I didn't mention it here but I did celebrate Coming Out Day (October 11th) on Facebook and I wished all my coworkers at my server job a Happy Coming Out Day (though at Joe B's, I'm still the only gay in the village). But I had forgotten (as I will probably next year too) that October is GLBT (or LGBT) History Month.
I post this video in honor of that, AND I've set up a small book display of GLBT books at my library: you should go to your public library and check some of these out.
- The whole world was watching: living in the light of Matthew Shepard
- Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder
- City of friends: a portrait of gay and lesbian community in America
- Different daughters: a history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement
- Brave journeys: profiles in gay and lesbian courage
- Queer Street: rise and fall of an American culture, 1947-1985: excursions in the mind of the life
- Stonewall: the riots that sparked the Gay Revolution
- Come out and win: organizing yourself, your community, and your world
- Making gay history: the half-century fight for lesbian and gay equal rights
- Out in the South
- Improper Bostonians: lesbian and gay history from the Puritans to Playland
- Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 1890-1940
- Homosexuality & civilization
- We are everywhere: a historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics
- Come out fighting: a century of essential writing on gay and lesbian liberation
- Time on two crosses: the collected writings of Bayard Rustin
- Odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America
- Gay L.A.: a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians
- Homophobia: a history
- Lonely hunter: an oral history of lesbian and gay southern life, 1948-1968
- Tongues untied: producer, director, Marlon T. Riggs (DVD)
- And the band played on: politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic
- Brother outsider: the life of Bayard Rustin (DVD)
- Gay American autobiography: writings from Whitman to Sedaris
- James Baldwin: the cross of redemption: uncollected writings
- Inseparable: desire between women in literature
- Liquid Vinyl: the DJ is the superstar, but the music is the message (DVD)
- Travels in a gay nation: portraits of LGBTQ Americans
- Leaves of Grass
Feel free to leave any other book or movie suggestions in the comments.
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THE BEST LITTLE BOY IN THE WORLD by
"John Reid" (actually Andrew Tobias). Originally published by Putnam in 1973, the by Ballintine (in paperback) a few years later. Most recently by Modern Library, with an introduction by Andrew Sullivan.
Hugely influential at the time it first came out, I would have thought it was of more "historical interest," but the recent bout of suicides by gay teenagers tells me this book still has an audience...there will always be people struggling with the awkwardness, pain, humor, and terrors of coming out--starting with coming out to themselves.
that sounds like a wonderful book list mate ;)
I remember this book, but I can't remember if I've actually read it. It was suggested to me by the adult coordinator of the gay youth group I went to as a teen (thank you, Tim Shapker, wherever you are).
Schweigsame, I think you hit the nail on the head: being a teen is for everyone awkwardness, pain, humor and terror but even moreso for a gay teen - it just seems so surprising after living through the comparatively permissive 1990s that things seem so much worse now, but I think it has to do with the "moral" straight white majority realizing that they are no longer necessarily moral and definitely not in the majority anymore. While the minorities have been fed the myth that there is only so much room on the bus for everyone.
Love the book choices JP.:)
I'm glad you like it, David.
Thanks, Kyle. I'm glad that I live somewhere where such books are available.
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