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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Tony Kushner - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their...

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The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

Eric Cervini - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book

A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring book

From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall.

In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department...

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Gay America: Struggle for Equality

Linas Alsenas - Amulet Books
Format: Book

Milestones of gay and lesbian life in the United States are brought together in the first-ever nonfiction book published specifically for teens.

Profusely illustrated with archival images, the groundbreaking Gay America reveals how gay men and women have lived, worked, and loved...

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The gay revolution : the story of the struggle

Lillian Faderman - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Book

The sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights - based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day: "This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we've been...

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Glitter and concrete

Elyssa Maxx Goodman - Hanover Square Press
Format: Book

An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its dynamic role, from the Jazz Age to Drag Race,in queer liberation and urban life. From the lush feather boas that adorned early female impersonators to the sequined lip syncs of barroom queens to the drag kings that...

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The LGBTQ History Book

- ‎DK
Format: Book

Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ experience. This diverse,...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Kate Bornstein - Seal Press
Format: Paperback

In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically...

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A Queer History of the United States

Michael Bronski - Beacon Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Intellectually dynamic and endlessly provocative, this is more than a whos who of queer history: it is a narrative that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts...

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Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color

Gilbert Baker - Chicago Review Press
Format: Book

In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker's Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco's Gay Liberation Day parade. Baker had no idea his creation would become an international emblem...

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Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde - Penguin Classics
Format: Book

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne A Penguin Classic HardcoverIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches,...

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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation

Jim Downs - Basic Books
Format: Book

From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s. Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation...

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The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History

Marc Stein - NYU Press
Format: Paperback

On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history - depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent...

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Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution

Linda Hirshman - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman details the stunning story of how a resourceful and dedicated minority transformed the notion of American marriage equality and forged a campaign for cultural change that will serve as a model for all future political movements.

In...

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It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful

Jack Lowery
Format: Book

The powerful story of art collective Gran Fury--who fought back during the AIDS crisis through organizing, direct action, and community-made propaganda--offers lessons in love and grief to today's marginalized communities.

By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting...

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We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation

Matthew Riemer - Ten Speed Press
Format: Book

Have pride in history. A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, from the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account @lgbthistory, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

Through the lenses...

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