LGBTQIA+ Resources

LGBTQIA+

Understanding for Others

• Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality at Work by Kathryn Jacob, Sue Unerman, and Mark Edwards

• The Care We Dream Of by Zena Sharman

Bibliotherapy

Self-Help

• The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook by Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LPC

• The Queer Mental Health Workbook by Brendan J. Dunlop, PsyD (CBT, CFT, & DBT)

• A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation by Jacoby Ballard

• Trans Bodies Trans Selves edited by Laura Erikson-Schroth

• The Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual & Social Health for LGBTQ Youth by Jo Langford

• The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend: Advice on Queer Dating, Love, and Friendship by Maddy Court, illustrated by Kelsey Wroten

• Queer Body Power by Essie Dennis (body-positive themes)

• Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai

• QueerTheology.com: Resources for Christians, both queer & allies

• God and the Gay Christian: Biblical Case for Support of Same-Sex Relationships by Matthew Vines

• Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Relection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle

Memoirs

• Coming Out Stories edited by Emma Goswell and Sam Walker

• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (queer men of color)

• Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer (multi-ethnic & queer)

• Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (disabled queer WOC)

• Burning My Roti by Sharan Dhaliwal (Indian & queer)

• She Called Me Woman: Nigera’s Queer Women Speak edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, & Rafeeat Aliyu

• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (bicultural & queer themes)

• A Tale of Two Omars by Omar Sharif, Jr. (multi-ethnic & gay)

• High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez (Latinx & gay)

• Life as a Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi (Muslim & queer)

• We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib (Muslim & queer)

• Ma and Me by Putsata Reang (Cambodian refugee & queer)

• Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar (Arab-American, body positive & queer)

• Life Isn’t Binary by Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantffi (nonbinary/gender themes)

• In the Margins by Shannon T. L. Kearns (transgender & Christian themes)

• Trans Like Me by CN Lester

• Religious Trauma: Queer Stories in Estrangement and Return by Brooke N. Petersen (Christian themes)

• Living Out Islam by Scott Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle

• The Queer Advantage: Coversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity by Andrew Gelwicks

Novels

• The Call Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

• Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel

• God in Pink by Hasan Namir (Muslim & queer)

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Vietnamese-American immigrant & gay)

• Zami: A Biomythography by Audre Lorde (Black, lesbian, feminist)

• All the Things We Don’t Talk About by Amy Feltman (gender identity, great for YA)

• The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (coming out, teen/YA)

• Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho (Taiwanese-American & queer)

• Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej

Poetry

• Neplanta: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color edited by Christopher Soto

• The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde (Black, lesbian, feminist)

• The Black Unicorn (Black, lesbian, feminist)

• If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar

• All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran (sexual violence healing)

• More than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett (BIPOC, queer, & trans)

• Ask the Brindled by No’u Revilla (Hawaiian & queer)

• Not Here by Hieu Minh (Vietnamese-American & queer)