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LGBTQ+ History Month: A Reading List
Check out these books about the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people for LGBT History Month and all year-round.
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- Book, Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, [] — HQU52I
- Paperback, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Verb, [] — HQC64A3
- Book, Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [] — FS9P32
- Book, Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, — HVP65
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LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to exchange the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those wLGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to accentuate a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, o
(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the late s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and gay novels in the adv s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle&#;s Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Smooch of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
A Boy&#;s Have S
A confession: I very nearly quit putting this list together.
Throughout the year I keep a running list, adding modern names whenever I learn about an upcoming queer book—from Tweets, publicist pitches, endless NetGalley scrolls—and I usually initiate writing the blurbs for each guide a few months before the list is due. Allow me also append that, because I am a novelist myself, someone who works very challenging to put words on the page in a good-enough order for someone to respond to them, I endeavor and read at least a minuscule of each novel featured. And here’s an incredible correctness that’s both deeply satisfying and makes my job surprisingly difficult: there are more and more queer books published every year. There was a day when I could complete a list like this in an afternoon; I was lucky to find a dozen explicitly queer titles. Now there’s a pretty solid chance I miss a good number of them.
In mid-December—at the half-way point, and a couple days after my birthday—I looked at the list, halfway done then, and thought, “There’s no way I can verb this. There’s no way I can finish putting together this