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Marvel's Voices: Pride

Anthony Oliveira - ‎Marvel
Format: Paperback

Stories from the world outside your window, by diverse creators who are making theirs Marvel - and making their voices heard! Take pride in a rainbow-powered, queer-centered anthology by an amazing assembly of writers and artists from all walks of life. New talents and fan-favorites...

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The DC Book of Pride: A Celebration of DC's LGBTQIA Characters

DK - ‎DK Children
Format: Hardcover

Discover the rich history of DC's LGBTQIA Superheroes in this inspiring gift-title featuring detailed character profiles and comic book artworkCelebrate Pride with DC's LGBTQIA Superheroes. Written and curated by DC expert Jadzia Axelrod, The DC Book of Pride profiles more than...
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Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

Saundra Mitchell - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

QUEER WE GO AGAIN!A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seventeen new short stories from amazing queer YA authors. Vampires crash prom ... aliens run from the government ... a president's daughter comes into her own ... a true romantic tries to soften...
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Ace Voices

Eris Young - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

How do we experience attraction?What does love mean to us?When did you realise you were ace?This is the ace community in their own words. Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through...
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Coming Out Stories: Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ Spectrum

Emma Goswell - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

"He told me being gay was nothing to be ashamed of." - Bill"I put my hands over my eyes as I told her, as I couldn't bear to see her reaction." - OliviaBased on the hugely popular Coming Out Stories podcast, this empowering, humorous and deeply honest book invites...
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Here and Queer: A Queer Girl's Guide to Life

Rowan Ellis - ‎Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Format: Paperback

Here and Queer is a book about living your best queer life, written for girls. This vibrant, inclusive guide, designed for all kinds of girls, is designed to help you be the strongest, proudest, happiest version of yourself! A celebration of the gift of queerness, it's packed full...
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Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for Lgbtqia Teens on the Spectrum

Erin Ekins - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

In this empowering and honest guide for LGBTQIA autistic teens, Erin Ekins gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality. From coming out to friends and family, staying safe in relationships and practicing safe sex, through to self-care and coping...
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What's the T?: The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

Juno Dawson - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first century in this candid and funny guide for teens from the bestselling author of This Book is Gay.In What's the T? Stonewall ambassador and bestselling author Juno Dawson is back again, this...
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Queer Power!: Icons, Activists & Game Changers from Across the Rainbow

Dom&Ink - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

An inspiring, expansive anthology that celebrates some of the LGBTQIA community's trailblazers, champions, and icons from across the rainbow.. In a follow-up to Free to Be Me, DOM&INK returns with a collection of essays that highlight modern-day LGBTQIA pioneers who have changed the world...
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Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle

Stevenson, Robin - ORCA BOOK PUBL


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Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ Christian Teens

Leigh Finke (Editor) - Beaming Books
Format: Paperback

Are you LGBTQ ? Not sure? Whether you're queer or questioning, understanding sexuality and gender identity can be confusing. And if you're a Christian, questions of identity can be even scarier. Is there something wrong with you? Will your friends accept you? When should you tell...
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A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

Archie Bongiovanni - Limerence Press
Format: Paperback

A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns."A great, simple look at the importance of using correct pronouns; extremely accessible to those for whom gender-neutral language is a new concept." -- School Library Journal (starred...

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Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride, and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights

Jamie Lawson - Crocodile Books
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated book about the fight for queer rights. Around one o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, sparking days of intense rioting. What happened at Stonewall sent shockwaves around the world, and became a defining...
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Queer Ducks

Eliot Schrefer - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer is a well-researched and teen-friendly exploration of the gamut of queer behaviors observed in animals.A quiet revolution has been underway...
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

Mady G. - Limerence Press
Format: Paperback

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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The New Queer Conscience

Adam Eli - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In The New Queer Conscience, LGBTQIA activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility -- that queers anywhere are responsible...
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Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me

Shelby Criswell

Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people.The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired

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Beyond the Gender Binary

Alok Vaid-Menon - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender...
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This Book Is Gay

Juno Dawson - Sourcebooks Fire; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback

