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Featured Reads

Featured Collection: LGBTQIA+ Reads
Physical books available for check out from the UWSP Library.
Overdrive eBooks: LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)
Digital books available from Overdrive (Libby app).
Overdrive eBooks: LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction)
Digital books available from Overdrive (Libby app).

Featured Films

Being Thunder
Sherenté Mishitashin "Being Thunder" Harris, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, boldly challenges the status quo of what it means to be a queer indigenous person in a world bound by binary gender roles.
Between the Shades: Conversations About Being Gay in America
Fifty conversations exploring the many different shades of being “gay” in America. This conversation focuses on the degrees and varying perceptions about how people define themselves, their lives, struggles and triumphs.
Drag Becomes Hime
An intimate glimpse inside the life of internationally acclaimed drag performer Jinkx Monsoon. The film follows the passionate pursuits that transformed a working class boy in a struggling family to an illustrious performer on a global stage.
Finding Phong: Di Tim Phong
Phong grew up in a small town in the center of Vietnam – the youngest of six children. From the time he was a young boy, Phong felt like he was a girl with a mismatched boy’s body. Not until he moved to Hanoi to attend university at age twenty did Phong discover that he was not the only one in the world with this predicament. His dream to “find himself” by physically changing sex becomes a reality several years later.
TRANSsitioning
Life coach and transman Tony Ferraiolo helps other transgender people through their transitions.
Queer Japan
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to shine in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan.
P.S. Burn this Letter Please
P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE explores a demi-monde that would have been lost to time were it not for the chance find of a treasure trove of letters in a storage bin in LA. Written by drag queens all using aliases to a friend (who turns out to be famous and revealed at the end) who moved to LA, the film is a voyage of discovery of the irreverence, fun, kinship, and all manner of illicit activity which made up the drag scene in the late 50’s in NYC.
A Normal Girl
Activist Pidgeon Pagonis was born intersex, not conforming to standard definitions of male or female, and experienced genital mutilation as a child. Now Pidgeon is fighting the medical establishment, seeking to end medically unnecessary surgeries and human rights abuses on intersex people in the United States and around the world.
Fractal
A collection of 4 Transgender and Gender Queer Documentary Shorts that explores the wide spectrum of experiences often left out of the traditional narrative. From a successful trans woman running her own salon in New Orleans to a collective experimental video essay road film; the collection expands on the joys, struggles and honest conversations within the community.

Check out the links below for additional films.

LGBT Studies in Video (ASP)

Databases

Gender Studies Collection (Gale OneFile)
Offers access to scholarly journals and magazines related to gender studies, family, marriage, and the LGBTQ community. A subset of Gale OneFile.
GenderWatch (Full Text)
A full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, culture, health, history, political science, and gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and other reports and proceedings.

Campus Resource

Queer Resource Center
The Queer Resource Center (QRC) strives for the comprehensive support, education, and empowerment of LGBTQ+ identifying students, staff, and faculty at UWSP. Their outreach and scope provides resources to the Central Wisconsin community connected to our branch campuses. All are welcome to take advantage of the center’s free printing, lounge area, books, movies, personal care products, and much more!

Dreyfus University Center (DUC) 210
1015 Reserve Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481

715-346-3829
qrc@uwsp.edu