What is Pride Month?
LGBT Pride Month occurs in the United States to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. As a result, many pride events are held during this month to recognize the impact LGBT people have had in the world.
“Three presidents of the United States have officially declared a pride month. First, President Bill Clinton declared June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month” in 1999 and 2000. Then from 2009 to 2016, each year he was in office, President Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. Later, President Joe Biden declared June LGBTQ+ Pride Month in 2021. Donald Trump became the first Republican president to acknowledge LGBT Pride Month in 2019, but he did so through tweeting rather than an official proclamation; the tweet was later released as an official “Statement from the President.”
The voice and work of the LGBTQ+ community remain underrated and overlooked whether it is in TV shows, films or even books.
So, now as pride month 2022 is going, here are some books suggestion published by LGBTQ+ authors, caging forms and genres as wide-ranging.
- All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
“All Boys Aren’t Blue is young adult non-fiction “memoir-manifesto” by journalist and activist George M. (Matthew) Johnson, published April 28, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The book consists of a series of essays following Johnson’s journey growing up as a queer Black man in Plainfield, New Jersey, and Virginia. In addition to describing Johnson’s own experience, it directly addresses Black queer boys who may not have someone in their life with similar experiences.”
All Boys Aren’t Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy.
- High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez
“I’ve always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold onto pride for survival, but excessive male pride is often what we are battling, both in ourselves and in others.”
“A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor’s office where he was diagnosed as a “high-risk homosexual.”
- The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit.
The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of how trans women of colour in the LGBTQ+ community in the 1980s handled the stigma that is attached to them.
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