June is LGBTQ Month

LGBT Rights

“That could have been me.”  So begins a posting on the ACLU website on the meaning of gay clubs in the LGBT community and the impact of losing a place of safety.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/lgbt-rights

LGBT Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America, 2004.

Among some Native American peoples, the “half man/half woman” was often seen as a harmonizing of physical & spiritual opposites, and played a significant role within the community.  17^th-century New England understood homosexual behavior as sinful, but not as an indication of an innate proclivity, while Virginia remained largely silent on the issue.
Reference HQ 76.3 .U5 E53 2004

The Lesbian and Gay Movements (2015)

Goes from the formation of the Mattachine Society, the first “homophile” organization in the US (1951), through assimilationist/liberationist controversies, to speculations about the future of the movements.
http://search.credoreference.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/content/title/wviewlagm

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide (2010)

Descriptions of conditions for LGBT people in countries from the Netherlands to Saudi Arabia, including employment, legal status, family, & religious issues.
Reference HQ 76 .G724 2010

Gay Histories and Cultures, 2000.

Gay contributions to literary, musical, artistic, social movements & conditions.
Reference HQ 75.13 .G37 2000

LGBTQ America Today:  An Encyclopedia, 2009.

Identity politics?  Queer theory?  Lesbian feminism?  Hanky code?  For definitions and discussions, check here.
Reference HQ 73.3 .U6 L43 2009

Stonewall Uprising

June 28, 1969: police made a routine raid on a gay bar in NYC.  Customers resisted arrest, riots ensued, and gay rights emerged as a powerful movement.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/

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