Ivy Tech Libraries: October: LGBTQ+ History Month: Selected Books

Library of Congress Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature

Library of Congress: Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
Features literary readings by hundreds of poets, authors, dramatists, and actors, including countless LGBTQ poets like John Ashbery, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker.

Memoirs

Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders by Joy Ladin
Call Number: ProQuest Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780299287337
Publication Date: 2012
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman--Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self.
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
ISBN: 9781616209131
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. Jaquira Díaz's memoir provides a vivid portrait of a life lived in (and beyond) the borders of Puerto Rico and its complicated history--and reads as electrically as a novel.

Fiction

Gods and Monsters by Christopher Bram
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection
ISBN: 9780060780876
Publication Date: 2005
Previously titled Father of Frankenstein, and the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, this book journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, is living in retirement, haunted by his past. Rescuing him from his too-vivid imagination is his gardener, a handsome ex-marine. The friendship between these two very different men is sometimes tentative, sometimes touching, often dangerous--and always captivating.
Shut up You're Pretty by Tea Mutonji
Call Number: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
ISBN: 9781551527550
Publication Date: 2019
Short story collection: a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides on shaving her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator's experience as an involuntary one.

LGBTQ+ Authors

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection
ISBN: 9781467792905
Publication Date: 1890
Is the price of eternal youth worth a man's soul? The exceptionally handsome Dorian Gray is a model--and the muse--for a young artist, Basil Hallward. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, who values only the pleasurable things in life with no regard for morality. He makes Dorian realize that one day his famed beauty will fade, and he will be left with nothing. Dorian decides to sell his soul so that a portrait of him will age in his place.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Call Number: ProQuest Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781423647744
Publication Date: 1855
An unabridged collection of classic verse speaking profoundly into the lives of readers today. Leaves of Grass,featuring beloved poems such as "Oh Captain! My Captain!" and "Song of Myself," was met with both scathing criticism and glowing praise when it was originally published in 1855. Arguably the best historical commentator of the nineteenth century, Walt Whitman continues to inspire readers today.
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Call Number: ProQuest Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781775414346
Publication Date: 1908
A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society. A young woman is chaperoned to Italy by her bitter aunt. There she meets an intriguing, but eccentric young man. Back in England she finds herself respectably engaged to a proper gentleman, but is thrown into a muddle when her young man from Italy moves to her English town.

Nonfiction

Fair Play by Cyd Zeigler
Call Number: ProQuest: EBook Central
ISBN: 9781617754654
Publication Date: 2016
Zeigler, an expert in LGBTQ athletics and cofounder of the online magazine Outsports, revisits key moments that have shaped sports participation for openly LGBTQ athletes.

Affirmation, Care Ethics, and LGBT Identity by Tim R. Johnston
Call Number: ProQuest: EBook Central
ISBN: 9781137593047
Publication Date: 2016
In this book, Johnston argues that affirmation is not only encouragement or support, but also the primary mechanism we use to form our identities and create safe spaces.
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage by Nancy D. Polikoff; Michael Bronski
Call Number: ProQuest: EBook Central
ISBN: 9780807044322
Publication Date: 2008
From an American law perspective, this text grapples with a topical debate that we're all familiar with - the fight for marriage equality - but moves the discussion forward significantly by focusing on the larger social and political issues that are at play in marriage and family law.
Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History by Howard Chiang
ISBN: 9781787859906
Publication Date: 2019
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies by Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn
ISBN: 9781544393827
Publication Date: 2021
This encyclopedia takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to trans studies. Entries address a wide range of topics, from broad concepts, to specific subjects, to key historical figures, events, and organizations.
Trans/Portraits by Jackson Wright Shultz
ISBN: 9781611688085
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture, they rarely have the opportunity to add their own voices to the conversation. In this remarkable book, Jackson Shultz records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender.
Traversing Gender by Lee Harrington
ISBN: 9781942733843
Publication Date: 2016-05-01
This book helps make the intimate discussions of gender available for everyone to understand. Bringing these personal matters into the light of day, this reader-friendly resource is written for students, professionals, friends, and family members, as well as members of the transgender community itself.
Gender and Sexual Diversity in U. S. Higher Education: Contexts and Opportunities for LGBTQ College Students by Kristen A. Renn (Editor); G. Blue Brazelton (Editor); Dafina Lazarus Stewart (Editor)
ISBN: 9781119220213
Publication Date: 2015-12-14
Since 2005, research on identity development, campus climate and policies, transgender issues, and institutional features such as type, leadership, and campus resources has broadened to encompass LGBTQ student engagement and success. This volume includes this enlarged body of research on LGBTQ students, taken in the context of widespread changes in public attitudes and public policies related to LGBTQ people, integrating scholarship and student affairs practice.
Positive LGBTQ Identities by Ellen D. B. Riggle; Sharon Scales Rostosky
ISBN: 9781442212831
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
A Positive View of LGBTQ starts a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGTBQ) identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through inspiring firsthand accounts.
Mouths of Rain : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones
ISBN: 9781620976258
Publication Date: 2021
Mouths of Rain... traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Call Number: ProQuest: EBook Central
ISBN: 9781922084569
Publication Date: 2014
Sexual orientation and gender identity are separate, distinct parts of people’s overall identity. Equality and freedom from discrimination are human rights belonging to all people, however, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse and intersex (LGBTI) people experience harassment and hostility in many areas of everyday life.