Celebrate Pride every day with the teen advocate, trailblazer, and reality show star Jazz Jennings—one of Time Magazine's "25 Most Influential Teens" of the year. In this groundbreaking memoir, she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths through sharing her very public transgender journey. "Jazz is one of the transgender community's most important activists." —Cosmopolitan "A role model for teens everywhere." —Seventeen At the age of five, Jazz...
From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger.Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words.Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection Nikita gives you the words to help heal from your first breakup, to celebrate finding your family, to underst...
An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete, perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Raisman and Forward by Abby Wambach. Karina Manta has had a busy few years: Not only did she capture the hearts of many with her fan-favorite performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she also became the first female figure skater on Team USA to come out as queer. Her Modern Love essay "I Can't Hate My Body if I Love Hers" was published in the N...
Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices
by Alison Benke
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
by Laura Gao
“Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud, heartfelt, and deeply engaging story of their journey to find themself--as an American, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, as a queer person, and as a Wuhanese American in the middle of a pandemic.”—Malaka Gharib, author of I Was Their American Dream After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Mars—at least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuha...
A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-autobiographical LGBTQ+ graphic novel. Ninth grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So what’s he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot? For the rest of high school, Jonah faces challenges on and off the baseball field, from heteronormative soci...
La Estupenda Guaa Para Vivir La Vida a Tu Manera
by Pepe Pepe and Teo
Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective)
by Alok Vaid-Menon
Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award "When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."-- Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter "Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer "Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers everywhere the feeling that anything is possible within themselves"--Princess Nokia, musician and co-founder of the Smart Girl Club "A fierce, pene...
Pimples, Period Kits, and Other Peculiar Parts of PubertyPraise for author’s past work includes “A fun, energetic, knowledgeable, and loving guide”—Tatyana Ali, wife, mother, actress, singer, and filmmaker This inclusive, body-positive girl’s guide to puberty covers everything you need to know about your teens. Do it yourself or with an adult—this puberty journal for girls is full of helpful information—like how to build a period kit—so you know the changes happening in and around you. The pub...
A gorgeously illustrated, accessible celebration of queer activism, by the creator of the award-winning Suffragette, David Roberts.Touching on major moments in the story of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights including the Stonewall Uprising, the first Gay Pride Rally and the dazzling history of drag and the ballroom scene, We Are Your Children is a wide-ranging and inclusive account of a multifaceted movement, with detailed and characterful colour artwork.This book showcases figures from queer history...
A groundbreaking all-inclusive, uncensored, must-have guide for teens who are living in this world, who identify as transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, gender fluid, or are questioning their gender identity or how they express themselves, and for their cis-allies and advocates. Gender is hard. Really hard, because it is made up; it's a way that humans have developed over the millennia to simplify how we see and interact with our complex and messy world and to classify and categoriz...
Winner of the 2021 School Library Association Information Book Award. Whoever you are, HAVE PRIDE.This inspirational history of the international LGBTQ+ movement will teach readers to accept and have pride in themselves and others, whatever their sexuality. It details the struggles and successes of LGBTQ+ movements around the world, looking at decriminalisation, the Stonewall riots and their legacy, global Pride movements, the HIV/AIDS crisis and equal marriage. It also includes profiles of sign...
Gallup Guides for Youth Facing Persistent Prejudice (Gallup Guides for Youth Facing Persisten)
by Jaime Seba
Different skin colors, different languages, different religions, different abilities--these are all things that sometimes cause us to judge other people unfairly. Blacks have had a long struggle against prejudice. Slavery, the Civil Rights movement, and modern-day racism and stereotypes all have a part to play in their stories. Learn more about what prejudice means for blacks today. "Gallup Guides for Youth Facing Persistent Prejudice: Blacks" explains what prejudice is and what we have done to...
Double Challenge: Being Lgbtq and a Minority (Lgbtq Life)
by Rebecca Kaplan and Avery Kaplan
Sí, si es contigo / Yes, If It's With You
by Calle Y Poche, Calle, and Poche
Sí, si es contigo es una historia de amor (im)posible. Sí, si es contigo es una novela de amor escrita por dos de las Youtubers más famosas, con más de seis millones de seguidores en su canal de YouTube. Una novela sobre el primer amor, y todo lo doloroso y maravilloso que este implica. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Calle and Poché are the fastest-growing YouTubers on Latin American social media in recent years. This is their first book. Yes, If It’s With You is an epistolary novel that tells the...
Fully revised and updated guide with frank, sensitive information for LGBTQ teens, their families, and their allies.?LGBTQ is the indispensable resource for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning teens and their allies. This fully revised and updated third edition includes current information on LGBTQ terminology, evolving understandings of gender identity and sexual identity, LGBTQ rights, and much more. Other advice covers topics such as coming out, confronting prejudice,...
New Generation Homosexuality (Gallup Guides to LBGT Lifestyles)
by Bill Palmer
Daniel Hernandez ayudo a salvar la vida de la congresista Gabrielle Giffords, y la experiencia de su vida es fuente de verdadera inspiracion en estas sentidas memorias en espanol. "Yo no me considero un heroe", dice Daniel Hernandez. "Hice lo que cualquier otra persona debio haber hecho. Heroes son aquellos que dedican toda su vida a ayudar a otros". Cuando Daniel Hernandez tenia veinte anos trabajaba como pasante con la congresista Gabrielle Giffords. El 8 de enero de 2011, durante un evento...
Beyond Male and Female: The Gender Identity Spectrum (LGBTQ Life)
by Anita R Walker
Full of honest and practical advice from Gemma Cairney and a whole host of trained professionals and real people, Open Your Mind is the best friend of a book everyone needs. From stress, trauma and anxiety, to your place in the world and everything in between.Includes chapters on:AnxietyDepressionAddictionPoliticsOur Natural WorldFeminismMoneyAnd so much more!Gemma Cairney is an important advocate for young people. Her personal insight and time as Radio 1's resident agony aunt on The Surgery mak...