The children's books wh LGBTQ characters help kids accept themselv & others, challenge genr stereotyp, & unrstand key moments gay history.
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Common Sense Media edors help you choose Books wh LGBTQ+ Characters. Stori wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng characters. * books on gay families *
Michael BronskiWner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award nonfictn – the first book to ver the entirety of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr history, om pre-1492 to the prent. Drawg upon primary documents, lerature, and cultural histori, noted scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr history, om 1492 to the 1990s, and has wrten a ttament to how the LGBT experience has profoundly shaped our untry, culture, and history. A Queer History of the Uned Stat abounds wh startlg exampl of unknown or often ignored aspects of Amerin history—the effectivens of sodomy laws the loni, the prevalence of cross-drsg women soldiers the Civil War, the impact of new technologi on LGBT life the neteenth century, and how rock mic and popular culture were, large part, rponsible for the vastatg backlash agast gay rights the late 1970s.
In A Time to Embrace Johnson prents a brilliant analysis of the relig, legal, and polil stak the bat over gay marriage, civil unns, and the place of mted gay upl a mocratic society. Capturg Love: The Art of Lbian & Gay Weddg Photography. Enter veteran weddg photographer, Thea Dodds of Authentic Eye Photography, and gay and lbian weddg pneer, Kathryn Hamm of, who have teamed up to create this groundbreakg book and visual gui.
Here are the bt LGBTQ books wh gay characters or by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. Fd romance, spirg nonfictn and YA reads for adults and teens. * books on gay families *
Confsns of a Fairy’s Dghter: Growg Up wh a Gay Dad. Alison WeargA movg memoir about growg up wh a gay father the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of tth, humor, acceptance and faial love.
But when he me out of the closet the 1970s, when homosexualy was still a rdal taboo, was a shock to everyone the quiet muny of Peterborough, Ontar—pecially to his wife and three children. Each parentg tale sheds light on the many facets of motherhood, offerg gay and straight rears alike a eper unrstandg of what means to love and parent the twenty-first century. But the experiment went forward nohels: thoands of Massachetts gays and lbians married and, remarkably, the sky did not fall.