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9 LGBTQ Books To Read For Pride Month
If you’re looking for a Pride Month reading list, or just want to get more LGBTQ+ books on your radar this year, here are a few worth checking out.
When I was a pre-teen and teenager in the early 2000s, most queer books still usually either centered around a coming out story or ended in tragedy — or both. I was hungry for more: I wanted stories of triumph. I wanted LGBTQ+ history. I wanted to know who had come before me and what they’d accomplished. I wanted fictional characters who didn’t die at the end, or whose parents didn’t throw them out of their house; not because those endings aren’t reality for many LGBTQ+ people, but because those stories don’t represent everyone in the LGBTQ+ community, either.