Each June, communities around the nation come together to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York during LGBTQ Pride Month. The Library has a wide range of resources that can help you explore LGBTQ stories, history, and issues, and liaison librarian Jade Madrid has put together some of her top recommendations of e-books, databases, and streaming films available through the Library for you to check out this month.
E-books
These are just a few examples of titles you can find in HoyaSearch:
- LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights by Susan Burgess (2023)
- Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America by Erin Silver (2023)
- The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America by Rhoda Kanaaneh (2023)
- Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut by Ghassan Moussawi (2020)
- Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe by Richard C. M. Mole (2021)
Databases
These databases are a great jumping off point for exploring the history of LGBTQ movements:
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940: More than 1 million pages of newspapers, periodicals, government reports, and more on LGBTQ activism, culture, organizations, and more. Coverage ranges from the 1940s to 2014. Part of Gale Primary Sources Online.
- LGBTQ+ Source: An index to the world's literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues. This database contains indexing and abstracts for more than 80 LGBT-specific core periodicals.
Films
The Library has a DVD collection and a number of streaming media platforms, including Academic Video Online, Films on Demand and Kanopy Film & Media. Here are a couple of films which you can access through our collections:
- The Rest I Make Up: A documentary about Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés, the winner of nine Obie Awards, who is known as American theater’s “Mother of Avant-Garde Theater.”
- Giant Little Ones is a coming of age story about two best friends exploring their friendship and their sexuality s accounts and rare archival material to bring the Stonewall Uprisings to life.
Looking for more resources? Check out the Women's, Gender, and LGBT Studies Research Guide or set up a research consultation with Jade Madrid today.