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The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert: When Past & Present Collide

Thanks for participating in When LGBTQ+ Past and Present Collide!
How LGBTQ+ History Can Illuminate Today’s Challenges. On this page you'll find a list of materials that correspond to the learning objectives in today's session.

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Ahead of the Met Gala, Remember: You Can’t Have Camp Without Queer by Erika W Smith
An Exploration of Camp: Next Year’s Met Gala Theme Explained by CR Staff
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life by Jason H Jones
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Civini
Eminent Outlaws: Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
Everything You Need to Know About The 2019 Met Gala by Amy De Klerk
Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video by Raymond Murray
Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Stonewall Inn Editions) by Mark Thompson & Randy Shilts
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of Wililam Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman
Op-Ed: The Stonewall I Remember Wasn’t Just White by Irene Moore
Out in All Directions: A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America by Eric Marcus
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
The End of Gay Culture by Andrew Sullivan
The Gay Almanac by National Museum & Archive of Lesbian & Gay History
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
The Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio
The Modernization of Sex: Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters & Virginia Johnson by Paul A Robinson
Transgender History by Susan Striker
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg