Pride Month - Young Adults

Created on March 15, 2021, 10:13 am

Last Updated March 26, 2025, 10:49 am

Each June, Pride Month celebrates LGTBQIA+ pride and honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that LGBTQIA+ individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally. LGBTQIA+ is an acronym that brings together many different gender and sexual identities that often face marginalization across society. It stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/aromantic/agender, and the + holds space for the expanding and new understanding of different parts of the very diverse gender and sexual identities. The “A" in LGBTQIA+ may also refer to “ally" or “allied," meaning someone who does not identify as LGBTQIA+ but supports those who do. To see the 2024 Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award list go to https://www.ala.org/news/2011/11/cross-my-heart-and-never-lie-and-only-beautiful-moment-win-2024-stonewall-childrens. To see the 2024 Rainbow Book List with a selection of books catering to LGBTQIA+ youth, spanning from birth to age 18, go to https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1448.

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"Clara loves rules. Rules are what have kept her and her sister, Molly, alive-or, rather, undead-for over a century. Work their historic movie theater by day. Shift into an owl under the cover of night. Feed on men in secret. And never fall in love. Molly is in love. And she's tired of keeping her girlfriend, Anat, a secret. If Clara won't agree to bend their rules a little, then she will bend them herself. Boaz is cursed. He can't walk two city blocks...

2) Say a little prayer

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"After being sentenced to a week of church camp as punishment, Riley Ackerman decides to commit all seven deadly sins while there"-- Provided by publisher.

3) Where shadows bloom

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Bakewell, Catherine

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"Ofelia has lived her life dreaming of entering Le Château Enchanté--the mysterious court of the gods-blessed King Léo, where the shadow monsters that roam Ofelia's home never trespass. Lope has lived her life as a knight, defending Ofelia and her home from Shadows even as she dreams of escaping with Ofelia by her side. When the Shadows venture too close, Lope and Ofelia are thrust into a journey that will lead them to the heart of the darkness...

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Zaldívar, Bessie Flores

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"Set during the controversial 2017 Honduran presidential election, seventeen-year-old Libertad finds purpose writing political poetry as she navigates her sexuality and concerns for her activist brother's safety"-- Provided by publisher.

5) Knucklehead: poems

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Keith, Tony, Jr

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"While society often assigns the label 'knucklehead' to kids with attitude problems, this . . . poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts that narrow way of thinking and empathizes with young people who are misunderstood and unheard. There are poems about the power of language to transcend the racist and homophobic constructs of a society prejudging Black boys. There are poems that serve as a salve for a world...

6) The girl you know

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Rose, Elle Gonzalez

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When eighteen-year-old Luna's twin sister Solina dies mysteriously just before returning to Kingswood Academy, Luna infiltrates the boarding school by posing as her sister to uncover the truth behind her death, but dark secrets make the investigation far more challenging than she anticipated.

7) Fable for the end of the world

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"By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt--enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus's livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb's Gauntlet. Melinoe is a Caerus assassin,...

8) The wildest things

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Snow White awakens after twenty years to find her kingdom in ruins and embarks on a dangerous journey to become the Seasonkeeper in order to restore it, while facing the dilemma of killing the Evil Queen's daughter or falling in love with her.

9) Kirby's lessons for falling (in love)

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After Kirby Tan breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals she joins the newspaper club, where she meets and falls for astrology-obsessed Bex and then struggles to balance her queer identity with her obligations to family and community.

10) Ditching Saskia

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"A heart-warming, supernatural slice-of-life graphic novel that gently weaves together tough, everyday themes of identity, grief, and accepting flaws in those we love the most."-- Publisher description.

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In this queer coming-of-age teen graphic novel by breakout talent Alex Assan, high schooler Rotem feels herself growing apart from her friends in a million inexpressible ways. But an unexpected connection with another student makes her feel more herself than ever before.

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"Jalissa and Kim Vasquez are cousins who move to the city of Los Aguaceros together. When a curious incident on the beach leaves them with supernatural powers and monsters start attacking the city, Kim decides that using their powers to stop them is the perfect way for them to become famous"-- Provided by publisher.

13) A world worth saving

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After coming out as trans, fourteen-year-old A is forced to attend weekly Save Our Sons and Daughters meetings, where he uncovers the terrifying truth that the group is run by a demon feeding on their pain and is part of a larger, darker force preying on the world's vulnerable.

14) Recommeded reading

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"In this opposites-attract YA rom-com inspired by Emma, a failed romantic gesture puts a damper on a queer teen bookseller's summer of book matching and matchmaking until a handsome lifeguard and romance skeptic waltzes into his bookstore. Sometimes you get a second chance at happily ever after when you least expect it . . ." -- Provided by publisher.

15) The fox maidens

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"Kai Song dreams of being a warrior. She wants to follow in the footsteps of her beloved father, the commander of the Royal Legion. But while her father believes in Kai and trains her in martial arts, their society isn't ready for a girl warrior. Still, Kai is determined. But she is plagued by rumors that she is the granddaughter of Gumiho, the infamous nine-tailed fox demon who was killed by her father years before. Everything comes crashing down...

16) i shall never fall in love

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17) Becoming who we are: real stories about growing up trans

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A collection of stories by members of the trans community about their childhoods, specifically their life goals and how they achieved them, including musicians, actors, teachers, scientists, forest rangers, and activists.--Publisher.

18) My ultramarine sky

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"... a high school romance about two friends who've always been in the same class, but when a new school year separates them, they realize that their feelings for each other might run deeper than friendship... From their first year of middle school to their second year of high school, Kai and Ren have not only always been in the same class--they've also always sat next to each other. But in their last year of high school, the boys are assigned to...

19) All the love under the vast sky

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"Spanning twelve short stories in verse, this collection explores love's many facets and how it manifests in and shapes our lives"-- Provided by publisher.

20) Brewed with love

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Teen witch Sage teams up with her former best friend and first crush, Ximena, to prevent her family's apothecary from falling to the