Celebrate Pride Month With These LGBTQ Reads!

Pride month will be a busy one, so we suggest taking some down time to enjoy a little reading! Here’s a list of several LGBTQthemed books to give you the history of where our pride comes from and where its leading us to!

The Stonewall Reader

foreword by Edmund White For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, this is an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. The Stonewall Reader is a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots.

We Are Everywhere

by Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, from the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account @ lgbt_history, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride, We Are Everywhere is an essential and empowering introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. Combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, the book traces queer activism from its roots in latenineteenth-century Europe–long before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969–to the gender warriors leading the charge today. by Susan Kuklin Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or genderneutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful or heartbreaking, is