front photo: Janet Mock back photo: Jamison Wieser, flickr.com

GAY PRIDE
front photo: Janet Mock
back photo: Jamison Wieser, flickr.com (detail)
2014 - www.nwpl.ca
And Tango Makes Threee
By Justin Richardson
In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango’s family is not
like any of the others.
A Tale of Two Mommies
By Vanita Oelschlager
Three children talk on the beach about one of the boys having two mommies – a look into the boy’s nurturing home through the eyes of curious
children.
A Tale of Two Daddies
By Vanita Oelschlager
A playground conversation between two children about a girl talks about
her two dads.
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
By Christine Baldacchino
Morris loves dreaming about having space adventures, painting beautiful
pictures and singing but most of all Morris loves a tangerine dress in his
classroom’s dress-up center.
Mom and Mum are Getting Married!
By Ken Setterington
Mom and Mum want a perfect wedding, and Rosie helps
make sure it is one.
Uncle Bobby’s Wedding
Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
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By Sarah S. Brannen
Will getting married take
Uncle Bobby away from Chloe?
Dictionary of Homophobia: a Global History of Gay & Lesbian
Experience
306.766 D561t
Brief essays on topics such as hate crimes, anti-gay individuals, and religious
strictures.
Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
by Alison Bechdel • 741.5 B387e
Selected from 21 years of comic strips, this lesbian soap opera follows the
lives of a group of women from young adulthood to middle age.
How it Feels to Have a Gay or Lesbian Parent
By Judith E. Snow • J306.874 Sn
32 children of gay and lesbian people describe the impact it has had on
their lives.
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature
and People
by Joan Roughgarden • 305.3 R755e
The author, an evolutionary biologist, explores gender and sexual diversity in
birds, reptiles, fish, mammals, and in humans.
The Gay Gospels: Good News for LGBT People
by Keith Sharpe • 261.835766 Sh24g
The author, a gay Christian and retired professor, takes a fresh look at
Jesus and his teachings to find material to counter anti-gay rhetoric in
churches.
Losing Uncle Tim
By MaryKate Jordan
Daniel finds out his favourite uncle has AIDS.
Gay Marriage: the Story of a Canadian Social Revolution
Pinky and Rex and the Bully
Pinky and Rex and the Double-Dad Weekend
Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin
Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee
Pinky and Rex Go to Camp
by Sylvain Larocque • 306.848 L327g
An account of how gay marriage was legalized in Canada, including
interviews with key players.
Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools
By James Howe
Pinky (a boy) and Rex (a girl) don’t always fit people’s ideas of how
a boy or a girl should act—but they are always true to themselves.
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by Rebecca Haskell & Brian Burtch • 371.58 H273g
Interviews with recent BC high school graduates forms the basis of this
study, which also offers recommendations on how to support GLBTQ
students.
NONFICTION
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak out
By Susan Kukland • J306.769 Ku TEEN
Six transgender teens are interviewed in this collection exploring identity,
sexuality, and their personal journeys.
GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender,
and Questioning Teens
By Kelley Huegel • J306.766 Hu TEEN
Practical information covering topics such as coming out, homophobia,
religion, and sex.
It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a
Life Worth Living
Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality
by Brent Pickett • 306.766 P586h
People, organizations, terminology, laws and legal cases are clearly described.
Hold Tight Gently
By Martin Duberman • 616.9792 D851h
A profound exploration of the intersection of race, sexuality, class, identity
and the politics of AIDS activism.
My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a
Family
By Zach Wahls • 306.874 W127m
Zach Wahls knows what it’s like to feel different growing up with two moms
and delivers a reassuring message to same-sex couples, their kids, and anyone
who’s ever felt like an outsider.
edited by Dan Savage & Terry Miller • 306.766 It1s
Celebrities, leaders, and everyday people tell teens about the happiness and
satisfactions of their lives as GLBTQ people, empowering them to overcome
bullying and look forward to their lives.
Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens
Downloadable eBook
A guide that helps LGBT teens come out to friends and family, navigate their
new LGBT social life, figure out if a crush is also queer, and rise up against
bigotry and homophobia.
TEEN NONFICTION
The
he Nearest Exit May Be Behind Yo
You
By S. Bear Bergman • 306.76 B454n
From women’s spaces to the old boys’ network, from gay male bathhouses to
lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one – these essays
deal with contemporary gay life.
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics
By Justin Hall • 741.59 N659h
This volume showcases creators tackling issues of identity and a changing
society with some of the best and most interesting queer comics of the last
four decades.
Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise your Kids Free of
Gender Stereotypes
By Christina Spears Brown • 649.1 B812p
Teaches parents how to focus on their children’s unique strengths and
inclinations rather than to rely on outdated gender stereotypes.
Persistence: All Ways Butch & Femme
edited by Ivan E. Coyote & Zena Sharman • Downloadable eBook
A varied collection of essays, poetry, fiction, an interview, and other writings
that explore gender identity within lesbian communities.
A Queer History of the United States
by Michael Bronski • 306.766 B789q
An investigation that begins before European contact and shows how queer
people have contributed to every era of American history.
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the
Scapegoating of Femininity
By Julia Serano • 306.77 Se65w
Reveals the ways fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape
our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as
a whole.
The Advocate
Curve
Out
Xtra West (Local) (Library use only)
Inferno
by Robin Stevenson
High school is hell—so Emily renames herself Dante as she heads to a new
school and tries to find someone she can relate to.
Money Boy
Outlaws & Inlaws: Your Guide to LGBT Rights, Same-sex
Relationships and Canadian law
R346.013 F534o LA
Canada’s major GLBT rights organization summarizes criminal, human
rights, employment, family and immigration laws that affect individuals,
couples, and their families. (Library use only)
Questions and Answers: Gender Identity in Schools
Questions and Answers: Sexual Orientation in Schools
R306.76 Q386g • R306.76 Q386s
Two publications of the Public Health Agency of Canada assist teachers and
school administrators to create healthy environments for young people.
(Library use only; also available online in English and French)
The Trans Biography Project: Stories From the Lives of Eleven
Trans People in BC
R306.77 C884t
Different ways of becoming and being transgendered and transsexual are
explored in these personal stories. (Library use only)
Gay Pride · www.nwpl.ca
By Paul Yee
Ray is kicked out of his house when his father finds he has been cruising gay
websites. He hits the mean streets of Toronto as a Chinese immigrant broke
and homeless.
Openly Straight
By Bill Konigsberg
Tired of being known as “the gay kid,” Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a
new persona but trying to deny his identity has both complications and
unexpected consequences.
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
By Bill Wright
Carlos Duarte is an aspiring makeup artist who dreams of working with
New York celebrities and fashionistas, but he soon learns that the makeup
industry is cutthroat and Carlos will have to believe in himself more than
ever.
Two Boys Kissing
By David Levithan
A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help today’s
gay teens navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, selfacceptance, and more in a society that has changed.
TEEN FICTIO
A Chance to Dance for You
By Gail Sidonie Sobat
Ian lives in a traditional suburban community where keeping a secret is
sometimes harder than telling the truth.
Absolutely, Positively Not
By David LaRochelle
Steven keeps trying to prove he’s straight—but the only person he’s fooling is
himself.
Ash
By Malinda Lo
Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king has sought to
suppress, and one day must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love
her and the King’s Huntress whom she loves.
David Inside Out
By Lee Bantle
A high-school senior finds solace in running with the track team, but
practices become awkward when David develops a crush on one of his
teammates, Sean.
Behind the Candelabraa
Recounts the last ten years
rs of pianist Liberace’s life and the affair he had
h
with Scott Thorson.
Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
DVD306.766 B468c
Follows Vancouver Pride as they travel to places where Pride is still steeped
in protest as well as to New York City, the birthplace of the modern gay
liberation movement.
Blue is the Warmest Color
[La vie d’Adele – Chapitres 1 et 2]
Clementine is a junior high school student whose first encounter with
Emma sets off an instant attraction. Based on the graphic novel.
