LGBTQIA+ Booklists and Resources

A collection of booklists and resources that highlight the LGBTQIA+ community and experience. This list provides resources and educational materials for kids of all ages and their caregivers to promote respect and understanding, including guidance on pronouns and identities. 

Discover books that celebrate love in all forms and highlight LGBTQIA+ icons and activities. Allies welcome!

Young Adult and Children’s Booklists

• LGBTQIA+ Book Lists for Kids of All Ages—Read Your World
• Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Voices in Publishing—Publisher’s Weekly
• LGBTQ+( from Early Childhood to YA Fiction & Nonfiction) and Early Childhood: Learning about Gender Identity—Social Justice Books
• LGBTQ Children’s Books—GLAAD
• LGBTQIA+ Resources for Children: A Bibliography—ALA’s Rainbow Round Table
• 30 Great LGBTQ+ Picture Books for Kids & 7 Books That Teach Kids About the Fluidity of Gender and the Importance of Acceptance—Brightly (a Penguin Random House imprint) booklist
• Young Adult LGBTQ Titles and LGBTQIA+ Book Resources—Sourcebooks

• CBC Resources:
  • Books Full of Pride
  • Pride Month Comics List
  • The Stonewall Uprising and Pride Month
  • Under the Queer Umbrella
  • CBC Showcase booklists like Trailblazers, Champions of Change, and more!
  • CBC Search Tag: LGBTQIA+

Educational Resources

• GLSEN’s Rainbow Library offers to send out free LGBTQIA+ books and ebooks to schools in most states. Other states are welcome to submit an application and join. They also provide Elementary Lesson Plans (with Additional Curricular Resources below) for teachers. 
• LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide: LGBTQ+ Youth—Library of Congress Research Guides
• Educational Resource Links—Teaching LGBTQ History, managed by Our Family Coalition and ONE Institute
• LGBTQ Pride Month and Education Resources—Anti-Defamation League (ADL) 
• LGBTQ Youth & Schools Resource Library—American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 
• GLBT Bookstores and GLBT Libraries and Archives in the United States—Updated by the ALA’s Rainbow Round Table. 
• LGBTQIA+ websites with information, guides, and resources: ALA Rainbow Round Table (RRT), The Trevor Project, Stonewall, COLAGE, Family Equality, GLSEN, and Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) Network. 

And more socially inclusive booklists and resources will be coming throughout the year!

PUBLISHERS: if you wish to share your LGBTQIA+ or other socially inclusive books and resources, please email us at cbc.info@cbcbooks.org.

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