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BOOKS

Below is a list of books worth reading. From children's books to lgbtq+ fictional stories to education to biographies. 

LGBTQ+ 

We Make It Better by Eric Rosswood and Kathleen Archambeau 

To Be A Gay Man by Will Young 

Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele 

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

The Stonewall Reader edited by The New York Public Library

The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades by Lewis Laney

Straight Jacket: Overcoming Society’s Legacy of Gay Shame by Matthew Todd 

Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement by Matthew Todd 

A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein   

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin  

Just Above my Head by James Baldwin 

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein

Rebel Chef by Dominique Crenn + Emma Brockes 

We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer + Leighton Brown

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

The Queen's English by Chloe O. Davis

Stonewall by Martin Duberman

Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Queer Love in Colour by Jamal Jordan

The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Olivia by Dorothy Strachey

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad 

Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

Singled Out by Andrew Maraniss

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

My Two Moms by Zach Wahls

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

TRANS+

Trans Power by Juno Roche

Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi  

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker 

Trans Britain by Christine Burns 

To my Trans Sisters by Charlie Craggs 

Trans Teen Survival Guide by Owl and Fox Fisher 

The Gender Games by Juno Dawson 

Redefining Realness – Janet Mock  

True Colours by Caroline Paige 

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Fairest by Meredith Talusan

Sissy by Jacob Tobia

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan

Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

Ask a Queer Chick by Lindsay King-Miller

Stung with Love by Sappho

How to Survive a Summer by Nick White

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

The Guncle by Steven Rowley 

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Unbound by Arlene Stein

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan

CHILDREN + YOUNG TEEN'S

Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer

My Two Moms and Me by Michael Joosten

Daddy, Papa, and Me by Leslea Newman

The Adventures of Honey and Leon by Alan Cumming

I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings

I am Billie Jean King by Brad Meltzer

Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders

Stonewall: A Building, an Uprising, a Revolution by Rob Sanders

Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens

The Whispers by Greg Howard

Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson + Nick Sharratt

The Extraordinary Life of Alan Turing by Michael Lee Richardson + Freda Chiu

JoJo and BowBow Take the Stage by JoJo Siwa

Finn Family by Tove Jansson

Forever Star by Gareth Peter + Judi Abbot

The Extraordinary Life of Freddie Mercury by Michael Lee Richardson + Maggie Cole

Magnus Chase and The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan

We Are The Beaker Girls by Jacqueline Wilson + Nick Sharratt

Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn

Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day

BIOGRAPHIES/MEMOIRS

In Their Shoes by Jamie Windust 

Me by Elton John

Over The Top by Jonathan Van Ness 

Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

Here for It by R. Eric Thomas

Becoming Nicole - Amy Ellis Nutt

Party of One - Dave Holmes

Mama's Boy by Dustin Lance Black

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