Display: LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2019

Time for my annual Pride display! Pride Month is like Christmas for me. I joke that it's the only month of the year I get to be gay at work. It's not, my workplace is super inclusive and accepting, but it IS the time of year that I get to hang rainbows everywhere with relative impunity! This year, I focused on YA fiction and nonfiction books, but invited the whole staff to add books as they found them.

Throughout the month, a lot of books made their way through the display. You can also check out 2017's display list for more titles. Here are the ones you can see in the photo:

• Traffic by Ellen Hopkins (YA fiction)
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (YA fiction)
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (YA fiction)
• Queer America by Vicki Lynn Eaklor (YA fiction)
• Stonewall by Ann Bausum (YA/adult nonfiction)
• And She Was by Jessica Verdi (YA fiction)
• The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA fiction)
• Being Transgender: What You Should Know by Thomas E. Bevin (YA/adult nonfiction)
• At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA fiction)
• Ship It by Britta Lundon (YA fiction)
• FML by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA fiction)
• The First Man-Made Man by Pagan Kennedy (Memoir)
• Hold Me Close by David Levithan (YA fiction)
• Here We Are Now by Jasmin Warga (YA fiction)
• Alice and Frida Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe (YA/adult nonfiction)
• Journey to Same-Sex Parenting by Eric Rosswood (YA/adult nonfiction)
• Becoming an Ally to the Gender-Expansive Child by Anna Bianchi (YA/adult nonfiction)

To draw even more eyes to the display at the front of the library, one of my volunteers made this bulletin board strategically placed in the teen area. The writing on the shooting star reads, "Check out the PRIDE display in the front lobby!"

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!

June 2017 Display: Pride Month

Because June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, I decided to make a display celebrating pride in the Young Adult section of our library. Here are some pictures I took of the display right after I finished it. (Sorry about the weird warping on a couple of them... I attempted to do panoramic view pictures)

Below is the list of books I displayed. For the record, I have not read too many of the books on this list yet. My favorite genre to read is YA fiction, so this list could easily double as my to-do list for the next couple years. Feel free to use as a jumping off point for introducing more LGBTQ+ positive lit in your classroom or library!

• YA Fiction
• Meg & Linus by Hanna Nowinski
• Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
• Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
• Pretend You Love Me by Julie Anne Peters
• How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
• Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
• Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
• One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
• Hero by Perry Moore
• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Ash by Malinda Lo
• Lies my Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters
• Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn
• How I Paid for College: A Novel if Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater by Marc Acito
• True Letters for a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan
• If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
• Thinking Straight by Robin Reardon
• Promposal by Rhonda Helms
• The You I've Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
• Drag Teen: A Tale of Angst and Wigs by Jeffrey Self
• Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
• You and Me and Him by Kris Dinnison

• YA Nonfiction
• The ABC's of LGBT+ by Ashley Mardell
• Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge
• "You Can Tell Just by Looking" and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People by Michael Bronski
• It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living 
• This Book is Gay by James Dawson
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out edited by Susan Kuklin
• The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities