If you can, purchase these titles at a Black-owned bookstore near you.Īs acclaimed Black lesbian activist Angela Davis said, “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” We ask that you join in the fight against white supremacy and help us honor the lives of Nina Pop, Tony McDade, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others by listening to and learning from Black queer voices.
Our country’s violent history against Black people is inexorably linked to its violent history against LGBTQ people.īelow, we have compiled an anti-racist reading list by, about, and for Black LGBTQ people. We owe the birth of the modern LGBTQ rights movement to the Black and brown trans and queer people who sparked this rebellion 51 years ago.
This year, as protests against the systemic criminalization and destruction of Black lives endure across the country, we are ever more profoundly reminded of this history. We observe Pride Month in June to commemorate the Stonewall riots, a rebellion against police brutality that erupted in New York City in June of 1969.
