Pride month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. The Last Sunday of June was initially celebrated as “LGBTQ Pride Day”. To celebrate Pride with books by LGTQIA+ authors! Where there are inspirational memoirs to irresistible romances, these stories honor the LGBTQ community.
Here are some of books to read during this Pride month. These books tells the difficult journey this community goes through and also the discrimination that they face. Through narration and stories their struggle comes into our full knowledge.
‘We Are Everywhere’ by Mathew Riemer and Leighton Brown****
A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement. Through the lens of protest, power, and pride. We Are Everywhere is an essential introduction-told through stunning photographs and thoroughly researched narrative. Tracing queer activism from its late 19th century European roots to the homophiles who made Stonewall possible. This Beautiful packaged book contains hundreds of photos and pieces of ephemera that allows the reader to see history as they read.