LGBTQ+ Titles in the SEC Library
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June is Pride Month
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
~Audre Lorde
"All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more — and no less — heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century."
~Senator Tammy Baldwin
Ace : what asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex by Call Number: HQ21 .C456 2020An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The imitation gam by Call Number: QA29.T8 H63 2014It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times-bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing's royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.
App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream by Call Number: QA76.2.S385 A3 2021An inspiring and deeply personal coming of age memoir from one of Silicon Valley's youngest entrepreneurs-a second-generation Latino immigrant who taught himself how to code as a thirteen-year-old and went on to claim his share of the American dream.
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Call Number: QP353.4.B37 A3 2020A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science. Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science.
Before we were trans : a new history of gender by Call Number: HQ18.55 .H49 2022Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories.
Better living through birding : notes from a Black man in the natural world by Call Number: QL682.C66 B48 2023
Black and Queer on Campus by Call Number: LC212.92 .J44 2023 and EbookBlack and Queer on Campus is a ground-breaking account of queer Black experiences on college campuses, based on 65 interviews with Black LGBTQ students.
The Contradictions by Call Number: PN6727.Y366 C66 2020The Eisner Award–winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy world.
Creating an LGBT+ inclusive workplace : the practical resource guide for business leaders by Call Number: HF5549.5.S47 S53 2021
The digital closet : how the internet became straight by Call Number: HM851 .M6593 2022 & Ebook
The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred by Call Number: QB461.5 .P735 2021In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter--along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.
Girlhood : essays by Call Number: PS3606.E26 Z46 2022 & ebookA gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them.
Heartstopper #1: a Graphic Novel by Call Number: PZ7.7.O7656 He 2020Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out.
Her body and other parties : stories by Call Number: PS3613.A2725243 A6 2017Presents a collection of short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
How far the light reaches : a life in ten sea creatures by Call Number: QL121.I4 H6 2022In their shimmering, otherworldly debut, Sabrina Imbler profiles ten of the ocean's strangest creatures, drawing astonishing connections between their lives and ours and illuminating wonderous models of survival, adaptation, identity, sex, and care on our faltering planet. A queer, mixed-race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments.
How to be less stupid about race : on racism, White supremacy, and the racial divide by Call Number: E184.A1 F576 2018
The imitation game : Alan Turing decoded by Call Number: QA29.T8 O772 2016English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954) is credited with many of the foundational principles of contemporary computer science. The Imitation Game presents a historically accurate graphic novel biography of Turing's life, including his groundbreaking work on the fundamentals of cryptography and artificial intelligence.
In the dream house : a memoir by Call Number: PS3613.A2725243 Z46 2020A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.
In the Lives of Puppets by Call Number: PS3611.L86 I5 2023New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
The memory librarian: and other stories of dirty computer by Call Number: PS3613.O52266 M46 2022Singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, and explores how different threads of liberation--queerness, race, gender plurality, and love--become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape...and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms. Whoever controls our memories controls the future.
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel by Call Number: PS3622.U96 O52 2019 & Ebook
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Call Number: GV481 .B38 2021From the author of Fun Home, a graphic memoir about a lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads.
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Call Number: PS3562.O75 A6 2020A definitive selection of Audre Lorde's "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Call Number: PS3618.E5478 S48 2018
They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition by Call Number: D769.8.A6 T356 2020George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future.
Time Is a Mother by Call Number: PS3622.U96 T56 2022Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented tragedies to find not a restoration, but the epicenter of the break.
Untamed by Call Number: CT275.M469125 A3 2020
A wild and precious life : a memoir by Call Number: HQ75.4.W57 A3 2019Publication Date: 2021-05-25A lively, intimate memoir from a marriage equality icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in the 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism.
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Call Number: PS3603.H653 W67 2022
