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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.
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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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Biography of X: A Novel
Catherine Lacey - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Winner- Lesbian Fiction
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist.When X -- an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter -- falls dead in her office,... |
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Family Meal: A Novel
Bryan Washington - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Winner- Gay Fiction
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss.. Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling... |
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Natural Beauty: A Novel
Ling Ling Huang - Dutton
Format: Book
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Winner for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where... |
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We Could Be So Good: A Novel
Cat Sebastian - Avon
Format: Paperback
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2024 Lambda Award Winner- Gay Romance
Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century rom-dram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul's son."A spectacularly talented writer!" - Julia Quinn"This... |
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A Guest in the House
Emily Carroll - First Second
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Comic
New York Times' Notable Book of 2023
Winner of the 2024 LA Times Book Prize
In Emily Carroll's haunting adult graphic novel horror story A Guest in the House, a young woman marries... |
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Blackouts: A Novel
Justin Torres - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Fianlist- Gay Fiction
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories - personal and collective.Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly,... |
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Bellies: A Novel
Nicola Dinan - Hanover Square Press
Format: Book
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2024 Lamda Award Finalist- Transgender Fiction
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from NPR, BookRiot and BookPage
Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Books of 2023
I wore a dress on the night... |
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The Good Ones: A Novel
Polly Stewart - Harper
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Mystery
"Polly Stewart's The Good Ones is a fantastic achievement. A classic Southern Gothic tale told through the prism of modern-day sensibilities. Not to be missed." - S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling... |
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Blackward
Lawrence Lindell - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Comic
Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club!Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much... |
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Roaming
Jillian Tamaki - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Comic
Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city.Roaming marks a triumphant return to the graphic novel and a deft foray into new adult fiction for Caldecott Medal authors Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.... |
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The Guncle Abroad
Steven Rowley - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book
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NEW!
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel to the Thurber Prize-Winning novel The Guncle, in which Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties ... this time for a big family wedding in Italy..... |
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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 Not Over You
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Myriam Gurba - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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A 2024 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD Winner- Bisexual Nonfiction
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society - in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems... |
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Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary
Toshio Meronek - Verso
Format: Paperback
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2024 Lamda Award Winner- Transgender Nonfiction
A legendary transgender elder and activist reflects on a lifetime of struggle and the future of black, queer, and trans liberation. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former... |
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Trace Evidence: Poems
Charif Shanahan - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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2024 Lambda Award Winner- Gay Poetry
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA
GUARDIAN AND ELECTRIC LIT BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2023
"A truly magical achievement." -- Ocean VuongIn Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into... |
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Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives
Amelia Possanza - Catapult
Format: Book
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2024 Lamda Award Winner- Lesbian Memoir/Biography
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives - uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach... |
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Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
Daniel Black - Hanover Square Press
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope. "There are stories that must be told.". Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel... |
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Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Greg Marshall - Abrams Press
Format: Book
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A 2024 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST- Gay Memoir/Biography
* Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction of 2023 * NPR's Books We Love 2023 *
* A New and Noteworthy Memoir of 2023 Selected by * Washington... |
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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Hugh Ryan
Format: Book
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Stonewall Award Winner
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered... |
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Pretty: A Memoir
KB Brookins - Knopf
Format: Book
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NEW! (On Order)
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective - the tropes,... |
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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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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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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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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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Only This Beautiful Moment
Abdi Nazemian - Balzer Bray
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Winner- LGBTQ+ Young Adult
Stonewall Book Award Winner
A Best Book of the Year from the Guardian, ALA Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage
From... |
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When the Angels Left the Old Country
Sacha Lamb
Format: Book
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Stonewall Book Award Winner
Sydney Taylor Award Winner
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
In publishing-speak, here's what we at the LQ office...
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The Wicked Bargain
Gabe Cole Novoa - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Young Adult
El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution.. On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo... |
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That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1)
Brittany N. Williams - Amulet Books
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Young Adult
A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black girl (and sword expert) fighting a Fae uprising in Shakespearean London. Sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is a gifted craftswoman... |
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Pritty
Keith F. Miller Jr. - HarperTeen
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Finalist- LGBTQ+ Young Adult
Concrete Rose meets Things We Couldn't Say in Pritty, a debut novel by Keith F. Miller Jr. - the inspiration behind the forthcoming animated short film of Kickstarter fame - that follows two boys who get caught... |
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Road Home
Rex Ogle - Norton Young Readers
Format: Book
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NEW! (On Order)
This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle's memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and living on the streets after his conservative father discovered he was gay.When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father... |
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Another First Chance
Robbie Couch - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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They Both Die at the End meets You've Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Robbie Couch that explores all the different ways love can live on after tragedy.. It's been a year since eighteen-year-old River Lang's... |
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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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*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!*
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.... |
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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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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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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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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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The Apartment House on Poppy Hill
Nina LaCour - Chronicle Books LLC
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Winner
A charming new chapter book by bestselling author Nina LaCour. . Welcome to 1106 Wildflower Place: It is no ordinary apartment house, but you, reader, are no ordinary visitor. So, please, come in!. Two new tenants have just arrived, and nine-year-old... |
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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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Dear Mothman
Robin Gow - Amulet Books
Format: Book
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2024 Lambda Award Winner- Middle Grade
A moving middle-grade novel in verse, about a young trans boy dealing with the loss of his friend by writing to his favorite cryptid, MothmanHalfway through sixth grade, Noah's best friend and the only other trans boy in his school,... |
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Love, Violet
Charlotte Sullivan Wild
Format: Book
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Stonewall Book Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Charlotte Huck Honor Book
Only one personmakes Violet's heart skipOf all the kids in Violet's class, only one leaves her speechless: Mira, the girl with the cheery laugh who races... |
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Grandad's Pride (Grandad's Camper)
Harry Woodgate - little bee books
Format: Hardcover
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Grandad and Milly are back for another adventure, this time honoring the past and celebrating the future with a pride parade. This heartwarming tale continues to wonderful journey that began with the Stonewall Honoree and Waterstones Best Illustrated Book, Grandad's Camper.. After Milly... |
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Ellie Engle Saves Herself
Leah Johnson - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning YA author Leah Johnson comes her middle grade debut: a laugh-until-you-cry, cry-until-you-laugh story about friendship, change, and the power we have to love ourselves.Ellie Engle doesn't stand out. Not at home, where she's alone with her pet fish since her dad moved... |
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Dear Mothman
Robin Gow - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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A moving middle-grade novel in verse, about a young trans boy dealing with the loss of his friend by writing to his favorite cryptid, MothmanHalfway through sixth grade, Noah's best friend and the only other trans boy in his school, Lewis, passed away in a car accident. Lewis was adventurous... |
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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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Paris is Burning
Jennie Livingston - The Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
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Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait... |
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Yeoh - Lionsgate
Format: DVD
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A hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who is swept up in an insane adventure across the multiverse. |
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Tangerine
Karren Karagulian - Magnolia
Format: DVD
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It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone, STARLET, "Generation Kill") hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the sex worker and her best friend,... |
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The Way He Looks
Ghilherme Lobo - Strand Home Video
Format: DVD
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Set against the music of Belle and Sebastian, Daniel Ribeiros coming of age tale, The Way He Looks is a fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager whos fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school.... |
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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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Pariah (The Criterion Collection)
Dee Rees
Format: DVD
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The revelatory and assured feature debut by Dee Rees is a coming-of-age tale of a queer Black woman navigating the expression of her gender and sexual identities, built around a beautifully layered performance from Adepero Oduye.
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