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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The sweeping story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights from the 1950s to the present-based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights-the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Discusses how in 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people stood up for their rights against a society that criminalized their natural feelings, launching a movement whose legacy continues to this day.
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
"On June 27, 1969, a chorus line of drag queens can-canned into New York's Sheridan Square, high-kicking their way into a two-day battle with police. The Stonewall Riots marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement, and the start of the Gay Decades, which would change America forever."--Publisher's description.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, Bronski's book takes the reader through the centuries--from Columbus' arrival and the brutal treatment the Native peoples...
Series
Reference shelf volume 89, no. 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"[A collection of articles exploring LGBTQ] issues .... [including] the role of non-traditional same-sex families, and expanded protections for transgender people under the framework of civil rights"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Through engrossing narratives, letters, drawings, poems, and more, the book encourages young readers, of all identities, to feel pride at the accomplishments of the LGBTQ people who came before them and to use history as a guide to the future.The stories he shares include those of: Thomas Morton, who celebrated same-sex love in Boston's Puritan community in the 1620s; Albert D.J. Cashier, an Irish immigrant and Civil War hero, who was born in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Milestones of gay and lesbian life in the United States are brought together in the first-ever nonfiction book on the topic published specifically for teens. Profusely illustrated with period photographs, first-person accounts offer insight as each chapter identifies an important era. From the Gay '20s to the Kinsey study, from the McCarthy witch hunts to the Beat generation, from Stonewall to disco, and from AIDS to gay marriage and families, this...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the historical record, from an account of ball culture...
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another. This title seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic.
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