June is Pride Month: Celebration + Reading List by ESC

June is Pride Month

Celebration + Reading List

By the Executive Service Corps | Published June 2021

Pride Month is an annual commemoration held during the entire month of June to remember the June 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, New York, that served to launch the LGBTQ rights movement in America. Executive Service Corps encourages all organizations and companies to review and update their policies to ensure inclusivity of all individuals on an annual basis.

Book clubs, including those affiliated with organizations, and individuals can choose books related to the holidays of each month, making June a great time to read about Harvey Milk or any other LGBTQ+ leaders in our country's history. Some companies celebrate by organizing fundraisers for LGBTQ+ local organizations. Organizations can utilize LGBTQ+ speakers to conduct awareness training for team members. There are many ways to celebrate Pride month. Executive Service Corps encourages you to use it as an opportunity to be a mindful and inclusive ally.

Many LGBTQ+ Pride activities have moved to later in the 2021. A calendar for Chicago events beginning in October can be found by visiting the Chicago Pride Fest website. You can celebrate Pride today and every day. We welcome you to enjoy the Executive Service Corps' Pride Reading List.

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Pride Month Recommended Reading List

Title	Link to Book	Author	Author's Social Media
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781335146816	Saundra Mitchell	https://twitter.com/SaundraMitchell
And Tango Makes Three (Children's Book)	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781481446952	Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, Henry Cole
And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781617753992	Mark Segal	https://twitter.com/PhilaGayNews
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780312374631	Randy Shilts	https://twitter.com/Wine_andProses
Beyond the Gender Binary (Age 12 and Up)	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780593094655	Alok Vaid-Menon, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781517901738	C. Riley Snorton	https://twitter.com/CRileySnorton
Cleanness	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780374124588	Garth Greenwell	https://twitter.com/GarthGreenwell
Fairest: A Memoir	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780525561309	Meredith Talusan	https://twitter.com/1demerith
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781101973240	Kate Bornstein	https://twitter.com/katebornstein
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780807088982	Andrea Ritchie	https://twitter.com/dreanyc123
Leah On the Offbeat	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780062643810	Becky Albertalli	https://twitter.com/beckyalbertalli
Love Wins	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780062456106	Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell
Luna	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780316011273	Julie Anne Peters	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Anne_Peters
Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780807073315	Terry Galloway
No Tea, No Shade. New Writings in Black Queer Studies	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780822362425	E. Patrick Johnson, Editor	https://twitter.com/epatrickjohnson
Pink Triangle : The Nazi War Against Homosexuals	https://www.semcoop.com/pink-triangle-nazi-war-against-homosexuals	Richard Plant
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag (Children’s Book)	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780399555312	Rob Sanders, Steven Salerno
Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781626390621	Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall	https://twitter.com/jake2point0
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780385346979	Jennifer Finney Boylan	https://twitter.com/JennyBoylan
The Black Flamingo (Young Adult Novel)	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780062990297	Dean Atta
The Gay Revolution	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781451694123	Lillian Faderman	https://twitter.com/lillianfaderman
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780312560850	Randy Shilts	https://twitter.com/Wine_andProses
Transgender Warriors: The Making of History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780807079416	Leslie Feinberg
Untamed	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781984801258	Glennon Doyle	https://twitter.com/GlennonDoyle
When We Rise	https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780316315418	Cleve Jones	https://twitter.com/CleveJones1
When the Moon Was Ours: A Novel	https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781250160102	Anna-Marie Mclemore	https://twitter.com/LaAnnaMarie