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LGBTQ Resources

This guide highlights local, regional, and national LGBTQ organizations, as well as materials on LGBTQ topics that that you can request from your library.

General LGBTQ Non-Fiction

Free to Be by Jack Turban

Biography & Memoir

Dinner on Monster Island by Tania Rozari Deo
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante
Talking to My Angels by Melissa Etheridge
The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
Miss Major Speaks by Toshio Meronek
The Yards Between Us by R. K. Russell
The Old Gays Guide to the Good Life by the Old Gays of TikTok
Uncle of the Year by Andrew Rannells
Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper
Transitional by Monroe Bergdorf
Pageboy by Elliot Page
The Best Strangers in the World by Ari Shapiro
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It by Greg Marshall
Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance by Francesca T. Royster
The Big Reveal by Sasha Velour

Families & Parenting

Raising Kids Beyond the Binary by Jamie Bruesehoff
Out: a parent's guide to supporting your LGBTQIA+ kid through coming out and beyond by John Sovec
Parenting Your LGBTQ+ Teen by Allan Sadac
Queer Conception by Kristin L. Kali
Three Dads and a Baby by Ian Jenkins
The Transgender Child: Revised and Updated Edition by Stephanie A. Brill
Unconditional by Telania Erikson

History

The Freaks Came Out to Write by Tricia Romano
And Don't F&%k It Up by Maria Elena Fernandez
Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester
Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza
Secret City by James Kirchick
The Lgbtq + History Book by Michael Bronski
Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey
The Women's House of Detention by Hugh Ryan
Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
Fire Island by Jack Parlett
Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman
Finding a Woman's Place: The story of a 1970s feminist collective in the Adirondacks by Lorraine M. Duvall
Stonewall Generation by Jane Fleishman
Love and Resistance by Kay Tobin
Indecent Advances by James Polchin
The Stonewall Reader edited by the New York Public Library
We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer
The Boys of Fairy Town by Jim Elledge
The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman
Transgender History, Second Edition by Susan Stryker
Stonewall by Martin Duberman
Gay New York by George Chauncey
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Rights & Legal Issues

A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples by Frederick Hertz
Before Lawrence V. Texas by Wesley G. Phelps
The Engagement by Sasha Issenberg
Awakening by Nathaniel Frank

Documentaries