Rainbow Reads for Pride Month

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Celebrate Pride with these colorful reads from the Durham Tech Library collections. 

PRIDE Scrabble letters on a faded rainbow background

Explore our (mostly) nonfiction display on Main Campus.

Main Campus 2021 Pride Display-- Happy LGBTQIA PRIDE Month!
Includes the following books from the Main Campus Collection: Being Jazz, It Gets Better, We Are Everywhere, Chicken Girl, The Stonewall Reader, How We Fight for Our Lives, The Gravity of Us, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope, Beyond Marriage, Cannon Ball, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Transgender Rights, Love Lives Here, The Book of Pride, Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina, One Life, and The Children of Harvey Milk

And our variety of fiction reads online in our Dogwood Digital Library collection and on the Main and Orange County Campuses. 

Click on the link in the book caption to read more about each book and to put a hold on physical books and check out digital books. 

Want to learn more about Pride and the history of gay rights in the United States? 

Check out PBS’s American Experience episode on the Stonewall Riots channel in Films on Demand (log in with your Durham Tech username and password). 

American Experience Films (PBS). In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state. That was about to change. Stonewall Uprising.