Pride Month Book Recs
Just a few Pride Month book recommendations for you. Some of these we’ve already read and others are still on our TBR. Which have you checked out? And for more book recommendations, head to our Bookshop.org page!
The Stonewall Reader, a collection of articles, first person accounts, and other contemporary writings pulled from the New York Public Library’s archives. “For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it.”
A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers by Jack Gieseking is a geographical exploration of queer and lesbian places, both extant and lost to time, throughout NYC. You can check out an author talk we hosted with Jack about A Queer New York right here.
Cherry Grove, Fire Island by Esther Newton details 60 years in “America’s first gay and lesbian town,” which happens to be on Long Island.
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry, a biography of the activist, playwright, and self-identified lesbian. And you can learn more about Lorraine’s life in NYC courtesy of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan is an exploration of Brooklyn’s LGBTQ history from the 1850s onward.
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde is a collection of speeches and essays taking on issues like sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class.
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, the first book in her Great Cities Duology gives an answer to the question, “What if NYC was a person?” In this case he is a queer Black artist (and all the boroughs have their individual avatars, too).
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