LGBTQ+ Pride Month
The Clovis Community College Library is pleased to highlight books that recognize the many contributions of the LGBTQ+ community.
"June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month. This month-long celebration demonstrates how LGBTQ Americans have strengthened our country, by using their talent and creativity to help create awareness and goodwill."
- From the Library of Congress LGBTQ Pride Month page.
For more resources, check out our LGBTQ research guide.
Check out these and other books through our Library-to-Go program using the CCC OneSearch Catalog.
New in the Library
The Death of Vivek Oji
by Akwaeke Emezi
A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds.
Fred Gets Dressed
by Peter Brown
This charming and humorous picture book about playing dress up, having fun, and feeling free highlights nontraditional gender roles and self-expression.
Becoming a Visible Man
by Jamison Green
With profoundly personal and eminently practical threads, Green clarifies transgender experiences for transgender people and their families, friends, and coworkers.
Prophets: A Novel
by Robert Jones, Jr
This novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but also portrays the enormous, heroic power of love.
Papa, Daddy, & Riley
by Seamus Kirst
illustrated by Devon Holzwarth
This heartwarming story is filled with beautiful images of diverse families and shows that there are lots of ways to be part of a loving one.
Coming Out Stories
ed by Emma Goswell & Sam Walker
An empowering, witty, and uplifting collection of coming out stories and advice from LGBTQ+ people across the spectrum and from around the world.
Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
An unforgettable debut novel which looks at three women, trans and cis, who wrestle with questions of motherhood and creating a family.
When Aidan Became a Brother
by Kyle Lukoff
illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
This sweet picture book celebrates the changes in a transgender boy's life, from his initial coming-out to becoming a big brother.
Female Husbands: A Trans History
by Jen Manion
A comprehensive history of female husbands (people assigned female who lived as men and married women) in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.
The Other Mothers: Two Women's Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs
by Jennifer Berney
An LGBTQ memoir about one couple's struggles to defy the patriarchy and redefine the nuclear family.
X + Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
by Eugenia Cheng
A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality.
Three Dads and a Baby
by Ian Jenkins
A sometimes hilarious, sometimes tearful account of a unique and very modern family that includes three dads, two surrogates, and one egg donor.
Gender
by Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
A guide with basic definitions; the history of gender as a concept; the role of biology, psychology, and culture on gender; and gender norms over time and across the globe.
LGBTQ Health Research: Theory, Methods, Practice
by Ron Stall et al.
This volume provides the necessary public health tools to research, study, and learn about LGBTQ populations effectively.
Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual
by Holly Cashman
Cashman examines participants' conceptions of their ethnic and sexual identities and how identities influence (and are influenced by) language practices.
