Gay culture books
Visibility. It’s one of the most pivotal needs of the queer community. To be understood, to be accepted, the LGBTQIA+ community needs first to be seen. This has meant that centuries of authors writing about the experiences, love, and pain of the gay community have been crucial in making progress towards a radical acceptance.
From the delicate art build of the semi-autobiographical novel — a life story veiled behind fictional names and twists — to the roar of poetry to a deep dive into the history that has too often been erased and purged, gender non-conforming literature has helped to challenge, action, and shape generations of readers.
As a pansexual, demisexual cis woman on my way into another Pride Month, researching and crafting this list was a singular bliss. I have many books to position on hold at my local library. Many stories to encounter. Many histories to educate myself on.
Because homosexual texts help to increase our awareness to the “outside” world, but they also increase internal visibility and acknowledgment. Today, transphobia is rampant among the queer community, and there are still
LGBTQ History Month: 17 must-read books about queer history
In honor of LGBTQ History Month, celebrated every October, here are books that aim to shed not heavy on and clarify significant historical moments that informed and shaped the latest lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender diverse and queer rights movement.
1. "The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle" by Lillian Faderman
A thorough introduction to the history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movements, this book chronicles the early struggles of LGBTQ individuals from the s to present day using a compilation of enlightening interviews with politicians, military officials and members of the community.
2. "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic" by Randy Shilts
A blend of investigative reporting and vivid storytelling, this account follows the ascend of the AIDs epidemic using the narratives of doctors who were on the front lines of the outbreak, politicians and scientists who ignored it, and the real people who were affected by government's negligence.
3. "Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fo
Global Gay
A panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world.
In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and average people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a “gay-friendly” café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television journalist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine gay rights in the country's constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his land after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay life takes place on social media; that in Iran, because of the strict separation of the sexes, it seems almost easier to be gay than heterosexual; and that R
LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the designation gay in reference to the LGBT community start in the mid-to-late s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to mention to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those wLGBT is an initialism that stands for womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, and non-binary. In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT society beginning in the mid-to-late s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, o
Global Gay
A panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world.
In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and average people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a “gay-friendly” café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television journalist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine gay rights in the country's constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his land after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay life takes place on social media; that in Iran, because of the strict separation of the sexes, it seems almost easier to be gay than heterosexual; and that R
LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the designation gay in reference to the LGBT community start in the mid-to-late s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to mention to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those wLGBT is an initialism that stands for womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, and non-binary. In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT society beginning in the mid-to-late s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, o