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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI): June - LGBTQ+ Pride Month

LGBTQ+ Pride Month (June)

Photo by Jason Leung via Unsplash

Ebooks

Check it out from the Library

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks
What's the T? by Juno Dawson
The DC Book of Pride by DK; Jadzia Axelrod

Picture of Marsha P Johnson

Marsha P. Johnson

Activist

Marsha P Johnson Illustration © 2024 by QueerAF, Trans+ History Week, Sunday Avanti is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Picture of Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Rivera

Activist

Dramamonster CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

NASA Portrait of Sally Ride

Sally Ride

Astronaut

Picture of Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

Comedian, actress, fashion designer, author, and singer-songwriter

Ryan Van Etten from W. Orange, NJ; modified by User:Animalparty, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Andrea Jenkins

Andrea Jenkins

Politician, writer, performance artist, poet and transgender activist

Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Pidgeon Pagonis

Pidgeon Pagonis

Activist, writer, filmmaker

Pidgeon Pagonis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Alok

Alok

Writer, performance artist

Abhinav Anguria, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Gladys Bently wearing a tuxedo, top hat and bow tie

Gladys Bentley

Blues pianist, singer, performer, and drag king pioneer

Picture of Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

American civil rights activist, MLK's adviser, main organizer of the March on Washington

Picture of Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk

American politician and gay-rights activist.

Ted Sahl, Kat Fitzgerald, Patrick Phonsakwa, Lawrence McCrorey, Darryl Pelletier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Stormé DeLarverie

Stormé DeLarverie

Stonewall veteran, community leader, Master of Ceremonies, singer, performer, drag king

From Digital Transgender Archive copyright unknown

Picture of Eliot Page

Elliot Page

Actor and trans activist

Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Barbara Gittings writing on a chalk board

Barbara Gittings

Gay pioneer and civil rights activist

Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Picture of Christine Jorgenson

Christine Jorgensen

The first person in the U.S to undergo a successful gender-reassignment

Picture of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Poet and lesbian activist

K. Kendall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Trans right activist, civil rights pioneer

Quinn Dombrowski, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Dylan Mulvaney

Dylan Mulvaney

Actress, Influencer

Stay Tuned NBC, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Writer

Virginia DeBolt, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of James Baldwin

James Baldwin

Writer and activist

Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

painting of Sappho

Sappho

Greek Poet

Picture of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Writer

Resources on LGBTQ+ History and Culture

Hagerstown Hope
Hagerstown Hope is a Hagerstown, MD nonprofit focused on bringing unity, education, and services to support our local LGBTQ+ and local communities.
Pride at Work
The organization educates LGBTQ+ people about their rights as workers, the organized labor movement and the principles of trade union solidarity; encourages and assists LGBTQ+ workers to organize and to become active participants in the trade union movement
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998. Focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, they offer a toll-free telephone number where confidential assistance is provided by trained counselors.
History Unerased
History UnErased is an education non-profit bringing life-affirming, life-changing, and life-saving LGBTQ US history into the mainstream curriculum in K-12 schools across the nation.
LGBTQ Digital Collections by GLBT Historical Society
A compilation of photos, videos, newspapers, and radio broadcasts that show groundbreaking LGBTQ history as it happened.
Stonewall History - Library of Congress
An in depth history lesson about the Stonewall Uprising and how it sparked the gay rights movement.
LGBTQ Population in America
Current population count and percentage state by state of people who identify as LGBTQ in 2023.
The HRC Foundation
HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people plus community members who use different language to describe identity are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
UN Free & Equal
An initiative of the United Nations Human Rights Office to create a public information campaign aimed at promoting equal rights and fair treatment of LGBTI people.
Our Bodies Ourselves Today
An inclusive guide to health, sexuality, and reproductive justice.

Supporting Trans Rights & Equality

UN Free & Equal Trans Visibility Campaign
The UN's Trans Visibility campaign strives to educate governments and individuals about the unjust treatment of trans individuals. They provide guidelines and recommendations for fair and compassionate behaviors and laws.

Transgender Fact Sheet
The Free & Equal Campaign produced a fact sheet highlighting the transgender reality and providing guidelines for governments, organizations and individuals to prevent injustice.

National Center for Transgender Equality
The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice. (Mission Statement)

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