Burgess Library: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: LGBTQ+

Books, Databases, and Websites

LGBTQ Events, 2 Volume Set by Robert C. Evans
Call Number: HQ73 .G74 2017
ISBN: 9781682175910
Publication Date: 2018
This set chronicles important historical events from around the world that have identified, defined, and legally established the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, queers and transsexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual persons.
Proud Heritage by Chuck Stewart (Editor)
Call Number: HQ 76.3.U5 P765 2015
ISBN: 9781610693981
Publication Date: 2014
Author Chuck Stewart traces the evolution of LGBT issues as part of our nation’s shared cultural past and modern-day experience. Volume 1 focuses on the origins of the movement with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 through the 1970s and the beginning of gay rights activism in the United States. Volume 2 spans the 1980s and the AIDs pandemic through the present-day issues of marriage equality. Volume 3 gives a concise review of this society in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
LGBTQ Rights by Susan Henneberg (Editor)
Call Number: KF4754.5 .L49 2017
ISBN: 9781534500198
Publication Date: 2016
Offers opposing insights on whether or not LGBTQ rights are threatened and also whether their rights threaten others.
Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris
Call Number: PS3558.A64438 I58 1999
ISBN: 9780385494632
Publication Date: 1999
A remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming of age story out of the highly controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS.
Coming Out by Kyle Frackman
ISBN: 9781800103030
Publication Date: 2022
The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young teacher, Philipp, is gay but cannot accept the truth about his sexuality. He starts a relationship with a fellow teacher, Tanja, but falls in love with a man he meets, Matthias, whose confidence in his own self-understanding is alluring for him as well as a challenge. Acclaimed director Heiner Carow created a film that shows the difficulties, both internalized and external, that queer people faced in East Germany.
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers' Rights by Margaret A. Nash
Publication Date: 2022
Mad River tells the story of Marjorie Rowland, an Ohio teacher fired in 1974 for being bisexual. Her Supreme Court case, though ultimately not heard, featured a key dissent by Justice Brennan advocating for LGBTQ rights. This book details Rowland's fight and its significance as a precursor to later LGBTQ employment protections, including the Bostock v. Clayton County ruling. It highlights her pioneering role and the ongoing pursuit of equality for LGBTQ educators.
Queer in Africa by Zethu Matebeni (Editor)
ISBN: 9781315406725
Publication Date: 2018
African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to provide innovative insights about contentious disagreements over their lives.

Academic OneFile
The premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides the full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full-text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
APA PsycArticles
APA PsycArticles®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
Consumer Health Complete
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. In addition to covering all areas of health and wellness, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
HeinOnline Social Justice Suite
HeinOnline Social Justice Suite has more than 3,200 scholarly journals that examine more than a thousand topics, all dating back to the first issue ever published. Topics in this collection include: Civil Rights and Social Justice, Gun Regulation and Legislation in America, LGBTQ+ Rights, Open Society Justice Initiative, Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law.
Social Sciences Full Text
Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.

LGBTQ Topic Guide
A guide about LGBTQ+ Month including links to books, databases, and other materials.
Uplift Outreach Center
We offer support and increase self-advocacy and culturally competent services. The organization helps educate our local schools and the community on the importance of Gay Straight Alliances (GSA) in our schools.
Upstate Pride SC
Formed in 2008, Upstate Pride SC (UPSC) had a grassroots beginning. A year after UPSC was founded, members of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Spartanburg held the first ever March & Festival, drawing around 500 marchers in an impressive showing of support. Since then, the organization has continued promoting equality and acceptance. We empower people of all gender expressions and sexual identities in the Upstate of South Carolina by promoting acceptance through education, advocacy and networking.
Upstate SC LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce
We’re striving to create an Upstate where LGBT+ businesses and professionals thrive at every level, to give a voice to a long-ignored and marginalized community and
to be a resource to help the LGBT+ community thrive.
Proud Mary Theatre
The mission of the Proud Mary Theatre Company is to present LGBTQ+ voices and stories in Spartanburg and the entire Upstate region through theatrical plays: compelling dramas, rib-tickling comedies, campy musicals, and local original works and avant-garde pieces that celebrate diversity and acceptance.
Pride Link
To improve the quality of life for all LGBTQ+ people in Upstate, South Carolina.
Gender Benders
Gender Benders currently provides a range of advocacy, education and support services for TGNC individuals. This includes a annual multi-day retreat for TGNC adults (Camp GB), trans health resource development and provision. In addition we hold training and leadership development programs, HIV prevention, intervention programs and supportive online spaces.