Pride Month presents an opportunity to reflect and learn more about the  LGBTQIA+ community. This reading list, compiled by Humanities Research Librarian John Glover, supplements an overview of VCU Libraries resources found on this online research guide.

These books are available for checkout or download by people who hold borrowing privileges. Non-alumni can secure similar borrowing privileges by joining the Friends of VCU Libraries at the $100 a year giving level.

Our Hideous Progeny, by C. E. McGill

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    • Cabell Library 
    • Available , General Collection ; PR6113.C4744 O97 2023
    • Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, McGill describes their novel as “a spiritual sequel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a love letter to women in science and the fascinating history of Victorian paleoart.”

Only This Beautiful Moment, by Abdi Nazemian

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    • Cabell Library
    • Available , Juvenile Literature ; PZ7.1.N378 O5 2023
    • Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult, Nazemian explores the impacts of trauma through three generations of a family living in Tehran and Los Angeles.

Living queer history : remembrance and belonging in a southern city, by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

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  • Available online
  • This study explores queer belonging and history, focused on Roanoke, Virginia.

Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice, by Stathis G Yeros

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  • This book covers the disappearance and resurgence of queer insurgent spaces in the Bay Area, looking at how identities, aesthetics, and activism intersect cultural assimilation and urban life.

Queer Exhibition Histories, by Bas Hendrikx

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    • Cabell Library
    • Available , General Collection ; N72.H64 Q44 2023
    • An anthology that explores the history of queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving, this volume explores these exhibitions’ artistic, activist, and community building facets.

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in The 1980s, by Margaret Galvan

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  • Available online
  • This study explores how visual culture made room for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities in the time of the HIV/AIDS crisis, antiporn feminism, and the women in print movement.

The transgender child : a handbook for parents and professionals supporting transgender and nonbinary children, by Stephanie A. Brill

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    • Health and Wellness Library
    • Available , General Collection ; HQ77.9 .B75 2022
    • A revised and updated edition of the 2008 classic, this book provides support for parents that is professional and gender-affirming.

Transgender inclusion : all the things you want to ask your transgender coworker (but shouldn't), A. C. Fowlkes

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  • Available online
  • A practical guide to workplace realities for transgender people, and how to build an inclusive, supportive space for transitioning coworkers.