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Recommended
Resources
Websites
Local Resources
Q Center - http://www.pdxqcenter.org/
Local community resource center and
safe space. Umbrella organization for many local queer nonprofits.
SMYRC - http://www.smyrc.org/
Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Resource Center. Two locations – one downtown, one in Gresham. This nonprofit
provides support to SGM youth, including job training, housing support and
community building.
Bi Brigade - http://www.bibrigade.org/
Portland’s first Bi/Pan+ community
nonprofit. Hosts monthly community building events and discussion groups.
PFLAG Portland - https://www.pflagpdx.org/
One of the longest-running queer nonprofits.
This is a support group for parents and friends of LGBTQ+ people. Their monthly
meetings are open to anyone to drop by.
Books
Queer theory, gender theory: an instant primer by Riki Anne Wilchins
A big read masquerading as a
small book. This densely packed but very readable informative guide to the
basics of queer and gender theory is one I return to again and again.
Straight: the surprisingly short history of
heterosexuality by Hanne Blank
Did you know no one was
heterosexual until the mid-1800s? Of course, no one was homosexual either,
because the concept of defining oneself as either option didn’t come into being
until then. What does this mean for our understandings of how sex and gender
work? This is on the academic side but she includes lots of personal anecdotes.
She’s also very active on Facebook – we’re friends!
A positive view of LGBTQ: embracing identity and
cultivating well-being by Ellen D.B. Riggle and Sharon S. Rostosky
A refreshing break from the many,
many accounts of traumatic life stories.
Bi: Notes for a bisexual revolution by Shiri
Eisner
A great introduction to the
politics and revolution of bisexuality. Told from a intersectional,
international perspective.
Library-specific:
Out behind the desk: Workplace issues for LGBTQ
librarians, edited by Tracy Marie Nectoux
A good reference book for LGBTQ
librarians as well as those they work with. Includes guides on gender
transitions at work, disclosure of sexual orientation at religious
universities, and more.
Queers online: LGBT digital practices in libraries,
archives, and museums edited by Rachel Wexelbaum
Covers access and content issues
regarding queer online resources
LGBTQ+ and Religion:
Does Jesus really love me? : a gay Christian's
pilgrimage in search of God in America by Jeff Chu
Loves God, likes girls : a memoir by Sally
Gary
Unclobber : rethinking our misuse of the Bible on
homosexuality by Colby Martin
Space at the table : conversations between an
evangelical theologian and his gay son by Brad and Drew Harper
Gender:
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice
Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to
Become the Lovely Lady She is Today by Kate Bornstein and Gender Outlaw: On men, women, and the rest
of us by Kate Bornstein
Kate Bornstein is a phenomenal
trans activist. Her two memoirs are classics on the experience of trans-ness,
the struggles she’s faced to transition, and her insightful views on gender,
politics, and sexuality.
Gender Outlaws: the next generation edited by
Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
An essay collection follow-up to Gender Outlaw. Highly recommended.
Redefining Realness: my path to womanhood, identity, love
& so much more by Janet Mock
Janet Mock’s memoir is a beautiful
insight to growing up trans. I highly recommend this to people working at
Concordia because of how many students grew up in Hawaii, as Janet’s story
highlights the cultural differences between how Hawaiians and mainlanders view
transgender people.
Just for fun:
Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison
Bechdel
Two coming out stories wrapped into
one absorbing graphic novel. Alison explores what it means to come out as a
lesbian, while her father struggles with remaining closeted.
Anything that loves: comics beyond "gay" and
"straight" edited by Charles "Zan" Christensen
An anthology of bi+ comics. A quote
from a friend, “This book made me realize that it was okay to be bisexual.”
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The fictional epic of Calliope and
her rogue genes.
Fact Sheets
HRC &
BiNet USA report on Bisexual Youth: http://www.hrc.org/youth-report/supporting-and-caring-for-our-bisexual-youth
“Understanding
Issues Facing Bisexual Americans” http://www.lgbtmap.org/understanding-issues-facing-bisexual-americans
“Suicide
attempts among transgender and gender non-conforming adults” https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf
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