Queer Library Alliance
Goes to School
Rae-Anne Montague
Thaddeus Andracki
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Topics
• Selecting materials with GLBTQ
content to support curricular
and personal goals
• Challenges to providing access
to resources
• Developing collections and
programming with GLBTQ
content aligned with community
needs
Intersectionality
“Consider an analogy to traffic in
an intersection, coming and going
in all four directions.
Discrimination, like traffic through
an intersection, may flow in one
direction, and it may flow in
another. If an accident happens in
an intersection, it can be caused
by cars traveling from any number
of directions and sometimes, from
all of them” (Crenshaw 1989).
Selection: Awards
The Rainbow List
Goodreads for Collection Development
and Readers’ Advisory
• https://www.goodreads.com/l
ist/show/3392.LGBT_for_YA#1
7237214
• https://www.goodreads.com/l
ist/show/15647.LGBT_Young_
Adult_YA_Literature#1723721
4
• https://www.goodreads.com/l
ist/show/653.Best_YA_Fiction
_with_GLBTQQI_themes_char
acters?#17237214
Queer Library Alliance Wiki
• http://queerliballiance.wikispot.org/Kids_and_Young_Adult_Books
Professional Resources for Selection
• Jaime Naidoo, Rainbow
Collections
• Carlisle Webber, GLBTQ Teen
Literature: A Guide to Reading
Interests
• Christine Jenkins and Michael
Cart’s new bibliography (see
handout)
Authors to Know
• Malindo Lo
•
• David Levithan
•
• Hannah
Moskowitz
• Scott Tracey •
•
• Lesléa
Newman
•
• Libba Bray
•
• Maureen
Johnson
•
Julie Ann
•
Peters
Francesca Lia •
Block
•
Alex Sanchez •
Todd Parr
Cris Beam
Brent
Hartinger
Bill Konigsberg
Michael
Willhoite
Tomie dePaola
Nancy Garden
Ellen
Wittlinger
Films
Comics and Graphic Novels
Comics and Graphic Novels
•
While it’s important for all students to have
access to a broad range of resources, as Rauch
(2010) describes, it is essential for GLBTQ
students to see themselves reflected in print
and other media to affirm their identities.
Not Recommended
Making Curricular Connections
• Recommended YA Nonfiction with LGBTQ
Content (Jenkins & Cart)
http://go.illinois.edu/lgbtq_ya_nf
Making Curricular Connections
• Reading Group Guides:
• http://books.simonandschuster.com/Ar
istotle-and-Dante-Discover-the-Secretsof-the/Benjamin-AlireSaenz/9781442408937/reading_group
_guide
• http://books.simonandschuster.com/Pe
rfect/EllenHopkins/9781416983255/reading_grou
p_guide
Making Curricular Connections
Challenges
https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/dont-filter-me
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_s_palm_beach_county/boca_raton/fau-gay-student-claims-university-library-turned-him-away-for-looking-like-a-woman
http://www.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/school_anti-bullying_laws_062013.pdf
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/08/21/book-publisher-cancels-release-of-novel-rather-than-allow-gay-author-to-mention-his-partner-in-bio
Programming
Pinterest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_VLQcBhIig
Jane Addams was a
pioneer settlement worker,
founder Hull House in
Chicago, public
philosopher, sociologist,
author, and leader in
women’s suffrage, and
world peace. In 1931 she
became the first American
woman to be awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane
Addams
1884—
1962
Guillermo Diaz is a
Cuban-American Actor. He started in
several 90’s cult-classic films
including Party Girl and Half Baked.
He currently stars in the ABC drama
Scandal, as Huck. Diaz is openly gay,
but told OUT magazine that the fact
that he grew up in a rough
neighborhood made it necessary to
hide his orientation. "That facade of
being somebody I’m really not just
to protect myself definitely helped
with acting.”
Guillermo
Diaz
1975-
Janet Mock is a writer, a
transgender rights
advocate, and the former
staff editor of People
magazine's website. She
has degrees from the
University of Hawaii and
New York University’s
graduate school of
journalism.
Janet
Mock
1984-
Gene Robinson is an American
retired bishop in the Episcopal
Church. Robinson was elected
bishop coadjutor in 2003 and
succeeded as diocesan bishop in
March 2004. Robinson is widely
known for being the first priest in
an openly gay relationship to be
consecrated a bishop in a major
Christian denomination.
Gene
Robinson
1947-
Tammy Baldwin is the junior
United States Senator from
Wisconsin and a member of
the Democratic Party. She is
the first woman elected to
represent Wisconsin in the
Senate and the first openly
gay U.S. Senator in history.
Tammy
Baldwin
1962-
George Takei is an American
actor and author, best known
for his role as Hikaru Sulu,
helmsman of the USS
Enterprise in the television
series Star Trek. He is an out
gay man and a proponent of
gay rights. Active in both state
and local politics, he has won
several awards and accolades
in his work on human rights and
Japanese–American relations.
George
Takei
1937-
Rachel Maddow is an American
television host, political commentator
and author. She hosts a nightly
television show, The Rachel Maddow
Show, on MSNBC. Her syndicated talk
radio program of the same name aired
on Air American Radio. Maddow is the
first openly gay anchor to host a
major prime-time news program
in the United States.
Rachel
Maddow
1973-
James Baldwin was an
American novelist, essayist,
playwright, poet, and social
critic. Baldwin's essays,
such as the collection Notes
of a Native Son, explored
palpable yet unspoken
intricacies of racial, sexual,
and class distinctions in
Western societies.
James
Baldwin
19241987
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican
painter, born in
Coyoacán. Perhaps best known
for her self-portraits, Kahlo's work
is remembered for its "pain and
passion", and its intense, vibrant
colors. Her work has been
celebrated in Mexico as
emblematic of national and
indigenous tradition, and by
feminists for its uncompromising
depiction of the female
experience and form.
Frida
Kahlo
19071954
Barney
Frank
1940Barney Frank is an American
politician who served as a
member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from
Massachusetts from 1981-2013.
A member of the Democratic
Party, he served as chairman of
the House of Financial
Representatives Committee
(2007–2011). Frank, is
considered the most prominent
gay politician in the United
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