Pride Month

Join us as we talk with our special guest, Kat Zimmerman, about Pride Month and all things pride related. 00:00 – Intro 00:25 – Read This with Cynthia Hinckley and Tami Austin Cynthia’s Reccomendations: For Young Kids: My Own Way: Celebrating Gender Freedom for Kids by Joana Estrela True You: A Gender Journey by Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner Ho’onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale For older Kids: Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff Tami’s Reccomendations: For Teens: Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi The Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth by Jo Langford For Adults: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters Misters & Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson 12:03 – Kat Zimmerman Introduction 12:47 – What should everyone know about Pride Month? 14:22 – History of Pride Month 16:27 – LGBTQ2IA+ letter meanings 17:34 – Who can celebrate Pride Month 19:56 – How allies can support the queer community 22:58 – Being queer in the library 25:11 – The Rainbow Alliance at the Kearns branch 30:13 – Advice for starting a QSA 33:18 – Favorite Queer books, authors, and other media Check Please! By Ngozi Ukazu Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei Magical Boy by The Kao Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier The Honeys by Ryan La Sala But I’m a Cheerleader – Movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once – Movie Keith Haring – Artist Sasha Velour – Drag Queen Sasha Colby – Drag Queen Ru Paul’s Drag Race – TV Show What We Do in the Shadows – TV Show Our Flag Means Death – TV Show 42:56 – Wrap up and outro