Dallas Buyers Club
After an HIV-positive diagnosis in 1986, Texas electrician and homophobe
Ron Woodroof sets out to circumvent the FDA by delivering unapproved
treatments to AIDS patients.
Pariah
By Julie Williams
Graduating at age fifteen from her parents’ theater school, academically
gifted Jessie Jasper Lewis tries to thwart her unconventional family’s demise
when her father’s boyfriend moves in.
A teenage girl struggles with
her identity in her search for
sexual expressions and must
decide between the life that
she wishes to have and the
life that her parents have
picked out for her.
I am J
Weekend
Drama Queens in the House
By Chris Beam
J feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl and runs away from parents he
thinks do not understand him and a best friend who has rejected him. It is
time to be who he really is.
If You Could be Mine
Russell picks up Glen at gay
club but what was supposed
to be a one-night stand transforms into something more
special.
By Sara Farizan
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since
they were six. They carry on in secret--until Nasrin’s parents announce her
arranged marriage.
Gay Pride · www.nwpl.ca
Beautiful Shadow
by Andrew Wilson • 813 H537w
Patricia Highsmith influenced crime fiction and gay and lesbian fiction for
more than 50 years. Her biography is as chilling as the stories she wrote.
Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
Y
By Sean O’Brien Strub • 616.9792 St89b
Sean Strub, founder of POZ magazine, producer of the hit play The Night
Larry Kramer Kissed Me, and the first openly HIV-positive candidate for U.S.
Congress, charts his remarkable life.
Eminent Outlaws: the Gay Writers Who Changed America
by Christopher Bram • 810.9 B731e
A look at a few of the mid-century male writers—Truman Capote, Gore
Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee, among others—who
ho paved the
way for GLBTQ writing today.
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
By Alysia Abbott • 306.7662 Ab26f
Widowed bisexual writer and activist, Steve Abbott, moves with his daughter
to San Francisco –A moving account of a father’s legacy and a daughter’s
ughter’s lov
love.
Gender Failure
By Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon • 306.77 Sp66g
Two accomplished writers and musicians collaborate to explore their
heir failed
attempts at fitting into the gender binary and how traditional gender
nder roles
and expectations can ultimately fail us all.
I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell • 306.77 K558u
Kilmer-Purcell led an adventurous life as an advertising copywriter
er by day
and a drag queen by night, until everything went out of control.
In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court
By Brittney Griner • 796.323 G885i
Griner, hailed by ESPN as the world’s most famous female basketball
tball
ball player,
shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she overcame bullying
ying and
embraced her authentic self.
Rhapsody in Blood
MYSTERY
Amuse Bouche: A Russell Quant Mystery
By Anthony Bidulka
A gay wedding gone bad, a missing groom, and an unsullied reputation at
risk: enter rookie private detective Russell Quant with a nose for good wine
and bad lies.
Dos Equis: A Russell Quant Mystery
By Anthony Bidulka
Gay PI Russell Quant is a broken man but a call for help from an old
adversary gives Russell a new purpose as he jets off to the beautiful Mexican
beach town of Zihuatenengo.
Hook, Line, and Homicide: A Paul Turner Mystery
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So
Much More
By Janet Mock • 306.77 M717r
Mock offers a bold new perspective on being young, multiracial, economically
challenged, and transgender in America and shows as never before what it
means to be a woman today.
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
by Neil McKenna • 828 W644m
Wilde’s sexuality, McKenna suggests, was central to his identity and strongly
influenced his literary and public career.
Transition: the Story of How I Became a Man
by Mark Richard Zubro
Chicago police detective Paul Turner is on a fishing trip vacation in Canada
with family and friends. It turns deadly.
by Chaz Bono with Billie Fitzpatrick • 306.77 B644t / Downloadable eBook
In 2008, Chastity Bono was a high-profile activist for GLBTQ liberation
when she realized it was time to complete her own liberation by transitioning
to a male identity and body.
