This is a listing of the Spectrum library. It is located in the Sexuality Centre, room 203 in the SUB (across from the Ballroom). We have recently received some donations of material that are not listed here, so if what you're looking for isn't listed, pop by, and it just might be there!
Classification Legend
- L - Lesbian Content relates to lesbians or relationships between women
- G - Gay Male Content relates to gay men or relationships between men
- B - Bisexual Content relates to bisexuality and/or other polysexualities
- T - Trans Content relates to people identifying/living beyond the binary gender system (including transsexual, genderqueer and other gender expressions)
- P - People of Colour Content relates to issues specific to people of colour
- C - Canadian Canadian content
My Gender Workbook
Kate Bornstein - T
Sister Outsider
Audre Lord - LP
Tinker Belles & Evil Queens
Sean Griffin - LG
One Man's Trash
Ivan E. Coyote - LTC
Callaloo
LaShonda K Barnett - LP
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
Felice Newman - L
So You Want to be a Lesbian
Liz Tracey & Sydney Pokorny - L
A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White - G
Boys Like Us
Patrick Merla - G
Boys Like Her
Taste This - LTC
Follow the stories of four dykes who are sometimes four women, sometimes a femme and three boys and sometimes somewhere in between, as they get searched crossing the border into Canada, blur the boundaries of gender and identity and lead their queer lives. Beautiful prose accompanied by intruiging photographs... absolutely irresistable. -vc
Children of Horizons
Gilbert Herdt & Andrew Boxer - LG
Ms Behaviour's Guide to Gay & Lesbian Etiquette
Meryl Cohn - LG
War Boy
Kief Hillsberg - G
A Queer Reader
Patrick Higgins - G
Two Teenagers in 20
Ann Heron - LG
Lilies
Michel Marc Bouchard - GC
The Best Little Boy in the World
unknown - G
Out Our Way
Michael Riordon - LGC
The Gay Cannon
Robert Drake - G
Free Your Mind
Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufman - LG
Honour Bound
Joseph Steffan - G
Not the Only One
Tony Grima - LG
Queer View Mirror
James C Johnstone & Karen X Tulchinsky - LG
Growing up Gay
Rita Reed - LG
The Gay Teen
Gerald Unks - LG
Gay & Lesbian Online (1996)
Jeff Dawson - LG
Conduct Unbecoming
Randy Shilts - LG
The Culture of Desire
Frank Browning - LG
The Gay Men's Wellness Guide
Robert E Penn - G
Husband Hunting Made Easy
Patrick Price - G
Growing Up Gay/Lesbian
Bennett L Singer - LG
Long Road to Freedom
Mark Thompson - LG
XY Survival Guide
Benji Nycum - G
Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin - G
More Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin - G
Further Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin - G
Tales of the City 4: Babycakes
Armistead Maupin - G
Tales of the City 5: Significant Others
Armistead Maupin - G
Tales of the City 6: Sure of You
Armistead Maupin - G
The Ethical Slut
Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt - LGB
Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown - L
Rita Mae Brown's classic lesbian coming of age story, from back before she started co-writing whodunnits with her cat. Think Huckelbery Finn for lesbians (but shorter). -vc
Brazen Femme: Queering Feminity
Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri - LC
Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
Loraine Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu - B
Dykes to Watch Out For: Great Romances That Never Were
Alison Bechdel - L
A slightly less political comic book in the spirit of Alison Bechdel's long-running queer, feminist, activist comic strip. Full of her mocking homages to stereotypes, don't miss this one. -vc
Suggestive Poses
Lorraine Johnson - LG
Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance
Richard A. Isay - G
The Gay and Lesbian Address Book (1995)
Out Magazine - LG
Come Out Fighting
Chris Bull - LG
Over the Rainbow
David Deitcher - LG
Is it a Choice?
Eric Marcus - LG
A question and answer book for those new to issues of sexual orientation. This book gives extended answers which will be useful for those who are just coming out or for allies who want to become more knowledgeable.
Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia
Steve Hogan & Lee Hudson - LG
Diva: Girl 2 Girl
Norrina Rashid & Jane Hoy - L
Sexual Ecology
Gabriel Rotello - G
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense
Suzette Haden Elgin
Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?
Brian McNaught - G
The End of Gay
Bert Archer - LGBC
This book talks about the construction of LGB identities and how they relate to relatively recent ideas. Through this, Archer argues that we are approaching an era when such terms become redundant and the gender(s) of one's partners are no more relevant than the colours of their eyes. - vc
Empowering the Tribe
Richard L Pimental-Habib - LG
Straight Parents, Gay Children
Robert A Bernstein - LG
Queer Blues
Kimeron Hardin & Marny Hall - LG
Family Outing
Chastity Bono - LG
This book talks about coming out, in all the various stages from the first "I think I might be gay." to later acceptance and coming out to family, friends and even to the general public, all told by Chastity Bono, the daughter of Sonny and Cher. Throughout, the stories of several other people are weaved in with Chastity's own story. This gives the book more depth as a reference on coming out, but also dilutes her story. -vc
The Lesbian Love Companion
Marny Hall - L
A lesbian relationship how-to book, looking towards models other than happily ever-after. Though it only pays minimal attention to non-monogamy, it does look through different possibilities of re-envisioning relationships in ways which can be applied by everyone. -vc
Glad Day: Daily Meditations for GLBT People
Joan Larkin - LG
AIDS Activist
Ann Silversides - GC
Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterston - L
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterston - L
The Powerbook
Jeanette Winterston - L
"Freedom for just one night." This promise accompanies the stories Ali writes in her digital world. But the stories will change you, too. Through blurring of time, space and gender, this book examies just what reality is. -vc
Anti-Diva
Carole Pope - LC
Picasso
Gertrude Stein
While this isn't an LGBTQ themed book, it was written by Gertrude Stein, a renowned writer and lesbian American ex-patriot living in Paris. As it chronicles the life and work of Pablo Picasso, glimpses of Stein and "Miss Toklas" (Alice B. Toklas, her partner) are seen. -vc
Creating Access: Serving HIV+ LGB and 2-Spirited Youth
Central Toronto Youth Services - LGBPC
A resource guide for serving LGB and 2-spirited youth who are HIV+, both within an AIDS service context and a youth service context. Includes culturally specific information, particularily for First Nations people, and a directory of resources. This guide does not specifically discuss transgendered people, but is otherwise quite complete. -vc
Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side
Michael Riordon - LGBTC
Gender Outlaw
Kate Bornstein - T
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg - LT
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation
Eli Clare - LG
Ma-Ka:Diasporic Juks
Debbie Douglas, Courtnay McFarlane, Makeda Silvera & Douglas Stewart - LGP
Spawn of Dykes To Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel - L
