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LGBTQIA+ Featured Books

Coming Out, Again

Following the interconnected lives of a diverse queer community, this empowering graphic novel explores the multitude of ways a person's identity and relationships can be expressed and can change over time.

The Beginner's Guide to Being a Trans Ally

This easy-to-read guide offers information and advice to anyone wanting to understand more about trans experiences.

Southernmost

In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, starts to see his life anew and risks losing everything.

This Book Is Gay

Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference.

All Boys Aren't Blue

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook

The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook will teach you how to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, build a community of support, and embrace your true self.

Pride and Joy

A collection sharing stories of success, happiness, and inspiration from the LGBTQ+ community.

Gender Queer: a Memoir

Gender Queer is more than a memoir: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.

You and Your Gender Identity

Navigate your journey of self-discovery in three approachable stages: preparation, reflection, and exploration. Discover why understanding your gender identity is core to embracing your full being and how to sustain the highs and lows of your journey with resources, connection, and self-care.

Stand by Me

From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s that will transform how we think about subject from the 1970s to the present day.

Scissors, Paper, Rock

Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. The novel uses wisdom and humor to explore the many kinds of family and the infinite varieties of love.

Transgender History, Second Edition

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history.

Queercore

Overview of the movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community--queercore.

Positive LGBTQ Identities

A Positive View of LGBTQ starts a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGTBQ) identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through inspiring firsthand accounts.

LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia

This collection, the first of its kind, gathers original and previously published fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia who give voice to what it means to be Appalachian and LGBTQ.

Beyond Magenta

Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender identity.

LGBTQIA+ Resources