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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

What is Pride Month?

Pride Month happens every June, celebrating the LGBQTIA+ movement and its members. It is considered to have its origins in the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969.

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Outside Print Resources

Baumann, J. (ed.) (2019). The Stonewall Reader. Penguin Classics

 An anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it.

Sanders, R. (2018). Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag. Random House

A Children's book tracing the story of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings in 1978 with social activist Harvey Milk.

Issenberg, S. (2021). The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. Pantheon.

A story illuminating the social and political struggles that continue to divide the country from the start of the same-sex marriage issue from 1990 to 2015 when legalization finally happened.

Guinness, J. (2021). The Queer Bible. Dey Street Books

A collection of essays written by today’s queer heroes

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