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The University of Winnipeg

"Celebrate You" Pride Book Display

Mon. Jun. 1, 2026

This summer we’re featuring 2SLGBTQIA+ works in a local and regional context; scholars, subjects, and narratives connected to the prairies and western Canada. All tell stories of everyday connection, sadness, hope, fear, and reality from both individuals and communities building new ways to love, build, and fight together in the world. These stories are protected and preserved here in works of literature, memoir, sociology, history, and art.

Many of these titles showcase the power of preserving personal narratives and primary source materials, demonstrating how special archive collections – like our own Two-Spirit Archives – can support new and existing areas of scholarship. These collections remind us how easy it is for knowledge to be ignored, hidden, or lost – especially when the subject matter is considered outside the mainstream or disconnected from political or socioeconomic power.

Features

Two human beings kiss on the cover.Prairie Fairies: a history of queer communities and people in western Canada / Valerie J. Korinek

“…Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and organizations that they created from 1930 to 1985…” [from the publisher]

A hockey player wearing a rainbow helmet on the cover.Between the Pipes / Albert McLeod, Elaine Mordoch, Sonya Ballantyne, and Alice RL

"In this engrossing graphic novel, teen hockey player Chase learns more about himself and his identity...... to be proud of who he is? Between the Pipes explores toxic masculinity in hockey through the experiences of an Indigenous teen." [from the publisher]

A person wearing a neclace with the book's title on the cover.Nîtisânak / Lindsay Nixon

“… A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family, and being torn apart by the same. Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing on their Cree, Saulteaux, and Métis ancestral teachings, this work offers a compelling perspective on the connections that must be broken and the ones that heal.” [from the publisher]

Graphic text on top of an absract/impressionst painting of two pregnant people.Double Pregnant: two lesbians make a family / Natalie Meisner

“Girl meets girl. Girl marries girl. They want to have babies... but they need a little help. 'We can wax poetic about sunny days in the park and sandcastles on the shoreline; we can visualize their first steps and pick out our favourite books to read to them. We can rehearse child-rearing techniques till the cows come home... but if we really want a family, we are going to need some help. We are going to have to get down to brass tacks…” [from the publisher]

Two people leaning against a wooden railing.Making a Scene: lesbians and community across Canada / Liz Millward

“Documents the lesbian movement that developed in Canada between 1964 and 1984. Not just a story of big-city life, it chronicles the spaces lesbians created across rural and urban Canada, from physical locations such as lesbian and gay centres, drop-ins at women's centres, communal houses, bookstores, bars, cafes, and private members' clubs, to the ephemeral sites women travelled to in order to meet each other such as conferences, workshops, festivals, and Dykes in the Streets marches…” [from the publisher]

Other Titles

Visit the library book display for more!