While there are many ways that people in the LGBTQ+ community refer to themselves, the Library of Congress has tried to standardize the terms so that all books on a certain topic will be clumped together in a search result or on the shelf. This means that you will get different results when you do a keyword search as opposed to a subject search.
Here are the ways that Library of Congress describes the people and topics of the LGBTQ+ community.
People |
Topics |
Possible Call Number |
|---|---|---|
|
Sexual minorities |
Sexual orientation |
HQ18.5 HQ73-73.75
|
| Asexual people | Asexuality (Sexual orientation) | HQ73.9-.99 |
|
Bisexual people |
Bisexuality | HQ74-74.9 |
| Heterosexuals
Heterosexual men |
Heterosexuality |
HQ72.8 |
|
Gay people |
Homosexuality
|
HQ75-76.965 |
|
Pansexual people |
Pansexuality | |
|
Gender-nonconforming people |
Gender nonconformity
|
HQ73.8-.85 HQ77.7-.965 |
| Intersex people | Intersexuality |
HQ77.97-.98 QP267 |
Here is a small selection of books from our catalog.
The Trans Generation: how trans kids (and their parents) are creating a gender revolution
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Gender and Identity Around the World [2 Volumes]
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You're in the Wrong Bathroom! And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People
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Queer Religiosities: An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion
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Gender: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
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You Can Tell Just by Looking and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
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Bi: the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality
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In Transit: being non-binary in a world of dichotomies
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The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate
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Queer: a Graphic History
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The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World
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The First Amendment and LGBT Equality: A Contentious History
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Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History
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The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History
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Pride: the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement: A Photographic Journey
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The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion
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A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
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Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women
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American Teenager : how trans kids are surviving hate and finding joy in a turbulent era
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None of the Above : reflections on life beyond the binary
by
Going along with Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Youth
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Growing up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
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It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living
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Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
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Q&A: Voices From Queer Asian North America
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LGBTQ Cultures: what health care professionals need to know about sexual and gender diversity
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A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology
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I Heard Her Call My Name
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My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
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The Bride Was a Boy
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Ace: what asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex
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Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
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Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
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Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
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Atmosphere
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Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Too Bright to See
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Wandering Son, Volume 1
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My Brother's Husband, Volume 1
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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LGBTQ+ Month celebrates the achievements and history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other queer identifying people in the U.S. Founded by high-school history teacher Rodney Wilson, it was first commemorated in 1994. We celebrate in October to recognize the marches on Washington in 1979 and 1987.
All resources in this guide are available through the OCC Library to students, staff and faculty. This is not an exhaustive list - there is much more to find on this topic in our collections!
This guide is intended as a non-exhaustive resource on LGBTQIA+ topics. In this guide we strive to highlight the stories across the wide range of lived experience of LGBTQIA+ Americans. The OCC community is welcome to suggest resources, guides, or any other information relevant to this guide by contacting Erin Gratz.
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