Gender & Sexuality: Resources available in the Special Collections Research Center

A collection of poems written by the author about coming out as asexual.

A zine celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

"There comes a time in every fat child's life when they realize they don't have what is considered a 'normal' body. For me, it was going back-to-school shopping one year and my mom noticed that she had to start buying my pants in the 'Youth Husky' section of the boys department.”
--Author's website (http://www.brandon-dean.com/youth-husky)
Purchased at Richmond Zine Fest.

Translates to “Fuck it’s hard anyway”
"A little zine that talks about breakup that does not pass / blue and white / funny but not too / it tells the after of a love story between girls."--Author's description
This zine is in French.

This zine focuses on the importance of QTPOC telling their story. Given at one of the Richmond Zine Fest workshops

A zine that mixes art and linguistics! Learn about the secret language, which is a mixture of Yoruba and Portuguese

The series highlights multiple queer activists such as Audre Lorde, Brazilian Singers, Gloria Anzaldua, JD Samson, and Jenny Shimizu

A zine about Madame Satã, who was a gay black hustler as well as the first drag queen in Rio de Janeiro during the 1920’s.

A zine and photobook about Toronto’s Newsgirls Boxing Club, which is LGBTQ+ friendly. The zine details the boxers a part of the gym, and the impact the gym has had on their life.

A zine about parenting a neuro-divergent child and unlearning structurally oppressive forces as a parent of color.

Bunny is an autobiographical comic exploring gender identity and gender presentation through the Trans masculine perspective

A zine about religion and being transgender. Written by multiple people of different faith backgrounds.

A zine exploring masculinity in the Queer community, located in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, also known as Twin Cities.

A zine about the healthcare system in the United States, how the system treats transgender patients. Purchased at Richmond Zine Fest.

A guide to exploring what it means to be transgender/identify under the Trans umbrella as well as gender non-conforming. Information includes language use, Tran’s activists, and resources. Purchased at Richmond Zine Fest.

"This zine is about me exploring my own gender and sexuality and my relationship to the terms dyke and fag and the shift in identification in my own life.” authors description