LGBTQ+ Voices

by Maia Kobabe

Nonfiction
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.

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by Brook Pessin-Whedbee

Nonfiction
This illustrated book provides a straightforward introduction to gender for anyone aged 5-8. Using clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experience gender: our bodies, our expression, and our identity. (picture book)

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by Cheryl Kilodavis

Fiction
Shows a family’s acceptance and support of their son who likes to dress up as a princess. (picture book)

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by Aiden Thomas

Fiction
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school’s bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.

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by Molly Knox Ostertag

Fiction
In Aster’s family, girls are witches, while boys are shapeshifters. Anyone who crosses those lines is exiled. Aster is fascinated by witchcraft. Will he have the courage to save his family and be truly himself. (graphic novel)

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by Jo Langford

Nonfiction
Jo Langford offers a complete guide to sexual and social development, safety, and health for LGBTQ youth and those who love and support them.

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by Gayle E. Pitman

Nonfiction
The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots, the Riots themselves, and the aftermath, and includes her interviews of people involved or witnesses, including a woman who was ten at the time.

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by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Fiction
Dani must question everything she’s worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government.

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by Sylvia Brownrigg

Fiction
In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she’s ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The seventeen-year-old, new to evrything around her–college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life–is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her.

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by Casey McQuiston

Fiction
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond.

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by Leah Johnson

Fiction
A Black, underprivileged misfit from a wealthy, prom-obsessed midwestern community carefully plans to attend a prestigious medical college before the unexpected loss of her financial aid forces her to compete for her school’s prom-queen scholarship

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by Saeed Jones

Nonfiction
Written from the crossroads of sex, race, and power in America, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir and a haunting reflection of the nation as a whole

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by Alice Walker

Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence.

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by Jonathan Branfman

Nonfiction
This is an illustrated children’s book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientation, and family diversity easy to explain to children. (picture book)

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by Rachel Mesch

Nonfiction
This biographical study of three late nineteenth-century French writers looks at how transgender identities were expressed and understood before the modern category of transgender existed.

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by Adib Khorram

Fiction
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.

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by AKathy Belge and Marke Bieschke

Nonfiction
Queer is a humorous, engaging, and honest guide for LGBTQ teens. This completely revised and updated edition is a must-read for any teen who thinks they might be queer or knows someone who is.

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by Alyssa Zaczek

Fiction
Seventh-grader Martin McLean has trouble expressing himself except at Mathletes competitions and, now, as a female impersonator but his first-ever drag show falls on the same night as an important Mathletes tournament. (chapter book)

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by Kathryn Gonzales

Nonfiction
An all-inclusive, uncensored guide for teens who are transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or gender-fluid. TRANS+ answers questions about gender, mental health, physical health and reproduction, transitioning, relationships, sex, and life as a trans or nonbinary individual.

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by Abdi Nazemian

Fiction
An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, a gay photographer and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices during the AIDS crisis in NYC.

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by Katie O’Neill

Fiction
Join Sadie and Amira, two very different princesses with very different strengths, on their journey to figure out what “happily ever after” really means and how they can find it with each other. (graphic novel)

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by Jessica Herthel

Fiction Nonfiction
The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere. (picture book)

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by Tee Franklin

Fiction
When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at firstsight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-’60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage.

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by Daniel Haack and Isabel Galupo

Fiction
When a maiden reluctantly attends a ball for her friend, the prince, everyone considers her his perfect match until she surprises them–and herself–by finding true love with someone else. (picture book)

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by Kelly Storck

Nonfiction
The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids offers fun, age-appropriate activities to help your child explore their identity and discover unique ways to navigate gender expression at home, in school, and with friends.

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by Jessica Love

Fiction
On the subway with his abuela, Julián sees women fabulously dressed as mermaids. When Julián gets home he makes his own mermaid costume. But what will Abuela think about how Julián sees himself? (picture book)

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by Fleur Pierets

Nonfiction
Inspired by a true story, Love Around the World is the beautiful and heartwarming adventure of two women’s journey to marry each other in every country where same-sex marriage is legal.

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by Michael Genhart

Fiction
Teased for having two fathers, a boy views his friend’s traditional family as similar to his own and realizes he can counter the ridicule by taking pride in his fathers and the love that makes them a family. (picture book)

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by Archie Bongiovanni

Nonfiction
A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns.

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by Meredith Russo

Fiction
Born in the same hospital on the same day, Morgan and Eric grow up to become best friends before they drift apart, reunite, fall in love and ultimately discover what fate has in store for them.

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by Jeanette Winterson

Fiction
The coming-of-age story of Jess, the adopted daughter of a deeply religious woman, who grows up isolated and insulated in the north of England in the 1960’s. Jess meets Melanie, and the two teenagers fall in love, greatly upsetting Jess’s mother and her congregation.

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by Dean Atta

Fiction
A fierce coming-of-age novel about identity and the liberating power of drag follows the experiences of a mixed-race teen in London who struggles to connect with his heritage before coming out and establishing his place in Drag Society.

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by Janet Mock

Nonfiction
Redefining Realness offers a bold new perspective on being young, multiracial, economically challenged and transgender in America.

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by Randy Shilts

Nonfiction
An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts’ expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80’s while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years.

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by Armistead Maupin

Fiction
A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes.

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by Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

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