The Holiday Pride:
A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum

Gender Queer is a graphic non-fiction book that the author, Maia Kobabe uses to describe eir own gender struggles. It's a relatable read!

Queer Religiosities is an introductory text that introduces the idea that queerness and religion have much more in common than they don't.

It's rare for two books such as Real Queer America and In Search of Gay America to be so similar thirty years apart. What has changed in thirty years?

Real Queer America by Samantha Allen is a look at the most conservative states in the United States and showcasing their queer oasises. Places where queerness has fought and won a right to exist.

The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts is about Harvy Milk, the first elected openly gay offical in California. Shilts describes Milk's inspiring life and tragic death.

Sex Changes by Pat Califia is a great read for anyone wanting to know what academic work existed for transgender folks in 1997. She covers some amazing sources but, by today's standards, occasionally misses the mark.

The David Kopay Story is a book about the toxic enviornment of Pro-Sports and Kopay coming to terms with that queerness within that environment.

Gender Without Identity is a book about the way gender traumatizes us all.

Going to archives and searching through old documents is a historians favorite past time. The Heinz History Center's archive is an excellent one!

Paper Bullets is a story about a lesbian couple resisting Nazi occupation in their home. This review focuses on just how they resisted and the more hidden elements of World War Two history.

And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts is a near day by day recount of the beginning of the AIDS crisis. Shilts was one of the few journalists who followed AIDS’s progress from the moment it was recognized as a dangerous disease. This book covers the background struggles doctors and gay activists faced in order to achieve any progress with the disease, the government, and each other.

A short and sweet book review to A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister.

Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin is an excellent read for anyone interested in why bars are so important to the queer community.

This is a little insight into how academic and some public history gets going.

This is a review of the book "The Transexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.

This isn't quiet a book review. This book has a special place in my heart and I wanted to reflect on what it means to me.

In Search of Gay America by Niel Miller is a very fun and interesting read about the 'common gay' in America.

This is a book review of Susan Stryker's Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution.

The Ladder was an influential and important work during its run. It was the place for lesbians learn about themselves.

A little bit about how we read and process books for the book reviews.