Our Library
Below is a list of recommended books to learn more about different parts of the LGBTQ+ community.
You can also come to our center during our office hours to check out a book from our Library.
The searchable database is here:
https://www.librarything.com/profile/StonewallChico
Guides and overviews
Seeing Gender: An illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression
By Iris Gottlieb
Keywords: Gender, Expression, LGBTQ
Trans Allyship Workbook: Building Skills for Supporting Trans People in Our Lives
By Davey Shlasko & Kai Hofius
Keywords: LGBTQ, Queer theory
Queer: A Graphic History
By Dr. Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele
Keywords: Queer activism, LGBTQ, queer theory
Who are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity
By Brook Pessin-Whedbee
Illustrated by Naomi Bardoff
Keywords: Gender, Acceptance, Ages 5-8
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
By Laura Erickson-Schroth
Keywords: Trans care, health and wellness, gender
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
by Richie Chevat & Michael Bronski
Keywords: LGBTQ, history, 1492-1990
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
By Archie Bongiovanni &Tristan Jimerson
Keywords: Pronouns, Illustrated
Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child
By Telaina Erikson
Keywords: LGBTQ kids, Parenting, Family, Acceptance
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
by Stephanie A. Brill & Rachel Pepper
Keywords: Parenting Trans kids
The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes
By Diane Ehrensaft & Norman Spack
Keywords: Parenting, Gender-non-conforming kids, Transgender kids, Nonbinary, Gender expression
For Young Kids
Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon: Coloring Book
By Jacinta Bunnell
Illustrated by Nathaniel Kusinitz
Keywords: LGBTQ Nursery Rhymes
Who are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity
By Brook Pessin-Whedbee
Illustrated by Naomi Bardoff
Keywords: Gender, Acceptance, Ages 5-8
I Promise
by Catherine Hernandez
Illustrated by Syrus Marcus Ware
Keywords: Queer families. acceptance, unconditional love
Annie's Plaid Shirt
By Stacy B. Davids
Illustrated by Rachael Balsaitis
Keywords: Gender norms, identity, individualism, acceptance
Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU
By Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth
Keywords: Family, orientation, gender identities, boundaries, safety
From the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea
By Kai Cheng Thom & Kai Yun Ching
Illustrated by Wai-Yant Li
Keywords: Gender Expression, Identity, and Self Expression
they, she, he: easy as abc
By Maya Christina Gonzalez & Matthew SG
Keywords: Gender, Pronouns, Expression
My Two Moms and Me
By Michael Joosten
Illustrated by Izak Zenou
Keywords: Queer parents, LGBTQ+ family
And Tango Makes Three
By Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
Illustrated by Henry Cole
Keywords: LGBTQ+ family, Queer parenting
Introducing Teddy: A gentle story about gender and friendship
By Jessica Walton
Illustrated by Dougal MacPherson
Keywords: gender
I Am Jazz
By Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings
Illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas
Keywords: Trans youth, gender, kids
Mommy, Mama and Me
By Lesléa Newman
Illustrated by Carol Thompson
Keywords: LGBTQ parenting and families
When Aidan Became a Brother
By Kyle Lukoff
Illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
Keywords: Transgender boy, family acceptance, coming out
For Young Adults
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
By Sandra Mitchell, et al.
Keywords: LGBTQ teens, Queer Teens, historical fiction
Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story
By Jacob Tobia
Keywords: memoir, gender exploration, Trans, gender expression
Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
By Sarah Prager
Illustrated by Zoe More O'Ferrall
Keywords: LGBTQ+ history, role models
Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth
By Matt Hern, et al.
Keywords: Mental health, sex, drugs, ethical objections, LGBTQ
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz.
Keywords: Teens, self acceptance, friendship
Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us
By CN Lester
Keywords: LGBTQ, pronouns, gender variance, author’s experience
Memoirs/Autobiographies
Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
By Janet Mock
Keywords: Trans woman, Woman of Color
Stuck in the Middle with You
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Keywords: Family, gender, parenting, transgender parent
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By Sarah McBride
Keywords: Trans, identity, Transgender woman
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By Samantha Allen
Keywords: Transgender, lesbian, LGBTQ
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Keywords: LGBTQ, disabled queer woman, abuse survival, immigration
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
By E. Patrick Johnson
Keywords: Black gay men, community building, Southern culture
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Keywords: LGBTQ, Transgender, family acceptance, friend acceptance
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
By Eli Clare
Keywords: Disabled, genderqueer, disability politics, queer liberation
Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir
By Terry Galloway
Keywords: LGBT*, queer identity, hearing loss at young age
When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution
By Jeanne Córdova
Keywords: Lesbian, 1970s, activism
Cheers!: Stories of a Fabulous Queer Femme in Action
By Denice Bourbon
Keywords: LGBTQ, queer avant-garde, feminist activist
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
By Daisy Hernandez
Keywords: Cuban & Colombian cultures, dating, bisexuality
Before I Had the Words: On Being a Transgender Young Adult
By Skylar Kergil
Keywords: Trans, coming out, FTM, teen experience
Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls
By Lindsay King-Miller
Keywords: queer, guide, lesbian, gay, Sex-positive, How-to
Adult
Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
By Carolina De Robertis
Keywords: hope, change
How Queer! Personal Narratives from Bisexual, Pansexual, Polysexual, Sexually-Fluid, and Other Non- Monosexual Perspectives
By Faith Beauchemin
Keywords: LGBTQ+, sexuality
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
By Essex Hemphill
Keywords: Black men, feminism among men, AIDS in the black community
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
By Adrienne Maree Brown
Keywords: Social justice, LGBTQ, sex work, drug use
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Keywords: Disability, LGBTQ
The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
By Zena Sharman
Keywords: LGBTQ, health care, HIV/AIDS
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition
By Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith
Keywords: Prison reform, LGBTQ, race, gender, ability
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
By Robert McRuer
Keywords: LGBTQ, disability, cultural and historical inquiry
Moving Politics: Emotions and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS
By Deborah B. Gould
Keywords: Gay, lesbian, HIV/AIDS, politics, 1980
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
By Christina B. Hanhardt
Keywords: LGBTQ neighborhoods, street crime, activism
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility Edited
By Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley & Johanna Burton
Keywords: LGBTQ, Trans visibility, violence against Trans people, Trans culture
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
By June Jordan
Keywords: poetry, Democracy, American culture, politics
Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
By Toby Beauchamp
Keywords: LGBTQ, US politics, disability, science, technology
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
By Ivan Coyote & Zena Sharman
Keywords: LGBTQ, gender roles, queer
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
By Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta
Keywords: LGBTQ, capitalism, LGBT life, queer utopia, patriarchy
This Bridge Called My Back
Edited by Gloria Anzaldúa & Cherrie Moraga
Keywords: Women of color, feminism
Poetry
Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation
By H. Melt , et al.
Trans, family, religion, disability
