Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month

A great way to celebrate and acknowledge LGBTQ+ Pride Month is by reading literature with meaningful and diverse representation of LGBTQ+ people. The scope of representing the entirety of LGBTQ+ diversity is too large to fit into four suggestions, but we chose books that feature stories of different LGBTQ+ people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds, contain affirming and supporting messaging, and have positive relationships. Stories that feature this important representation are supportive of youth and families who identify with the stories, or they act as windows into identities and experiences different from your own. 

We hope you can either check these stories out from our school libraries or purchase them and add them to your own library. Diversifying our libraries and literature is important when we are learning about the world we live in, where we come from, and the different people and cultures we will interact with. 

Happy reading! 

Ursula Chan and Anna Alldredge 

Below are links to Chaucer’s Books and Amazon.

Lower School:

• My Rainbow, DeShanna Neal and Trinity Neal Chaucer's Books Amazon
• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, Rob Sanders Chaucer's Books Amazon
• Grandad’s Camper, Harry Woodgate Chaucer's Books Amazon
• The Misadventures of the Fletcher Family, Dana Alison Levy Chaucer's Books Amazon

Middle School:

• Both Can Be True, Jules Michias Chaucer’s Amazon
• The Deepest Breath, Meg Grehan Chaucer’s Amazon
• The Insiders, Mark Oshiro Chaucer’s Amazon
• Hurricane Child, Kacen Callender Chaucer’s Amazon

Upper School:

• Cosmoknights (Book One), Hannah Templer Chaucer’s Amazon
• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, George M. Johnson Chaucer’s Amazon
• Slip, Marika McCoola Chaucer’s Amazon
• Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Adib Khorram Chaucer’s Amazon