh Manidoowag people in Anishinaabe culture and just how special he is"--
1879) Lies with man
Author
Series
Henry Rios ; 9
Publisher
Amble Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps. It looks like it's going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER [Queers United to End Erasure and Repression]. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated...
1880) Tragic: Vol. 1
Author
Series
Tragic ; 1
Publisher
Legendary Comics YA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Harper Hayes' father is dead. She's convinced his mysterious and tragic death is not an accident and is determined to find out who is responsible. Suspect number one: her uncle, who has been having an affair with her mother. Harper enlists the help of her ex-girlfriend Talia and her best friend (sometimes with benefits) Holden to prove her uncle's guilt. But when her father's business partner is also found dead, Harper realizes finding the murderer...
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