We've got Pride at the Library!
Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating Pride 2024 with expanded access to queer books, brand new booklists, and some great events.
Books Unbanned
in recent years, public and school libraries across the United States have experienced an unprecedented wave of book challenges and bans, many focused on censoring queer stories. In April 2022, Brooklyn Public Library launched Books Unbanned, granting teens and young adults in the U.S., ages 13-21, free access to its entire digital collection of over half a million eBooks and audiobooks. Find out more about Books Unbanned.
Upcoming Events
Drag Story Hour
Drag Story Hour is just what it sounds like: storytellers using the art of drag to read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces…
Button making for PRIDE month
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ PRIDE Month at Kensington Library!
We will be designing and making buttons.
All are welcome!
Early Childhood Educator Series: How to Create and Facilitate a School Rainbow Club (CTLE-1)
What is a Rainbow Club? Why is it important to create gender-affirming spaces in elementary schools? Are Rainbow Clubs just for kids who identify as gender-expansive? What about allies? How do we get buy-in from other parents, school administrators, and students? What relevant multi-age…
Staff Picks
- Kids: First Five Years
- Kids: School Age
- Teens: Fiction
- Teens: Comics
- Adults: General Fiction
Circle of love
Hooray for she, he, ze, and they! : what are your...
Glenn Burke, game changer : the man who invented...
Jimmy's rhythm & blues : the extraordinary life of...
Marley's Pride
The Broken Heart
It's Pride, Baby!
Rainbowsaurus
My culture, my gender, me
Leo and the pink marker
If I were a fish
Nen and the lonely fisherman
It's a they!
The rainbow parade : a celebration of LGBTQIA+...
Once upon my dads' divorce
There's no such thing as vegetables
Family is family
Free to Be Fabulous
My Guncle and Me
Who You Will Be
Gorgeously me!
Not he or she, I'm me
We're happy you're here
Lunar Boy
Mehndi boy
Alex Wise vs. the end of the world
Emma and the love spell
Paige not found
Just Lizzie
Riley Reynolds conquers spring cleaning
Riley Reynolds pumps up the party
Riley Reynolds slides into summer
Riley Reynolds takes care of business
Deephaven
Gallowgate
Blood City rollers. 1
The year my life went down the toilet
The curse of Eelgrass Bog
Skip!
The showdown
Ghost girl
Cross my heart and never lie
Upstaged a Graphic Novel
The night compass
Green
Gooseberry
Noah Frye Gets Crushed
Linus and Etta could use a win
The school for invisible boys
King Bro!
Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend
The apartment house on Poppy Hill
The impossible imp
In search of superpowers : a fantasy pin world...
The Truth About Triangles
The Princess Protection Program
You owe me one, universe
Forsooth
Halfway to harbor
Winnie Nash is not your sunshine
The Mossheart's promise
The problem with gravity
Don't Want to Be Your Monster
The lumbering giants of Windy Pines
Camp prodigy
The Nameless Witch
Nightmares in paradise
Salma writes a book
Puzzleheart
Asking for a friend
Unicorn Boy
Queer and fearless : poems celebrating the lives...
Just shy of ordinary
The cardboard kingdom : snow and sorcery
Eli over Easy
Sir Callie and the dragon's roost
Super switch
Murray Out of Water
Lulu Sinagtala and the city of noble warriors
The otherwoods
The ABCs of queer history
Dear Wendy
So let them burn
Queerceanera
Those Pink Mountain nights
No time like now
The no-girlfriend rule
How to get over the end of the world
Where sleeping girls lie
Teenage dirtbags
Heirs of bone and sea
Just another epic love poem
Icarus
Here lies Olive
Crash landing
Hearts still beating
Unexpecting
Wish you weren't here
The Poisons We Drink
Blood Justice
Stars, hide your fires
Damned if you do
The Only Light Left Burning
Something kindred
The final curse of Ophelia Cray
Infinity alchemist
Kindling
Kween
For the stolen fates
Ariel crashes a train
Out of Blue Comes Green
One summer in Vancouver
Another first chance
The Lilies
The last girls standing
Playing for keeps
Merciless saviors
The best hardcore band in PA
Dead girls walking
Canto contigo
The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist
The Redemption of Daya Keane
Call forth a fox
Evergreen
The wicked unseen
Love and Other Wicked Things
Thirsty
The Summer Queen
Last boyfriends
Salt the water
Finally Fitz
Flyboy
The breakup lists
Who we are in real life
Beholder
True Love and Other Impossible Odds
Pride and prejudice and Pittsburgh
Otherworldly
Otherworldly
Airlock
Under this red rock
Off with their heads
We got the beat
Annie Leblanc Is Not Dead Yet
Skater boy
Night of the living queers / 13 Tales of Terror &...
