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LGBTQ+ History Month

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and we're here to celebrate! Check out our list of LGBTQ+ nonfiction and queer authors below.

Allegheny County Libraries

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  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017] — LITERATURE 811.6 SMI 2017
  • I Hope We Choose Love

    a Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World

    Thom, Kai Cheng,
    BookVancouver, BC, Canada : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2019] — PR9199.4.T446 A6 2019x
  • BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — PS3569.E314 A6 2020x
  • BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. — 818 DIAZ Jaquira
  • Directed by Desire

    the Collected Poems of June Jordan

    Jordan, June, 1936-2002
    BookPort Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, ©2005. — 811.54 J
  • Redefining Realness

    My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

    Mock, Janet, 1983-
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2014. — HQ77.8.M63 A3 2014
  • Catch and Kill

    Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

    Farrow, Ronan, 1987-
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 331.4 FAR
  • Stonewall

    the Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

    Carter, David, 1952-2020
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2004. — HQ76.C3155 2004
  • Girls Will Be Boys

    Cross-dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

    Horak, Laura,
    BookNew Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] — 791.43 HOR
  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    Snorton, C. Riley
    eBookUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2017
  • A Two-spirit Journey

    the Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

    Chacaby, Ma-Nee, 1950-
    BookWinnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2016] — HQ75.4.C445 A3 2016x
  • Hunger

    a Memoir of (my) Body

    Gay, Roxane,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2017] — 306.4613 G25
  • Reclaiming Two-Spirits

    Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America

    Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-
    BookBoston : Beacon Press, [2022] — E98.S48 S658 2022x
  • Gay USA

    Snapshots of 1970s LGBT Resistance

    DVD[Los Angeles, California] : Altered Innocence, Anus Films, [2024] — DVD DOCUMEN Gay USA
  • 50 LGBTQI+

    Who Changed the World / Florent Manelli ; Introduced by Clare Summerskill

    Manelli, Florent,
    Book[London] : Supernova Books, [2023] — HISTORY MAN