STONEWALL NATIONAL MUSEUM & ARCHIVES
Library
The Stonewall Library is the largest lending library of LGBTQ materials in the United States.
We have more than 28,000 books, CDs and DVDs, organized and cataloged under the Library of Congress classification system. Our collection incorporates most winners of gay literary awards, including the prestigious Lambda Literary Award.
Annual memberships cost $35/Individual and $50/Household and are free for high school students in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
The library is also home to a monthly book club and history discussion group.
General topics include:
Fiction – More than 2,000 books arranged by author including books by:
James Baldwin
Rita Mae Brown
Patricia Cornwell
Jane Fletcher
Gerri Hill
Henry James
Armistead Maupin
Felice Picano
Gore Vidal
Edmund White
Djuna Barnes
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Michael Cunningham
Radclyffe Hall
Andrew Holleran
David Leavitt
Herman Melville
Marcel Proust
Sarah Waters
Virginia Woolf
Alison Bechdel
Susan Choi
Eve Ensler
Patricia Highsmith
Alan Hollinghurst
Thomas Mann
Eileen Myles
Anne Rice
Kathleen Winter
Hanya Yanagihara
Non-Fiction – Over 6,000 books arranged by subject matter. A partial listing of categories include:
General works
Social sciences
Gay/lesbian culture
Gay marriage
Transgender studies
LGBTQ travel
Political sciences
Education
Language and literature
Medicine
Technology
Philosophy, psychology and religion
Lesbian studies
LGBTQ parenting
Feminism
Bisexuality
Fetishes
Law
Music, dance and composition
Science
Agriculture
Military
Biography – Over 400 biographies. A sampling of subjects explored include:
Edward Albee
W.H. Auden
Djuna Barnes
Anthony Blunt
Benjamin Britten
Truman Capote
Roy Cohn
Marquis de Sade
Rupert Everett
Federico Garcia Lorca
John Gielgud
Radclyffe Hall
J. Edgar Hoover
Christopher Isherwood
Christine Jorgensen
John Maynard Keynes
k.d. lang
Liberace
Ricky Martin
Herman Melville
Honor Moore
Rudolf Nureyev
Chuck Renslow
Rosalind Russell
William Shakespeare
Pyotr (Peter) Illych Tchaikovsky
Gore Vidal
Oscar Wilde
Holly Woodlawn
Alexander the Great
Francis Bacon
Leonard Bernstein
Justin Vivian Bond
William Burroughs
Willa Cather
Aaron Copland
Mark Doty
Janet Flanner
Frederick the Great
Allen Ginsberg
Moss Hart
Rock Hudson
Derek Jarman
Elton John
Calvin Klein
Lawrence of Arabia
Paul Lynde
Somerset Maugham
Martina Navratilova
Dorothy Parker
Little Richard
May Sarton
Liz Smith
Valentino
Evelyn Waugh
David Wojnarowicz
Marguerite Yourcenar
John Amaechi
Josephine Baker
Elizabeth Bishop
Marlon Brando
Lord Byron
Constantine Cavafy
Noel Coward
Melissa Etheridge
E.M. Forster
Andre Gide
Duncan Grant
Patricia Highsmith
Howard Hughes
Bill T. Jones
Franz Kafka
Edward I. Koch
Leonardo Da Vinci
Katherine Mansfield
Carson McCullers
Sal Mineo
Vaslav Nijinsky
Marcel Proust
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Mann
Lytton Strachey
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gus Van Sant
Glenway Wescott
Grant Wood
Foreign languages – Over 300 books in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Latvian, Korean and Japanese.
Fine Art – Nearly a thousand titles in photography, painting, drawing and architecture.
Pulp Fiction – More than 350 titles from 1965 to present.
Youth and Young Adults – A selection of hundreds of books relating to gay topics designed for youth and young adults.
Special Collections
Over 500 rare books by historically significant authors, including many first editions.
Over 700 books signed by the author.
Historic books relating to the development, cause and treatment of HIV and AIDS.
Designated Collections
Click here to search the on-line library catalog.
Additionally the Library has LGBTQ current periodicals, DVDs, books on tape and musical recordings.
The majority of books and papers at the SNMA Archives and Library are donated by people just like you.
If you would like to make a donation, please contact Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian.
Individual Library Membership
$35 Membership grants library privileges to a person for one year.
Family Library Membership
$50 Family Membership grants library privileges to the members of one household for one year.
Hours
Mon-Fri 11 am - 5 pm Sat 11 am - 3 pm Closed Sun
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