LGBTQIA+ Resources
Libraries are for everyone! Three Rivers Public Library District is committed to ensuring that our library is a welcoming space for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, their families, and allies. We also strive to have a broad range of resources and materials that meet the informational needs of LGBTQIA+ patrons, as well as educate our entire community.
Children:
Nonfiction
Fiction
- My Two Moms and Me
- I Am Jazz
- Jerome by Heart
- Melissa's Story
- Rick
- Willow and the Wedding
- My Two Dads and Me
- And Tango Makes Three
Teens:
Non-fiction
- All Boys Aren't Blue
- Are You LGBTQ?
- Gay Power!: The Stonewall Riots and the Gay Rights Movement
- Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- It Gets Better: coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living
- Beyond Magenta: transgender teens speak out
- Gender Issues
- Trans bodies, Trans Selves: a resource by and for transgender communities
Fiction
- Ace of Spades
- Boys Run the Riot graphic novel series
- Gender Queer
- Twelfth
- Lily and Dunkin
- Camp QUILTBAG
- Two Boys Kissing
- See You at Harry's
- Pulp
- The Bright Siders
- Coming Out series
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
- 19 Love Songs
- Out of Salem
- The Best at it
Adults:
Non-fiction
- Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
- The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
- When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
- Becoming Nicole
- We Are Everywhere
- How to They/Them
- Sissy
- Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with families in Transisition
- The Rules Do Not Apply
- Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
- All In
- It Gets Better: coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living
- Pageboy
Fiction
Ebooks and Digital titles:
LGBTQIA+ Information and Resources
National Center for Transgender Equality
"NCTE is a team of hard-working staff members supported by a nationwide community of transgender people, allies, and advocates with an extensive record of winning life-saving change for transgender people.”Transgender Law Center
“Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures.”InReach
“Welcome to the world's first tech platform matching TLGBQ+ (transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and more identities) people facing persecution or discrimination with safe, verified resources."