The first picture book featuring someone with HIV or AIDS came out in 1989. It was followed by many other picture and middle grade books in the decades since, including these LGBTQ-inclusive titles. On World AIDS Day and beyond, may they offer insight into both history and a disease still with us.
Today is World AIDS Day, a time to remember that HIV/AIDS continues to shatter lives, families, and communities, even as other pandemics take hold. Since this is a parenting blog, I’m once again sharing how HIV/AIDS has impacted children and parents around the world.
For World AIDS Day and any time, here’s a roundup of LGBTQ-inclusive picture and middle grade books about AIDS and people living with HIV or AIDS. HIV and AIDS are not LGBTQ-specific, of course, but have hit our community hard, and LGBTQ-inclusive books are my focus. May these books offer insight into our history and a disease still with us.
The first picture book about a person with AIDS came out in 1989, at the height of the AIDS crisis in the U.S. Here’s more about it (can you guess the better-known title it beat for the Lambda Literary Award?) as well as several kids’ books about AIDS from the past two years.
Today is World AIDS Day, a time to remember that HIV/AIDS continues to shatter lives, families, and communities, even as other pandemics take hold. Since this is a parenting blog, I’m once again sharing how HIV/AIDS has impacted children and parents around the world.
Today is World AIDS Day, a time to remember that even as another pandemic is in the headlines, HIV/AIDS continues to shatter lives, families, and communities around the world. I’m therefore once again sharing some information about children and parents with HIV/AIDS.
Today is World AIDS Day, and even while another pandemic takes the headlines, HIV/AIDS continues to shatter lives, families, and communities. I’m therefore continuing my tradition of sharing stories and statistics about parents and children with HIV/AIDS.
Today is World AIDS Day, so I’m continuing my tradition of sharing stories and statistics about parents and children with HIV/AIDS. Even in the fourth decade of its existence, the disease continues to shatter lives and decimate communities.
I don’t often post on weekends, but today is World AIDS Day, so I’m continuing my tradition of sharing stories and statistics about parents and children with HIV/AIDS. Even in the fourth decade of its existence, the disease continues to shatter lives and decimate communities.
Today is World AIDS Day, so I’m continuing my tradition of sharing stories and statistics about parents and children with HIV/AIDS, especially since our current president, in his proclamation for the day, has refused to specify any of the communities disproportionately affected by the disease.
