2024 is especially significant during Pride Month because June marks the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising (1969), a pivotal moment in history.  Honor this momentous time in history and celebration of pride, through exploring carefully selected titles that illuminate the phenomenal contributions of the LGBTQ+ community, ongoing challenges, advocacy, and the luminous beauty that each and every LGBTQ+ individual represents! Dive into pages of change! Enlighten minds, celebrate voices, and embrace diversity!

"Hope will never be silent." -- Harvey Milk

Selected Titles:

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World

THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or friends, frequently under the threat of violence and persecution. By shining a light on these remarkable stories of bravery and determination, THE BOOK OF PRIDE not only honors an important chapter in American history, but also empowers young people today (both LGBTQ and straight) to discover their own courage in order to create positive change. 

Gender Euphoria

In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid, and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria: an agender dominatrix being called “Daddy,” an Arab trans man getting his first tattoos, a trans woman embracing her inner fighter. What they have in common are their feelings of elation, pride, confidence, freedom and ecstasy as a direct result of coming out as non-cisgender, and how coming to terms with their gender has brought unimaginable joy into their lives.

Love Is Love

Open a dialogue with the children in your life about the importance of love and acceptance with this Silver Moonbeam Award Winner story celebrating open mindedness, diversity, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Perfect for your family library or a storytime read-aloud for any day of the year's love that makes a family.

Dr. Michael Genhart's debut story is the perfect resource to gently discuss discrimination with kids. This sweet and straightforward story shows that gay families and straight families and everything in between are all different kinds of normal. What makes a family real is the love that is shared.

  • Available on: Online/Greenley Library, Amazon, Barnes & Nobles
  • By Michael Genhart (Author), Ken Min (Illustrator)
  • Pride Month

Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America

In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he re-creates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine to form an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970, the roots of today's pride marches. 

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self.

We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation

Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride, We Are Everywhere is an essential and empowering introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. Combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, the book traces queer activism from its roots in late-nineteenth-century Europe—long before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969—to the gender warriors leading the charge today.

  • Available on: Online/Greenley Library, Amazon, Barnes & Nobles
  • By Matthew Rierner (Author), Leighton Brown (Author)
  • Pride Month