The Mirror and the Mask
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Ellen Hart
In this popular lesbian murder-mystery series, Minneapolis restaurateur
Jane Lawless trains to be a private investigator, uncovering family secrets as
she closes her first case.
By Jeanette Winterson • 823 W736w
Heartbreaking and funny, the true story behind Jeanette’s bestselling and
most beloved novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Rhapsody in Blood
by John Morgan Wilson
Gay crime reporter and writer, Benjamin Justice appears in the seventh novel
in this mystery series, prepared to uncover the truth in two old murders and
a recent one.
Schooled in Murder: A Tom and Scott Mystery
by Mark Richard Zubro
In this whodunit, the faculty war at Grover Cleveland High School has ended
in murder. English teacher Tom Mason is a suspect.
Taken by the Wind
By Ellen Hart
When separated parents Eric and Andrew’s thirteen year old son Jack and
his cousin go missing they call on private investigator who suspects an
abduction.
In My Skin: Life On and Off the Basketball Court
Gay Pride · www.nwpl.ca
FICTION
Necessary Errors
Basketball Jones
By Caleb Crain
Jacob Putnam arrives in Czechoslovakia searching for its revolutionary
spirit. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and
capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense
of possibility.
by E. Lynn Harris
A famous NBA star tries to keep his relationship with his boyfriend a secret,
with devastating results.
Nevada
By Imogen Binnie
The darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living
in New York City, as she tries to stay true to her punk values while working
retail.
The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
By William Klaber
One day in 1855 Lucy Lobdell cut her hair, changed clothes, and went off to
live her life as a man – to wear what she wanted, and to love whomever she
desired.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Blue is the Warmest Color
By Julie Maroh
Graphic Novel
High school student Clementine’s first encounter with Emma sets off an
instant attraction and a relationship that will test her friendships, family, and
her own ideas about her identity.
Call Me by Your Name
by Andre Aciman
Elio and Oliver experience a summer romance that leaves them both
changed. Aciman’s first novel explores the power of love and its effect over
time.
For Today I am a Boy
By Carol Brunt
When June’s uncle, confidant, and best friend dies of a mysterious illness her
mother can barely speak about, her world is turned upside down.
By Kim Fu
Peter is the prized only boy in his Chinese-Canadian family, but inside, he
knows he is a girl – A coming-of-age tale that lays bare the costs of forsaking
one’s own path in deference to others.
The Two Francforts
Grief
By David Leavitt
In the summer of 1940, two couples meet awaiting safe passage to New York
on the SS Manhattan from Portugal. The hidden threads in their lives begin
to come loose as Europe sinks into war.
by Andrew Holleran
A survivor of the AIDS epidemic, a middle-aged gay man deals with the death
of his mother and the gay friends he lost.
We are Water
By Wally Lamb
A layered portrait of marriage, family, and the need for understanding as
wife and mother Annie shakes her family to the core by falling in love with
another woman.
The Hungry Ghosts
By Shyam Selvadurai
A sweeping new novel featuring an unforgettable ghost, whose insatiable
appetite and blindness to human needs parallels the volatile political
situation of Sri Lanka.
Gay Pride · www.nwpl.ca
In One Person
FICTION
By John Irving
Billy Abbot, a bisexual man, grapples with the mysteries of identity, the
tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and everything that has changed over the
last fifty years.
The Last Nude
By Ellis Avery
Rafaela agrees to model for artist Tamara de Lempicka and inspires her most
iconic Jazz Age images as the two become lovers.
London Triptych
By Jonathan Kemp
The lives and loves of three men in gay London are interwoven across
decades.
Michael Tolliver Lives
Mary Ann in Autumn
by Armistead Maupin
Maupin revisits his “Tales of the City” series with two new stories.
Moving Forward Sideways, Like a Crab
By Shani Mootoo
Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his mother left. When he reconnects
with her as an adult, he is shocked to find she has morphed into man named
Sydney.
My Education
By Susan Choi
Regina’s erotic and catastrophic misadventures demonstrate what can
happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge.