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Boston Public Library We Are Pride Books about the LGBTQ+ Experience Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children | 2020 The We Are Pride Booklist is a list of recent books for all ages concerning the diverse experiences of 700 Boylston Street the LGBTQ+ community and is a part of the Boston Copley Square Public Library's observance of Pride Month and bpl.org LGBT History Month. Boston Public Library We Are Pride Zenobia July By Lisa Bunker Zenobia July is starting a new Books about the LGBTQ+ Experience life where she's able to live openly as the girl she always Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children | 2020 knew she was. When someone anonymously posts hateful memes on her school's website, Zenobia knows she's the one with the abilities to solve the mystery. J FICTION BUNKER L My Two Dads and Me/ CHILDREN My Two Moms and Me TEEN By Michael Joosten These two beautifully illustrated board books celebrate families with same-gender parents as The Best at It The Afterward moms, dads, and kids eat breakfast, get dressed, By Maulik Pancholy head to the park, and sing good-night lullabies. By E.K. Johnston Twelve-year-old Rahul, an Indian American J BOARD JOOSTEN M A not-so-reformed thief and an apprentice knight boy growing up in Indiana, works to find became famous for saving the world together. But something he’s good at, and questions Pride Colors is there room in their post-adventure lives for their his sexuality in this funny, semi- new relationship? A tale told in several timelines. By Robin Stevenson autobiographical, middle-grade novel. TEEN SCIFI FANTASY JOHNSTON E With adorable photos of babies, toddlers, J FICTION PANCHOLY M and families, this rhyming board book gently Beyond the Black Door affirms caregivers’ love for their children Hurricane Season while introducing the colors of the pride By A.M. Strickland By Nicole Melleby flag and the meaning behind each color. Soulwalker Kamai finds herself entranced by Eleven-year-old Fig’s father J BOARD STEVENSO R Vehyn, a mysterious spirit she encounters in is her whole world, and she the world of dreams, although she struggles to does her best to hide his Queer Heroes reconcile her infatuation with her lack of physical mental illness, including from attraction. As she investigates her mother's tragic social services. When a new By Arabelle Sicardi & death, can she trust that Vehyn is what he seems? Sarah Tanat-Jones (illustrations) neighbor moves in, she and her father both TEEN SCIFI FANTASY STRICKLA A slowly learn to let other people into their This group biography for kids lives in this poignant middle-grade novel. uses a mix of text and dynamic Brave Face full-color portraits to celebrate the achievements J FICTION MELLEBY N By Shaun David Hutchinson of fifty-three LGBTQ+ role models throughout history and from all around the world. “I wasn’t depressed because I was gay. I It Feels Good to Be Yourself: J BIOG HQ73.S56 2019 was depressed and gay.” In this memoir, A Book About Gender Identity Hutchinson shares his difficult journey By Theresa Thorn & Noah When Aidan Became a Brother growing up, which included an attempt to Grigni (illustrations) take his own life, and the road to recovery that finally convinced him things do get better. Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere By Kyle Lukoff & TEEN RC569 .H88 2019 Kaylani Juanita (illustrations) in between. This inclusive, vibrant picture book gives kids and caregivers alike the vocabulary After Aidan realized he was a trans boy, he and Cosmoknights to talk with each other about gender. his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t By Hannah Templer fit anymore. When Mom and Dad announce J HQ77.9 .T497 2019 that they’re going to have another baby, Aidan Years after her best friend wants to do everything he can to make things was taken to serve as a prize The Midwinter Witch right for his new sibling from the very beginning. princess for a galactic combat By Molly Ostertag sport, Pan is still seething. She J PICTURE LUKOFF K In this graphic novel conclusion joins forces with two lesbian gladiators to of the Witch Boy series, Aster The Whispers destroy the patriarchal games from the inside decides to defy tradition in this boldly drawn graphic adventure. By Greg Howard and enter his family’s annual TEEN GRAPHIC COSMOKNI contest for witches, while Eleven-year-old Riley always Ariel struggles to accept her new family’s love thought his mother’s favorite and explore her relationship with Charlie. story about magical fairies that grant wishes was made up. But J GRAPHIC MIDWINTE WITCH after she disappears, he sets off with his friend Gary to find the Whispers available in audiobook and ask them to bring his mother home. available in eBook J FICTION HOWARD G award winner graphic novel available in audiobook available in eBook Our Dreams at Dusk