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LGBTQ Studies Guide

Books

Title Author Call# Book Cover
Tamaki, Mariko and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell PN 6733 .T355L38 2019 Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
Maroh, Julie PN 6747 .M36B54 2013 Blue is the Warmest Color
Loeppky, Lynette Dawn HQ 75.4 .L64A3 2014 Cease
Greer, Andrew Sean PS 3557 .R3987L47 2017 Less
Bechdel, Alison PN 6727 .B3757.Z46 2006 Fun Home
Aciman, Andre PS 3601 .C525C35 2008 Call Me By Your Name
Hayes, Bill CT 220.5 .H39 2017 Insomniac City
Deri, Jillian HQ 980 .D47 2015 Love’s Refraction
Barker, Meg-John; Jules Scheele HQ 76.25 .B373 2016 Queer: A Graphic History
* Want to reserve one of these titles? Email library@alexandercollege.ca with your student # and the book title.

E-Books

These e-Books are available in the online library collection. Click the title to access the resource.

Dickison, Peter 2007

Riggle, Ellen D.B. 2012

Deschamps, David 2016

Haefele-Thomas, Ardel. 2019

Myers, JoAnne 2013

Dyer, Richard 2002

Westengard, Laura 2019

Powell, David A. 2008

Mennel, Barbara Caroline 2012

Vaughn, Shemya 2016

Girshick, Lori B. 2008

Frank, Nathaniel 2017

Zimmerman, Bonnie 2003

Ball, Carlos A. 2016

DVDs

Title Director Call# DVD Cover
Ford, Tom DVD SIN 2009 A Single Man
Haynes, Todd DVD CAR 2016 Carol
Vallée, Jean-Marc DVD CRA 2005 C.R.A.Z.Y
Jenkins, Barry DVD MOO 2016 Moonlight
Hooper, Tom DVD DAN 2014 The Danish Girl
Guadagnino, Luca DVD CAL 2017 Call Me By Your Name
Van Sant, Gus DVD MIL 2009 Milk
* Want to reserve one of these titles? Email library@alexandercollege.ca with your student # and the book title.

Handbooks

These handbooks provide easy to digest information about topics covered in LGTBQ Studies.

This handbook is written for transgender people, their families and friends; for professionals who in their day-to-day job may encounter transgender people; and for students, teachers, educators, academics, and members of the public at large with an interest in transgender people. This text is extensively referenced and illustrated and informs the reader on a broad range of important gender-affirming issues.

Keywords

When looking for resources related to LGBTQ+ Studies, try some of these keywords in your searching:

Sample search: LGBTQ+ AND Human Rights

* Interested in learning more about using keywords for research? Check out our videos on how to create and search using keywords on our Research Skills page.

Articles & Databases

Articles and Databases page

Resources

Open access resources are resources that are available to everyone for free online. Links here will lead to sites where you can download textbooks or access journals related to LGBTQ+ Studies.

An open access textbook that covers many aspects of LGBTQ+ studies.

Human Rights Watch is a non-profit, non-governmental human rights organization made up of more than 280 staff members around the globe.

Stats collected, compiled, and presented by the Williams Institute of UCLA. A resource for statistics on LGBT people in the United States.

The glbtq project was founded in 2000 by Publisher Wik Wikholm to create the world’s largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture and history and to deliver it online.

Digital Transgender Archives provides an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.

The It Gets Better Project was created to show young LGBT people around the globe the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The It Gets Better Project wants to remind teenagers in the LGBT community that they are not alone — and it WILL get better.

People with a History presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world.

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Å·ÃÀ¾«Æ·ÊÓÆµ acknowledges that the land on which we usually gather is the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xÊ·məθkwÉ™y̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and SÉ™l̓ílwÉ™taÊ”/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this territory.

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