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  • Featuring archival footage and interviews with those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists, and a former mayor of New York City, this program revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal…
    DVD[Alexandria, Va] : PBS Distribution, 2011 — 323.3264 STO
  • Marley is a little nonbinary kid with big anxieties. Crowds? Pass. Loud noises? No, thanks. When their Zaza is up for an award at Pride, they want to go to the parade for the first time with their beloved grandparent. But can Marley…
    Picture BookConcord, MA : Barefoot Books, 2024. — J PIC RET
  • Showcasing the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience, this diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, celebrating the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history as well as…
    BookNew York, NY : DK Publishing, 2023. — 306.7609 LGB
  • Gay USA

    Snapshots of 1970s LGBT Resistance

    Stepping out of the sixties and in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, (considered the birth of the modern LGBTQIA+ liberation movement), the 1970s would prove to be a decade energized by queer activism, political and social change, and…
    DVDLos Angeles, CA : Altered Innocence, Anus Films, [2024] — 306.766 GAY
  • Nine LGBTQ individuals come together after the Pulse Massacre to join one man, a hairdresser and activist from New Jersey without political experience, as he builds a national rally to demand LGBTQIA equal rights, and challenge America's…
    Streaming VideoStadium Media, 2020.
  • Living Queer History

    Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City

    Rosenthal, Gregory Samantha, 1983-
    Living Queer History tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own…
    BookChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]. — 306.7609 ROS
  • A Stark Library Book Club Selection. Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — F TOR
  • Based on Michael Ausiello's best-selling memoir "Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies," the story of Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan's relationship, which takes a tragic turn when Cowan is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
    DVDUniversal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2023] — F SPO
  • A Stark Library Book Club selection- Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and…
    Streaming Audiobook[New York] : Penguin Audio, 2021.
  • Rainbow Revolutionaries

    50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

    Prager, Sarah, 1986-
    This book is a celebration of the many ways these heroes have made a difference and will inspire young readers to make a difference, too. Featuring an introduction, map, timeline, and glossary, this must-have biography collection is the…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2022]. — J 306.76 PRA
  • A Stark Library Book Club selection- This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it's like to grow up LGBTQIA+ also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums.
    eBookNaperville : Sourcebooks Fire, 2021.
  • They, she, he ... all together, us! Join along in this vibrant board book's joyful celebration of people and their pronouns.
    Board BookNew York, NY : Clarion Books, [2022]. — J BOARD AYA