LGBTQIA+ Pride Month 2024 | A Reading List

First proclaimed Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in 1999 and expanded by President Obama in 2011, LGBTQIA+ Pride Month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan and celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community. The following titles, ranging from romance and mystery to social sciences and poetry, honor the experiences, legacies, and accomplishments of LGBTQIA+ people.

First proclaimed Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in 1999 and expanded by President Obama in 2011, LGBTQIA+ Pride Month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan and celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community. The following titles, ranging from romance and mystery to social sciences and poetry, honor the experiences, legacies, and accomplishments of LGBTQIA+ people. These titles, and those selected from previous years, are available as a downloadable spreadsheet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Tell the Rest. Akashic. Mar. 2023. ISBN 9781636140797. 336p. Literary

Blue, Luke Dani. Pretend It's My Body: Stories. Amethyst Editions. Oct. 2022. ISBN 9781952177033. 256p. Short Stories (single author)

House, Silas. Lark Ascending. Algonquin. Aug 2023. ISBN 9781643753935. 304p. Dystopian

Jackson, Kosoko. I’m So (Not) Over You. Berkley. Feb. 2022. ISBN 9780593334447. 368p. Contemporary Romance

Jones Jr., Robert. The Prophets. Putnam. Jan. 2021. ISBN 9780593085684. 400p. Literary

Newson, Rasheed. My Government Means To Kill Me. Flatiron. Aug. 2022. ISBN 9781250833525. 288p. Coming of Age

Polito, Frank Anthony. Renovated to Death. Kensington. May 2022. ISBN 9781496735584. 288p. Mystery

Rehman, Bushra. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion. Flatiron. Dec. 2023. ISBN 9781250834805. 288p. Literary

Stuart, Douglas. Young Mungo. Grove. Apr. 2022. ISBN 9780802159557. 400p. Literary

White, Edmund. Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story: The Graphic Novel. Top Shelf Productions. Jan. 2023. ISBN 9781603095082. 264p. Comics & Graphic Novels/LGBTQ+

Nonfiction

Avashia, Neema. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. West Virginia Univ. Mar. 2022. ISBN 9781952271427. 168p. Memoir

Brown, Sherronda J. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture. North Atlantic. Sept. 2022. ISBN 9781623177102. 240p. Social Science / Human Sexuality

Chen, Chen. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. BOA Editions. Sep. 2022. ISBN 9781950774692. 128p. Poetry

Ewing, Rhea. Fine: A Comic About Gender. Liveright. Apr. 2022. ISBN 9781631496806. 336p. Comics & Graphic Novels/Nonfiction/Biography & Memoir

Hempel, Jessi. The Family Outing: A Memoir. HarperOne. Oct. 2022. ISBN 9780063079014. 320p. Memoir

Heyam, Kit. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. Seal. Sept. 2022. ISBN 9781541603080. 352p. Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies

Possanza, Amelia. Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives. Catapult. May. 2023. ISBN 9781646221059. 288p. Biography & Autobiography / LGBTQ+

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. ed. by Joe Vallese. The Feminist Pr. Oct. 2022. ISBN 9781952177798. 312p. Performing Arts

Whitehead, Joshua. Making Love with the Land: Essays. Univ. of Minnesota. Nov. 2022. ISBN 9781517914479. 232p. Essays

Zieselman, Kimberly M. XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist). Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Mar. 2020. ISBN 9781785928376. 288p. Biography & Autobiography / LGBTQ+

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