June 1, 2024

UW Libraries Celebrates Pride Month

Updated June 2024

Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.  Learn more about the history of Pride Month, and thank you for joining UW Libraries in sharing these many interesting collections and  UW resources in celebration of Pride Month!

Featured Resources!

Accessible to all UW Libraries users, LGBTQ Health is the premier peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting optimal healthcare for all sexual and gender minority persons worldwide. The LGBTQ History Research Guide features many other UW Libraries resources including the Archives of Sexuality & Gender, LGBT Magazine Archive, Queer Pasts and much more.

New Health Sciences Resources:

Over the past fiscal year, UW Health Sciences Library received an Allen Signature Award to enhance the health sciences collection through the purchase of books and films by and for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC), disabled folks, women, and/or trans folks. This year, the award is dedicated to online resources, with many new resources added this fiscal year, including:

• Equal Curriculum: The Student and Educator Guide to LGBTQ Health
• Public Health Law: Concepts and Case Studies
• Sex- and Gender-Based Women’s Health: A Practical Guide for Primary Care
• Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care
• Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed about Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind

Read:

Queer Joy: a curated list of graphic novels, novels, poetry, manga, movies and TV, including trigger warnings along with keywords and descriptions.

Watch:

AN INTERSECTIONAL LENS: TOWARDS A QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR (QTPOC) FILM CANON A film cannon that explores QTPOC representation in American cinema; a spotlight on high-quality, unique and exceptional films that illuminate experiences that have been rendered invisible or marginalized in American mass media.

Listen:

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer people have been visible and politically active in Seattle for generations. Their activism has yielded pioneering civil rights victories. This special section of the The Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project includes many oral histories and other historical photos and artifacts covering the history of the LGBTQ activism in Seattle and western Washington.

Discover:

• UW Tacoma Library has an excellent list of community resources, including this Gender and Sexuality subject guide.

• Check out journals like Feminist Studies; GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies; and Transgender Studies Quarterly available through UW Libraries  with your UWNet ID! Learn more.

• From UW Libraries’ Special Collections:
  •  Oral histories from the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Project-check it out! 

  • LGBTQIA+ Archival Resources: Pride

• Learn more about the The Precious, Precarious Work of Queer Archiving in the Pacific Northwest in this in-depth profile from Atlas Obscura.

Rainbow Book Month LGBTQIA+ Book Awards and Bibliographies from the American Library Association

The American Library Association supports LGBTQIA+ literature through the Stonewall Book Awards (in Children’s and Young Adult, Non-Fiction, and Literature categories), as well as two bibliographies including the Rainbow Book List and Over the Rainbow Book List. These awards and lists serve to recognize the very best in contemporary literature and serve as invaluable tools for building quality LGBTQIA+ collections.

• Stonewall Book Awards – The first and longest-enduring award for LGBTQIA+ literature
• Rainbow Book List – LGBTQIA+ Books for Kids and Teens
• Over the Rainbow Book List – LGBTQIA+ Books for Adult Readers

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