Reading with Pride: Contemporary Queer Picture Books
Discover a specially curated book list that celebrates the humanity, personality, and diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences, histories, and stories. Find book recommendations for early readers that promote discussion and understanding about gender, sexuality, and identity.
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Download the Contextual Guide
DownloadExplore a collection of essays written by scholars, historians, and librarians that provide context on moments that shaped queer picture books as we know them today. Plus, discover a list of queer picture books published over the last 50 years.
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Download the Educator Guide
DownloadGrades Pre-K–3
Discover ready-to-use discussion questions and activities for the books featured in our Contemporary Queer Picture Books list, which celebrates the humanity, personality, and diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences, histories, and stories.
More Recommended Reading: LGBTQ+ Titles Targeted for Censorship
Stand with The New York Public Library to push back against the censorship of books with LGBTQ+ themes and characters. Explore this selection of some of the most challenged books, as documented by the American Library Association.
Discover NYPL's Landmark LGBTQ+ Collections
NYPL has one of the world’s largest collections of LGBTQ+ history and materials regarding the social history of the AIDS crisis, many of which are available to view online. Explore our extensive collections, including academic and popular literature, rare books, little magazines, historic newspapers, at least 100,000 volumes, and over 300 archival collections—containing hundreds of thousands of letters, manuscripts, photographs, posters, and other items.
Pride Month
The New York Public Library is celebrating Pride Month throughout June. Discover book recommendations, join us for free events, explore illuminating resources, and much more—for all ages. Happy Pride!
More Resources from the Center for Educators and Schools
During Pride Month and all year round, the Center for Educators and Schools is devoted to making all of the Library’s resources accessible and useful for educators. Find more recommended reading and additional teaching tools below.
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Read New Titles by Authors of Color
Learn MoreExplore books through Vibrant Voices: New Titles by Authors of Color, an annual book list by NYPL's Center for Educators and Schools celebrating stories by and about Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color.
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Access Ready-to-Use Curriculum Guides
Learn MoreDiscover teaching tools inspired by the Library’s archival collections that you can easily integrate into your teaching, including free full-length curriculum guides with discussion questions and activities.
NYPL's Center for Educators & Schools
Discover a wide array of programs and services tailored for the educator community, book lists, credit-bearing workshops, special access to exhibitions, tips on teaching with primary source materials from our vast research collections, and much more.
This work is part of the Library’s overall commitment to our branch patrons and education programs, led by the Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Director of The New York Public Library. Major support for educational programming is provided by Merryl H. and James S. Tisch.
The Center for Educators and Schools is supported in part by a generous grant from the Hearst Foundations.