Pride month has just wrapped up, but we can continue to celebrate it and learn more throughout the year.
Curious about the different pride flags you have seen last month?
Looking to improve your LGBTQIA+ vocabulary, learn more about the community, and be a strong ally?
Scroll down for more Pride resources recommended by your librarians!
The Letters and Colors of Pride
The LGBTQIA+ acronym includes and recognizes diverse identities within the community.
LGBTQIA+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual.
The “plus”(+) in LGBTQ+ or LGBTQIA+ includes individuals whose identities are not represented or not fully represented by the letters in the acronym.
Watch writer, educator, and historian Blair Imani explain the importance of using an expansive and inclusive acronym:
![read this to get smarter: about race class gender disability & more by blair imani](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/read-this-to-get-smarter-about-race-class-gender-disability-more-by-blair-imani.jpg?resize=260%2C346&ssl=1)
Check out Blair Imani’s awesome book Read this to Get Smarter about Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More, available at Main Campus, Orange County Campus, and Northern Durham Campus libraries.
Just like the LGBTQIA+ acronym, Pride flags continue to evolve to include diverse identities within the community. Here’s a quick overview of some of these changes:
![Rainbow pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Pride_flag_original.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
The iconic rainbow flag, designed by Gilbert Baker, first flown at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978.
Gilbert Baker
![Transgender Pride flag](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Transgender_Pride_flag.jpg?resize=754%2C452&ssl=1)
The Transgender Pride flag, designed by Monica Helms in 1999 and first flown at the Phoenix Pride parade in 2000.
![Philadelphia Pride Flag with black and brown stripes](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Philadelphia_Pride_Flag.jpg?resize=256%2C158&ssl=1)
The More Colors More Pride flag, introduced in 2017 by the Philadelphia office of LGBT Affairs and Amber Hikes. Black and brown stripes were included to address racism within the LGBTQIA+ community and express solidarity with LGBTQIA+ people of color.
![Progress Pride flag incorporating transgender flag and black and brown stripes](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Pride-Month.jpeg?resize=754%2C502&ssl=1)
The Progress Pride Flag, designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018 to celebrate diversity and advocate for inclusion within the LGBTQIA+ community.
Amber Hikes (More Colors More Pride flag)
Visit prideflags.org to learn more about these and other flags representing multiple identities that make up the LGBTQIA+ community!
Learn More at the Library
Keep learning about gender and sexual diversity and LGBTQIA+ inclusion and equity and check out our selection of educational resources and guides.
![She/He/They/Me: for the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/he_she_they_me.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1)
![Gender: Your Guide, a gender-friendly primer on what to know, what to say, and what to do in the new gender culture by lee airton](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Gender-your-guide-a-gender-friendly-primer-on-what-to-know-what-to-say-and-what-to-do-in-the-new-gender-culture-by-lee-airton.jpg?resize=196%2C300&ssl=1)
![Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: a Resource by and for Transgender Communities, edited by Laura Erikson-Schroth](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Trans_Bodies_Trans_Selves_a_Resource.jpg?resize=232%2C300&ssl=1)
![How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity by Stuart Getty and illustrated by Brooke Thyng](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/How-to-They-Them-A-Visual-Guide-to-Nonbinary-Pronouns-and-the-World-of-Gender-Fluidity-by-Stuart-Getty-and-illustrated-by-Brooke-Thyng.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1)
![What's your pronoun? Beyond he & she by Dennis Baron (he/him/his)](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Whats-your-pronoun-beyond-he-and-she-by-Dennis-Baron.jpg?resize=198%2C300&ssl=1)
![Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples by Frederick Hertz and Emily Doskow](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Legal-Guide-for-Lesbian-and-Gay-Couples-1.jpg?resize=233%2C300&ssl=1)
![Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Intersection_Allies.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1)
![Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/life_isnt_binary.jpg?resize=192%2C300&ssl=1)
![Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare by Ben Vincent](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Nonbinary_Genders.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1)
![Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health: Understanding the Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/pocket_guide.jpg?resize=205%2C347&ssl=1)
![Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ace.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1)
(HQ 21 .C456 C4 2020) and as an ebook in Dogwood Digital Library
![Read this, save lives : a teacher's guide to creating safer classrooms for LGBTQ+ students by Sameer Jha](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Read_this_save_lives.jpg?resize=187%2C300&ssl=1)
![Care work: dreaming disability justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/care_work.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1)
(HV 1568 .P534 2018) and as an ebook in Dogwood Digital Library
![Clinician's Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care: cultural safety and social justice in primary, sexual, and reproductive healthcare](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/clinicians_guide_to_LGBTQIA_care.jpg?resize=210%2C300&ssl=1)
(RA 564.9 .S49 C55 2022)
![They/Them/Their by Eris Young](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/they_them_their.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1)
Dogwood Digital Library
And — read about the diverse lived experiences of members of the LGBTQIA+ community, shared through memoirs and stories.