By Yuhki Kamatani award winner Wilder Girls Terrified that he's been outed By Rory Power graphic novel as gay, high schooler Tasuku attempts suicide, but he is Body horror and claustrophobia stopped by the appearance of the define this tale of a school mysterious Someone-san. The community center beset by the body-warping Someone-san leads him to offers him not only a Tox. Amidst the outbreak, place to belong, but a vision of a happy future. Hetty will do anything to find her friend Byatt, even break quarantine TEEN GRAPHIC OUR DREAMS AT to brave the wild and warped woods. How to Be Remy Cameron PET TEEN FICTION POWER R By Julian Winters By Akwaeke Emezi Remy Cameron is the likable and proud gay guy, admired for his confidence. The only one who Jam has been told all her life that there are may not know Remy that well is Remy himself, no monsters anymore. That changes when BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR who needs to reconcile the labels that people Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and have attached to him with who he really is. claws, emerges from one of her mother's paintings. How do you save the world from TEEN FICTION WINTERS J monsters if no one will admit they exist? The Book of Pride: LGBTQ I Wish You All the Best TEEN SCIFI FANTASY EMEZI A Heroes Who Changed the World By Mason Deaver The Stars and the Blackness Thrown out by their parents for coming By Mason Funk out as nonbinary, Ben moves in with their Between Them In these interviews and sister and finishes high school in a new By Junauda Petrus photographs, OUTWORDS, a nonprofit town. As Ben learns to heal from their Told in two distinct voices, this dedicated to preserving the stories of LGBTQ+ trauma, what started as a disaster might lyrical novel is the story of two people, presents inspiring accounts of leaders become their chance at a happier life. black girls, one Trinidadian and and activists on the front lines of the movement. TEEN FICTION DEAVER M one American, finding love and happiness in a BIOG HQ73.3.U6 F86 2019 world that seems determined to deny them both. Kiss Number 8 TEEN FICTION PETRUS J Brown White Black: An American Family By Colleen A.F. Venable & at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Ellen T. Crenshaw (illustrations) Tell Me How You Really Feel Sexuality, and Religion Mads’ first seven kisses have been By Aminah Mae Safi By Nishta J. Mehra unremarkable at best, but nothing compares Years ago, when Sana Khan worked up the Mehra writes candidly about her wife, who to terrible kiss number eight and what follows. courage to ask Rachel Recht out, Rachel is white; her adopted son, who is black; and Navigating the aftermath, she deals with assumed it was a prank; beautiful people their experiences dealing with America's falling for her BFF and a huge family secret. never ask out nerdy film buffs. But now rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. TEEN GRAPHIC KISS NUMBER EIGHT Rachel's senior film project needs a lead, Sana BIOG HQ75.53 .M44 2019 is the best fit, and they must work through Laura Dean Keeps Breaking their feelings so the camera can roll. Gender Queer: A Memoir Up With Me TEEN FICTION SAFI A By Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary By Maia Kobabe Valero-O’Connell (illustrations) These Witches Don't Burn Kobabe charts eir journey of Laura Dean is Frederica’s dream girl—but By Isabel Sterling self-identity as a nonbinary she maybe isn’t the best girlfriend. Even a Hannah, a witch who can control the elements, asexual person. E uses cryptic spirit medium warns her to break is convinced that the dark magic appearing soft lines and muted colors to depict the up with Laura, but the break ups never around her town is the work of a deadly sect of confusion of adolescent crushes, the seem to stick, and Frederica begins to witches. To defeat them, she must team up with coming out process, and the trauma and worry Laura Dean isn't the real problem. an unlikely partner: her dreaded ex-girlfriend. the fundamental violation of pap smears. TEEN GRAPHIC LAURA DEAN KEEPS TEEN FICTION STERLING I GRAPHIC HQ73 .K63 2019x Moth & Whisper We Set the Dark on Fire How We Fight for Our Lives: By Ted Anderson & Jen Hickman (Illustrations) By Tehlor Kay Mejia A Memoir The Moth and the Whisper are the greatest At the Medio School for Girls, By Saeed Jones thieves in the city, but few know that they young women are trained for disappeared six months ago, because one person one of two roles: running a Blending poetry and prose, Jones recounts has been filling both roles since then: Niki, their husband’s household or raising his life as a young black gay man from the talented and uncertain gender-fluid child. his children. Will top student South as he fights to carve out a place for himself in his family and his country. TEEN GRAPHIC MOTH AND WHISPER Dani Vargas cling to privilege, or will she give