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Just Like My Family by Ashley MolessoWhether a child wears pearls just like their daddy, grills with their mommy, braids hair like their baba, bakes yummy treats with their grandpa, sashays like their zaza, dresses up like their bibi, or decorates their room like their brothers, all families love spending time together!
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Olivette is You by Nico TortorellaThe actor and musician presents this joyful story that introduces Olivette, who wants kids to know that “all of it is YOU!” and to let kids in on a secret: They can be anything they want to be! Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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The Fabulous Edweena by Edwin DumontEdwin loves his sister Patsy's closet. He adores dresses and earrings and boots with high heels. And when he's finished getting dressed, Edwin is transformed... into the fabulous Edweena!
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Nen and the Lonely Fisherman by Ian EagletonAn adventurous merman and kind fisherman find love and each other in this gorgeous update to the Little Mermaid story.
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Gooseberry by Robin GowTwelve-year-old B, a young nonbinary person who wants to be a dog trainer someday, convinces their new foster parents to adopt a stray dog named Gooseberry, but training the dog ends up being much harder than they expected until they learn to trust each other.
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Lunar Boy by Jessica WibowoIndu, a boy from the moon, feels like he doesn't belong. He hasn't since he and his adoptive mom disembarked from their spaceship--their home--to live on Earth with their new blended family. The kids at school think he's weird, he has a crush on his penpal who might not like him back, and his stepfamily doesn't seem to know what to do with him. Worst of all, Indu can't even talk to his mom about how he's feeling because she's so busy. In a moment of loneliness, Indu calls out to the moon, begging them to take him back. And against all odds, the moon hears him and agrees to bring him home on the first day of the New Year. But as the promised day draws nearer, Indu finds friendship in unlikely places and discovers that home is more than where you come from. And when the moon calls again, Indu must decide: Is he willing to give up what he's just found?
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Too Bright to See by Kyle LukoffIn the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity.
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I Love You S'more by Auriane DesombreIvy Raines needs camp for an escape like she did as a child. After going through a very public breakup with her first girlfriend and teen TV show mega star, she wants nothing more than a summer of sunshine, friends and s'mores as newest counselor.
But when she signs up to run the camp's musical production she soon finds herself in a rivalry she didn't see coming with the co-director, Rynn. She's bossy and thinks she knows everything because she's been most experienced counselor. Worse, it's a girl Ivy had a falling out with when she was younger.
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Nimona by Noelle StevensonA graphic novel debut based on the author's critically acclaimed Web comic follows a nefarious plot by an impulsive young shapeshifter and a vengeful villain who want to defame their kingdom's Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics.
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The Lilies
by Quinn Diacon-Furtado
Trapped in a mysterious time loop on the day after a member of the Lilies Society disappears, four Archwell Academy students discover they each hold a clue that will unlock the truth about the Lilies, but they're each harboring a secret they would do anything to hide.
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Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria KoopsBecoming friends with new girl Darcy, a fellow gamer, Art must find the courage to take a stand against his influential and conservative father who is trying to stop Darcy and her friends from starting a queer-straight alliance at school.
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The Absinthe Underground by Jamie PactonIn the Belle Epoque city of Severon, Sybil Clarion and Esme Rimbaud, best friends with a secret crush on each other, find themselves drawn into a risky heist proposition from a mysterious Green Faerie named Maeve, which could offer financial security but may endanger their carefully constructed lives.
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Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine SkyeTwo girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in this high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut.
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A Darker Mischief by Derek MilmanAt the elite Essex Academy Cal Ware, a poor, queer kid from Mississippi, is an outsider, but when he learns about a secret society on campus, he thinks that he may have found a way to reinvent himself--but as the initiation rituals grow riskier he must decide who to trust and how far he is willing to go to belong.
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The Rules of Royalty by Cale DietrichTwo princes from neighboring countries fall into a whirlwind romance after one prince is asked to tutor the other, in a sparkling spin on the popular The Princess Diaries by the same author.
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Pritty by Keith F. MillerJay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to be...Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye ofthe boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome attention. But as everything in his world begins to heat up, especially with Leroy, whispered rumors over the murder of a young Black journalist and long-brewing territory tensions hang like a dark cloud over his neighborhood. And when Jay and Leroy find themselves caught in the crossfire, Leroy isn't willing to be the reason Jay's life is at risk.
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Perfect on Paper by Sophie GonzalesSeventeen-year-old Darcy Phillips, a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates, is hired by the "hot" guy at school to help him get his ex back.
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So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by Caro De Robertis
In this scintillating oral history, novelist De Robertis (The Palace of Eros) weaves together the voices of 20 trans and gender nonconforming people of color in their 50s, 60s, and 70s in order to explore what it was like for their generation to come of age, as well as to record and memorialize the struggle for the right to free gender expression that these individuals pioneered.
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The LGBTQ+ History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Jon Astbury
Showcasing the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience, this diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements and phenomena, celebrating the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution.
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The Stonewall Reader
by Jason Baumann, editor
June 28, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement, and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. This anthology chronicles the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
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Hi Honey, I’m Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
by Matt Baume
From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from Ellen’s culture clash and Will & Grace’s mixed reception to Modern Family’s primetime power-couple, Hi Honey, I’m Homo! is the story not only of how subversive queer comedy transformed the American sitcom, from its inception through today, but how our favorite sitcoms transformed, and continue to transform, America.
