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The Macdonald DeWitt Library is a safe space for all. Librarians are available to assist with any research needs. If privacy is a concern, consider making an appointment with a librarian to meet in a separate space. The library does not maintain records of library materials taken out by individual patrons.
Collections
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Pride! Spotlight ListBooks, ebooks and journals highlighting the history and cultural contributions of the LGBTQ+ community.
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LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowContains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 120 LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, and more than 150 full-text monographs and books. Comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. Includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade,and many more. Additionally, all relevant bibliographic data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies is also included.
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Diversity & Ethnic Studies eBook Collection This link opens in a new windowThousands of high-quality e-books assessed by EBSCO Collection Development Librarians on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Books
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The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: skills for navigating sexual orientation and gender expression
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Location: 306.76 S61737 2018ISBN: 9781626259461Publication Date: 2018How can you build unshakable confidence and resilience in a world still filled with ignorance, inequality, and discrimination? The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook will teach you how to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, build a community of support, and embrace your true self. -
The Pride Guide: a guide to sexual and social health for LGBTQ youth
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Location: 306.760835 L278ISBN: 9781538110768 -
Beyond Magenta
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Location: 306.768 K9626ISBN: 9780763656119Publication Date: 2014Interviews of six transgender and gender-neutral young adults and their experiences. -
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"You Can Tell Just by Looking": and 20 other myths about LGBT life and people
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Location: 306.766 B869yISBN: 9780807042458Publication Date: 2013 -
When We Rise
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Location: 306.766 J765 2016 General CollectionISBN: 9780316315432Publication Date: 2016 -
It Gets Better : coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living
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Location: 306.766 I881 2011ISBN: 9780525952336A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.
E Books
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Justice Calls: Sermons of Welcome and Affirmation
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Location: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781498202022Publication Date: 2016 -
Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities
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Location: Ebsco EbooksISBN: 9781942733812Publication Date: 2016 -
Out of the Ordinary: Representations of LGBT Lives
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Location: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781443837439Publication Date: 2012 -
Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall
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Location: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780299286941Publication Date: 2012 -
From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
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Location: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780807000786Publication Date: 2010 -
Building Fires in the Snow
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Location: Ebook Central AND Ebsco EbooksISBN: a1602233020This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures of a family--shopping, going out, working--to intimate encounters with Alaska's breathtaking natural beauty.
Web resources
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American Library Association's Rainbow Book ListThe Rainbow List is a bibliography of books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning content, and which are aimed at youth, birth through age 18.
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LAMBDA list of award-winning titlesThe Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ stories are part of the literature of the world.
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20 years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: a timelineThe New York Times identified 25 recent works that have shaped the L.G.B.T.Q. literary genre over the last two decades.
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Wearing Gay History"...home to the digitized t-shirt collections of numerous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender archives across the United States"
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LGBTQ Materials in the New York Public Library"Among the many activist groups that worked to archive this history was the International Gay Information Center (IGIC), which grew out of the History Committee of GAA. The IGIC archives operated as a community-based repository until 1988, when the organization's directors gave the collection to The New York Public Library. The IGIC archives, along with other archives and collections subsequently donated to the Library, such as the Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs, comprehensively document the gay and lesbian civil rights struggles in New York since the 1950s and have made NYPL one of the most important archives of LGBT history in the United States." --from About section of LGBTQ Materials in NYPL