As our way to celebrate our rich diverse international student body for this year’s Pride Month, the Online Library is sharing a few of our books reflecting the diversity of international LGBTQ+communities all over the world.
Madre and I: A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives by G. Reyes
This book has rightfully won the International Latino Book Awards. Award winning playwright, Guillermo Reyes will have you laughing out loud with his colourful, anecdote filled autobiography. Openly sharing his experiences of coming to terms with being the son of an illegal immigrant, a Catholic homosexual and a gay man wrestling all of the body image issues plaguing the glamourous West Hollywood lifestyle are matched only by the ongoing anecdotes of his eccentric and loving mother in the shadows of Hollywood.
Queer Korea Edited by Todd A. Henry
Unlike other Asian Queer histories, this book attempts to avoid exoticism and triviality by intetegrating trans experiences and gender fluidity side by side with traditionally identified Lesbian and Gay establishment history in South Korean subculture.
Queer Lives across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 by A. Rottman
This one of a kind work has been lovingly cultivated from archives, private collections and personal oral letters and serves as a poignant primary source collection. Rottman presents a moving chronicle of stories of fear, resilience and deep emotions spanning a time of political and private uncertainty in a traumatized post-war Germany.
Queer Turkey: Transnational Poetics of Desire by R.J. Poole
Although this book documents the Turkish Gay experience, chapters include many international influential characters ranging from Alfred Kerr and James Baldwin to Greek Eurovision winner, Helena Paparizou and Agatha Christie's influence on modern day Istanbul’s gay subculture.
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest collected and edited by Will Fellows
Providing a documentation of repeated repression and fear, viewers are able to read first hand the emotions that each individual has openly shared of their lived experiences as closeted gay men in the earlier parts of 20th century agricultural America. This book is not an easy read but it is an important testimony to PRIDE, (Personal Rights in Defense and Education as founded by Steve Ginsberg in 1966).
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