Check out the list of suggested LGBT resources for children and young adults available from the School Library Services.
Picturebook
Combs, Betty – ABC: a family counting book
De Haan, Linda – King & King
De Haan, Linda – King & king & family
Parr, Todd – Family book
Parr, Todd – It’s OK to be different
Fierstein, Harvey – Sissy duckling
Godon, Ingrid – Hello sailor
Gree, Jennifer – Flying free
Hoffman, Eric – Best, best colours
Newman, Leslea – Felicia’s favourite story
Okimoto, Jean – White swan express
Quinlan, Patricia – Tiger flowers
Richardson, Justin – And tango makes three
Setterington, Ken – Mom and mum are getting married
Valentine, Johnny – One dad, two dads, brown dad, blue dad
Valentine, Johnny – Daddy machine
Valentine, Johnny – Duke who outlawed jelly beans and other stories
Watson, Katy – Spacegirl pukes
Non-fiction
Baird, Vanessa – No-nonsense guide to sexual diversity
Bloch, Joanne – South African gay and lesbian youth speak out
Donnellan, Craig – Sexuality and discrimination
Garner, Abigail – Families like mine: children of gay parents tell it like it is
Gray, Mary – In your face: stories from the lives of queer youth
Laws, Sophie – Pride and prejudice
Mole, Sandra – Colours of the rainbow
Snow, Judith – How it feels to have a gay or lesbian parent
Heron, Ann – Two teenagers in twenty
Levithian, David – The full spectrum: a new generation of writing about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other identities.
Older Fiction
Babcock, Joe – The boys and the bees
Bauer, Marion – Am I blue: short stories
Benduhn, Tea – Gravel queen
Burchill, Julie – Sugar rush
Chambers, Aidan – Postcards from no man’s land
Coville, Bruce – Skull of truth
Ferris, Jean – Eight seconds
Fox, Paula – The gathering darkness
Gantos, Jack – Desire lines
Gleitzman, Morris – Two weeks with the queen
Guy, Rosa – Ruby
Hartinger, Brent – Geography club
Hartinger, Brent – Order of the poison oak
Howe, James – The misfits
Howe, James – Totally Joe
Johnson, Maureen – The Bermudez
Kendrick, Mark – Into this world we’re thrown
Koja, Kathe – Talk
La Rochelle, David – Absolutely, positively not
Levithian, David – Boy meets boy
Moon, Pat – Four days til Friday
Muse, Daphne – Prejudice: a collection
Peters, Julie Anne – Keeping you a secret
Poole, Jospehine – Scorched
Purkis, Christine – Shuttered room
Reynolds, Marilyn – Love rules
Ryan, Sarah – Empress of the world
Sanchez, Alex – Rainbow high
Sanchez, Alex – So hard to say
Soehnlein, K.M – The world of normal boys
Taylor, William – Blue lawn
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
Walker, Pete – Peter
Lambda Literary
This USA site is the front runner in LGBT book reviews, author interviews, opinion and news since 1989. The Lambda Literary Foundation nurtures, celebrates, and preserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers.
Video
Coming Out to Class
Around 62% of gay teenagers are now choosing to ‘come out’ to their school. So what has happened to change teenagers’ attitudes to homosexuality? Has coming out to classmates become easier since gay relationships were put in the spotlight with the advent of legal civil marriages? Qboy, Britain’s first openly gay rapper, meets young gay teens, teachers, and other gay personalities as he explores this new trend. Click here to watch this Channel 4 documentary.
New Day Films is a filmmaker-run distribution company providing award-winning films to educators since 1971. Democratically run by more than 100 filmmaker members, New Day delivers over 150 titles that illuminate, challenge and inspire. Click here to go to their site.
