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The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader by Alison Halsall (Editor); Jonathan Warren (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781496841391

Publication Date: 2022

Explores the exemplary trove of LGBTQ+ comics that coalesced in the underground and alternative comix scenes of the mid-1960s and in the decades after.
LGBTQ Life in America by Melissa R. Michelson; Brian F. Harrison
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781440875069

Publication Date: 2021

Provides facts and context for the most important questions facing LGBTQ Americans, past, present, and future.
The Queer Games Avant-Garde by Bo Ruberg
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781478007302

Publication Date: 2020

Twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games.
Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature : LGBTQ+ Content Since 1969 by Christine A. Jenkins and Michael Cart
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781442278073

Publication Date: 2018

Charts the evolution of YA literature that features characters and themes which resonate not only with LGBTQ+ readers but with their allies as well.

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