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Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 178 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures inventedby politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve their own discourse, born out of the work of the transsexual movement, absorbed into the idea of transgender,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the novelist, celebrity crime reporter, and raconteur describes, for the first time, his rivalry with his brother John Gregory, the gay affairs he had throughout his marriage, and his fights with editors at "Vanity Fair."
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
196 pages : photographs ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent and chaotic demonstrations that lasted over several days and are today seen as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ movement. They began on June 28, 1969, when the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York City. Many people were involved in and affected by the riots, but what exactly happened early in the morning on June 28?
The Stonewall Riots brings the uprising into perspective...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate. On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and wear makeup and jewelry to school. Profoundly shaken by the news, and unsettled by media coverage that sidestepped...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite bookof the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands"--