Celebrate PRIDE Month 2024

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) Pride Month. This month-long celebration demonstrates how LGBTQIA+ Americans have strengthened our country, by using their talent and creativity to help create awareness and goodwill. Celebrate with both fiction and non-fiction books by and about LGBTQIA+ people that express this diversity and inventiveness.
 

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1. Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant: a memoir

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Chin, Curtis
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"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned...

2. Inverse cowgirl: a memoir

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Author:
Weigel, Alicia Roth
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"From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights-and a subject of the forthcoming documentary Every Body, from the filmmakers behind RBG-a funny, thought-provoking collection of essays about owning your identity and living your truth"--

3. The risk it takes to bloom: on life and liberation

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Willis, Raquel
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"A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking...