LGBT Campus Center Library
The LGBT Campus Center became a member of the University Library System during the Summer of 2006. Our collection of volumes are fully searchable and accessible in MadCat, the University's online catalogue. Holdings range from gay and lesbian fiction to up-to-date reference materials on LGBT studies, history, politics, medical issues, people of color and transgender resource materials.
LGBTQ Studies Resources at UW-Madison
LGBTCC Library Staff and Volunteer Picks
Kari
Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Mal in the NFL by Esera Tuaolo with John Rosengren
This is Esera Tuaolo's own searing story of terror and hope. A Samoan raised on a Hawaiian banana plantation, he had a natural talent, football. He went on to play for five NFL teams: the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Carolina Panthers, and the Atlanta Falcons in the 1999 Super Bowl. But for the nine years he played professional football he lived in terror that when his face flashed upon the TV screen, someone would divulge his darkest secret. Esera Tuaolo is gay.
Alone in the Trenches takes you inside the homophobic world of professional football and describes fears that almost drove him to suicide. He evokes heartbreak - how his older brother, Tua, died of AIDS - and hope when, Esera, a deeply devout Christian fell in love and started a family.
Kate
Here I Stand by John Shelby Spong
The legendary Episcopal Bishop tells of his lifelong struggle to champion an authentic christianity based on love, not hatred.
John Shelby Spong served the Episcopal Church as a priest and bishop for forty-five years. As a visiting lecturer at Harvard and at universities
and churches throughout North America and the English-speaking world, he is one of the leading spokespersons for an open and engaged Christianity.
He has initiated landmark controversial discussions within the church and is an outspoken advocate for change.
Eric
Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing Edited by Raphael Kadushin
Living up to its title, Wonderlands comes fueled by wanderlust and features every kind of wonderland. In fact, the collection's contributors - a mix of established gay writers and the best of the new generation - don't settle for the obvious. Focusing on the sheer visceral thrill of travel, the adventure of it, they set out all over the world and always find something unexpected: love, passion, history, themselves.
The result is an anthology of dynamic writing that motivates readers to book their next flight, or at least get them dreaming of other places. And the places are legion. Mack Friedman sets off into the deceptively butch wilds of Alaska. Robert Tewdwr Moss tracks through the back roads of Syria and his own version of Arabian Nights. Colm Tóibín discovers a Spanish Brigadoon, and Edward Field drinks tea with Paul Bowles. For Wayne Koestenbaum, Vienna is both a city of high and low culture, and for Philip Gambone, Asia becomes a place of second chances. Raphael Kadushin settles into the ethereal sun of a Dutch spring, Michael Lowenthal remembers a jarring encounter in the Scottish highlands, and Tim Miller tallies the 1001 beds he has slept in all over the world. And Edmund White, in a classic of elegiac travel writing, recounts his harrowing drive through the Sahara with the man he loves.
Contributors:
Brian Bouldrey, Mitch Cullin, Edward Field, Mack Friedman, Philip Gambone, Rigoberto González, Raphael Kadushin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Matthew Link,
Michael Lowenthal, J. S. Marcus, Alistair McCartney, David Masello, Tim Miller, Robert Tewdwr Moss, Boyer Rickel, Bruce Shenitz, Colm Tóibín, Edmund
White.
Kate
Lost Prophet: The Life & Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio
One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation's consciousness. But despite his incontrovertibly integral role in the movement, the openly gay Rustin is not the household name that many of his activist contemporaries are. In exploring history's Lost Prophet, acclaimed historian John D'Emilio explains why Rustin's influence was minimized by his peers and why his brilliant strategies were not followed, or were followed by those he never meant to help.