up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of BIOG PS3610.O6279 Z46 2019 freedom—and a chance at a forbidden love? TEEN SCIFI FANTASY MEJIA T 2020 We Are Pride Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children • Books about the LBGTQ+ Experience bpl.org • 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square available in audiobook available in eBook The Tradition By Jericho Brown award winner This collection of poems revolving around graphic novel EXPRESSIONS fatherhood, legacy, Blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma, celebrates survival in a world that has normalized evil. PS3602.R699 A6 2019 The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, In the Dream House By jayy dodd and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation By Carmen Maria Machado In a memoir constructed from poems, blxk By Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown Using a kaleidoscopic blend of narrative trans femme author jayy dodd documents the tropes, Machado articulates her experiences beginning of their gender transition and the This visual record of the Queer Liberation in an abusive same-sex relationship and how impact of our current political landscape. Movement presents a history of queer activism from the late 19th century those experiences shaped who she is today. PS3604.O32 B53 2019x to the Stonewall Riots to today. BIOG PS3613.A2725243 Z46 2019x HQ76.3.U5 R495 2019 Disintegrate/Dissociate Over the Top: A Raw Journey By Arielle Twist to Self-Love Exploring grief, trauma, and displacement through her powerful poetry, Twist shares her NONFICTION By Jonathan Van Ness identity as an Indigenous trans woman and It hasn't always been gorgeous her journey towards a softer path in life. for this beacon of positivity PR9199.4.T93 A6 2019x and joy on Queer Eye. In his memoir, Van Ness uncovers the pain The Children of Harvey Milk: How Halal If You Hear Me and passion it took to become the model of LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World self-love and acceptance that he is today. Edited by Fatimah Asghar By Andrew Reynolds & Safia Elhillo BIOG PN2287.V336 A3 2019x Based on in-depth interviews with more A collection of poems by female, queer, than fifty politicians, Reynolds tells the epic nonbinary, and trans Muslims that delves into stories of courageous people around the Rainbow Warrior: topics such as immigration, racism, religion, world who came forward to make their voices My Life in Color queerness, love, and the intersection of identities. heard in the struggle for equal rights. By Gilbert Baker PS591.M5445 H35 2019x HQ76.5 .R49 2019 In this posthumously published memoir, the creator of the Live Oak, With Moss Cruising: An Intimate rainbow flag chronicles his life, By Walt Whitman & History of a Radical Pastime from a repressive childhood in 1950s Kansas, Brian Selznick (illustrations) By Alex Espinoza through his blossoming into a visionary artist and social justice activist in 1970s San Francisco. Whitman's personal poems on his attraction From Greek antiquity to Grindr, Espinoza to and affection for other men are brought examines the political and cultural BIOG HQ75.8.B345 B35 2019 to light by noted illustrator Selznick in a forces behind the radical pastime of reassembled and reinterpreted visual narrative cruising, combining historical research Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story that explores the theme of same-sex love. with his own personal experience. PS3204 .S45 2019x HQ76.115 .E875 2019x By Jacob Tobia Through recollections of their Love and Resistance: Out of The Hub of the Gay Universe: An LGBTQ glitter-obsessed childhood and the Closet, into the Stonewall Era History of Boston, Provincetown, and Beyond struggles against stereotypes, Edited by Jason Baumann By Russ Lopez activist, writer, producer, television host and actor Jacob Tobia invites A collection of photographs from the New York From the Trans Day of Remembrance to us to rethink what we know about gender. Public Library Archives captures the humanity same-sex marriage, Boston and Provincetown of the groundbreaking protests of the 1960s have been at the forefront of the battle for BIOG CT275.T69 A3 2019 and 1970s surrounding the Stonewall Riots. LGBTQ+ rights. This work by a local author HQ76.8.U5 L68 2019 traces LGBTQ+ history in the Bay State. We Have Always Been Here: A HQ73.3.M4 L67 2019x Queer Muslim Memoir Soft Science By Samra Habib By Franny Choi Life Isn't Binary: On Being As an Ahmadi Muslim in Pakistan, A series of Turing Test-inspired poems Both, Beyond, and In-Between Habib faced the policing of her explores queer Asian American femininity, By Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker body and threats of violence seeking tenderness in a violent world filled Challenging society's rigid ways of thinking, against her religion. After moving to Canada with artificial