Happy Father’s Day or Fathers’ Day to all the queer dads, father figures, and anyone else who claims this day as their own. Celebrate with these picture books from 2026, five of which feature queer dads and one that doesn’t, exactly, but may still have a strong appeal for some queer dad families.
Happy Father’s (or Fathers’) Day to the dads, to all who fill that role, and to all who claim today as their own. Let’s celebrate with a roundup of recent picture books (and one board book) featuring queer dads!
Mother’s Day (and Father’s Day after it) can be fraught times for LGBTQ parents and our children, often underscoring that our families are different. I try to see them, however, as opportunities to reclaim and extend the holidays and to remind the world that queer families exist. This year, that’s more important than ever.
This edition of the roundup is particularly full of family profiles, plus a few other bits and pieces about queer doulas, book bans, and more that I haven’t covered elsewhere—including a reminder from actor Tig Notaro not to assume that what’s obvious to us is obvious to our kids!
Here’s to the dads, to all who fill that role, and to all who claim today as their own. Let’s celebrate with a roundup of recent picture, middle-grade, and grown-up books featuring queer dads!
Father’s Day is this Sunday—a holiday that might seem to exclude families with two moms. The reality is a little more complex.
For Father’s Day or all year long, I’m highlighting some recent picture books featuring LGBTQ dads and rounding up some older ones, soothing, serious, and silly. Find something new or be inspired by an old favorite! And a very happy day to all who call themselves a father!
A very happy day to all of you who are fathers, have fathers in your lives, or use Father’s Day (or Fathers’ Day) to celebrate any parent or member of your family!
Father’s Day (or Fathers’ Day, if that’s how you roll) is almost here, so let’s round up some great books for and about kids with queer dads—and a few for the dads themselves! Humor, drag queens, STEM learning, and gentle lessons of families and love—these books have it all!
Mother’s Day is here, with Father’s Day on its heels. As we head into the season of parenting holidays this year, I am thinking about both parental rights and reproductive rights and our urgent need for actions in support of inclusion and justice.
