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"An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!-and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself.ANSWER: Who Is Amy Schneider? In eighth grade, Amy was voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!" by her classmates. Decades later, this trailblazer finally got her chance. Not only did she walk away with $1.3 million while captivating the world with her impressive forty-game...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
339 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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English
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"LGBTQ Stats chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. Deschamps and Singer - whose previous books and films on LGBTQ topics have won numerous awards and found audiences around the globe - provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal justice, and immigration, as well as evolving policies and laws affecting LGBTQ communities....
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A daring, hilarious, and inspiring memoir-in-essays about dance, queerness, and creativity from the American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, drag queen, and pop star who's redefining what it means to be a man in ballet"--
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English
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"What do Frank Ocean, Sally Ride, George Takei, and Sharice Davids all have in common? They're all proud LGBTQ Americans! Featuring people from a variety of occupations and backgrounds, this collection of 25 short biographies demonstrates the diversity, accomplishments, and pride within the American LGBTQ community."--Amazon.
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English
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Narratives, letters, drawings, poems, and more present the accomplishments of LGBTQ people through history. Includes the stories 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 body of a woman but lived as a man for over a half century; Gladys Bentley, an African American blues singer who challenged cross-dressing laws in 1920s...
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2018.
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1 videodisc (63 minutes) : sound,color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"To A More Perfect Union: U.S. v Windsor" tells a story of love, marriage and a fight for equality. The film chronicles two unlikely heroes, octogenarian Edie Windsor and her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, on their quest for justice: Edie had been forced to pay a huge estate tax bill upon the death of her spouse because the federal government denied federal benefits to same-sex couples ... and Edie s spouse was a woman. Deeply offended by this lack of...
11) I'm a wild seed
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
87 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
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English
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"In this delightfully compelling full-color graphic memoir, the author shares her process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom. Reflecting on the ways in which oppression was the cause for her late bloom into queerness, we are invited to discover people and things in the author's life that helped shape and inform her LGBTQ identity. And we come to an understanding of...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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256 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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[2024].
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172 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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English
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"Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, Country Queers paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the United States." --
"In 2013, Rae Garringer embarked on the Country Queers oral history project with a borrowed audio recorder, a flip phone, and a paper atlas. They were motivated by an intense frustration with the lack of rural queer stories and the isolation that comes with that...
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Practical guides for librarians volume no. 44
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
xiii, 147 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"This book offers the librarian a practical guide to library service to LGBTQ teens - from collection development, understanding terminology, dealing with censorship issues, programming and outreach, readers' advisory, and even to creating welcoming displays, librarians will find the tools they need to offer exceptional services for LGBTQ teens."--Publisher's description.
Pub. Date
2024.
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431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"A Great Gay Book is a gorgeously designed collection of art, essays, short fiction, poetry, interviews, profiles, and photography from the archives of the beloved queer magazine Hello Mr., as well as new material from many of today's biggest LGBTQ+ creatives. In these pages, the magazine's founder, Ryan Fitzgibbon, has curated the most evergreen written and visual content from the publication's archives, and showcases work from a class of contributors--the...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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xvi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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The Routledge History of Queer America presents the first comprehensive synthesis of the rapidly developing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer US history. Featuring nearly thirty chapters on essential subjects and themes from colonial times through the present, this collection covers topics including: Rural vs. urban queer histories; Gender and sexual diversity in early American history; Intersectionality, exploring queerness in...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
543 pages : portraits ; 29 cm
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English
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"In 2010, artist and activist iO Tillett Wright ... [set] out on a mission to travel across all 50 states to take portraits of 10,000 people who identified as anything other than 100 percent straight or cisgender. The result is Self Evident Truths, a photographic document shot over the course of ten years."--Page [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From grassroots campaigns and activism to top-down initiatives for and against curricular reform, this book investigates the movement to integrate LGBTQ+ history into high school history courses in the USA. Stacie Brensilver Berman charts the development of the movement from the founding of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education...
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[2019]
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107 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, police arrived at the Stonewall Inn's doors and yelled, "Police! We're taking the place!" But the people in this New York City neighborhood bar, members of the LGBTQ community, were tired of being harassed. They rebelled in the streets, turning one moment into a civil rights movement and launching the fight for equality among LGBTQ people in the United States." -- Amazon.com.
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