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LGBTQ Pride Month is celebrated to commemorate the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the United States and around the world. In 1999, President Bill Clinton issued a presidential proclamation designating June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City the night of June 27, 1969. Themes are selected each year by various organizations including the Library of Congress. Other dates are also commemorated. The last Sunday in June is celebrated as Gay Pride Day. In 1994, a coalition of education-based organizations in the United States designated October as LGBT History Month. The 11th of October is recognized internationally as National Coming Out Day, an awareness day that originated in 1988 in the United States for coming out and discussions for and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Following is a selection of books, films, websites and other resources for leisure and educational purposes about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and culture worldwide. All books and films are available at the Norfolk Public Library, and the websites may be viewed online at any of the public computer stations located in the library. Databases will require your library card number if at home. Pride events in Virginia may be found at Your 2023 Guide To Virginia’s PRIDE Festivals & Events- blog.virginia.org
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A D U L T F I C T I O N
The following list is selected recent fictional works by award-winning authors, recent bestsellers, and books that provide insight into Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer culture and the human condition through stories set in America and beyond.
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Gods of Want: Stories
K-Ming Chang - One World
Format: Book
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- Lesbian Fiction
Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women, from the National Book Award "5 Under 35" honoree and author of Bestiary In "Auntland," a steady... |
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The Foghorn Echoes
Danny Ramadan - Canongate Books
Format: Book
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- Gay Fiction
Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim promises... |
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Reluctant Immortals
GWENDOLYN KISTE - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Paperback
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- Bisexual Fiction
For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature - from Lucy Westenra, a victim of Stoker's... |
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I'm So
Kosoko Jackson - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- Gay Romance
It's been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting at a caf. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess... |
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Sorrowland: A Novel
Rivers Solomon - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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Vern -- seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised -- flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted... |
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Skye Falling: A Novel
Mia McKenzie - Random House
Format: Book
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When she was twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye still moves through life entirely - and unrepentantly - on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships.... |
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Stone and Steel
Eboni Dunbar
Format: Paperback
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In Stone and Steel, when General Aaliyah returns triumphant to the city of Titus, she expects to find the people prospering under the rule of her Queen, the stone mage Odessa. Instead, she finds a troubling imbalance in both the citizens' wellbeing and Odessa's rule. Aaliyah must... |
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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Pantheon
Format: Book
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The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own.
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100 Boyfriends
Brontez Purnell
Format: Paperback
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"It's like that saying, 'Where god closes a door, he opens a window,' but in this particular case the window was on the fifth floor and the house was on fire."Transgressive, foulmouthed, and devastatingly funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory... |
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We Want What We Want: Stories
Alix Ohlin - Knopf
Format: Book
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In the mordantly funny "Money, Geography, Youth," Vanessa arrives home from a gap year volunteering in Ghana to find that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. Unable to reconcile the girl she went to dances with in the eighth grade and the woman in her father's... |
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Summer Fun
Jeanne Thornton - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B----. Gala needs to know: Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their... |
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Rainbow Rainbow: Stories
Lydia Conklin - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that's not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception, and queer joyIn this exuberant, prize-winning collection, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming... |
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Detransition, Baby: A Novel
Torrey Peters - One World
Format: Hardcover
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.Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then... |
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With Teeth: A Novel
Kristen Arnett - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close... |
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Stone Fruit
Lee Lai - Fantagraphics
Format: Hardcover
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An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore. Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little... |
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The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel
Zeyn Joukhadar - Atria Books
Format: Book
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Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother's sole caretaker,... |
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Cannonball
Kelsey Wroten - Uncivilized Books
Format: Hardcover
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Kelsey Wroten's Cannonball fires the reader straight into the messy life of Caroline Bertram: aspiring writer, queer, art school graduate, near alcoholic, and self proclaimed tortured genius. Wroten tells the story of an artist struggling with the arrival of adulthood and the Sisyphean... |
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Memorial: A Novel
Bryan Washington - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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What happens when a love story collides with the limits of love--and everyone has an opinion? Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a black day care teacher, and they've been together... |
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Real Life: A Novel
Brandon Taylor - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted... |
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The Guncle
Steven Rowley
Format: Book
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Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short) , has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking... |
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Romance in Marseille
Claude McKay - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time. A Penguin Classic Buried in the archive... |
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune's breakout contemporary fantasyLinus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.Arthur Parnassus... |
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Less: A Novel
ANDREW SEAN GREER - Lee Boudreaux Books
Format: Book
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it... |
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Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel
Casey McQuiston - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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"I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy -- this book had everything I crave. I'm jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina... |
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A D U L T N O N F I C T I O N
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LGBT Hampton Roads
Charles Howard Ford
Format: Print book
