Pride Month, a significant cultural and social event that is celebrated in June, serves as a powerful testament to the ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ rights and recognition. We at the IU East Campus Library support all members of the LGBTQ+ community and offer resources on LGBTQ+ issues and topics.
The IU East Library LGBTQ resource guide provides informative resources for LGBTQ students, families, and allies through links to various education-based, youth-specific, and political organizations resources. This guide also includes links to local resources on the IU East campus, including counseling services, resources on sexual discrimination and violence, and health.
Three years before the Stonewall Riots, an early moment in the gay liberation movement occurred on April 21, 1966, in New York’s West Village. It was dubbed the “Sip-In.” Dick Leitsch, Craig Rodwell, and John Timmons entered Julius’ Bar, publicly identified themselves as gay, and demanded to be served. This challenged the unofficial but widespread practice of banning gay customers from bars. Learn more about the Sip-In and read the correspondences of Leitsch in the Archives of Sexuality and Gender database.
GenderWatch provides access to over 175 periodical and other publications that focus on how gender impacts a variety of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, and special reports. Check out the open-access digital collections held in the Independent Voices database. This database contains alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals produced by various groups and individuals including LGBT activists.
Avon (Academic Video Online) is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. You can browse by topic, including LGBT Studies, which contains over 400 films on the topic.
The ALA Rainbow Book Month celebrates authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, genderqueer, queer, intersex, agender, and asexual community. Find list of books that have received the Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQIA+ book list for Kids/Teens and adults, and Rainbow Round Table resources.
The IU East Campus Library provides access to more than 300,000 eBook through various databases, including eBooks by EBSCO and Ebook Central and all can be accessed through IUCAT. A few highlights are LGBTQ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny by A. Gaddis, Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health: Understanding the Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality by P. Levounis and E. Yarbrough, Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology by P. Lightsey, A Queer History of the United States for Young People by M. Bronski, and Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century by L. Bly
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