LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Resource Guide

Suggested by Giana, Arts, Performance, and Humanistic Inquiry

This graphic novel follows the romantic relationship of two trans characters as one fights the grips of the devil with whom they made a pact for immortality. It is an adventurous and intimate look at trans romance.

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Suggested by Rye, Arts, Performance, and Humanistic Inquiry

In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see--both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections.

Suggested by Jerry, Arts, Performance, & Humanistic Inquiry

Building a Bridge follows a priest on his journey to make the Catholic Church more accepting of the LGBTQ+ community, despite loud opposition from both inside and outside the Church.

Suggested by Elle, External Engagement

A soft sci-fi novel led by Yetu, a queer, femme, non-binary mermaid, who navigates agency and ancestry in an underwater society built by the water-breathing descendants of pregnant slaves thrown overboard from ships during The Middle Passage.

Suggested by Amanda, Arts, Performance, & Humanistic Inquiry

In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break way from her controlling family--a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange.

Suggested by Kayla, Business, Economics, & Entrepreneurship

Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 first novel, is widely considered in and outside the U.S. to be a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender, and a pioneering introduction to the concept of transgender liberation.

Suggested by Gary, Collections and Content Strategy

This documentary, based on Baldwin's anthology of nonfiction essays spanning the years 1948 to 1985, offers an intimate glimpse of racial tensions in America.

Suggested by Amanda, Arts, Performance, & Humanistic Inquiry

This film is based on the true story of gay activists in London who supported striking coal miners in the 1980s. It is a testament of solidarity and coalition-building.

Suggested by Amanda, Arts, Performance, & Humanistic Inquiry

This French historical romance offers a reflection on art, agency, equality, desire, and what it means to look at, and really know, another person.