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* June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month! *
Learn more about it by checking out a related book from our book display in the Library, or from our post here.
Teens, find our LBQTQIA+ reading list--designed for you--on our website's Teen page, listed under the Services tab!

Books selections for LGBTQ Pride Month

June 10, 2022 By Library Staff

For more information, including 2022 events, resources, and audio/video, visit the Library of Congress.

Find our selections below. Click through the links to our catalog where you can place books on hold:

 

NON-FICTION

Culture and groups

  • We are everywhere : protest, power, and pride in the history of Queer Liberation / Riemer, Matthew
  • Pride : the LGBTQ+ rights movement : a photographic journey / Measom, Christopher
  • The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world / Funk, Mason
  • Transgender children and youth : cultivating pride and joy with families in transition / Nealy, Elijah C.
  • A queer history of the United States / Bronski, Michael
  • ¡Hola papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons / Brammer, John Paul
  • Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day / Ackroyd, Peter
  • “You can tell just by looking” : and 20 other myths about LGBT life and people / Bronski, Michael
  • She/he/they/me : for the sisters, misters, and binary resisters / Ryle, Robyn
  • LGBTQ stats : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people by the numbers / Deschamps, David
  • Sissy : a coming-of-gender story / Tobia, Jacob
  • Tomorrow will be different : love, loss, and the fight for trans equality / McBride, Sarah
  • Punch me up to the gods / Broome, Brian
  • When we rise : my life in the movement / Jones, Cleve
  • Rainbow warrior : my life in color / Baker, Gilbert
  • Queer intentions : a (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture / Abraham, Amelia
  • Queer : the ultimate LGBTQ guide for teens / Belge, Kathy

Vocal Music, Stage Presentations, Public Performances, Drawing

  • Naturally Tan / France, Tan
  • How do I un-remember this? : unfortunately true stories / Pellegrino, Danny
  • Start without me : (I’ll be there in a minute) / Janetti, Gary
  • Are you my mother? : a comic drama / Bechdel, Alison
  • Tranny : confessions of punk rock’s most infamous anarchist sellout / Grace, Laura Jane
  • Mercury : an intimate biography of Freddie Mercury / Jones, Lesley–Ann
  • Me / John, Elton
  • Save yourself / Esposito, Cameron

Poetry and Literature

  • The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction 1948-1985 / Baldwin, James
  • How we fight for our lives : a memoir / Jones, Saeed
  • The collected poems of Audre Lorde / Lorde, Audre
  • Homie : poems / Smith, Danez
  • The tradition / Brown, Jericho
  • Nature poem / Pico, Tommy
  • How to love a country : poems / Blanco, Richard
  • Girls can kiss now : essays / Gutowitz, Jill
  • Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms / Tea, Michelle

History of North America

  • Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change / Roem, Danica

FICTION

  • Find me / Aciman, André
  • With teeth / Arnett, Kristen
  • Count your lucky stars : a novel / Bellefleur, Alexandria
  • Delilah Green doesn‘t care / Blake, Ashley Herring
  • Queerly beloved : a novel / Dumond, Susie
  • The death of Vivek Oji / Emezi, Akwaeke
  • Middlesex / Eugenides, Jeffrey
  • Innate magic / Fay, Shannon
  • Something fabulous / Hall, Alexis J.
  • We do what we do in the dark / Hart, Michelle
  • D’Vaughn and Kris plan a wedding / Higgins, Chencia C.
  • Shuggie Bain : a novel / Stuart, Douglas
  • Real life / Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.)
  • Memorial : a novel / Washington, Bryan

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