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Show Your Pride This Month The Library has a great lineup of LGBTQIA events this June. We are proud to host two days of LGBTQ films from Southeast Asia. Our queerest library ever, the Eureka Valley Branch, celebrates its annual open house featuring face painting, music and Drag Queen Story Hour. This PRIDE year, come to a series of engaging author talks and panel discussions. Get yourself to the dance floor, celebrate, educate, learn and resist—at the library. |
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LGBTQIA Database: Archives of Sexuality & Gender Not only does SFPL have a rich assortment of LGBTQIA materials throughout the branches and the Main Library’s James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center available to borrow, but also you can find valuable digital materials right from home, for free. One essential resource is the Archives of Sexuality & Gender database, available via SFPL’s website on the Articles and Databases webpage. The numerous historical documents in this database are drawn from hundreds of institutions and organizations, including major international activist organizations, as well as local, grassroots groups, such as San Francisco’s own GLBT Historical Society and the New York City-based Lesbian Herstory Archives. You can find letters, photographs, transcripts of oral histories, newsletters, magazines and much more. To access the Archives of Sexuality and Gender database with your library card, visit sfpl.org/databases, then click the Topics tab and select LGBTQIA in the menu. |
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June 20, 5:30 p.m., Main Library Latino/Hispanic Community Room |
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.  June 8 Western Addition Branch |
 June 8 Visitacion Valley Branch |
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 June 26 Main Library, Children's Center |
June 27 Main Library, Koret Auditorium |
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Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, to the world of one family’s honor, their secrets, and the lost bones of a “paper father.” Two generations of the Leong family live in an uneasy tension as they try to fathom the source of a brave young girl’s sorrow. |
Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging; a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past. A National Book Award Finalist |
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At once a love story and a provocation, this novel is as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in, and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender.
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Why Do You Care About Our Library?Friends’ volunteers are back, and they want to hear from you. At the branches, on the streets and in our bookstores they’ll be asking you to answer the essential question: “Why do you care about our Library?”This question intends to inspire community conversations about how important the Library is in our lives and to raise awareness about how our Library is funded. This is part of Friends’ annual membership drive and kicks off their citywide educational campaign about the Library Preservation Fund.
What do you care about most that the Library provides free to you, your family and the community? Literacy, democracy, free and equitable access, computers, story time, quiet space—what do you love about your Library?
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