In honor of Pride Month, we have made a commitment to increase our LGBTQIA and GENDER resources.
With assistance from a generous donor, and after thoroughly reviewing our current wishlist of LGBTQIA and/or GENDER books, we selected and ordered 18 new titles prioritizing those not currently available in local lending collections, including the public libraries, as well as those with the best reviews. They will be on our shelves as soon as we can catalog them!
In addition, the first six months of 2023 have seen 255 titles added to our collection with one quarter of those added just this past month alone! These new books also included some titles in the LGBTQIA and GENDER diversity dimensions. *If you haven’t been to visit us in a while - what are you waiting for?!
An amazing number of additions this year have been through donations from readers and supporters just like you! THANK YOU!
By working together, YOU make it possible for us to help readers access the books they want to read regardless of the current political and cultural climate. Many people who aren’t local, and can’t check out our books, still use our catalog and blog posts to guide their reading. *For additional and local Pride themed book lending check out the Knoxville Rainbow Library as well as our Pride Book Recommendations list from earlier this month here https://tinyurl.com/fol-cdjl-pride.
If you haven’t had the chance to donate to the little library that love built yet, there is always time! Our general wishlist is available here https://tinyurl.com/wishlistCDJL. Our LGBTQIA wishlist subset is available here https://tinyurl.com/CDJL-lgbtqiawish and our GENDER wishlist subset herehttps://tinyurl.com/CDJL-genderwish\
*During June and July, we are open 10am - 3pm Monday - Thursday and 9:30am - 12:30pm on Sundays. Expanded hours will begin again this fall.
Pride additions June 2023:
Board Books:
Together: A First Conversation About Love written by Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli with illustrations by Anne/Andy Passchier
Bye Bye, Binary words by Eric Geron, illustrations by Charlene Chua
Clive and His Bags by Jessica Spanyol
Picture Books
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess; illustrated by Olga De Dios
When Langston Dances words by Kaija Langley; illustrations by Keith Mallett
Girl Running written by Annette Bay Pimentel, illustrated by Micha Archer
Two Grooms on a Cake author, Rob Sanders; illustrator Robbie Cathro
Ho’onani: Hula Warrior written by Heather Gale; illustrated by Mika Song
Calvin written by J. R. Ford & Vanessa Ford; illustrated by Kayla Harren
Twas the Night Before Pride written by Joanna McClintick; illustrated by Juana Medina
Juvenile
Different Kinds of Fruit author Kyle Lukoff
Middle Grades
This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, Us edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby
The List of Things that Will Not Change written by Rebecca Stead
The Pants Project, Cat Clarke
Teen
Girl Mans Up written by M - E Girard
Boys Don’t Knit (in public), T. S. Easton
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo
Adult
The Educator’s Guide to LGBT* Inclusion, Kryss Shane
Rethinking Sexism, Gender and Sexuality, Editors and Authors Rethinking Schools, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel, Annika Butler-Wall
The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library edited by Jason Baumann