Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library
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LGBT Library
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102 years old
NEW YORK, New York
United States
Last Login: 4/12/2009
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| General | We are located on the second floor of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street, New York, New York 10011
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| | Movies | Large collection of DVD and VHS LGBT titles | | Television | Queer as Folk (British and American), The L Word, Six Feet Under | | Books | We've got a huge collection of LGBT titles: Fiction, Non-Fiction, HIV/AIDS & Health, Drama, Young Adult, Humor, Biography and More!
Come by and check us out or visit our online catalog. Recommend titles you'd like to see or donate! We love donations! | | Heroes | LGBTQ literature web resources (this list will continue to grow, please feel free to send us your favorite websites):
www.lambdaliterary.org
www.pinkbooks.com |
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Library Hours of Operation: Monday - Thursday 6-9PM; Saturday 1-4PM
Booksale Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 6-9PM; Saturday 1-7PM; Sunday 11AM-5PM.
The library and book sale need your books, videos, and DVDs. Please donate. Donations may be dropped off at the Center daily.
More about the Pat Parker/Vito Russo Center Library:
Founded in 1991 to encourage and facilitate the reading and research of LGBT literature, the Pat Parker/Vito Russo Center library is an important community resource. More than 450 people visit each month to browse and borrow books and videos. There are more than 12,000 circulating titles of fiction and nonfiction, both current and classic, making it New York's largest lending library of LGBT material. The video collection, named in honor of film professor Michael Janiak who died of AIDS in 1992, includes more than 1,100 circulating videos and DVDs by, about, or of interest to our community. Additionally, the library maintains subscriptions to more than 20 LGBT periodicals from throughout the United States.
The library is named in honor of two great writer/activists: Pat Parker and Vito Russo. The late lesbian poet Pat Parker, author of Movement in Black, was hailed by many as a "lead voice and caller" in the lesbian-feminist cultural scene. The late gay film historian Vito Russo was the author of The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, which was released as a motion picture in 1996.
The library was founded by Stan Levanthal, Kevin Jenkins and Brian Phillips with 500 titles in the collection. It was their hope to accurately represent our rich literary heritage and encourage exploration of the unique LGBT experience in a safe, unbiased environment.
In 1992 the library, which received little outside financial support, began holding periodic book sales as a fundraisers. To this day, revenues from the now regularly scheduled book sale continue to support the library's programs.
In 1994, the library moved from portable bookshelves to a renovated permanent location, supported by the Paul Rapoport Foundation, the Network of Business and Professional Organizations, the Girth and Mirth Club of New York, the Publishing Triangle, A Different Light Bookstore, Book-of-the-Month Club and Gay Male S&M Activists (GMSMA).
In 1996, the library inaugurated its computer catalog system, with computers donated by IBM Corporation.
In 2002, the library made its catalog available to the public via the Web.
The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library is a member of the American Library Association and METRO (the Metropolitan New York Library Council).
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