October is LGBT History Month

🌈October is a special month for LGBT awareness and pride. Nationally, the month is recognized as LGBT History Month. Over the course of the month, several events are celebrated, including:

• National Coming Out Day – October 11
  National Coming Out Day celebrates LGBTQ individuals who are out and proud. Coming “out” is a big deal and takes a lot of courage.
• The Anniversary of the first “March on Washington” – October 14
• Spirit Day – October 17
  Spirit Day celebrates LGBT youth. Wear purple to show your solidarity with these youth, who are disproportionately bullied and harassed.

Here in Hawai’i, October is celebrated as Honolulu Pride Month. This year’s parade and festival will be on Saturday, October 19. Show your support!

Below is a curated list of library resources about LGBT leaders and topics.

Books:

• Always my child : a parent’s guide to understanding your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or questioning son or daughter
• Being Jazz: my life as a (transgender) teen
• The broken tower : a life of Hart Crane
• Cheever : a life
• Crisis : 40 stories revealing the personal, social, and religious pain and trauma of growing up gay in America
• Faces & facets of transgender experience
• GLBTQ : the survival guide for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens
• Homosexuality & civilization
• Love is love : a comic book anthology to benefit the survivors of the Orlando Pulse shooting
• The men with the pink triangle
• Morris Micklewhite and the tangerine dress
• Redefining realness : my path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more
• This day in June
• Who’s who in gay and lesbian history : from antiquity to World War II
• Who’s who in contemporary gay and lesbian history : from World War II to the present day

Ebooks (access is restricted to current UHWO students, faculty, and staff):

• A positive view of LGBTQ : embracing identity and cultivating well-being
• And then I danced : traveling the road to LGBT equality
• Fair play : how LGBT athletes are claiming their rightful place in sports
• Out of the ordinary : representations of LGBT lives
• Queer brown voices : personal narratives of Latina/o LGBT activism
• That’s so gay! : challenging homophobic bullying
• The right to be parents : LGBT families and the transformation of parenthood
• Violence against queer people : race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination

[About the header image: Human Rights, Equality Rainbow is openly licensed by SharonMc Cutcheon.]