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We are a Safe Space
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
- INSights: Words That Help
View our INSights collection: there is an LGBTQ+ category. All works are either fiction or first-hand, personal accounts. - Pride! Spotlight ListBooks, ebooks and journals highlighting the history and cultural contributions of the LGBTQ+ community.
- 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.
- 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
The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: skills for navigating sexual orientation and gender expression by Call Number: 306.76 S61737 2018 New Book DisplayISBN: 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 by Call Number: 306.760835 L278 New Book DisplayISBN: 9781538110768
Beyond Magenta by Call Number: 306.768 K9626Publication Date: 2014Interviews of six transgender and gender-neutral young adults and their experiences.
Good Things Happen Slowly by Call Number: 786.2165092 H571
"You Can Tell Just by Looking": and 20 other myths about LGBT life and people by Call Number: 306.766 B869yPublication Date: 2013
It Gets Better : coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living by Call Number: 306.766 I881 2011 INSightsISBN: 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
Running Amach in Ireland by ISBN: 909895938... a collection of 35 true stories gathered from the membership of Running Amach, a social networking group for LGBTQ women in Ireland. They range from the humorous to the tragic, covering love, denial, heartbreak, joy, fear, happiness, religion, rejection and acceptance.
Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities by Publication Date: 2016
Out of the Ordinary: Representations of LGBT Lives by Publication Date: 2012
Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall by Publication Date: 2012
Building Fires in the Snow by ISBN: 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wearing Gay History"...home to the digitized t-shirt collections of numerous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender archives across the United States"
- 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