Last week, I reported that author Robin Stevenson said school officials cancelled a talk she was scheduled to give at an elementary school in Illinois because her latest book profiled Harvey Milk, among other famous activists. It seems a parent did complain about Milk—but the school was also concerned about the inclusion of Janet Mock, who is transgender.
A new picture book is based on the true story of Ho‘onani Kamai, an eleven-year-old Native Hawaiian who feels an identity in-between a boy and a girl. When Ho’onani’s school decides that the boys will perform a traditional hula chant, Ho’onani wants to join them, and must find physical and emotional strength to do so.
Just days after author Robin Stevenson said she was uninvited from a recent school talk because her newest book discusses Harvey Milk, Lesléa Newman, author of the classic Heather Has Two Mommies, writes that she was uninvited from a visit to two different schools because of her LGBTQ-inclusive books.
An Illinois school district canceled an author’s visit to an elementary school to talk about her new book on the childhoods of 16 famous activists (among them Martin Luther King, Jr. and Alexander Hamilton), because a parent complained that one of the activists included was Harvey Milk, says the author.
Karamo Brown, star of Netflix’s Queer Eye and father of two, has written a sweet, queer-inclusive children’s book with his son that celebrates the love between a father and child.
November is National Adoption Month, so let’s kick it off with a look at some of the books for children and adults—storybooks, memoirs, and social science studies—that feature LGBTQ adoptive families.
Building on the success of their first picture book for and about children with same-sex parents, Rainbow Families Croatia (Dugine obitelji) is crowdfunding a second book that they hope to provide free to “every interested person, family, and organization.”
An adorable French bulldog named Pickles lives contentedly with his human papas—until one day, when they bring home another puppy to be his sibling. Can Pickles adapt to sharing his papas and his home?
A new board book uses the occasion of GLAAD’s annual Spirit Day (today!) to teach the very youngest kids about the importance of kindness and caring as a way to prevent bullying.
A bright new book for kids takes them on an alphabetical exploration of LGBTQ terms and ideas—but it’s a little uneven as well as problematic in some areas.
