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GLBT Resources- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resources

June is often celebrated as Gay Pride month in commemoration of the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, in New York City on June 27, 1969 and the uprisings by the gay community that followed.  This event is commonly considered the beginning of the gay liberation movement.  Below is a list of resources dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender issues that may be found in the Cerritos College Library or on the Internet.

Jump to:  Reference Books Nonfiction Books Fiction and Poetry Finding Articles Book Awards Internet Resources

Reference Books
 

Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit	REF BL 795 .H6 C65 1997
Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia	REF HQ 75 .H63 1998
Gay Histories and Cultures	REF HQ 75.13 .G37 2000
Gay and Lesbian Biography	REF HQ 75.2 .G39 1997
Who’s Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History	REF HQ 75.2 .W46 2001
Lesbian Histories and Cultures	REF HQ 75.5 .L4395 2000
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender history in America	REF HQ 76.3 .U5 E53 2004
The Gay & Lesbian Atlas	REF HQ 76.3 .U5 G355 2004
St. James Press Gay and Lesbian Almanac	REF HQ 76.3 .U5 S75 1998
Gay and Lesbian Families	REFDESK HQ 76.35 .U6 G39 2005
Historical Dictionary of the Gay Liberation Movement	REF HQ 76.5 ..H86 1999
The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts	REF HQ 72 >H64 Q44 2004
A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples	REF KF 539 .L44 2002
Gay & Lesbian Literature	REF PN 56 .H57 G36 1994
The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage	REF PN 56 .H57 G36
Images in the dark : an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video	REF PN1995.9.H55 M87 1996
Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes	REF PQ 6046 .S49 S66 1999
Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes	REF PQ 7081.3 .F62 1994
Lesbian and Bisexual Fiction Writers	REF PS 153 .L46 L43 1997
Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights	REF PS 325 .C656 2003

Selected Circulating Books - Nofiction                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Top
 

Coming out in Christianity : religion, identity, and community	BR115.H6 W54 2003
Men as women, women as men : changing gender in Native American cultures	E98.S48 L3613 1998
Selling out : the gay and lesbian movement goes to market	HF5415.33.U6 C48 2000
The M Word: Writers on Same Sex Marriage	HQ 1033 .M28 2004
Same-sex Marriage in the United States: Focus on the Facts	HQ 1034 .U5 C34 2004
Inside the academy and out : lesbian/gay/queer studies and social action	HQ75.15 .I55 1998
Coming out to parents : a two-way survival guide for lesbians and gay men and their parents	HQ75.5 .B68 1983
GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning): The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens	HQ 76.25 .H84 2003
Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century	HQ76.3.E8 B67 1981
Chicana Lesbians:  The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About	HQ 75.6 .U5 C53 1991
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers:  A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America	HQ 75.6 .U5 F33 1992
Gay Men Choosing Parenthood	HQ 76.2 .U5 M313 2004
Queer Science:  The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality	HQ 76.25 .L497 1996
The Mismeasure of Desire: Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation	HQ 76.25 .S69 1999
Gay American History	HQ 76.3 .U5 K37 1976
Recognizing Ourselves:  Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment	HQ 76.3 .U5 L49 1998
Courting justice : gay men and lesbians v. the Supreme Court	HQ76.8.U5 M97 2002
How Sex Changed: A history of Transsexuality in the United States	HQ 77.95 .E85 M48 2002
The lavender scare : the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government	JK723.H6 J64 2004
The constitutional underclass : gays, lesbians, and the failure of class-based equal protection	KF4754.5 .G47 1999
Queering elementary education : advancing the dialogue about sexualities and schooling	LC192.6 .Q85 1999
Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology	ML55 .Q44 1993
Outlaw representation : censorship & homosexuality in twentieth-century American art	N8217.H67 M49 2002b
All the rage: the story of gay visibility in America	PN1992.8.H64 W35 2001
Out on stage : lesbian and gay theatre in the twentieth century	PR739.H65 S56 1999
Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance	PS153.G38 S39 2003
She's Not There:  A life in Two Genders	PS 3552 .O914 Z477 2003
Victory deferred : how AIDS changed gay life in America	RA644.A25 A523 1999
The gay men's wellness guide	RC451.4.G39 P45 1997
Gays and Lesbians in the Military:  Issues, Concerns, and Contrasts	UB 418 .G38 G36 1994

     ** This is just a sampling of what you can find in the library.  To find more, do a subject search in the online book catalog using one of these subject headings:
 

Stonewall Book Awards
http://www.ala.org/ala/glbtrt/stonewall/stonewallbook.htm

These awards are given by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table.  There is one award for fiction and one award nonfiction each year.  The first award was presented in 1971.  You will find a history of the awards and a list of all the winners and finalists at this site.

Lambda Literary Awards
http://www.lambdalit.org/lammy.html

Awards are presented in 22 categories by the Lambda Literary Foundation.  You will find a list of all the past winners and finalists at this site.

The Publishing Triangle Awards
http://www.publishingtriangle.org/awards.asp

The Publishing Triangle is an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing.  The present a variety of awards for lesbian and gay books.  You will find lists of award winners as well as a controversial list of the "100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels."

Internet Resources                                                                                                             Top

glbtq: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture
http://www.glbtq.com/

GLAAD: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
http://www.glaad.org/

LA Pride 2005
http://www.lapride.org/

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
http://www.oneinstitute.org/

The Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach
http://www.centerlb.org/

NTAC: The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
http://www.ntac.org/

Bisexual Resource Center
http://www.biresource.org/                                                                                                              Top

Web Author: Debra Moore (dmoore@cerritos.edu)
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