June is LGBT Pride Month, and we’re in the dog days of summer here in Poughkeepsie.  It’s an ideal time to dig into our great collection of books and videos on LGBT culture, history and literature.

• To find the most recent LGBT-related  nonfiction in theVassar Library: in the catalog, search for SUBJECT: “Lesbians” or “Gay Men” or “Transgender” or “Bisexuals” and then change the sort to Year (newest to oldest).  You might also want to try the keyword “Queer” and then sort for the newest titles.
• Literature (fiction/plays/poetry) is generally not assigned extensive subject headings, so you might want to check out some blogs and other websites to find authors and titles and then check to see if we have them.  A few of our favorites are Band of Thebes and Lambda Literary and, of course, the Stonewall Book Awards from the American Library Association’s GLBT Roundtable.
• For videos, follow the same method for narrowing the subject and then change View Entire Collection to Videos/DVDs.