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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A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality

Molly Muldoon
Format: Paperback

"An engaging and essential handbook for anyone interested in gaining insight into an oft-misunderstood community." - Library Journal This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for Ace people themselves, to validate their experiences.Asexuality is often...
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Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words

Lindsay Herriot - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback

What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily life, school, their bodies and mental health....
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Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression

Iris Gottlieb - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal - yet universal - facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread,...
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How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

Rebecca Burgess
Format: Paperback

Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality.
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Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

Sarah Prager - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG. Three starred reviews!World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals...
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Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life

Lois Shearing - Jessica Kingsley
Format: Paperback

Whether you are openly bisexual, still figuring things out or just interested in learning more about bisexuality, Bi the Way is your essential guide to understanding and embracing bisexuality. With first-hand accounts from bi advocates, it includes practical tips and guidance on topics...
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The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets

Gayle E Pitman - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

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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Be Gay, Do Comics

Matt Bors - IDW Publishing
Format: Paperback

Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride. Brimming with resilience, inspiration, and humor, an incredible lineup of top indie cartoonists...
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She Drives Me Crazy

Kelly Quindlen
Format: Hardcover

After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, who is as beautiful as she is mean. When the damage sends Irene's car to the shop for weeks'...
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Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun: A Novel

Jonny Garza Villa
Format: Hardcover

Julin Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life.Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key...
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Cool for the Summer

Dahlia Adler - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Lara's had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He's tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and he's talking to her now. On purpose and everything. Maybe...flirting, even? No, wait, he's definitely...
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The Unpopular Vote

Jasper Sanchez - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book

Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Optics can make or break...
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The Henna Wars

Adiba Jaigirdar - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

"Impossible to put down." - Kirkus, starred review Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flvia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly....
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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive - including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder,...
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Can't Take That Away

Steven Salvatore
Format: Book

Carey Parker dreams of being a diva, and bringing the house down with song. They can hit every note of all the top pop and Broadway hits, but emotional scars from an incident with a homophobic classmate and their grandmother's spiraling dementia make it harder and harder for Carey to find...
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The Magic Fish

Trung Le Nguyen - Random House Graphic
Format: Paperback

Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tin still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tin, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents...
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Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

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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You Should See Me in a Crown

Leah Johnson - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Date Me, Bryson Keller

Kevin van Whye - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

What If It's Us meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this upbeat and heartfelt boy-meets-boy romance that feels like a modern twist on a '90s rom-com!Everyone knows about the dare: Each week, Bryson Keller must date someone new--the first person to ask him out on Monday...
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Be Dazzled

Ryan La Sala
Format: Hardcover

Project Runway goes to Comic Con in an epic queer love story about creativity, passion, and finding the courage to be your most authentic self.Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making -- for creation. He's always chosen...
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Tell Me How You Really Feel

Aminah Mae Safi - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Sana Khan is a cheerleader and a straight A student. She's the classic (somewhat obnoxious) overachiever determined to win. Rachel Recht is a wannabe director who's obsesssed with movies and ready to make her own masterpiece. As she's casting her senior film project, she knows she's...
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The Weight of the Stars

K. Ancrum - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances.Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the "wrong" side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances...
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Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas - SWOON READS
Format: Hardcover

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then...
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Stay Gold

Tobly McSmith - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Debut author Tobly McSmith delivers a coming-of-age teen love story about a transgender boy who's going stealth at his new Texas high school and a cisgender girl who is drawn to him, even as she's counting down the days until graduation. Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Becky...
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Odd One Out

Nic Stone - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin comes this illuminating exploration of old friendships, new crushes, and the path to self-discovery. Told in three voices, Nic Stone's new book is sure to please fans of Becky Albertalli, Nicola Yoon, and Jason Reynolds.Courtney...
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Pet

Akwaeke Emezi - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover

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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I Wish You All the Best

Mason Deaver - Push
Format: Hardcover

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection,...
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Let's Talk About Love

CLAIRE KANN - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite...
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None of the Above

I. W. Gregorio - Balzer + Bray
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she's intersex . . . and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something...
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