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- coming out (sexual orientation) Here are entered works on acknowledging one's homosexuality to oneself or to others.
- gay parents Here are entered works on gay individuals as parents, or on gay couples as parents.
- gays in popular culture Here are entered works on the representation of lesbians and gay men in popular culture.
- gender identity A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.
- heterosexism Here are entered works on prejudicial attitudes or assumptions held by heterosexuals concerning homosexuals or homosexuality as well as works on the presumption that everyone is heterosexual and that heterosexuality is the only normal sexual orientation. Works on active discrimination against, or aversion to, homosexuals by heterosexuals are entered under Homophobia.
- homophobia Here are entered works on active discrimination against, or aversion to, homosexuals by heterosexuals. Works on prejudicial attitudes or assumptions held by heterosexuals concerning homosexuals or homosexuality as well as works on the presumption that everyone is heterosexual and that heterosexuality is the only normal sexual orientation are entered under Heterosexism.
- transgenderism Here are entered works on the various manifestations of cross-gender orientation, such as transvestism, transsexualism, male or female impersonation, intersexuality, etc., treated collectively.
- transsexuals Here are entered works on individuals whose gender identity does not match their physical sexual characteristics, and who usually undergo an anatomical sex change.
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LGBT History
Dangerous liaisons : Blacks & gays and the struggle for equality by Call Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.45.U5 D35 1999- Departing from deviance : a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America / byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.3.U5 M56 2002
- Familiar faces, hidden lives : the story of homosexual men in America today byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.3.U5 B7
- Gay American history : lesbians and gay men in the U.S.A. : a documentary byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.3.U5 K37 1976
- The gay and lesbian liberation movement byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 C78 1992
- The gay decades : from Stonewall to the present : the people and events that shaped gay lives byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 R88 1992
- Gay/lesbian almanac : a new documentary in which is contained, in chronological order, evidence of the true and fantastical history of those persons now called lesbians and gay men byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 K37 1983
- Gay rights byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Juv Non-Fiction Juv HQ76.5 .G39 2006
- The lesbian and gay movements : assimilation or liberation? byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 R58 2008
- Lesbianism and the women's movement byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76 .L47
- Lost prophet : the life and times of Bayard Rustin byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks E185.97.R93 D46 2003
- Making gay history : the half-century fight for lesbian and gay equal rights byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 D447 1992
- Making history : the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 : an oral history byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 M36 1992
- Making trouble : essays on gay history, politics, and the university byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 D447 1992
A queer history of the United States by Call Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Atrium New & Noteworthy: HQ76.3.U5 B696 2011Publication Date: 2011- Queering the underworld : slumming, literature, and the undoing of lesbian and gay history byCall Number: [Electronic resource]
- Sapphistries : A Global History of Love Between Women byCall Number: (Electronic Resource)
- Sexual politics, sexual communities : the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970 byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 R88 1992
- Stonewall byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 D85 1994
- Tales of the Lavender Menace : a memoir of liberation byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ75.4.J38 A3 1999
- Transgender history byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ77.9 .S77 2008
- Virtual equality : the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian liberation byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks HQ76.8.U5 V35 1995
Biography / Memoir
- Another country : queer anti-urbanism byCall Number: [Electronic resource]
Bayard Rustin : American Dreamer by Call Number: (Electronic Resource)- Becoming a man : half a life story byCall Number: HQ75.8.M64 A3 1993
- A disturbed peace : selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual byCall Number: BR115.H6 M36
The end of being known: a memoir by Call Number: [electronic resource]- Finding my place : one man's journey from Cleveland to Boston and beyond byCall Number: PS3573.E26 Z47 2009
- Look back in joy : celebration of gay lovers byCall Number: HQ75.8.B68 A34
Glenway Wescott personally: a biography by Call Number: [Electronic resource]- The Lord is my shepherd & he knows I'm gay : the autobiography of The Reverend Troy D. Perry byCall Number: BR1725 .P45 A3 1994
Loving mountains, loving men by Call Number: [electronic resource]- Mama's boy, preacher's son : a memoir byCall Number: HQ75.8.J46 A3 2006
- Mean Little Deaf Queer : A Memoir byCall Number: (Electronic Resource)
Not like other boys : growing up gay : a mother and son look back by
Call Number: HQ75.8.S48 A3 1996
Collections / Anthologies
Black like us : a century of lesbian, gay & bisexual African American fiction by
Call Number: PS648.H57 B58 2002- Chicana lesbians : the girls our mothers warned us about byCall Number: HQ75.6.U5 C53 1991
Chloe plus Olivia : an anthology of lesbian literature from the seventeenth century to the present by Call Number: PS509.L47 C47 1995- CompanĚeras : Latina lesbians : an anthology byCall Number: PS509.L47 C65 1994
Growing up gay/growing up lesbian : a literary anthology by
Call Number: PS374.H63 G76 1994- Gay and lesbian poetry : an anthology from Sappho to Michaelangelo byCall Number: PN6110.H65 G39 1995
- Queer studies : a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology byCall Number: Lesley-Sherrill Library Main Stacks: HQ76.25 .Q383 1996