LGBTQ+ Pride Month is celebrated in June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, which was a key moment in the gay rights movement in the United States. You're invited to explore the many LGBTQ+ books and resources we offer.

Books That Matter

Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminisim by Marquis Bey

This collection of essays unsettles normative ways of understanding Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness.

Books That Matter is a curated exhibit of our larger collection to highlight diverse identities, histories, and genres.

The University of Arizona Press

Five Hundred Years of LGBTQIA+ History in Western Nicaragua by Victoria González-Rivera

González-Rivera documents connections between Indigeneity, local commerce, and femininity, demonstrating the long history of LGBTQIA+ Nicaraguans. 

Queer Indigenous Studies edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen 

This collection exams critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit lives and communities, and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies.

The University of Arizona Press (UA Press) is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. UA Press disseminates ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers; and advances the University of Arizona mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.

Archive Tucson oral history short: Colette's Women's Bar

Colette Barajas talks about her decision to start a women’s bar in 1983, harassment by the City of Tucson, her sobriety, and the role of bars in Tucson’s lesbian community during the eighties and early nineties. Listen to audio (4:10)

Archive Tucson is a living and growing collection of audio interviews about life and change in Tucson and Southern Arizona. University Libraries oral historian and videographer, Aengus Anderson, has spent more than six years interviewing 100+ people and recording their stories about our city.

Special Collections Arizona Queer Archives

In partnership with Arizona Queer Archives (AQA), University Libraries Special Collections added LGBTQI as an area of emphasis with nearly 30 collections. AQA centers community participation to build and collect LGBTQI histories throughout Arizona and the US-Mexico borderlands, and includes manuscripts, organizational records, ephemera, oral histories, and more.