June by Genre

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June is a month for so many things! Pride, African-American Music Appreciation Month, National Safety Month, and Juneteenth to name a few. While we have books for all of them on our library display, we wanted to approach June by genre and highlight a few that may speak to your particular tastes: Own Voices, Graphic Novels and Manga, Picture Books, Films, Humor, Music, Biography, History, and How-To.

Own Voices

• Queers destroy fantasy! special issue (some Fantasy content available online too)
• Queers destroy horror! special issue (some Horror content available online too)
• Queers destroy science fiction! special issue (some Science Fiction content available online too)

In these “Queers Destroy” special issues, you’ll find fiction, essays, and art by queer people related to each genre

• The remedy: queer and trans voices on health and health care 
• Criptiques 
• Notes and tones: musician-to-musician interviews 
• Freedom in my heart: voices from the United States National Slavery Museum 

Graphic Novels and Manga

• Fun home: a family tragicomic 
• Wandering son

Picture Books

• • Grandad’s camper 
  • Julián is a mermaid 
  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul 
  • Nina: a story of Nina Simone 
  • Juneteenth for Mazie 

Films

• After Stonewall (online)
• Drumline (DVD)
• Race in America: History Matters with Annette Gordon-Reed, Historian & Author, “On Juneteenth” (online)

Humor

• Mean 

Myriam Gurba’s debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy.

• I can’t date Jesus: love, sex, family, race, and other reasons I’ve put my faith in Beyoncé 
• Love, peace, and soul: behind the scenes of America’s favorite dance show Soul Train

Music

• The original jazz masters series vol. 1. 
• Carmen: MTV’s hip hopera
• Fanfare for the common man; Rodeo; Billy the Kid; Appalachian Spring, composed by Aaron Copland
• The New York Philharmonic plays Charles Ives, conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Learn more about Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein in the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America online

Biography

• The autobiography of a transgender scientist by Ben Barres
• Born both: an intersex life by Hida Viloria
• Music is my mistress by Duke Ellington
• And so I sing: African-American divas of opera and concert 

History

• The struggle against slavery: a history in documents 
• Sporting gender: the history, science, and stories of transgender and intersex athletes

How-To

• Careful: a user’s guide to our injury-prone minds 
• The art of invisibility: the world’s most famous hacker teaches you how to be safe in the age of Big Brother and big data 
• Transgender in the workplace: the complete guide to the new authenticity for employers and gender-diverse professionals