intelligence and automation. Iantaffi and Barker demonstrate the as a refugee, Habib encounters racism and PS3603.H653 A6 2019 limitations of binary thinking regarding our homophobia—inspiring her fight for truth relationships, well-being, identity, and more. and power along the way to self-discovery. HQ1075 I26 2019x BIOG HQ75.4.H38 A3 2019x 2020 We Are Pride Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children • Books about the LBGTQ+ Experience bpl.org • 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square available in audiobook available in eBook award winner graphic novel Bury the Lede The Luminous Dead By Gaby Dunn By Caitlin Starling College student Madison, an intern at The Gyre Price lied her way into a Boston Lede, meets Dahlia Kennedy for caving expedition, assuming that the first time at a murder scene. But when she'd get a skilled surface team to Dahlia is arrested for the crime, she won't monitor her descent. Instead, she Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, talk to any other reporter except Madison. gets the cold and enigmatic Em, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ who prioritizes the mission over Gyre's safety. GRAPHIC BURY THE LEDE By Andy Campbell SCIFI FANTASY STARLING C Campbell showcases five decades of Cantoras LGBTQ+ community history in this accessible Mostly Dead Things By Carolina De Robertis collection of iconic posters, logos, and graphic By Kristen Arnett art spanning the 1970s to the present. In 1977 Uruguay, five cantoras, women who “sing,” discover an uninhabited cape which After her father’s suicide, Jessa's N8217.E6 C36 2019x they claim as their sanctuary. Away from the family begins falling apart. city they call home, where homosexuality While her mother turns towards Real Queer America: LGBT Stories is a dangerous transgression, they find obscene art featuring taxidermied from Red States comfort and family in each other. animals, her brother, jilted by his wife (Jessa's secret lover), withdraws By Samantha Allen FICTION DEROBERT C leaving Jessa to pull the family together. Journalist Allen retraces her journey from FICTION ARNETT K a Mormon missionary in Utah to a trans Gideon the Ninth woman living happily in rural Florida. As By Tamsyn Muir she crosses the heartland of America, Allen On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous explores queer community and the ways Indentured servant and By Ocean Vuong it forms everywhere queer people live. reluctant cavalier Gideon Nav must join Harrowhark, her A letter from a son to his mother explores HQ76.3.U52 M533 2019x House's necromancer, on the impact of the Vietnam War on their her quest to become the family history. Secure in the knowledge The Stonewall Reader Emperor God's newest immortal servant. she will never read it, he reveals parts of Edited by Jason Baumann SCIFI FANTASY MUIR T his life that she has never known. Published to commemorate the fiftieth FICTION VUONG O anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, this Leading Men anthology chronicles the tumultuous A People's History of Heaven By Christopher Castellani fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the 1960s and By Mathangi Subramanian the activists who spearheaded it. At a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino in 1953, Tennessee Williams and his Five young women, including a transgender HQ76.8.U5 S77 2019x longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, Christian convert and an outspoken queer rebel, a mysteriously taciturn aspiring actress. The grow up together in "Heaven," a Bangalore slum When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History encounter will forever alter their lives. that must confront the threat of demolition. By Hugh Ryan FICTION CASTELLA C FICTION SUBRAMAN M A vibrant exploration of the forgotten LGBTQ+ history of Brooklyn, featuring The Long Call The Secrets We Kept drag kings of the late 1800s, a WWII gay By Ann Cleeves By Lara Prescott Nazi spy scandal, and the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. When a body is found on the At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries beach, the case calls Matthew— are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA. HQ73.3.U6 R83 2019 now a detective and married to Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago his husband, Jonathan—back out of the USSR and help the novel make into the strict evangelical its way into print around the world. community he thought he had left behind. FICTION PRESCOTT L FICTION MYSTERY CLEEVES A To Be Taught, If Fortunate Lot: Stories By Bryan Washington By Becky Chambers Black Leopard, Red Wolf The son of a Black mother and a Latino Ariadne, an astronaut on a voyage By Marlon James father comes of age in Houston: working between worlds, transforms her Tracker, a skilled hunter, is hired to find a at his family's restaurant, weathering his body for