Most of these books can be found in the Bates College Library.  There is also a large LGBTQ section on the ground floor, in the H section.

• Coming Out/Support
• Memoirs/Personal Stories
• Fiction
• Theory/History
• Photography
• Poetry
• Issues In Education
• Miscellaneous

 

COMING OUT/SUPPORT

• Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology edited by Amy Sonnie
  > "When I was 16, I was so scared I might be gay, but I didn't know how to tell. So I went to the library and typed in: G-A-Y. I was hoping to find some manual on how to know if you're gay, like a book of symptoms or something. All I found was a scientific study of homosexuality in cows. Which I read. Apparently cows are gay too. But that wasn't comforting at the time." ~Lisa
• Free Your Mind by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman
  > The book for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth and their allies.
  
• Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender College Students edited by Kim Howard and Annie Stevens
  > The editors have collected 28 first-person accounts from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered students from colleges and universities across the country. A good mix of ethnicity and college settings marks these essays, which are all tied together by the theme of coming out to oneself and to the community.
  
• Coming Out: A Handbook For Men by by Orland Outland
  
• Beyond Acceptance by C. Griffin, M. Wirth, A. Wirth
  > Parents of lesbians and gays talk about their experiences.
  
• How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read
  > A southern coming out story.

 

MEMOIRS/PERSONAL STORIES

• She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan
  
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
  
• GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary edited by Nestle, Wilchins, Howell
  
• S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt
  
• Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out edited by Loraine Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu
  
• Black Gay Man by Robert F. Reid-Pharr
  > This book "is both a celebration of black gay male identity and a critique of the structures that allow for the production of that identity."
  
• Queer Jews edited by David Shneer & Caryn Aviv
  
• Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng & Alice Y. Hom
  
• The Men With the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger
  > The true life-and-death story of homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps.
  
• Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey by Betty Degeneres
  
• Going the Other Way by Billy Bean
  > An account of what it is like to be gay in professional baseball.
  
• A Woman Like That edited by Joan Larkin
  > Lesbian and bisexual writers tell their coming out stories.
  

 

FICTION

• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
  
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
  > "What a deliciously brazen stunt Sarah Waters pulls off in this romantic thriller set in Victorian times...[A] first rate pastiche of betrayed maidens and dastardly smiling villians...the erotic charge between Maude and Sue and the psychological games they play make Fingersmith a sophisticated treat." -L.A. Times
  
• Valencia by Michelle Tea
  
• The Well of Loneliness  by Radcliffe Hall
  > Published in 1928, "the book was banned for obscenity because its main character is a lesbian, and it subsequently became a notorious best-seller."
• Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger - "One little thing changes, and suddenly everything is different." High school student Grady deals with life and love as an out trans teenager.
  

 

THEORY/HISTORY

• Queer Theory, Gender Theory by Riki Wlichins
  
• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
  
• Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg
  
• Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
  
• Making Gay History by Eric Marcus

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Nothing But The Girl; The Blatant Lesbian Image by Susie Bright, Jill Posener
• Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron
  
• The Drag King Book by Judith "Jack" Halberstam, Del LaGrace Volcano
  

 

POETRY

• Bullets and Butterflies edited by Emanuel Xavier

 

ISSUES IN EDUCATION

• Getting Ready For Benjamin  edited by Rita M. Kissen
  Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom
  
• Thinking Queer: Sexuality, Culture, and Education  edited by Susan Talburt and Shirley R. Steinberg p
  
• Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy by Kevin Kumashiro
  
• Toward Acceptance: Sexual Orientation Issues on Campus  edited by Vernon A. Wall and Nancy J. Evans
  
• Understanding Homosexuality, Changing Schools Arthur Lipkin
  This book "provides a foundation in gay/lesbian studies and offers models for equality, inclusion, and school reform."

 

MISCELLANEOUS

• Is It a Choice? by Eric Marcus
  > Answers to 300 of the most frequently asked questions about gay and lesbian people.
  
• Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work edited by James Sears & Walter Williams

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