Theme: Pride In All Who Serve / A Place For All
The Department of Defense (DOD) recognizes June as Pride Month, celebrating LGBTQI+ Service members who have courageously served and sacrificed in the U.S. military. The DoD is dedicated to establishing an environment that optimizes individual talents, boosts morale, and improves military effectiveness.
This year's theme "Pride in All Who Serve—A Place for All" is provided by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. The poster created this year highlights a single table-top tent card with the word “Everyone” printed on it, visually representing a place for all at the table.
The first Pride march occurred in New York City on June 28, 1970, the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, New York which was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. By all estimates, there were upwards of 3-5,000 marchers at the inaugural Pride in New York City, and today NYC marchers number in the millions. Since 1970, LGBTQ people have continued to gather together in June to march with Pride and demonstrate for equal rights.
As we celebrate Pride Month, let us take pride in all who serve and perhaps take some time to read one of the books listed below in support of this observance. These books are either available in the LRC for checkout or can be accessed online as eBooks through our EBSCOhost eBooks Collection. Access eBooks by using the credentials posted on the Blackboard LRC Information page or click on an eBook title and login with your library account credentials. Please contact the LRC if you have any questions.
eBooks available through EBSCOhost database
Coming out under fire: The history of gay men and women in World War II by ISBN: 9780807871775Publication Date: 2010-09-07
A few good gays : The gendered compromises behind military inclusion by ISBN: 9780520382688Publication Date: 2023
Fighting proud: The untold story of the gay men who served in two world wars by ISBN: 9781784538743Publication Date: 2017-06-06
The last deployment: How a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq by ISBN: 9780299282141Publication Date: 2011-06-08
Masked voices: Gay men and lesbians in Cold War America by ISBN: 9781438440149Publication Date: 2012-04-01
Soldier of change: From the closet to the forefront of the gay rights movement by ISBN: 9781612346977Publication Date: 2014-09-15
Tell: Love, defiance, and the military trial at the tipping point for gay rights by ISBN: 9781611688429Publication Date: 2017-10-03
One of the boys: Homosexuality in the military during World War II by ISBN: 9780773537149Publication Date: 2010-03-15
Books available in the LRC and which are on display during the month of June
Gays and the military: Joseph Steffan versus the United States by Call Number: KF228 .S74 S74 1993ISBN: 0691033072Publication Date: 1993-10-24
Fighting with pride: LGBTQ in the armed forces by Call Number: UB419 .G7 F54 2019ISBN: 9781526765253Publication Date: 2020-02-08
Documents of the LGBT movement by Call Number: HQ76.3 .U5 S756 2018ISBN: 9781440855016Publication Date: 2018-05-25
Soldiers don't go mad: A story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War by Call Number: D524.5 .G53 2023ISBN: 9781984877956Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Female Husbands: A Trans History by Call Number: HQ77.9 .M26 2020ISBN: 9781108483803Publication Date: 2020-03-26
Honor bound: A gay American fights for the right to serve his country by Call Number: VB324 .G38 S74 1992ISBN: 9780679416609Publication Date: 1992-09-01
Our time: Breaking the silence of "Don't ask, don't tell" by Call Number: UB418 .G38 O89 2011ISBN: 9781594203312Publication Date: 2011-10-13
Conduct unbecoming: Gays and lesbians in the U.S. military : Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Call Number: UB418 .G38 S55 1993ISBN: 9780312092610Publication Date: 1993-04-01
The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935) by Call Number: HQ76.5 .L38ISBN: 9780878105274Publication Date: 1974-12-01
The information on this page is credited to the Library of Congress' LGBTQ Pride Month page and from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute's human relations toolkit for special observances, Pride Month.