June is Pride Month! These books celebrate diversity, community, inclusivity, and understanding!

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated each June. According to the Library of Congress, “The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.” The month-long celebration has its origins in the Stonewall Uprising in NYC’s Greenwich Village in Manhattan, which turned into a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement. Stonewall involved several days of conflict between police and patrons of a gay bar and onlookers in violent clashes beginning June 28, 1969. Visit loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about to learn more.

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Children's Picture Books

The Guncle and Me by Jonathan Merritt

It’s Pride, Baby! by Allen R. Wells

Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle by Nina LaCour

Marley’s Pride by Joëlle Retener

Miss Rita, Mystery Reader by Sam Donovan

Pride Puppy by Robin Stevenson

The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson

Rainbowsaurus by Steve Antony

‘Twas the Night Before Pride by Joanna McClintick

Children's Nonfiction Books

The ABCs of Queer History by Dr. Seema Yasmin

Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

The Every Body Book of Consent: An LGBTQIA-inclusive Guide to Respecting Boundaries, Bodies, and Beyond by Rachel E Simon

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality by Hana Bajramovic

Kind Like Marsha: Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders by Sarah Prager

Children's and Preteen Chapter Books

Emma and the Love Spell by Meredith Ireland

Fresh Start: New School, New Friends, New Challenges by Gale Galligan

The Greatest Superpower by Alex Sanchez

The House on Yeet Street by Preston Norton

Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo

Mallory In Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy

Murray Out of Water by Taylor Tracy

Paige Not Found by Jen Wilde

Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost by Esme Symes-Smith

The Visitors by Greg Howard

Winnie Nash is Not Your Sunshine by Nicole Melleby

You Only Live Once, David Bravo by Mark Oshiro

Teen and Young Adult Fiction

Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection edited by Madeline Dyer

Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram

Chaos King by Kacen Callender

The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K Ancrum

Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid

How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans

I’ll Take Everything You Have by James Klise

The Long Run by James Acker

Messy Perfect by Tanya Boteju

Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror and Delight edited by Shelly Page

No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding

Out of Character by Jenna Miller

Pride or Die by CL Montblanc

The Queen Bees of Tybee County by Kyle Casey Chu

Recommended Reading by Paul Coccia

Roll for Love by MK England

Say a Little Prayer by Jenna Voris

The Severed Thread by Leslie Vedder

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill

The Wildest Things by Andrea Hannah

Teen and Young Adult Nonfiction

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M Johnson

On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating by Karina Manta

Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer

Still Stace: My Gay Christian Coming-Of-Age Story by Stacey Chomiak

What’s the T?: A Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary by Juno Dawson

Adult Fiction

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochkwu

Best Men by Sidney Karger

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Blackouts by Justin Torres

The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst

City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter

Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo

Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris

I Think They Love You by Julian Winters

Just As You Are by Camille Kellogg

Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein

Single Player by Tara Tai

The Sun and the Void by Gabriela Romero Lacruz

The Unworthy by Agustina Maíra Bazterrica

The World and All That It Holds by Aleksander Hermon

Adult Nonfiction

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You’re Not Supposed to Be by Arielle Egozi

Black, Queer, & Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, & Trailblazers by Jon Key

Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai

Drop In: The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding by Deborah Stoll

The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron

The Gender Binary is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities Around the World by Lee Wind

The LGBTQ+ History Book edited by Michael Bronski

Our South: Black Food Through My Lens: Backcountry, Lowlands, Midlands, Lowcountry, Homeland by Ashleigh Shanti

Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality by Cassidy Hall

Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark

The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream by Jon Savage

Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression by Iris Gottlieb

Seen, Heard, and Paid: The New York Work Rules for the Marginalized by Alan Henry

Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping Through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places by Greggor Mattson

Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler