June is LGBTQ Pride Month and June 9-16 is Pride Week at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Here at the library we pride ourselves on providing access to information and entertainment for everyone. While all of our locations have materials for those wanting to read about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, two of our library locations, the Main Library in Oakland and the Allegheny location on the North Side, have separate GLBT genre collections. These collections contain both fiction and nonfiction books and cover all areas of LGBTQ interest. There are mysteries, historical fiction, love stories, family dramas, and erotica. Nonfiction topics include travel, wedding planning, religion, medical, history (or herstory) and biographies.
For LGBTQ Pride month, I created a display for the First Floor, New & Featured. I presented a selection of biographies, memoirs, and tell-alls. Here are some selections from that display…
A Year Straight: Confessions of a Boy-Crazy, Lesbian Beauty Queen by Elena Azzoni
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam
Coal to Diamonds by Beth Ditto
Family Outing: What Happened When I Found Out My Mother Was Gay by Troy Johnson
Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity – Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox, editors
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders by Keith Stern
Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies by Mikey Walsh
Welcome to My World by Johnny Weir
And my absolute favorite title on this display…
Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever by Joel Derfner
Happy LGBTQ Pride Week and Month!
-Melissa M.
Eleventh Stack 