each new environment. missing boy along with a hodgepodge group brother's blows, resenting his older sister's Meanwhile, back on Earth, society of helpers in this fantastical tale that draws absence and discovering he likes boys. changes dramatically as her mission progresses. from African history and mythology. FICTION WASHINGT B SCIFI FANTASY CHAMBERS B SCIFI FANTASY JAMES M 2020 We Are Pride Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children • Books about the LBGTQ+ Experience bpl.org • 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square available in audiobook available in eBook Once Ghosted, Twice Shy Reverb award winner By Anna Zabo graphic novel By Alyssa Cole When an attack by a stalker lands rockstar When Likotsi runs into the ex Mish Sullivan in the hospital, her band puts who ghosted her on a stalled their foot down. David, the martial arts expert train, the thought of closure has hired as her bodyguard, is more than capable her agreeing to one last whirlwind of keeping Mish safe... if their blazing sexual Willa & Hesper tour of NYC. Unfortunately, spending more time attraction doesn't distract them both. with Fabiola isn’t helping Likotsi get over her. By Amy Feltman Available in digital format only ROMANCE COLE A Two young women fall in love, and then fall apart. From Tbilisi to the war sites of Tea / Coffee Germany, they discover what can break Raze By Matthew Metzger and what can mend when you look to By Roan Parrish When John bumps into Chris in a coffee shop, the past to understand your present. Felix has spent his life looking after his younger their instant attraction is overwhelming. Can FICTION FELTMAN A siblings, while Huey's identity revolves they overcome John's fear of commitment around his work as a sober sponsor. Will two and Chris' family's disapproval in order to longtime caretakers be able to let someone find a place in each other's worlds? else take care of them for a change? Available in digital format only ROMANCE Available in digital format only Xeni: A Marriage of Inconvenience AND EROTICA Red, White & Royal Blue By Rebekah Weatherspoon Xeni is blindsided by the condition of her By Casey McQuiston inheritance: she has to marry her aunt's protégé, a shy bagpipe-playing Scot. They find they American Dreamer After a royal wedding disaster, have more in common than they expected— Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son By Adriana Herrera including their bisexuality—but family drama of the first woman President of Nesto Vasquez has six months to make his Afro- the United States, must fake threatens to derail their wedded bliss. Caribbean food truck a success in upstate New a friendship with Prince Henry of England ROMANCE WEATHERS R York—the last thing he needs is a distraction. But to prevent an international scandal. the handsome local librarian might offer a kind FICTION MCQUISTO C of happiness not measured in dollars and cents. Available in digital format only The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics By Olivia Waite In the wake of her father’s death and her lover’s marriage, astronomer Lucy Muchelney seizes City of Boston Compiled by Boston the scientific opportunity of a lifetime and Martin J. Walsh, Mayor Public Library staff: runs off to London, where she finds solace and support from the widowed Catherine St. Day. Jordan Draves We Are Pride Chairperson, Reader FICTION WAITE O Boston Public Library Services Librarian, Central Library Lord of the Last Heartbeat: David Leonard, President Veronica Koven-Matasy A Fantasy Romance Reader Services Specialist, Central Library By May Peterson Board of Trustees Kirsten DeCortin Reader Services Librarian, Central Library In an opulent fantasy world, an opera singer Robert Gallery, Chair Lin Thompson with the ability to steal thoughts turns for help Evelyn Arana-Ortiz, Vice Chair Children’s Librarian, North End Branch to a mysterious lord haunted by his wife's Zamawa Arenas ghost and a terrible curse. Will they find love Stephen Toropov and freedom together, or only another cage? Jabari Asim Teen Librarian, Roxbury Branch Available in digital format only Ben Bradlee, Jr. Lucas Hall Cheryl Cronin Floater Librarian Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure Linda Dorcena Forry Cover photography: June 14, 2014. Boston, MA. By Courtney Milan Priscilla Douglas Boston Pride Parade and Festival. Boston Pride Committee. © 2014 Marilyn Humphries A seventy-three-year-old widow and a Jeffrey B. Hawkins sixty-nine-year-old spinster hatch a plan John T. Hailer to ruin the life of the Terrible Nephew who Representative Chynah Tyler has gravely inconvenienced them both... and they might just fall in love along the way. Available in digital format only 2020 We Are Pride Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children • Books about the LBGTQ+ Experience bpl.org • 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square