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Welcome

Welcome to our RMIT University Library guide to LGBTIQA+ resources in the Library. RMIT University Library is commited to providing an inclusive service and safe spaces for our students, staff and community on campus.

Read RMIT University Library's Safe and Inclusive Spaces statement.

This guide will help you discover the LGBTIQA+ books, ebooks, academic journals, and films we have in our collection. Also included are links to organisations who provide services to the LGBTIQA+ community.

Some of the resources are for fun and others are for those with more serious research interests.

RMIT University Library is pleased to be a part of Pride Week in 2022, bringing you a range of events and resources celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. To see what we are doing checkout our introductory video!

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Recommended Databases

The following databases provide access to scholarly resources about the LGBTIQA+ community.

Informit
The source for online Australian information. Includes full text journal articles and also a large video collection covering news and documentaries.
IngentaConnect (Ingenta)
Providing access to thousands of online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers.
Taylor & Francis Online
As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology.
Project Muse
MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.
ProQuest
Covering over 90,000 authoritative sources ProQuest is one of the world's most comprehensive collections of digital information. Millions of complete articles are available online in various formats.
SAGE Journals Online
Online access to journals from SAGE Publications
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library provides access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 14,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Award Winners

Confessions of the fox, by Jordy Rosenberg
A gender bending novel set in 18th century London, reimagining the life of Jack Sheppard.
Disoriental, by Négar Djavadi; Tina Kover (Translator)
The story of Kimia Sadr, who fled the Iranian Revolution to join her family in France, and who reflects on memories and stories of her ancestors.
Drapetomania, by John R. Gordon
The story of two black men finding romance in the era of slavery.
The fifth woman, by Nona Caspers
A tale exploring love and romance and how it endures in the face of death.
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
Emezi's debut novel about a young Nigerian woman developing alternate identities.
The house of impossible beauties, by Joseph Cassara
Set in the drag world of 1980s New York, Angel and her partner from the House of Xtravaganza, the first all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit.
Jilted, by Lilah Suzanne
A romantic comedy involving Carter, a weary architect and Link, a genderqueer artist.
La bastarda, by Trifonia Melibea Obono
Revolving around an orphan in Equatorial Guinea, as she comes into conflict with her village's views on gender roles.
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer
A failed novelist embarks on an international journey that sees him experience love and connections from his past.
Little fish, by Casey Plett
A slice of life book following 30 year old trans woman Wendy.
Speak no evil, by Uzodinma Iweala
Two teenagers from different backgrounds try to support each other in trying times.
The tiger flu, by Larissa Lai
A cyberpunk novel involving two Chinese Canadian women living in the futuristic dystopia.
Too much lip, by Melissa Lucashenko
A generational story revolving around a Goorie family in New South Wales.
The wild birds, by Emily Strelow
Three stories set in the 1850s, 1940s and present time involving individuals searching for a place they can belong in.

Australian Authors

Wikipedia LGBT Writers from Australia
For more Australian writers
Alison Evans
Ida, Highway Bodies
Andrea Goldsmith
Invented Lives
Benjamin Law
Growing up Queer In Australia, The Family Law, Gaysia: Adventures In The Queer East
Christos Tsiolkas
The Jesus Man, Dead Europe, Barracuda
Dorothy Porter
Other Worlds, Love Poems, El Dorado.
Ellen van Neerven
Hannah Kent
Marlee Jane Ward
Welcome to Orphancorp
Melissa Lucashenko
Too Much Lip, Steam Pigs, Hard Yards
Nevo Zisin
Finding Nevo
Omar Sakr
The Lost Arabs, These Wild Houses
Patrick White
The Aunt's Story, The Cockatoos, Four Plays.
Robert Dessaix
The Pleasures of Leisure, Twilight of Love, A Mother's Disgrace

Key LGBTIQA+ People in History

Alan Turing
Mathematician, father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
Audrey Lorde
Poet and influential voice in the Black Arts Movement.
Barbara Gittings
LGBTQIA+ activist, involved in the American Library Association.
Bayard Rustin
Member of Civil Rights Movement, close advisor to Martin Luther King.
Christine Jorgensen
Gained fame for being first american transgender woman to go through sex reassignment surgery.
Dennis Altman
Pioneering Australian gay rights activist, author of Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation.
Derek Jarman
Film director, raised awareness of AIDS.
Gilbert Baker
Creator of the LGBTQIA+ Rainbow Pride flag.
Harvey Milk
Human rights leader, became one of the first openly gay elected officials in 1977.
James Baldwin
Playwright and voice of the American Civil Rights movement.
Janet Mock
Trans rights activist, author of Redefining Realness.
Larry Kramer
Co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
Laverne Cox
Actress and Trans Right Activist.
Magnus Hirschfeld
Founder of Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and World League for Sexual Reform.
Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
Leaders of the Gay Liberation Movement, involved in the Stonewall uprisings.
Michael Kirby
Former Justice of High Court Australia.
Rodney Croome
Founder of Australian Marriage Equality, spokesperson for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group
Sally Rugg
Co-director of change.org, campaigner for Safe Schools.

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