The flood of LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books just keeps coming! This week’s new titles, including a middle-grade biography of trans icon Sylvia Rivera and a picture book about a boy who wants long hair, feel particularly affirming!
An upcoming celebrity panel on the importance of queer people telling their own stories will benefit Pride and Less Prejudice, a non-profit that has donated over 8,000 LGBTQ-inclusive picture books to elementary school classrooms since its founding in 2019. Here’s how you can join in!
ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, has taken the world by storm. This led me to wonder: What will ChatGPT tell me about LGBTQ families and resources for them?
As we approach Pride, the new LGBTQ kids’ books are coming out (!) faster than ever! Here are some of my picture book and middle-grade favorites this week—including one from Newbery honoree and two-time Stonewall Award winner Kyle Lukoff, one on allyship, several with nonbinary characters, and heaps of queer joy!
I’m thrilled to say that Mombian has won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Blog for the second time! This one’s for all the queer parents working every day to raise our kids with love and make the world a better place for them.
For Mother’s Day or all year ’round, here are some great picture books about the relationships between queer moms and our children—with married/coupled moms, single moms, divorced moms, cis and trans moms, and even more variety!
A terrific new series by one of the best middle-grade writers around stars a two-mom, five-kid blended family formed in multiple ways and living by a lagoon on the Jersey Shore.
Jen Ellis, the Vermont teacher who created the mittens that Senator Bernie Sanders wore in his now-famous photo, has written a surprisingly moving memoir not only about how that happened, but also how it ties into her wider story of coming out, becoming a parent, the power of crafting, and the magic of generosity.
A new episode of the Emmy Award-winning Netflix preschool series Ada Twist, Scientist guest stars George Takei and Guillermo Diaz as a couple at their wedding. And a brand-new book from the series behind the show includes even more queer representation—with a timely message about censorship and the power of stories!
A stunning new book of more than 60 full-color photographs and accompanying interviews celebrates the lives of transgender and nonbinary people in their own words and those of their family members.
