Summary: "Emmy Award-winner John Scagliotti, producer of the landmark films "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", guides us in a wondrous tour of erotic history, poetry and visual art in this point-of-view documentary on same-sex desire from ancient times to Victorian crimes. He explores how the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the growth of LGBT political power in the 1990s cleared the path for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEFSanders, Rob
Summary: Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MILBongiovanni, Archie
Summary: "Three teenagers - Natalia, Jax, and Rashad - are magically transported from their modern lives to the legendary Stonewall Inn in the summer of 1969. Escorted by Natalia's eccentric abuela (and her pet cockatiel, Rocky), the friends experience the police raid firsthand and are thrown into the infamous riots that amde the struggle for LGBTQ rights front-page news."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.76 BONHarris, Duchess
Summary: June 18, 1969. A police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a popular gathering place for LGBTQ individuals in New York City, turned into a riot. Drag queens and trans women of color were the first to fight back. Violence continued for the next six days. This is recognized as the beginning of the LGBTQ rights movement. Harris and Lundin examine how social movements have made an impact at local, state,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 323.3 HARGaines, James R.
Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAIBrooks, Adrian
Summary: Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting with the turn-of-the-century bohemianism of Isadora Duncan and the 1924 establishment of the nation’s first gay group, the Society for Human Rights; it also includes gay activism of labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1950s civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 BROStout, Zaylore
Summary: In 2014, Zaylore Stout took a drive across the country. Sate line after state line, he found himself detouring to landmarks of the LGBT+ heroes and history in each new place. And so, like a travel guide through the LGBT+ past and present, Our Gay History in Fifty States was born. Encompassing all fifty states as well as Washington, DC, and island territories, this book documents the highs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wise Ink Creative Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 STOFrank, Nathaniel
Summary: The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an idea that once seemed unfathomable--and for many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 FRASummary: In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's LGBT community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun. Newly restored for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this documentary pries open the closet door, setting free the dramatic story of survival,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEFFisher, Michelle Millar
Summary: The remarkable story of how Gilbert Baker and his friends created the iconic Rainbow Flag in 1978. -- amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.766 FISDom & Ink
Summary: "Celebrate some of the LGBTQIA+ community's modern-day trailblazers, champions, and icons who have shaped, or are shaping, our world, from well-known public figures and allies to others you will wish you had heard of earlier. Covering topics including coming out, gender, mental health, and activism, this book is packed full of empowering quotes, inspiring life lessons, and helpful advice that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 DOMBausum, Ann.
Summary: Ann Bausum's riveting exploration of the Stonewall riots and the national Gay Rights movement that followed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 307 BAUEllison, Joy Michael
Summary: In 1969, when thirteen-year-old transgender runaway Flor and her new trans friend Tami try to make their way into the queer and trans community of New York City, they find themselves at the Stonewall Inn on a night that leads to a police raid and violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ELLHanhardt, Christina B.
Contents: "The white ghetto" : sexual deviancy, police accountability, and the 1960s war on poverty -- Butterflies, whistles, and fists: safe streets patrols and the "new" gay ghetto -- "Count the contradictions" : theorizing race, gender, and sexuality in urban space -- Visibility and victimization: hate crime and the geography of punishment -- "Canaries of the creative age" : risk and real estate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 HANLavender Country (Musical group)
Contents: Come out singing (4:18) -- Gypsy John (4:10) -- Waltzing Will trilogy (5:43) -- Georgie pie (3:01) -- Cryin' these cocksucking tears (3:12) -- Back in the closet again (3:34) -- I can't shake the stranger out of you (2:40) -- To a woman (2:54) -- Straight white patterns (4:22) -- Lavender Country (3:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LAVDuberman, Martin.
Summary: The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. At a little after one a.m. on the morning of June 28, 1969, the police carried out a routine raid on the bar. But it turned out not to be routine at all. Instead of cowering -- the usual reaction to a police raid -- the patrons inside Stonewall and the crowd that gathered outside the bar fought back against the police. The five...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 DUBMedina, Nico
Summary: A history of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s spotlights the heroic efforts of AIDS activists who fought for medical research and new medicines, for proper health care for patients, and for compassionate recognition of people with AIDS.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social What MedinaBronski, Michael.
Summary: "Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives "You Can Tell Just by Looking" unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths, such as "all religions condemn homosexuality," have been used to justify discrimination...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 BROPitman, Gayle E
Summary: "This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.76 PITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 306.76 PITCarter, David.
Summary: In 1969, a series of riots over police action at The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New Yprk City's Greenwich Village changed the landscape of the homosexual in society, literally overnight. These riots are widely acknowledged as the 'first shot' that ushered in a previously unimagined era of openness, political action, and massive social change. Coming during a time when lesbians and gays were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 CARLavender Country (Musical group)
Contents: I can't shake the stranger out of you (4:33) -- Gay bar blues (4:44) -- All disillusions behind (3:56) -- Red dress (4:25) -- Sweet shadow man (2:44) -- Clara Fraser, Clara Fraser (5:27) -- Lament of a Wyoming housewife (4:04) -- Blackberry rose (6:38) -- Stand on your man (3:09) -- Don't buy her no more roses (3:12).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LAVSummary: 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 pride. Celebrating such a vitally important legacy, this collection of gay protest and parade films is an essential multifaceted document of a period of revolution...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 FADFieseler, Robert W.
Summary: A reconstruction of the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans' subterranean gay community describes how the Up Stairs Lounge and dozens of innocent patrons were targeted in what became a catalyzing event in the gay liberation movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018