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Virginias Hampton Roads region has long attracted diverse and mobile people, some of whom embraced same-sex love or fluid gender identities long before lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities identified as such. By the mid-1900s, Hampton Roads would lead the |
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Pageboy: A Memoir
Elliot Page - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth.. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked... |
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The Third Person
EMMA GROVE - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- Transgender Nonfiction
A boldly drawn, unforgettable memoir about trauma and the barriers to gender affirming health careIn the winter of 2004, a shy woman named Emma sits in Toby's office. She wants to share this wonderful new book... |
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Lost & Found: A Memoir
Kathryn Schulz - Random House
Format: Book
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2023 Lambda award Winner- Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of how all our lives... |
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Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes
Nicky Beer - Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- Bisexual Poetry
What is illusion - a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem - the truth, or "a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself"?Nicky Beer's latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine academy... |
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Horse Barbie: A Memoir
Geena Rocero - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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The dazzling, 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.. As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, "Bakla,... |
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Pride: The LGBTQ Rights Movement: A Photographic Journey
Christopher Measom - Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and is an inspiring photographic journey through the LGBTQ Pride movement over the last century.. "A stirring history of the LGBTQ Pride movement." - Publishers Weekly. This celebratory... |
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Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
Brian Broome - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"Punch Me Up to the Gods obliterates what we thought were the limitations of not just the American memoir, but the possibilities of the American paragraph. I'm not sure a book has ever had me sobbing, punching the air, dying of laughter, and needing to write as much as Brian Broome's... |
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Akwaeke Emezi - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual selfIn three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions,... |
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Sarah Schulman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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. Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities,... |
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe - Lion Forge
Format: Paperback
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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic... |
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
Mady G. - Limerence Press
Format: Paperback
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A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys!In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and JR Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBT+ world! Covering essential... |
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Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
Jonathan Van Ness - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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In Jonathan Van Ness'New York Timesbestselling memoirOver the Top,he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexual abuse and addiction, being diagnosed with HIV) have existed alongside great joy and positivity (landing a breakout role on Netflix's... |
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
Julia Shaw - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality is a provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from internationally bestselling pop-psychologist Julia Shaw. Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws... |
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
Mason Funk - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal... |
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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Saeed Jones - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power."People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people... |
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
James Kirchick
Format: Hardcover
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"Not since Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history." -- George StephanopoulosWashington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed... |
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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir
Dr. François S. Clemmons - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir details the incredible life story of Franois Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality,... |
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Jeremy Atherton Lin - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression - whatever your scene, whoever you're seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural... |
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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Samra Habib - Viking
Format: Paperback
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How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous.... |
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Like Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends
Dan Mathews - Atria Books
Format: Book
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A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about an outlandish mother and son on an odyssey of self-discovery, and the rag-tag community that rallied to help them as the mother entered the final phase of her life.Dan Mathews knew that his witty, bawdy, unhinged mother, Perry, was unable to maintain... |
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Pet Sounds
Stephanie Young - Nightboat Books
Format: Hardcover
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A book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship . . Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, Stephanie Young takes up the question of passing when narrow definitions of family on offer by the law and capitalist social relations leave out so much.... |
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Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color
Gilbert Baker - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker's Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco's Gay Liberation Day parade. Baker had no idea his creation would become an international emblem of freedom,... |
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The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
Sasha Issenberg - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive work, Sasha Issenberg takes us back... |
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David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
Darryl W Bullock - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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The most comprehensive history of LGBT music ever compiled, encompassing a century of music by and for the LGBT communityLGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance.... |
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Naturally Tan: A Memoir
Tan France - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the stars of Netflix's overnight sensation Queer Eye, Tan France's memoir Naturally Tan has his signature wit, style, and tells the origin story of the one of the few openly gay, South Asian men on television. In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France... |
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Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas
Dustin Lance Black - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and political activist, a candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a moving tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all oddsDustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning... |
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Y O U N G A D U L T
The following is a list of selected recent fiction and nonfiction for teens about families that include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgendered, and Queer teens and other family members by award-winning authors, recent bestselling and acclaimed books.
