Rainbow Reads for Pride Month

Submitted by Durham Tech Library on
plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth
cemetary boys by aiden thomas, read by avi roque
honey girl by morgan rogers
the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune
Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau
the prophets by robert jones jr., read by Karen Chilton
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Makenzi Lee, narrated by Christian Coulson
the black flamingo by dean atta
on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong
the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo, read by Natalie Naudus

Celebrate Pride with these colorful reads from the Durham Tech Library collections. 

PRIDE Scrabble letters on a faded rainbow background

Explore our (mostly) nonfiction display on Main Campus.

Main Campus 2021 Pride Display-- Happy LGBTQIA PRIDE Month!
Includes the following books from the Main Campus Collection: Being Jazz, It Gets Better, We Are Everywhere, Chicken Girl, The Stonewall Reader, How We Fight for Our Lives, The Gravity of Us, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope, Beyond Marriage, Cannon Ball, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Transgender Rights, Love Lives Here, The Book of Pride, Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina, One Life, and The Children of Harvey Milk

And our variety of fiction reads online in our Dogwood Digital Library collection and on the Main and Orange County Campuses. 

  • The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
    Available at the Orange County Campus (PR 9387.9 .E42 D43 2020)
  • Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
    Available at the Orange County Campus (PS 3613 .C587545 R43 2019) and as an ebook through Dogwood Digital Library
  • You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
    Available as an ebook through Dogwood Digital Library

Click on the link in the book caption to read more about each book and to put a hold on physical books and check out digital books. 

Want to learn more about Pride and the history of gay rights in the United States? 

Check out PBS's American Experience episode on the Stonewall Riots channel in Films on Demand(link is external) (log in with your Durham Tech username and password). 

American Experience Films (PBS). In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state. That was about to change. Stonewall Uprising.
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