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Be Proud at Your Library

When the first Twin Cities Pride festival was held in 1972, only about 50 people gathered for a picnic and small march down Nicollet Mall. Ten years later, that figure was up to just over 3000 participants. By 2017 over 350,000 attended and participated in Pride festivities. Hennepin County Library is proud to celebrate LGBTQIA voices and support LGBTQIA rights year round.

During Pride month this June and beyond, we offer free cultural and educational events which complement the Library’s participation in the annual Twin Cities Pride Festival in Loring Park, Minneapolis, on June 23-24, 2018. We’ll be there from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. each day.

Check out these books and DVDs:

LGBTQIA+ families: books for preschoolers

LGBTQIA+ fiction for teens

LGBTQIA+ nonfiction for teens

LGBTQIA+ fiction for children

LGBTQIA+ fiction for adults

LGBTQIA+ romance for adults

LGBTQIA+ nonfiction for adults

LGBTQIA+ movies and TV shows

Learn more about the history of gay and lesbian life in Hennepin County in Hennepin History Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2. Visit Special Collections to view historical material related to Twin Cities Pride and other LGBTQIA issues.

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Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere (via quoted-books)

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People wore their purple sportsball shirts to work today. I showed up like... #strangerthings #thunderlizard #mngirl

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Had to cull the herd today. Not enough time for all, and my to-read list grows every day. Some are going in my LFL and some are off to Accio Books benefiting local non-profit organizations. #somanybooks #acciobooks #littlefreegingerreads

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🐶❤ Over the holidays* the Gryffindorks were hard at work collecting cloaks and helping to provide turkey dinners in the Great Hall for our fellow wizards & witches. Merlin's beard that wasn't all!! We heard from Newt Scamander himself that there were some Fantastic Beasts that needed our help too. Who can turn down Newt? During our 2nd Annual Coats & Cloaks drive we collected fleece, beds, toys and all kinds of other supplies needed to help our little friends. We partnered with Good Karma Animal Shelter, a magical organization who rescues our fallen Beasts and finds them permanent loving wizarding homes. This is just the beginning of what we have in store for 2017, and it won't be the last time we rally together to talk about Fantastic Beasts and How To Help Them. Keep following along here and on our Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr accounts for news, updates and events. 🐱❤ (*We love Erol and know that he can be pokey with owl posts at times, but we he is ready to go for 2017 and is bringing some friends over from the Owelry to help with delivering messages).

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Slug Club Year 1 party! Special thanks to @nerdygirlknitter for hosting in her common room! Great food, discussion and down time with chapter friends!

My Saturday night squad. #booknerdproblems

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Simon. My name is Simon Lewis

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I love Simson.

For some reason my coffee tastes exceptionally good this morning. Thanks @thehpalliance! #mustbefelix

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BookCon 2016 haul. #thebookcon #chicago #mccormick (at The Bookcon Expo)

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Harry & Ron stopped by a muggle work space before trying to catch the train to Hogwarts. Definitely going to get a howler for this.

Went to the Lions Tap today with @aprl24kt. We pretended it was the Hogs Head Inn. We drank root beer from the tap, and called it butterbeer. We ate cheeseburgers to ease our pain (come on, it's what Ron would have done) and toasted simply, "To Snape..." right there in our little booth in the packed, bustling lunch rush of the Tap. We shared pics, memes, press releases and wallowed in our misery over the passing of Alan Rickman. It was like our own mini funeral, and I could only have done that with one person. So much love to you my bestie. Wands up friends, a great Wizard has fallen. #Always #Severus

#severus #always

Why yes, I did just buy this. And? #nerdsrule

#nerdsrule

What happens when you pre-order from your favorite author, forget you did said pre-order and pick up the new book at B&N? You gets to put a brand new pretty @jrwardauthor book up in the Little Free Library. "Blood Kiss" by JR Ward will be out tomorrow morning. Merry Christmas and give your local LFL some love before the new year. #peacelovebooks

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The Force Awakens in a new generation. #episodeVII

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Carry on Simon, carry on.

I just rated a Rainbow Rowell book a 3. I know. I am waiting for a crack in the sphere to come swallow me whole or for the Humdrum himself to come and suck the life out of me. However, let me explain.

I absolutely with all of my heart loved beyond measure, Fangirl. I was as smitten with Gemma's series, Simon Snow, as I was the story of Cath and Wren. I fell in love with the fictional Simon, Baz, Penny and the Insidious Humdrum. When Fangirl was over, I begged (BEGGED) Rainbow to give us more of this magical story.

And then she wrote Carry On.

Carry On drops you in to the final installment of Simon Snow, the epic conclusion to a 7 book series created as a fictional story line, in Rainbows fictional stand alone book, Fangirl. Let's be clear, this is not Simon Snow as told by Gemma T Leslie. This also is not canon or fanfic of Simon Snow as written by Cath (MagiCath). This is fanfic, on a fictional set of characters, in a fictional magickal community; as told by Rainbow Rowell. Her story of how Simon Snow would turn out in her world, her canon. The whole time I read Carry On, I felt like I had read this series a long time ago, and now finally the last book was out and it was arcing into it's final, explosive conclusion. In my mind, I must have forgotten story lines, history, magickal family lineages. I kept wanting to go back to my shelf and find the first Simon Snow book and refer back to his first year and the dragon he fought. Or flip to his 5th year quickly and see if I can tell where Baz starts to slip and lets his eyes rest just a moment to long on Simon.

Every time I started to do that, I had to stop. I desperately wanted background, history, stories from years past. More so, I wanted to know what Gemma wrote, how she ended Simon Snow. I wanted to know what Cath was planning, how she was going to wrap the final installment of Simon Snow, her Carry On. Did Baz have a change of heart, did they fight the Humdrum? Did Agatha turn her back on the magickal community or was she Simon's Ron true and true to the very end?

We'll never know. And it's not that Rainbow didn't give us a lovely story. She did. It was her story. Her story of Simon's fate. If I were to write fanfic on this fictional group of characters from my favorite fictional book - I might have a different fate for Simon. In fact, I already know what it would be.

So with that, I leave you with my 3 star rating. Still a great book. Still a wonderful addition to a magickal series I wanted so many more details on. I'll leave you with something Penny might say,

"And that's a wrap!"

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Not sure why I didn't think of this ingenuity before. Didn't really feel like running. Didn't want to lose traction. I really just wanted to read. Walking doesn't feel like effort and I know I can easily blow through an hour by reading.... WALKING. AND. READING. Done and done. #stillgotmy3miles #reading&walkingclub #CarryOn @rainbowrowell

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