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An article explaining approaches "to increase visibility and awareness of LGBTQIA+ lives, improving student empathy, perception of safety, and sense of belonging."

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Lucy Santos Green, Jenna Spiering, Vanessa Lynn Kitzie and Julia Erlanger, August 2022

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School Library Connection | Beyond Building the Collection: Make Your Teaching Practice LGBTQIA+ Inclusive

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The School Library Connection Archive is an open access learning resource center for school library professionals. It contains webinars, articles, and video courses to enhance your librarian practice.

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National Education Association | LGBTQ+ Books for Schools

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Recommended titles that reflect on the LGBTQ+ experience and books about Pride, tolerance, and diversity.

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Everyone should be able to see themselves reflected in the books they read and feel comfortable about being the person they want to be. Find books in this list that reflect on the LGBTQ+ experience along with titles about pride, tolerance, and diversity.

Picture Books

You Are Not Alone by Kaitlin McGaw

Rainbow Hands by Mamta Nainy

My Maddy by Gayle E. Pitman

Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild
Twas The Night Before Pride by Joanna McClintick
Calvin by J.R. Ford
Ho'onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale
Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie Sima

When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff

Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer

Worm Loves Worm by J. J. Austrian

I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

What's Your Name? by Bethanie Deeney Murguia; illustrated by Bethanie Deeney Murguia

Middle Grade

Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson

Melissa by Alex Gino

T his Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine Locke

The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy
A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas
Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender

The Best Man by Richard Peck

Spin with Me by Ami Polonsky

Better Nate than Ever by Tim Federle

Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake

The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson

Young Adult

Abuela, Don't Forget Me by Rex Ogle

This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

Flamer by Mike Curato
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

Find these titles and more LGBTQ+ reading recommendations at your local library through World Cat.

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Recommended titles that reflect on the LGBTQ+ experience and books about Pride, tolerance, and diversity.

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Welcoming Schools | Great Diverse Books for Elementary School Kids

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"Welcoming Schools Elementary book lists are designed to help educators create classrooms, libraries and schools that are affirming of LGBTQ+ students, families and staff with high quality literature."

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Welcoming Schools Elementary book lists are designed to help educators create classrooms, libraries and schools that are affirming of LGBTQ+ students, families and staff with high quality literature. A key focus of our program is to provide comprehensive resources for educators to teach about LGBTQ+ people, histories and identities in order to foster equity and belonging in schools through an intersectional lens.

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Great Diverse Books for Elementary School Kids

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Find up-to-date diverse books. Build a positive school climate. Develop a gender and LGBTQ+ inclusive school. Provide windows and mirrors for your students.

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American Archive of Public Broadcasting | Stonewall Uprising Interviews

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"The Stonewall Uprising Interviews Collection is comprised of 48 raw interviews from the American Experience documentary of the same name. The documentary discusses the Stonewall riots, a six-day period beginning on June 28, 1969, during which the LGBTQ+ community protested against a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC."

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Collection Summary

The Stonewall Uprising Interviews Collection is comprised of 48 raw interviews from the American Experience documentary of the same name. The documentary discusses the Stonewall riots, a six-day period beginning on June 28, 1969, during which the LGBTQ+ community protested against a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC. Stonewall Uprising discusses societal attitudes towards the gay community and early activism for gay rights prior to the riots, as well as the riots' legacy, which includes the creation of a movement for gay rights, greater cohesion among the LGBTQ+ community, and the establishment of the first gay pride parades. Interviews took place with community leaders, activists, and authors, including Martha Shelley, a Stonewall veteran, activist for gay and lesbian rights, and one of the first four members of the Gay Liberation Front; Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City; Virginia Apuzzo, a gay rights activist and former Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force; Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector of the NYPD Morals Division; and Dick Leitsch, an activist and the first gay reporter to write about the Stonewall riots.

Collection Background

The Stonewall Uprising interviews were conducted in 2011 for the American Experience documentary of the same name, with Kate Davis and David Heilbroner serving as the documentary's directors. American Experience, PBS' flagship history documentary series, premiered in 1988 and is produced at WGBH in Boston. In 2017, the WGBH Media Library and Archives digitized the Stonewall Uprising interviews and in 2018 submitted them to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

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The Stonewall Uprising Interviews Collection is comprised of 48 raw interviews from the American Experience documentary of the same name. The documentary discusses the Stonewall riots, a six-day period beginning on June 28, 1969, during which the LGBTQ+ community protested against a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC.

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GLSEN Rainbow Library: Elementary Lesson Plans

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"GLSEN’s Rainbow Library English and Spanish lesson plans support educators to use Rainbow Library books in their instruction. Aligned to Common Core ELA Standards, Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards, and National Council for the Social Studies C3 Social Studies Standards, the lessons can be taught across a range of subjects (such as reading, humanities/social studies, or SEL), and connect to a variety of units and topics."

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ILL Inclusive Curriculum Advisory Council: Legacy Project Lesson Plans 

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A directory of fantastic lesson plans on LGBTQIA+ history.

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Illinois Inclusive Curriculum Advisory Council

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Illinois Inclusive Curriculum Advisory Council

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Long Island Library Pride Alliance: LGBTQIA+ Programming Database

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Long Island Library Pride Alliance made this great database of programming ideas to encourage LGBTQIA+ programming in libraries all year!

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LGBTQIA+ Programming Database – Long Island Library Pride Alliance

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LILPA is in the process of building a Queer Programming Database to support LGBTQIA+ programming all year long. Please help us by submitting as many program ideas as possible to our Google Form. Please share programs you created in house or a programs that were run with an outside programmer. Submit a program today!

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Lambda Literary Awards Winners Directory: 1988-Present 

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"For over 30 years, the Lambda Literary Awards have recognized the best LGBTQ books published in a given year across dozens of categories." A searchable and downloadable database of all finalists and winners of Lammy Awards from 1988 to the present. Filter for the children's categories to get the awardees over the years!

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For over 30 years, the Lambda Literary Awards have recognized the best LGBTQ books published in a given year across dozens of categories.

Below is a fully searchable directory of all previous Lammy finalists and winners dating back to 1988.

Note that each year's Lambda Literary Awards celebrates books published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year. For example, books from the 2020 Lammys will show a publication year of 2019 in this table.

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For over 30 years, the Lambda Literary Awards have recognized the best LGBTQ books published in a given year across dozens of categories. Below is a fully searchable directory of all previous Lammy finalists and winners dating back to 1988. Note that each year's Lambda Literary Awards celebrates books published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year.

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"The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Round Table. Since Isabel Miller’s Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience."

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The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Round Table. Since Isabel Miller’s Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.

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Trans Student Educational Resources: Gender Pronouns Infographic

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A great graphic/poster that could be used in the library!