National Coming Out Day
Coming Out for Equality
October 11 is National Coming Out Day, an annual event sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and to promote LGBT rights. The 2011 theme is Coming Out for Equality. The following are resources from the CSUMB Library and elsewhere on topics of interest to the LGBT community and their straight allies.
LGBT Rights and Activism (selected library books)
The attack queers: Liberal society and the gay right / Richard Goldstein
From the closet to the courtroom: Five LGBT rights lawsuits that have changed our nation / Carlos A. Ball
Gay rights / edited by Kate Burns
How the religious right shaped lesbian and gay activism / Tina Fetner
Out at work: Building a gay-labor alliance / edited by Kitty Krupat, Patrick McCreery
Pre-gay L.A.: A social history of the movement for homosexual rights / C. Todd White
Queer migrations: Sexuality, U.S. citizenship, and border crossings / edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Lionel Cantú, Jr.
The rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people: The authoritative ACLU guide to a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person's rights / Nan D. Hunter, Courtney G. Joslin, Sharon M. McGowan
Transgender rights / edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Price Minter
Coming Out (selected library books)
"--and then I became gay": Young men's stories / Ritch C. Savin-Williams 
Does your mama know? An anthology of black lesbian coming out stories / edited by Lisa C. Moore
It gets better: Coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living / edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
Testimonies: Lesbian and bisexual coming-out stories / edited by Sarah Holmes and Jen Tust
General and Reference (selected library books)
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture
Same Sex Marriage: A Reference Handbook
Who's who in gay and lesbian history: From antiquity to World War II / edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon
Who's who in contemporary gay and lesbian history: From World War II to the present day / edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon
See also
CSUMB Lbrary's Gender Studies research guide
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network
100 Campus Center
