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. Miss Major speaks: conversations with a Black trans revolutionary

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Meronek, Toshio
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Biography
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"The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, New York's jail system, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. For over fifty years, she has been on the front lines of struggles for queer liberation. In this brilliant and moving conversation...

2. 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...