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The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Sonora Reyes
Format: Book
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- LGBTQ+ Young Adult
A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. Perfect for fans of Erika L. Snchez, Leah Johnson,... |
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This Book Is Gay
Juno Dawson - Sourcebooks Fire; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender!Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.This... |
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Imogen, Obviously
Becky Albertalli - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship in this timely new novel.Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she's got the World's Greatest Ally title locked down.She's never missed... |
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The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
Jen Ferguson - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover
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In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person - and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth.... |
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Format: Hardcover
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"That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: "Have you ever heard of such a thing?"Seventeen-year-old... |
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The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Deya Muniz - Little, Brown Ink
Format: Paperback
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A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love - and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches - in the place you least expect it, from rising talent Deya Muniz. Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marriage. Well, without marrying a man, that is. But the law of the land... |
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Heartstopper
Alice Oseman - Graphix
Format: Paperback
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Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out."Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book." -- Rainbow Rowell, author of Carry OnShy and softhearted... |
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Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love - and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately... |
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The Magic Fish
Trung Le Nguyen - Random House Graphic
Format: Hardcover
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Tin loves his family and his friends ... but Tin has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it might change everything. An amazing YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together.Real life isn't a fairytale.But Tin still enjoys... |
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The Grief Keeper
Alexandra Villasante - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's... |
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You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan... |
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Darius the Great Deserves Better
Adib Khorram - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this companion to the award-winning Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Darius suddenly has it all: a boyfriend, an internship, a spot on the soccer team. It's everything he's ever wanted--but what if he deserves better?Darius Kellner is having a bit of a year. Since his trip to Iran... |
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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Mariko Tamaki - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,... |
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You Brought Me The Ocean
Alex Sanchez - DC Comics
Format: Paperback
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The voices that shaped LGBTQ Young Adult literature, Lambda Award-Winning author Alex Sanchez (Rainbow Boys) and New York Times bestselling illustrator Julie Maroh (Blue Is the Warmest Color) , present a new coming-out romance set against the backdrop of the DC Universe.Jake Hyde doesn't... |
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The Black Flamingo
Dean Atta - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag, from acclaimed UK poet and performer Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, and Kacen Callender. Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what... |
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Pet
Akwaeke Emezi - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover
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Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors... |
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Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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"A love letter to queerness, self-expression, and individuality (also Madonna) that never shies away from the ever-present fear within the queer community of late '80s New York, Like a Love Story made me feel so full - of hope, love, courage, pride, and awe for the many people... |
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Saenz - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Senz.Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing... |
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LGBTQ Social Movements in America
Duchess Harris - Essential Library
Format: Library Binding
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LGBTQ Social Movements in America looks at social change movements in the country's LGBTQ history, including the Stonewall riots that started the modern gay rights movement and die-ins that pressured the US government to take note of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Features include... |
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Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
Maria Cook - Nomad Press
Format: Hardcover
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What does it mean to think of gender as being a range instead of simply male or female? Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms invites readers to consider the cultural significance of gender identity in the United States and beyond. Middle and high schoolers learn about the history... |
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J U V E N I L E
The following is a list of selected fiction and nonfiction for young people about families that include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer family members, by award-winning authors, recent bestselling and acclaimed books.
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Love Makes a Family
Sophie Beer - Dial Books
Format: Board book
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This fun, inclusive board book celebrates the one thing that makes every family a family . . . and that's LOVE.Love is baking a special cake. Love is lending a helping hand. Love is reading one more book. In this exuberant board book, many different families are shown in happy... |
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People of Pride: 25 Great Lgbtq Americans
Chase Clemesha - Capstone Editions
Format: Hardcover
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What do Frank Ocean, Sally Ride, George Takei, and Sharice Davids all have in common? They're all proud LGBTQ Americans! Featuring people from a variety of occupations and backgrounds, this collection of 25 short biographies demonstrates the diversity, accomplishments, and pride within... |
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Nikhil Out Loud
Maulik Pancholy - Balzer Bray
Format: Book
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2023 Lambda Award Winner- LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. For fans of Merci... |
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Too Bright to See
Kyle Lukoff - Dial Books
Format: Book
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A Newbery Honor Book • Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • A National Book Award Finalist
It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months... |
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Kapaemahu
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award-contending short film. In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science... |
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Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle
Nina LaCour - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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A little girl stays home with Mama when Mommy goes off on a work trip in this tender, inviting story that will resonate with every child who has missed a parent.For one little girl, there's no place she'd rather be than sitting between Mama and Mommy. So when Mommy goes away on a work... |
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History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
ARCHIE BONGIOVANNI - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this graphic novel, experience the Stonewall Riots firsthand and meet iconic activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.Three teenagers -- Natalia, Jax, and Rashad -- are magically transported from their modern lives to the legendary Stonewall... |
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The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets
Gayle E Pitman - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich... |
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Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt
