Research Guides: Library Displays at UCBA: LGBTQ+ Pride Month Display

LGBTQ+ Pride Month Display

For the month of June 2018 UCBA library will be showcased LGBTQ+ Pride month with a selection of books and media celebrating LGBTQ+ authors, musicians, activists, and artists. Whether you are new to the topic of Pride or well versed, we have memoirs, poetry, and even popular culture icons; there is something for everyone!

“When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.”–Barack Obama

Hayden Reno, UCBA Library Student Assistant, created the display.

Suggested Reading: Books and Media at UC Blue Ash

Andy Warhol: 365 Takes by Andy Warhol Museum Staff; Andy Warhol
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks N6537.W28 A4 2004
ISBN: 0810943298
Publication Date: 2004

Andy Warhol was one of the most compelling figures of the 20th-century art world whose body of work transformed the landscape of contemporary art. He was also a notorious collector who saved practically everything that came his way.
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes; Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by)
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks PS3515 .U274 Z5 1993
ISBN: 0809015498
Publication Date: 1993

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture by Luca Prono
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks HQ75.13 .P76 2008
ISBN: 9780313335990
Publication Date: 2007

The Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture identifies the people, films, TV shows, literature, and sports figures that have made significant contributions to both gay and lesbian popular culture, and American popular culture.
Gay L. A. by Lillian Faderman; Stuart Timmons
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks HQ76.3.L7 F33 2006
ISBN: 9780465022885
Publication Date: 2006

Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs and over 200 new interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s unique gay history. Faderman and Timmons show how geography, economic opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more compatible to gay life than any other in America.
Howl (Videorecording) by Elizabeth Redleaf (Producer)
Call Number: Blue Ash Media PN1997.2 .H695 2011
Publication Date: 2011

Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career.
Howl, and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks PS3513.I74 H6 1996
ISBN: 0872863107
Publication Date: 2001

Howl & Other Poems is the single most influential poetic work of the post-World War II era, with over 1,000,000 copies now in print.
One Wedding and a Revolution by Chasnoff, Debra (filmmaker)
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2016

In February 2004, the mayor of San Francisco ordered city officials to allow lesbian and gay couples to get married. Pioneering activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, celebrating their 51st anniversary, had the privilege of being the first couple to tie the knot. Go behind the scenes at the mayor's office during the frantic days leading up to February 12th, and into city hall with exclusive footage of this momentous historical event.
Paris was a woman by Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss, and Frances Berrigan
Call Number: Blue Ash Media DC752.R52 P3 2003
Publication Date: 2003

Through a combination of still photos, archival film footage, and interview commentary, documents the creative community of French, English and American women, many of whom were lesbians, who gravitated to the Left Bank in Paris during the early part of the 20th century.
A Positive View of Lgbtq by Riggle/Rostosky
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks HQ73 .R54 2011
ISBN: 9781442212817
Publication Date: 2011

Through personal stories from people with a variety of backgrounds and gender and sexual identities, readers will learn more about expressing gender and sexuality; creating strong and intimate relationships; exploring unique perspectives on empathy, compassion, and social justice; belonging to communities and acting as role models and mentors; and, enjoying the benefits of living an authentic life.
Pride Parades by Katherine McFarland Bruce
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks HQ76.965.G38 B78 2016
ISBN: 9781479803613
Publication Date: 2016

Pride Parades tells the story of Pride from its beginning in 1970 to 2010. Weaving together interviews, archival reports, quantitative data, and ethnographic observations at six diverse contemporary parades in New York City, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Burlington, Fargo, and Atlanta, Bruce describes how Pride parades are a venue for participants to challenge the everyday cultural stigma of being queer in America, all with a flair and sense of fun absent from typical protests.
Queers in American Popular Culture by Jim Elledge (Editor)
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks HQ76.3.U5 Q447 2010
ISBN: 9780313354571
Publication Date: 2010

This three-volume collection of essays reveals the widespread existence of queer men and women in American popular culture, and showcases their important yet little-known role in shaping our society over the last 120 years.
Remember Me to Harlem by Emily Bernard (Editor); Langston Hughes; Carl Van Vechten
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks PS3515.U274 Z598 2001
ISBN: 0679451137
Publication Date: 2001

These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. A correspondence of great cultural significance, Remember Me to Harlem shows us an unlikely friendship, one that is essential to our understanding of literature and race relations in twentieth-century America.
Same-Sex Marriage by Kevin Alderson; Kathleen A. Lahey
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks HQ1033 .L34 2004
ISBN: 1894663632
Publication Date: 2004

The same-sex marriage phenomenon is characterised on the one hand by intense personal joys and on the other by long-standing activism and historic legal reasoning.
Twelfth night; or, What you will by William Shakespeare
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks PR2837.A2 Q5 1936

Shipwrecked on an unfriendly Illyrian shore, Viola, believing her twin brother is dead, disguises herself in male attire and joins the retinue of the lovesick Duke Orsino.
Why You Should Give a Damn about Gay Marriage by Davina Kotulski
Call Number: Blue Ash Stacks HQ1034.U5 K6 2004
ISBN: 1555838731
Publication Date: 2004

There are no less than 1049 federal rights granted to heterosexuals that remain out of reach to gays and lesbians as long as they don't have the right to marry. This quick and simple read outlines the rights, benefits and protections afforded through marraige, illustrating the great disparity between how same-sex couples are treated compared to heterosexual ones.