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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

LGBTQIA+ Month

History of LGBTQIA+ Month

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) Pride month! Join us in celebrating the extraordinary contributions of our LGBTQ community by learning more about LGBT history, stories, and role models.

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month is celebrated in the month of June to commemorate the June 28, 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City which historians often use to mark the beginning of the LGBT movement.  LGBTQIA+ History Month is celebrated in October to coincide with National Coming Out Day celebrated on October 11. To find out more about the LGBT movement past and present, check out the resources using the tabs on the left. 

For more information about LGBTQIA+ Pride month, visit: https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/

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Holding Hands

We at the Palos Verdes Library District are committed to providing support and a safe space for all members of our community.  To make sure our staff are knowledgeable, in 2017 and 2021 we offered in-house Safe Zone training based off of The Safe Zone Project curriculum which offer opportunities for staff to learn about gender and LGBTQIA identities.  For more information on The Safe Zone Project, visit: http://thesafezoneproject.com/

Safe Zone Trained

Family Reading Book with Text Read, Watch, Listen

Kids
For more titles for Kids, click here

Teens
  • Wren Martin Ruins it All by Amanda DeWitt (Book)
  • From Here: A Memoir by Luma Mufleh (Book)
  • All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudioBook)
  • The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (Book, Hoopla eAudioBook)
  • Homebody by Theo Parish (Book)
  • All Out edited by Saundra Mitchell (Book, Hoopla eBook)
  • How To Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess (Book)
  • We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson (Book)
  • Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese America by Laura Gao (Book)
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malindo Lo (Book, eBook)
  • Golden Boys by Phil Stamper (Book)

For more titles for Teens, click here

Adults
  • Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Book, Hoopla eAudio excerpt read by James Baldwin)
  • David Bowie made me gay : 100 years of LGBT music by Darryl W. Bullock (Book, Hoopla eBook)
  • Growing Up Gay: A Literary Anthology (Book)
  • Living Out Islam: Voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims by Scott Alan Kugle (Book)
  • Zami, a New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (Book)
  • Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (Book, Hoopla eBook)
  • The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ politicians changed the world by Andrew Reynolds (Book)
  • In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider (Book)
  • I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life by Cody Daigle-Orians (Book)
  • Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn (Book)

For more titles for Adults, click here

Watch

  • Tár (2022) (DVD, Blu-Ray)
  • Angels in America (2004) (DVD)
  • Schitt's Creek Season 1 (2016) (DVD)
  • Moonlight (2017) (DVD, Kanopy)
  • Pariah (2011) (DVD)
  • Saving Face (2005) (DVD)

For more movies, click here

Check out Kanopy's 2021 curated Pride Month film list, click here

Listen

Podcasts
For Music CDs, click here

Photo of Brazilian Man with Text and 'Places to Visit'

3600 N. Mission Rd. 
Los Angeles 90031
(213) 485-5572

List of LGBTQ historic landmarks and hidden gems exploring the history of the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles

2355 Cove Ave. 
Los Angeles 90039

909 West Adams Blvd. 
Los Angeles 90007
(213) 740-9145

626 N. Robertson Blvd. 
West Hollywood 90069
(213) 741-0094

1125 N. McCadden Place 
Los Angeles 90038
(323) 860-7302

1727 N. Spring St. 
Los Angeles 90012