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Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Hunt Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
by Krista Burton
Burton set out in 2021 on a pilgrimage to visit the 20 self-identifying lesbian bars left in the U.S. Along the way she makes friends, studies lesbian behavior, and discusses reasons for the closure of “dyke bars,” including gentrification, the pandemic, and the growing acceptance of the queer community in mainstream culture.
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The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening
by Ari Shapiro
The award-winning co-host of NPR's All Things Considered presents this stirring memoir-in-essays in which he seeks ways to help people listen to one another; to find connection and commonality with those who seem different; and to remind us that we are all human.
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Paper Doll: Notes From a Late Bloomer
by Dylan Mulvaney
Actor and influencer Mulvaney recounts coming out as trans and navigating the right-wing backlash to her appearance in a 2023 ad campaign for Bud Light. Writing in the easygoing style of a private journal, Mulvaney discusses the pleasures and pitfalls of sharing one’s life online, the lessons she’s learned from weathering public controversy, and the details of what she calls “Beergate.”
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Hijab Butch Blues
by Lamya H
A queer Muslim immigrant recalls her coming of age and how she drew inspiration from the stories in the Quran throughout her lifetime search for safety and belonging.
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Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
by Michael G. Long
Explores the surprising and complicated legacy of the brilliant strategist of the civil rights movement--Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civil rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, organized the 1963 March on Washington.
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Isaac's Song
by Daniel Black
Encouraged by his therapist to write down his story, a young, queer Black man describes the details and circumstances of his life, from growing up with a difficult father to finding community in 1980s Chicago.
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In
by Griffin Hansbury
In small-town 1984 Massachusetts, Melanie (better known as Mel) meets the vibrant trans woman Sylvia and starts thinking about life's possibilities. Decades later, Mel has become Max and is on probation from the school where he teaches, ironically for defying speech codes regarding the trans community. A timely plunge into gender and class issues from Lambda Literary Award finalist Hansbury.
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Mutual Interest
by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
In turn-of-the-century Manhattan, a businessman enters into a lavender marriage with an ambitious woman and falls in love with his eccentric business rival. For readers of Hernan Diaz's Trust and Colm Tóibín's The Magician, with echoes of Gustave Flaubert and E.M. Forster, Mutual Interest is a beguiling story of queer romance, empire, and power.
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The Palace of Eros
by Caro De Robertis
A feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros explores the power of queer joy and freedom. The author’s retelling provides a space to dream of a world where those “born perfect yet outside the rules” of their time may find ways to step out of the shadows and into the light. A vulnerable, sensual and joyous journey about living and loving in one’s truth.
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Our Evenings
by Alan Hollinghurst
Peeks in on the orbit of Dave Win—the son of a British dressmaker and a Burmese man he's never met—after he receives a scholarship to a prestigious English boarding school and how the relationships he made affect his struggles with class and race, art and sexuality, love and violence.
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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
In 1950s Paris a young American expatriate has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
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How to Sleep at Night
by Elizabeth Harris
Ethan and Gabe's marriage is tested when Ethan announces his congressional run as a Republican, while Nicole rekindles a romance with Ethan's sister Kate, a political reporter whose life spirals as family and career collide.
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Fadeout
by Joseph Hansen
Published fifty years ago, a time when being gay was illegal in 49 out of 50 states, Joseph Hansen’s first Dave Brandstetter novel shattered stereotypes and redefined the hardboiled private eye novel as we know it.
Death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter looks into a claim filed by the wife of a radio personality whose car was found wrecked and swept away on a rainy night in California.
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You're the Problem, It's You
by Emma R. Alban
The enemies-to-lovers queer Victorian romance follow-up to Don't Want You Like a Best Friend, in which a young lord and a second son clash but find themselves thrust together again and again by their meddling cousins.
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10 Things That Never Happened
by Alexis J. Hall
A chain-store owner attempts to fire the manager of the Leeds location, who bumps his head and appears to be faking amnesia, in the first novel of the new series by the author of Husband Material.
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Mitchells vs. the MachinesWhen Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly malfunctioning robots, the Mitchells will have to work together to save each other and the world!
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Available to stream on Kanopy! Dylan lives an isolated life in rural New Mexico, working odd jobs to support his family. He accepts a gig at a ranch built by a group of queer rodeo performers, where he becomes entwined in the life of Sky, a talented barrel racer and free spirit. While working together in the breathtaking expanse of the Southwest, they contend with the undeniable forces of nature, family, and love. |
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Portrait of a Lady on FireAvailable to stream on Kanopy! Héloïse , a young woman who has recently left the convent and is about to enter a chattel marriage.
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Close to YouA trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself.
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The NoviceAvailable to stream on Kanopy! Follows a young woman who, after joining her university's rowing team, becomes determined to earn a spot in the top varsity boat and obsessively pursues her goal, alienating everyone around her along the way.
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Moonlight The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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EileenAvailable to stream on Kanopy! In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken--but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
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Gay USAStepping out of the sixties and in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, (considered the birth of the modern LGBTQIA+ liberation movement), the 1970s would prove to be a decade energized by queer activism, political and social change and pride. Celebrating such a vitally important legacy, this collection of gay protest and parade films is an essential multifaceted document of a period of revolution and jubilation.
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Available to stream on Kanopy!
Explores the life and work of Bayard Rustin, an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, non-violence, and gay rights.
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Stonewall UprisingAvailable to stream on Kanopy!
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