The Book of Pride

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed The World is a 2019 book by Mason Funk. It contains interviews and biographies of members of the LGBT community and advocates compiled by The OUTWORDS Archive. It was published by HarperCollins. There is a mix of well-known and unsung heroes of the LGBT movement.

Interviews

 * Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church which affirms the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities
 * Fenton Johnson, writer and professor of English and LGBT Studies
 * Evan Wolfson, attorney and gay rights advocate
 * Diana Nyad, author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer
 * Dean Hamer, geneticist, author, and filmmaker
 * Margarethe Cammermeyer, colonel in the Washington National Guard and became a gay rights activist
 * Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, trans woman activist and community leader for transgender rights, with a particular focus on women of color
 * Donna Sachet, drag actor, singer, community activist, fundraiser, spokesmodel, and writer
 * John S. James, pioneering US LGBT rights activist and the editor of AIDS Treatment News
 * Shannon Minter, civil rights attorney and the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights
 * Karla Jay, professor and pioneer in the field of lesbian and gay studies
 * Gigi Raven Wilbur, bisexual rights activist and writer
 * K.C. Potter, Academic dean at Vanderbilt University instrumental in creating a safe place for gay students
 * Ada Bello, a founder of the Philadelphia chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis
 * Kylar William Broadus, founder the Trans People of Color Coalition in Missouri
 * Jewel Thais-Williams, founder of Jewel's Catch One, a black disco opened in 1973
 * Alexei Romanoff, organizer of 1966 protests at the Black Cat Bar against police raids
 * Phyllis Randolph Frye, creator of the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment in 1991
 * Eric Julber, lawyer who won One, Inc. v. Olesen
 * Jim Toy, LGBT activist who initiated the creation of the Lesbian-Gay Male Programs office at the University of Michigan
 * Mary Morten, activist and co-creator of The Nia Project: Images of African American Lesbians
 * Kay Lahusen, first openly gay American gay photojournalist
 * Jamison Green, transgender rights activist and author of Becoming A Visible Man
 * Diana Rivers, pioneer of women-only spaces and an organizer of women's conferences and festivals
 * Blackberri, singer-songwriter, composer, and HIV activist whose work includes "Beautiful Black Man," which was featured in Looking for Langston
 * James Credle, founder of the National Association of Black and White Men Together and the Newark LGBTQ Center