The diablo's curse
This Winter
Dark heir
Furious
Daniel, deconstructed
Teach the torches to burn : a Romeo & Juliet remix
We are mayhem
If tomorrow doesn't come
Your lonely nights are over
The girl in question
Infinity Kings
Daughter of the Bone Forest
The ghost of us
Sixteen souls
The Siren, the Song, and the Spy
Have You Seen This Girl
This day changes everything
These bodies between us
The cursed rose
Every time you hear that song
The spirit bares its teeth
One Killer Problem
A different kind of brave
The evolving truth of ever-stronger Will
The fall of Whit Rivera
The forest demands its due
Charming Young Man
Dragging Mason County
Being Ace : An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme,...
All That Consumes Us
Monstrous
Wren Martin ruins it all
Songs of Irie
The Queer Girl Is Going to Be Okay
No one left but you
Pritty
Gimmicks and ghosts
Godly heathens
Gwen & Art are not in love / The Path to True Love...
By any other name
Emmett
Finding My Elf
Radio Silence
Cupid's revenge
My fair Brady
Escaping Mr. Rochester
Okay, Cupid
Most ardently : a Pride & prejudice remix
Rana Joon and the one & only now
Just happy to be here : [a novel]
The absinthe underground
Confetti realms
Stars in their eyes
King cheer
Spirit World
Hex Americana
Brooms
The Worst Ronin
Crossplay love : otaku x punk. 8
Crossplay love : otaku x punk. 7
The moon on a rainy night. 4
The baker and the bard
Whisper me a love song. 8
Fence. Volume six, Redemption
Number call
Rainbow. Volume 1
Monster crush
The deep dark / A Graphic Novel
Sunhead
Breathe : journeys to healthy binding
Harley Quinn : Redemption
Out of Left Field
The marble queen
The fox maidens
Bunt! : striking out on financial aid
Monstrous : a transracial adoption story
The sea in you
Homebody
Punk rock karaoke
Bad Dream : A Dreamer Story
Paper planes
Firebird
Love and gravity : an Always human story
The Infinity Particle
The Hills of Estrella Roja
Love and gravity : an Always human story
The flying ship
Heartstopper 5 : A Graphic Novel
Bad Seed
Cuckoo
The Weavers of Alamaxa
The Emperor and the Endless Palace
Game on
The sea elephants
Don't want you like a best friend
Interesting facts about space
Bookshops & bonedust
The friendship study
Truly, madly, deeply : A novel
No one dies yet
Dead in Long Beach, California
Alice Sadie Celine
Henry Henry
A long time dead
Fly with me
Stars in your eyes
Nothing can hurt you now
Atoms never touch
The tower
Rough trade
Fathomfolk
Cecilia
Organ meats
Court of wanderers : Silver under nightfall #2
Here we go again
All the world beside
Board to death
Broughtupsy
Lucky Red
Floating hotel
One night in hartswood
Nearlywed
The happy couple
Blessed water
Outsider
Late bloomer
Faebound : A novel
Wild geese
What grows in the dark
City of laughter
Bugsy & other stories
The words that remain
A Deadly Walk in Devon
An education in malice
Grey dog
Green Dot
Waiting for the flood
The Stars Too Fondly
A Haunting on the Hill
Some strange music draws me in
The boy who was buried this morning
Obedience
Love and hot chicken : a delicious Southern novel
Really cute people
The trio
Death drop
A Little Kissing Between Friends
A Good Happy Girl
The prospects : A novel
The last love song
Bachelorette number twelve
Trondheim
The (fake) dating game
Antiquity
All Fours
Sunbringer : a fallen gods novel
Molten Death
How you get the girl
I will greet the sun again
What feasts at night
Heartsong
Ravensong
Memory piece
Yours for the taking
Exhibit
Cover story
This skin was once mine and other disturbances
Plot twist
Ellipses
The 7-10 Split
Road to ruin
A shot in the dark
Go lightly : A novel
Ways and means
Everything for you : a Bergman Brothers novel
Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
All the right notes
Spitting Gold
Lush lives
So Long Sad Love
The woods all black
Escape Velocity
Remedial magic
Women! In! Peril! : stories
A power unbound
Mona of the manor
To cage a god
You only call when you're in trouble
People collide
A botanical daughter
All friends are necessary
Redsight
Choice
Death by Irish whiskey
Death in heels
In universes : A novel
The imposition of unnecessary obstacles
How we named the stars
Cirque Du Slay
Love at 350 degrees
The dawn and its light
The gloom between stars
Boys in the club
Bad Habit
The Mars House
Greta & Valdin
My heavenly favorite
The Guncle Abroad
The American daughters
Brainwyrms
The boyfriend subscription
Bored gay werewolf
The Titanic Survivors Book Club
The last note of warning
Eli Harpo's adventure to the afterlife
Spring on the peninsula
Dumb
At her service
Turn the page
Perris, California
Second night stand
A sweet sting of salt
Welcome to Forever
Something about her
Sluts : Anthology
Rainbow black
Rainbow black
Camp Damascus
Blackouts
Rend me, the wayward knight
My darling dreadful thing
Wound
Like happiness
The Brides of High Hill
Corey Fah does social mobility
Family meal
These fragile graces, this fugitive heart
Cleat cute
These Letters End in Tears
Thirst