30+ Pride Books for Kids!
There are now dozens of kids’ books about Pride, its symbols, and the LGBTQ leaders who are part of its history. Here are some new ones, plus many old favorites, to enjoy this month and all year ‘round!
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2 Lyrical New Kids’ Books About Queer Girls in Love
A new picture book and a new middle-grade book, each a lyrical tale about two girls in love, are the gorgeous stories queer kids deserve to have written about themselves.
Listen to My Spouse and Me on “The Queer Family Podcast”
My spouse Helen and I chatted recently with Jaimie Kelton of The Queer Family Podcast about our path to parenthood via reciprocal IVF, having a son who’s now in college, why I started this blog, and more. Have a listen!
8 New LGBTQ Kids’ Books Out This Week
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!
Watch a Celebrity Virtual Panel on Queer Visibility and Authorship
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!
What Does ChatGPT Know About LGBTQ Families?
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?
5 New LGBTQ Kids’ Books Out This Week
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!
Mombian Wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Blog
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.
Mombian’s Massive Mother’s Day List of Queer-Mom Picture Books
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!
Two-Mom Blended Family Stars in New Middle-Grade Series
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.