![all boys aren't blue a memoir-manifesto by george m. johnson](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/all-boys-arent-blue-a-memoir-manifesto-by-george-m.-johnson.jpg?resize=326%2C500&ssl=1)
and as an audiobook through
Dogwood Digital Library
![Tomorrow Will Be Different Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tomorrow-Will-Be-Different-Love-Loss-and-the-Fight-for-Trans-Equality-by-Sarah-McBride.jpg?resize=754%2C1163&ssl=1)
(HQ 77.8 .M387 A3 2018)
![How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/How-We-Fight-for-Our-Lives-A-Memoir-by-Saeed-Jones.jpg?resize=181%2C278&ssl=1)
![Surpassing Certainty: What my Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Surpassing_Certainty.jpg?resize=754%2C1140&ssl=1)
![Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us by C.N. Lester](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Trans_like_me.jpg?resize=754%2C1141&ssl=1)
(HQ 77.8 .L48 A3 2018)
![The Natural Mother of the Child: a Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Natural_Mother_of_the_Child.jpg?resize=331%2C499&ssl=1)
![We are Not Broken by George M. Johnson](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/We_are_not_broken.jpg?resize=332%2C499&ssl=1)
![Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Nonbinary_Memoirs.jpg?resize=333%2C500&ssl=1)
![Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Here-for-It-Or-How-to-Save-Your-Soul-in-America-by-R.-Eric-Thomas.jpg?resize=331%2C500&ssl=1)
![Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Growing_up_trans.jpg?resize=754%2C754&ssl=1)
![With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in their Own Words by Mael Embser-Herbert and Bree Fram](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/With_Honor_and_Integrity.jpg?resize=331%2C500&ssl=1)
(UB 418 .T72 W58 2021)
![The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Prince_of_Los_Cocuyos.jpg?resize=331%2C500&ssl=1)
(PS 3552 .L36533 .Z46 2014)
![Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family by Amanda Jette Knox](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Love_lives_here.jpg?resize=333%2C500&ssl=1)
(HQ 77.95 .C2 J48 2019)
![In the Dreamhouse: a Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/in-the-dream-house-a-memoir-by-carmen-maria-machado.jpg?resize=510%2C680&ssl=1)
Dogwood Digital Library
![Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals by saidiya hartman](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Wayward-Lives-Beautiful-Experiments-intimate-histories-of-riotous-black-girls-troublesome-women-and-queer-radicals-by-saidiya-hartman.jpg?resize=510%2C680&ssl=1)
Dogwood Digital Library
College Resources
Looking for ways to advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community at Durham Tech or to share campus resources with colleagues and students? Check out some of the resources below!
![Durham Tech Safe Zone logo](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Safe-Zone-Logo.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1)
The Safe Zone Committee is a group of faculty and staff charged with creating and sustaining “a culture of advocacy, inclusion, and accessibility for members of the LGBTQ+ community” on Durham Tech’s campuses.
![Philadelphia Pride flag with 8 stripes](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Spectrum.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1)
SPECTRUM provides a safe, inclusive space for the LGBTQ+ community at Durham Tech. Club faculty advisors, Marina DelVecchio and Jackie Ross, share that in Fall 2022 “students can expect weekly meetings with candid discussions to assess student needs, participation in poetry readings and community activities, the development of a newsletter, and film opportunities with panel experts.”
Students interested in joining SPECTRUM can contact Dr. Marina DelVecchio, delvecchiom@durhamtech.edu or join using this link: https://spectrumdtcc.carrd.co/#join .
![All Gender Sign black triangle in white circle](https://i0.wp.com/libraryblog.durhamtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/all_gender_restroom_sign.png?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Look for this symbol on the campus map to find locations of All Gender restrooms.
Include your Name, Pronouns, and Gender Identity at Durham Tech
Did you know that you can specify your pronouns, gender identity, and now — your chosen name at Durham Tech? See the Chosen Name Change Information page for directions and additional resources.