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Adult Pride Books & Movies

Adult books that include biographies, memoirs, novels, stories, movies, documentaries and history books that focus on and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.

Kitsap Regional Library

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  • In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma -- which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing's team, including Joan…
    Blu-ray Disc, 2015[Beverly Hills, CA] : Weinstein Company Home Entertainment, [2015] — BLU I
  • Hernan Diaz’s Trust but make it gay? Narrated in the sly-eyed style of Plain Bad Heroines? I am absolutely buying what this book is selling, an epic and intimate tale of three secretly queer aspiring business titans who band together—and in the case…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. — WOLFGAN OLIVIA
  • At the table one evening Ethan declares to his very liberal husband, Gabe, that he is planning to run for Congress…as a Republican. Just as his campaign is set to begin, Ethan’s sister Kate, a reporter at a top-tier newspaper who’s grown tired of…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — HARRIS ELIZABETH
  • The heartfelt memoir of a trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City — until she realized that living her truth was the only way to step into her full power. A dazzling testimony from an icon who…
    Book, 2023New York : The Dial Press, [2023] — 306.768 ROCERO 2023
  • In Berlin in 1931, American cabaret singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) meets British academic Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is finishing his university studies. Despite Brian's confusion over his sexuality, the pair become lovers, but the…
    DVD, 2013Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2013] — DVD C
  • Gay Science

    the Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes

    Anderson, Rob (Comedian),
    Comedian Rob Anderson examines queer stereotypes and LGBTQ+ culture with humorous explanations borrowed from real principles across multiple fields of science.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2024. — 306.7602 ANDERSO 2024
  • When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their colorful bus, named Priscilla, the three performers…
    Blu-ray Disc, 2011[Century City, California] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [2011] — BLU A
  • One of the biggest names in contemporary romance returns with a sweet and fizzy f/f pairing set in Napa Valley. Avery is a newly single event planner with limited dating experience but an interest in exploring her sexuality. Taylor is a classic…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Berkley Romance, published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025. — GUILLOR JASMINE
  • Gay USA

    Snapshots of 1970s LGBT Resistance

    Stepping out of the sixties and in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, (considered the birth of the modern LGBTQIA+ liberation movement), the 1970s would prove to be a decade energized by queer activism, political and social change, and pride.…
    DVD, 2024[Los Angeles, CA] : Altered Innocence, [2024] — DVD 306.766 GAY USA 2024
  • With her highly venerated debut Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily Austin emerged right away as a vibrantly unique storyteller, one capable of laying bare the delirium and delight of being a queer woman. Her books are often cheekily…
    Book, 2025New York : Atria Books, 2025. — AUSTIN EMILY
  • The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, the polyamorous relationship between his wife and his mistress, the creation of his beloved comic book character Wonder Woman, and the controversy the comic generated.
    DVD, 2018Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2018] — DVD P
  • Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties … This time for a big family wedding in Italy. Gracing the page with his signature blend of humor and heart, Steven Rowley charms with a beloved story about the complicated bonds of family, love,…
    Book, 2024New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024] — ROWLEY STEVEN
  • DVD, 2022Hollywood, California : Paramount, [2022] — DVD C
  • Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page…
    Book, 2023New York : Flatiron Books, 2023. — B PAGE PAGE 2023
  • Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes.
    DVD, 2022Santa Monica, California : Lionsgate, [2022] — DVD E
  • Fagan, the bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run and the equally heartrending memoir All the Colors Came Out, turns her prodigious talents to fiction with this epic and intimate saga of a famous writer whose identity has been kept hidden…until…
    Book, 2025New York : Atria Books, 2025. — FAGAN KATE
  • Based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor who is struggling to find meaning in his life after the death of his…
    DVD, 2021Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, [2021] — DVD S
  • Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? Harley is a young queer black man struggling to find his way in nineties Britain. Returning home, having just dropped out of college, he is racked by feelings of…
    Book, 2023New York : Ballantine Books, [2023] — MENSAH ELVIN JAME
  • Dallas Buyers Club rests squarely on Matthew McConaughey's scrawny shoulders, and he carries the burden gracefully with what might be a career-best performance.
    DVD, 2014Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2014] — DVD D
  • The Stonewall Riots

    Coming Out in the Streets

    Pitman, Gayle E.,
    In The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets, Gayle E. Pitman’s “fresh storytelling brings emotion and depth to the history of a movement and the establishment that served as an epicenter for social change” (Publishers Weekly). A timely and…
    Book, 2019New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2019] — YA 306.766 PITMAN 2019