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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.766 FADERM 2015
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306.766 FADERM 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.766 FADERM 2015
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306.766 FADERM 2015
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The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s; the counter reaction of the 1970s and...
42) Untamed
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DOYLE 2020
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BIO DOYLE 2020
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DOYLE 2020
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BIO DOYLE 2020
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DOYLE 2020
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BIO DOYLE 2020
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO KING 2021
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BIO KING 2021
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO KING 2021
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BIO KING 2021
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"In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profound impact on her worldview from the women's movement,...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
346.0168 ISSENB 2021
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346.0168 ISSENB 2021
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"On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, Sasha Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.1969 SCHULM 2021
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362.1969 SCHULM 2021
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"A groundbreaking history of ACT UP and the AIDS crisis. In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.768 MOCK 2014
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306.768 MOCK 2014
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Janet Mock establishes herself as a resounding and inspirational voice for the transgender community—and anyone fighting to define themselves on their own terms. With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
780.866 BULLOC 2017
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780.866 BULLOC 2017
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Explores the influence of LGBT musicians on music history, including David Bowie, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury.
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay communitys struggle for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MCBRID 2019
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BIO MCBRID 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MCBRIDE 2019
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BIO MCBRIDE 2019
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MCBRID 2019
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BIO MCBRID 2019
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A captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country. Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come outnot just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. Shed known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but it...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
306.7663 POSSAN 2023
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306.7663 POSSAN 2023
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"For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world’s...
50) Sticker
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
744 HOKE 2022
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744 HOKE 2022
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"Stickers adorn our first memories, dot our notebooks and our walls, are stuck annoyingly on fruit, and accompany us into adulthood to announce our beliefs from car bumpers. They hold surprising power in their ability to define and provoke, and hold a strange steadfast presence in our age of fading physical media. Henry Hoke employs a constellation of stickers to explore queer boyhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence"--
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
365.4309 RYAN 2022
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365.4309 RYAN 2022
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"The Women's House of Detention, Greenwich Village's most forbidding and forgotten queer landmark, stood from 1929 to 1974, imprisoning tens of thousands from all over New York City. The little-known stories of the queer women and trans-masculine people incarcerated in this building present a uniquely queer argument for prison abolition. The "House of D" acted as a nexus, drawing queer women down to Greenwich Village from every corner of the city....
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.768 GOETSC 2022
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306.768 GOETSC 2022
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Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn’t even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch’s This Body I Wore chronicles one woman’s long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. “How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JETTEKNOX 2019
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BIO JETTEKNOX 2019
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"All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes chaotic. At school, she was bullied mercilessly, and at the age of fourteen, she entered a counselling program for alcohol addiction and was successful. While still a teenager, she met the love of her life. They were wed at 20, and the first of three children followed...
54) The fixed stars
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WIZENBERG 2020
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BIO WIZENBERG 2020
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The Fixed Stars is a taut, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love. The result is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.6 GUTOWI 2022
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814.6 GUTOWI 2022
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"Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.Jill Gutowitz's life-for better and worse-has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.768 MACK 2021
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306.768 MACK 2021
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"A poignant narrative of one mom's struggle to support her transgender daughter-showing how any parent can forge a deeper bond with their child by truly listening"--
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.8742 ROUSE 2022
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306.8742 ROUSE 2022
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Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals. For decades,...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HAYNES 2022
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BIO HAYNES 2022
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HAYNES 2022
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BIO HAYNES 2022
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"Four years ago, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He’d had two seizures, lost the sight in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an involuntary psychiatry hold. Not yet thirty, he knew he had to take stock of his life and make some serious changes if he wanted to see his next birthday. As he worked towards sobriety, Haynes allowed himself to become vulnerable for the first time in years and with that, discovered profound self-awareness....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BEARD 2020
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BIO BEARD 2020
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BEARD 2020
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BIO BEARD 2020
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"The definitive biography of America's best-known and least understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. After World War II, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence and collection of whimsical bow ties synonymous with the...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
974.725 PARLET 2022
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974.725 PARLET 2022
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A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a stunning ocean backdrop. Now, poet and scholar Jack...