The Lance
Library adds new
resource section
In honor of Gay Pride Month (or, GLBT
Pride Month), which is every June, DeTamble
Library’s Library Resources Coordinator,
Thomas Waage, tells us all about a special new
resource section that was added to the library in
June:
The Gay Straight Alliance (student club)
donated 12 books to the Library for a Special
Collection. The donated GSA books are
shelved in the Lounge Area on the 1st floor.
We added the collection in June 2011. The
idea for such a resource section came from
the Gay Straight Alliance with the leadership
of then club president — Dani Buchanan.
The best way to find GLBT tides in the
library catalog is to do a key word search
using terms like gay, lesbian or bisexual. You
will find hundreds of print and ebook titles.
We have fiction and nonfiction. Here are
two books of many in the collection:
The meaning of Matthew : my son's
murder in Laramie, and a world trans
formed
by Judy Shepard
“The mother of Matthew Shepard shares
her story about her son's death and the
choice she made to become an international
June - August 2011
ACADEMICS
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Jttst some of the titles available througft die GLBT collection of DeTamble Library. Those
interested can search die catalog using terms Uke gay, lesbian or bisexuaL
ments and interviews with former
government officials, historian David
Johnson chronicles how the myth
that homosexuals threatened national
security determined government poli
cy for decades, ruined thousands of
lives, and pushed many to suicide. As
Johnson shows, this myth not only
oudived McCarthy but, by the 1960s,
-from publisher descrip- helped launch a new civil rights strug
gle.” — from publisher description.
If a student would like to do some
research in that area, library hours for
this semester are: Monday - Thursday,
8:30am - 11:00pm; Friday,
8:30am - 5:00pm; Saturday,
Closed; and Sunday, 2:00pm —
11:00pm. Remember that ebooks are
gay rights activist. Today, the name
Matthew Shepard is synonymous
with gay rights, but before his grisly
murder in 1998, Matthew was simply
her son. For the first time in book
form, Judy Shepard speaks about her
loss, sharing memories of Matthew,
their life as a typical American family,
and the pivotal event that changed
everything,
tion.
The lavender scare: the Cold
War persecution of gays and les
bians in the federal government
by David K. Johnson
“Masterfiilly traces the origins of
contemporary sexual politics to Cold
War hysteria over national security.
Drawing on newly declassified docu- available 24/7 fi"om anywhere.
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death and could help with the teacher
shortage in exchange for a decent salary,
but who, I doubt, actually had any
fondness for math or science. I’m fairly
certain I’ve met more angry math teach
ers than happy ones. But I haven’t
exactly done a scientific study on it.
It occurred to me along the way that
one of the things I love most in the
world is English literature and that one
of the things that distresses me most in
the world is that other people do not
love English literature. The obvious
solution, of course, is to seriously con
sider becoming a teacher employed by
the state of North Carolina so that I can
force unsuspecting children to read
Romeo and Juliet in the ninth grade but
ignore all the good parts so that they
don’t like Shakespeare until they get to
the delightfiilly bloody Macbeth, or an
Edna Ann Loftus class (not usually
bloody). Perhaps one day I will be as rad
as my professors. My students will say,
“Who did you get for English?” and the
answer will be, “Miss Keathley,” and the
asker will say, “Righteous! I had her last
yean she was the least heinous English
teacher ever.” Then they will have a
deep, complex discussion about Tess of
the d’Urbervilles over their tater tots in
the crowded cafeteria.
This will be after, of course, I have
invented a time machine and traveled
back to the late eighties or early
nineties. That will be after I have enlist
ed the help of any fi-iends I may have
who studied a science relevant to time-
travel, because all I tried to learn at St.
Andrews is how to make stuff up and
convince people, not how to bring out
the evidence.
"Think Globally, Act Locally”