UC Irvine Libraries invite you to celebrate Pride Month with the help of our resources. Learn about key LGBTQ+ milestones and figures at UC Irvine, in Orange County, and beyond. Our research guides and archival collections document political, social, and cultural movements throughout the 20th century and up to the present day. Also enjoy books, films, and art created by LGBTQ+ artists and honoring the community.*

Unless they specify a UC Irvine login, these materials are available to the public year-round, at no cost.

For research help with gender and sexuality studies, contact Research Librarian for Interdisciplinary Studies Melissa Beuoy at melissa.beuoy@uci.edu or visit guides.lib.uci.edu for a complete list of Libraries’ research guides.

Online Resources

• Celebrating One and All: LGBTQ+ Pride Research Guide
• Drama Research Guide, includes a list of LGBTQ+ playwrights
• Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Guide
• Rainbow is my Favorite Color: Celebrating Pride Month OverDrive collection (requires UC Irvine login)
• Films for Pride Month collection on Kanopy (requires UC Irvine login)
• LGBTQ+ studies documentaries on Docuseek (requires UC Irvine login)
• UC Irvine Drama Library: Allows you to browse UC Irvine Libraries’ play collection by LGBTQ stories, playwright gender, and playwright sexual orientation.

Recent Book Acquisitions

• The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law, by Senthorun Sunil Raj, explores how emotions structure legal conflicts over LGBT rights.
• One of Them, by Shaneel Lal, is a memoir about growing up queer in a traditional Fijian village, facing family condemnation and conversion therapy attempts, and then escaping to New Zealand where the author founded the Conversion Therapy Action Group to ban such practices and protect others from similar trauma.
• Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History, by Frank Perez, documents the rich LGBTQ+ history of New Orleans, covering topics from Gay Carnival and historic bars to activism, the Up Stairs Lounge fire, and Southern Decadence.
• How to Build LGBTQ+ Inclusive Workplaces, by Binna Kandola and Ashley Williams, uses psychological approaches to creating welcoming organizational environments, covering historical context, workplace discrimination, intersectionality, and practical strategies for implementation.
• Suspect Subjects: Queer Legal Futures in the US after Bostock, by Laura Borchert and illustrated by Kordula Röckenhaus, examines the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the United States, deconstructing naturalized assumptions about queerness in law and culture while advocating for suspect classification to secure queer rights and offering a cultural studies perspective on equal protection and sexual orientation through a queer hermeneutics of law.
• Gender, Sexuality and Life Course: Research and Dialogues over Contemporary Social Transformations, edited by Carlos Eduardo Henning, Guita Grin Debert, and Julio Assis Simões, examines contemporary social transformations in gender and sexuality across different life stages through anthropological perspectives.
• The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities, by Phillip M. Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl, is about the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights, exploring how moral conservative networks function through key actors, claims, and venues of resistance, while also analyzing how the LGBTI movement responds to these transnational efforts to roll back sexual and gender minority rights.
• Sexual Orientation and Identity: A Philosophical Analysis, by Matthew Andler, is a philosophical examination of the social ontology of sexual orientation, distinguishing between sexual orientation and sexual identity while arguing that sexual dispositions ground sexual orientations through their relation to heteropatriarchal kinship structures. It also explores how queer and straight identities function politically in resisting or entrenching these structures.

Archival Collections

• Love is Love: Celebrating Pride and the Arts: Created by Visual Arts Librarian Jenna Dufour and Performing Arts Librarian Scott Stone in 2020 to mark the 50th anniversary of Gay Pride* in the United States, this digital display explores some of the Libraries performing and visual art collections created by LGBTQ+ artists. In addition to providing a brief history LGBTQ Pride Month in the United States, the site highlights both widely and little known contributions to the visual arts.
• LGBT history in Orange County: Visit the Online Archive of California for a list of physical collections within UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives related to LGBTQ+ organizations and activism in Orange County and at UC Irvine. Materials in the University Archive and Orange County Regional History Collection range from oral histories to photographs and ephemera, including pamphlets, festival guides, and newspaper articles.
• Orange County Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Timeline Research Files: This collection, which consists of newspaper clippings, publications, and ephemera, highlights important people, organizations, and events related to the LGBT communities in Orange County.

Diversity of UC Irvine Libraries’ Collections

UC Irvine Libraries collects materials in all formats to support the university’s research, teaching, and public service mission.

We believe it is crucial that our collections reflect the diversity of our students, faculty, staff, and larger Orange County community. Thus, we are making an effort to collect materials that consider the needs and perspectives of historically under-represented, marginalized, and oppressed groups. For more information, please refer to our Diversity Statement and Plan.

For additional information about UC Irvine Libraries’ efforts to celebrate diversity in its users, staff, collections, and resources, visit the UC Irvine Libraries Diversity webpage.

*The acceptability of language and how LGBTQ+ groups self-identify continuously evolves over time. Although current usage may differ, this article retains the original names of each collection and resource to provide historical context.