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Indy Pride Appreciation Night & Annual Meeting
Thursday, November 14, 6:30pm
Central Library
Join Pride as we show our appreciation to our outstanding volunteers, business partners, and community leaders! There will be food, drinks, and (most importantly) laughs. We will celebrate Indy Pride’s donation of the Chistopher Gonzalez Collection to the Indianapolis Public Library and share the unveiling of a plaque in his honor.
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Rainbow Reads Book Club
Tuesday, December 10, 6pm
Central Library
Adults are invited to explore the world of LGBTQ+ literature. Book club picks span from the classics to science fiction and everything in between! We will be reading Sugar Run by Mesha Maren.
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Born Both: An Intersex Life
by Hida Viloria
An intersex activist describes what it was like being raised a girl, but knowing that her genitals, reproductive organs, hormones and chromosomes failed to fit the standard definition of either sex and how she became an advocate for others in similar situations.
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Life Beyond My Body : A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China
by Lei Ming
Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, is barely cared for during his childhood. Often lonely, terrified and abused, he learns early to fend for himself and look within for answers, but there he discovers a paradox that threatens to undo him. Although he does not yet know the word "transsexual," at 16, Ming sets out on a secret mission to find relief. Life Beyond My Body tells the story of his quest to find answers in a society that is closed-mouthed about men like Ming.
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The Talented Miss Highsmith
by Joan Schenkar
Draws on Highsmith archives to reveal the dark private life of the successful 20th-century writer, chronicling her Texas origins through her self-exile in Europe while offering insight into such topics as the influence of Tom Ripley and the Hitchcock film inspired by her first novel.
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A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
by Ma-Nee Chacaby
A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.
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Unbecoming
by Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati
A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical activist dedicated to effecting historic policy reform in the military.
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Uncomfortable Labels
by Laura Kate Dale
In this candid memoir, Laura Kate Dale recounts what life is like growing up as a gay trans woman on the autism spectrum. From struggling with sensory processing and learning social cues and feminine presentation, through to coming out as trans during an autistic meltdown, Laura draws on her personal experiences from life prior to transition and diagnosis, through to the years of self-discovery, to give a unique insight into the nuances of sexuality, gender, and autism, and how they intersect.
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Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party
by Lisa E Davis
At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Calomiris spied on the New York Photo League, pioneers in documentary photography. While local Party officials may have had their sus-picions about her sexuality, her apparent dedication to the cause won them over. When Calomiris testified for the prosecution at the 1949 Smith Act trial of the Party's National Board, her identity as an informant (but not asa lesbian) was revealed. More than 100 party leaders were sent to prison and decimated the ranks of the Communist Party in the US. Undercover Girl is both a new chapter in Cold War history and an intimate look at the relation-ship between the FBI and one of its paid informants. Ambitious and sometimes ruthless, Calomiris defied convention in her quest for celebrity.
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The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
The best-selling author of I Am Not Myself These Days chronicles his laugh-out-loud journey from Manhattan urbanite to mansion-owning goat farmer, an endeavor that he undertook with his life partner, Brent, and which blossomed into a successful soap business, Beekman 1802, and inspired a reality show.
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Coffee with Oscar Wilde
by Merlin Holland
Presents a fictionalized interview with Oscar Wilde, where the colorful literary figure discusses such topics as his sexual preferences and his famous trial and imprisonment.
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Positive Pictures: A Gay History
by Paul Schulz
Aids changed everything about the way gay men live: how we love, how we make love, how we see ourselves and others. Paul Schulz and Christians Lutjens collect images from three decades of fighting, fucking and winning.
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Sex Lives of Famous Lesbians
by Nigel Cawthorne
Irresistible look at the sex lives of some of the world's most famous lesbians. Covers a selection of famous names throughout the ages, Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt, and more.
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Yourcenar
by George Rousseau
Yourcenar moved to America at the outbreak of World War II. IN 1951 the publication of Memoires D'Hadrien, translated by her life-long partner, Grace Frick, brought her international acclaim. This book, written in the form of a diary of the Roman emperor Hadrian, is considered by many to be the greatest historical novel of the twentieth century. In 1980 she became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise.
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