Rob Sanders
Format: Hardcover
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Cleve Jones' extraordinary life was pieced together, then stitched tightly into different types of quilts. From the blanket that his great-grandmother made for him as a boy, to the friends he gathered in San Francisco as young man, it is almost as if he was destined to bring the art of quilting... |
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Answers in the Pages
David Levithan
Format: Hardcover
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Three stories of speaking up and coming out converge in one epic confrontation as parents lobby to ban a book from the middle school curriculum in New York Times-bestselling author David Levithan's explosive new novel. Donovan didn't mean for this to happen. When he left his book... |
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Twas the Night Before Pride
Joanna McClintick - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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A glittering celebration of queer families puts Pride gently in perspective - honoring those in the LBGTQ community who fought against injustice and inequality.Pride's . . . a day that means "Together, we are strong!"This joyful picture-book homage to a day of community and inclusion... |
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We Are Little Feminists: Families
Archaa Shrivastav - Little Feminist Press; 2nd edition
Format: Board book
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2021 Stonewall Award Winner! The first ever board book to win an American Library Association medal - now includes discussion guide with age-appropriate questions for parents and educators. Beautiful, full-color photos of real LGBTQ and ally families showcase all the wonderful forms of family,... |
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The List of Things That Will Not Change
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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When life takes a new direction, it's comforting to know that some things will not change. A brilliant and touching story about navigating big family shifts, from the masterful Newbery Medal winning author of When You Reach Me.When Bea's parents got divorced, they told her about two big changes:... |
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Beetle & the Hollowbones
Aliza Layne - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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An enchanting, riotous, and playfully illustrated debut graphic novel following a young goblin trying to save her best friend from the haunted mall - perfect for fans of Steven Universe and Adventure Time.In the eerie town of 'Allows, some people get to be magical sorceresses, while... |
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The Deep & Dark Blue
Niki Smith - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The Witch Boy meets The Legend of Korra in this breathtaking, epic graphic novel. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 14.7px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font:... |
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My Two Dads and Me
Michael Joosten - Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Format: Board book
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An adorable board book for the babies and toddlers of gay fathers, featuring a variety of diverse, loving families with two dads.Families with same-sex parents are celebrated in this board book that follows busy dads and their kids throughout their day - eating breakfast, getting dressed,... |
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Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Lisa Jenn Bigelow - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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The Thing About Jellyfish meets Raymie Nightingale in this tender middle grade novel from Lisa Jenn Bigelow, acclaimed author of Drum Roll, Please.Hazel knows a lot about the world. That's because when she's not hanging with her best friend, taking care of her dog, or helping care for the goats... |
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The Best at It
Maulik Pancholy - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning actor Maulik Pancholy comes a hilarious and heartfelt middle grade debut about a gay Indian American boy coming into his own. Perfect for fans of Tim Federle's Nate series.Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school... |
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Rainbow: A First Book of Pride
Michael Genhart PhD - Magination Press
Format: Hardcover
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A must-have primer for young readers and a great gift for pride events and throughout the year, beautiful colors all together make a rainbow in Rainbow: A First Book of Pride. This is a sweet ode to rainbow families, and an affirming display of a parent's love for their child and a child's... |
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King and the Dragonflies
Kacen Callender - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself.Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed... |
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A Queer History of the United States for Young People
Michael Bronski - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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Queer history didn't start with Stonewall. This book explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity, contributing to the country and culture for over 400 years.It is crucial for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth to know their history. But this... |
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D V D
The following selected films provide insight into Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer history, social issues, and culture in America and throughout the world with drama and humor.
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Bros
- Studio Distribution Services
Format: DVD
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Universal Pictures proudly presents the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy. From the ferocious comic mind of Billy Eichner and the hitmaking brilliance of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller... |
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody [DVD]
Naomi Ackie - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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This triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston is the untold story of the complex and multifaceted woman behind The Voice. From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, follow the inspirational, poignant - and so emotional... |
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Lightyear Feature
Angus MacLane - WALT DISNEY ANIMATION
Format: DVD
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A sci-fi action adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans) , the hero who inspired the toy, the film follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits (voices of Keke Palmer, Dale Soules, and Taika... |
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LGBTQ+ (Binge Box Collection)
Midwest Tapes
Format: DVD
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Titles included:
The Danish Girl; Call Me by Your Name; Moonlight; 3 Generations; Disobedience; and Boy Erased.
Title Search "LGBTQ+" To Place Hold
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The Boys in the Band
Kenneth Nelson
Format: DVD
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A group of homosexual friends celebrating a birthday find themselves dissecting their relationships after a married straight man shows up for the party. Includes featurettes, interviews, and more.
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Rafiki
Samantha Mugatsia - Film Movement
Format: DVD
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It's undoubtedly a shame that the film's home country wasn't initially willing to acknowledge the beauty of Rafiki's depictions of lesbian love and countless other real-life same-sex relationships. Kahiu s film reinforces that being who you are and loving in spite of the opinions... |
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Supernova
Colin Firth - Wolfe Video
Format: DVD
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci) , partners of twenty years, are traveling across England in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from their past. Following a life-changing diagnosis, their time together has become more important than... |
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Moonlight
Barry Jenkins - Lionsgate
Format: DVD
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A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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Rocketman
Dexter Fletcher - PARAMOUNT
Format: DVD
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An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years.
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The Favourite
Format: DVD
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Early eighteenth century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics... |
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Call Me By Your Name
Andre Aciman. - Universal Sony Pictures Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Amid the summer splendor of 1980's Italy, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire that will alter their lives forever.
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