LGBTQ and Kids: Home

An annotated bibliography of LGBTQIAP+ titles curated by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association.

COLAGE, a network of people with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer caregivers, provides this list of books, videos and other resources.

Blogger, Lee Wind, maintains this list of books about the LGBTQ experience for teens.

List of LGBTQ+ books available in the Curriculum Materials Center of the William Paterson University Library,

Family Services Ottawa provides this annotated list of LGBTTQ+ books, divided by age from babies to adults.

Reviews of recently published books with LGBTQ+ content from the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table.

This organization stresses the need for children's books that feature the diverse lives of all young people.

Position statements from the National Council of Teachers of English, including The Students' Right to Read, and Guidelines for Dealing with Censorship of Instructional Materials.

The National Council of Teachers of English provides instructions and sample rationales to support those facing challenges to literary texts and other resources.

A toolkit developed by the American Library Association for use by public, school and academic libraries.

Created for AASL this guide is a professional development tool to help school librarians explore the issues and challenges of providing LGBTQ+ resources to their community. Using the AASL Standards as a framework helps the user navigate the document depending on question or need.

Rory Gory from The Trevor Project wrote this article for Dictionary.com that describes the language used by many young people to describe their sexuality and romantic feelings.

List of resources compiled by Deb Schiano of NJ Association of School Librarians. Includes book lists, websites, lesson plans, etc.

Also known as the Anti-Defamation League the ADL extends its concerns to fight hate in all forms including homophobia and heterosexism. This website identifies lessons and teaching activities for an anti-bias curriculum.

This advocacy and education organization for the Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community provides information about the requirement to teach LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum starting in January 2020, and seeks schools willing to pilot this new curriculum.

Teaching Tolerance provides and extensive collection of articles, teaching activities and other resources to promote an inclusive classroom.

This group of students and educators dedicated to providing safe environments for LGBTQ+ students provides lesson plans and other resources.

The NJ Department of Education has developed this resource for teachers to support the teaching of Social and Emotional Learning.

Garden State Equality and Make it Better for Youth provide free, robust lesson plans and resources available to all New Jersey educators.

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This database suggests titles for children, and includes book reviews from many major review sources. Available through JerseyClicks.

Judged on literary merit and content relevant to LBGTQ lives the LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult includes fiction, nonfiction, picture books, and poetry whose intended audience is young readers.

The Rainbow Book List highlights high quality books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer/ questioning content, for children and youth from birth to age 18. Starred titles indicate the Top Ten choices.

The Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award are announced in January and presented to the winners at the American Library Association Annual Conference.