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Emily Bass named NYPL's Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2018
We are pleased to announce that Emily Bass has been selected as The New York Public Library’s Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2018–2019. Emily Bass has spent more than twenty years writing about...
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Classical Pride Playlist
The Public Programs team at the Library for the Performing Arts celebrates LBGTQ composers, both contemporary and historic. Enjoy this playlist of masterworks: Thomas AdesAcclaimed composer, conductor,...
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Stonewall and Beyond: Researching LGBTQ History with NYPL's Online Resources
"Stonewall Inn" by Diana Davies, NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 1582272For almost half a century the word "Stonewall" has taken on a special meaning in American history. To most, Stonewall...
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Broadway Pride Playlist
Celebrating Pride? Mama needs her show tunes! Enjoy this playlist of songs from LGBTQ-themed musicals, curated by the programming staff at The Library for the Performing Arts.FalsettosMusic by William...
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Power Up For Pride With LGBTQ+ Superheroes!
Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month to all who are fighting against the evils of bigotry, homophobia, and discrimination!Comic books and graphic novels have always been a medium open to LGBTQ+ representation, but...
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#RainbowReading: 30 Books for Pride Month
June is Pride Month and the American Library Association's GLBT Book Month. To celebrate, NYPL staff members are bringing awareness to recently published books featuring LGBTQ+ characters by presenting...
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#RainbowReading 2018: Pride Month at NYPL
Pride Display at St. Agnes Library Happy Pride 2018! This LGBTQ Pride Month, The New York Public Library will host Roxane Gay, Tim Gunn, and Eileen Myles, as well as drag queens, film screenings,...
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Top 5 Most-Challenged Books of 2016 Include LGBTQ Themes
The top five most-challenged books of 2016.Attempts to ban books are still widespread in school districts and libraries across the country. Banned Books Week, held this year from Sept. 24-30, seeks to...
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Marcia M. Gallo named NYPL's Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2017
Marcia M. GalloWe are pleased to announce that Marcia M. Gallo has been selected as The New York Public Library’s Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2017–2018. Gallo received her doctorate in history...
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Listen to These Activists Making LGBT History
GAA and Vito Russo marching in the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970 Almost 50 years after Stonewall, New York City's LGBT community is getting ready to march down 5th Avenue for...
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#RainbowReading for Teens: 30 Books for 30 Days of Pride Month 2017
Happy Pride Month! It's 30 days of gay YA!Here at The New York Public Library, we’re putting the “book” into the American Library Association's GLBT Book Month. We’re excited to present our favorite...
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#RainbowReading for Adults: 30 Books for 30 Days of Pride Month 2017
June is Pride month, of course, but it’s also the American Library Association's GLBT Book Month! We’re excited to present our favorite LGBTQ+ books each day of June. These recommendations shine a...
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#RainbowReading for Kids: 30 Books for 30 Days of Pride Month 2017
June isn't just Pride Month, it's also GLBT Book Month -- which means we have an opportunity to talk about some of the coolest, sweetest, most innovative books for kids: literature by, for, and about...
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#RainbowReading: Pride Month at NYPL
Happy Pride Month! The Library is celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month with a variety of books and exciting programs for all ages across our 92 locations. Check them out...
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When We Rise: Books about LGBTQ Movement History
Christopher Street Liberation Day, June 20, 1971. All images from the Diana Davies photographs.This week was the premiere of Dustin Lance Black's new historical miniseries When We Rise, a chronicle of...
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6 Books to Check Out on National Coming Out Day
Pride Teens Display at 67th Street Library Happy National Coming Out Day!Everyone's experience of coming out is different. It can be comical or terrifying. It can happen with a bang or a whimper....
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Stonewall in Pictures
The announcement of President Obama's recent designation of the site of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall uprising as a national monument prominently featured LGBT historical materials from the Library's...
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Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar: Hugh Ryan
Hugh RyanWe are pleased to announce that Hugh Ryan has been selected as the New York Public Library's Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2016-2017. Hugh Ryan is a curator and journalist based in...
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New York Teens Send "Love Letters" to their Orlando Counterparts
*/Teens wrote their letters in a rainbow of colors.This year during the New York Public Library’s Anti-Prom, New York teens penned “love letters” to their counterparts in at the Orlando Public...
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10 Years of LGBT Prize-Winning Reads
The Lambda Literary Awards, or Lammys, have been recognizing incredible LGBT books since 1989. They "celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ...
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