Pride Month

June

Glendale Library, Arts & Culture is commemorating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) Pride Month! Join us in celebrating LGBTQIA+ history and culture, and honoring the community’s struggle for inclusion and equity.

Be The Change by exploring these booklists:

• Adult Booklist

• Teen Booklist

• Children's Booklists

• The Safe Zone Project provides the following ever-improving list of definitions for terminology relating to LGBTQ+ identities & people, sexualities, and genders.

• This glossary was written by the Human Rights Campaign to help give people the words and meanings to help make conversations easier and more comfortable. LGBTQ people use a variety of terms to identify themselves, not all of which are included in this glossary. Always listen for and respect a person’s self identified terminology.

• GLSEN created this guide to help anyone learn how to use people’s correct pronouns.

• UCSF LGBT Resource Center created Pronouns Matter to help advance the knowledge of using everyone's correct gender pronouns and strive for a more inclusive environment.

• NPR presents A Guide To Gender Identity Terms. This guide is not exhaustive, and is Western and U.S.-centric. Other cultures may use different labels and have other conceptions of gender.

Be The Change by exploring these online resources:

• glendaleOUT is Glendale’s grass-roots LGBTQIA+ organization. Their goal is for this queer community to be part of the broader narrative that is Glendale. They do this through political action, community building, and social connection.

• Armunity is designed to help individuals and families in the Armenian community of Los Angeles find and receive quality mental health care.

• The GCC Pride Center intends to provide a secure, supportive, and accepting environment for students who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+), and their allies.

• The mission of the GALASLA is to provide a safe and supportive network for LGBTQ people of Armenian descent. The GALAS will help connect the LGBTQ and Armenian communities.

• LGBT Seniors is focused on assisting support for the LGBT seniors; together LGBT activists, seniors and renters worked together to form the first city, West Hollywood, in the nation for openly gay people.

• The Los Angeles LGBT Center is supported by one of the largest and most experienced research teams who focuses on the health and mental healthcare of LGBT people.

• The ONE Archives at USC Libraries is the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. The Archives house over two million items, some of which have been digitized for your research and browsing needs.

Be The Change by exploring these online resources:

• GLAAD handles challenging issues to help lead to cultural changes and protects all accomplishments.

• GLSEN believes that every student has the right to a safe, supportive, and LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 education. They are a national network of educators, students, and local GLSEN Chapters working to make this right a reality. 

• The PFLAG Chapter Network--with over 400 chapters across the country--provides confidential peer support, education, and advocacy to LGBTQ+ people, their parents and families, and allies.

• Youth Resources will help parents, guardians and other family members of LGBT youth to gain access to the resources they need to ensure that their children are safe and supported.  

• The Trevor Project was created to respond to a public health crisis that effect LGBTQ youth. The research team published the nation’s first estimate of LGBTQ youth considering suicide.  

• TED is dedicated to share ideas, in the form of powerful talks, about global issues including LGBTQ issues.   

• Transquality is the National Center for Transgender Equality. It is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization for transgender people. 

• The National LGBTQ Task Force is the oldest national LGBTQ advocacy group. The Task Force is training millions of activist across the nation to help assist in ending discrimination again LGBTQ people.

• The Safe Zone Project (SZP) is a free online resource providing curricula, activities, and other resources for educators facilitating Safe Zone trainings (sexuality, gender, and LGBTQ+ education sessions), and learners who are hoping to explore these concepts on their own.

• The Human Rights Campaign envisions a world where every member of the LGBTQ family has the freedom to live their truth without fear, and with equality under the law.

• The Welcoming Project began in 2011 to encourage businesses, health care/service providers, organizations, and congregations to display welcoming signs for the purpose of making LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) individuals and allies feel welcomed as patrons.

• The Queer Armenian Library is an effort to gather many special pieces that were made by Queer Armenians and made about Queer Armenians. These pieces can include essays, memoirs, novels, poetry, and films. J.P. Der Boghossian is the curator of the library.

• Equality Armenia has a mission to encourage and facilitate a constructive dialogue in Armenian communities about LGBTQ inclusiveness, equal rights and equal protections under law. LGBTQ rights are human rights.