"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." – Audre Lord
Today marks the beginning of #Pride month, a time celebrated each June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan which was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Throughout the month, Bookclubs will be celebrating LGBTQ+ writers, readers, bloggers, and bookclubbers around the world recognizing the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals have had on literature, art, culture, and history.
Read on for LGBTQ+ reading recommendations, resources, and ideas for incorporating Pride month into your June book club.
Literary Resources:
Recommended Reading:
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson + Discussion Guide
- Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
- The Thirty Names of Night, by Zeyn Joukhadar
- Nothing Burns As Bright As You, by Ashley Woodfolk + Discussion Guide
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo + Discussion Guide
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Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane. (Available June 7, 2022)
- Rainbow Rainbow, by Lydia Conklin
- Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
- Manywhere by Morgan Thomas
- The Third Person by Emma Grove
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The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
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All the Things We Don’t Talk About by Amy Feltman
Find your book people! Browse and join a public LGBTQ+ Book Club:
- Both Ends of the Rainbow
- LGBTQ Books
- LGBTQ+ Novels
- Noire Reading Room
- Queer Canon
- Queen Men’s Wine & Dine Book Club
- Read it & Weep
- The Library
- The Literary Queers
- The Reading Corner
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