We've got Pride at the Library!
Pride doesn’t stop when June ends. Brooklyn Public Library offers expanded access to queer books, brand new booklists, and some great events all year round.
BPL's 2024 pride campaign art was created by Carmen Pizarro.
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
Early Childhood Educator Series: Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Development (CTLE-1)
Participants will review the process of gender development beginning in early childhood, understand the role of culture and societal messages in shaping gender development, and learn best practices to support healthy gender development in all children.
Facilitated by the Ackerman…
Movie Matinee: The Gospel According to Andre
Adult Librarian Donald Peebles (Saratoga) will facilitate Movie Matinee programs in commemoration of Spring 2025.
The feature presentation will be the docuentary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE (2017, 93 minutes). It stars Andre Leon Talley, Anna Winotur, Tom Ford, Tamron Hall, Fran Lebowitz…
Teen Graphic Novel Book Club: Becoming Who We Are
Join BKLYN librarian Jessi G's monthly virtual book club for teens. We will read and talk about graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction. For our June meeting in celebration of Pride Month, we'll discuss Becoming Who We Are: : real stories about growing up trans by Sammy Lisel.…
Movie Matinee: Paris Is Burning
Adult Librarian Donald Peebles (Saratoga) will facilitate Movie Matinee programs in commemoration of Spring 2025.
The feature presentation will be the documentary PARIS IS BURNING (1990, 78 minutes). It is directed by Jennie Livingston. It stars Dorian Corey, Pepper LeBeija, Junior LeBeija…
2024 | New Queer Books
Take Pride in what you're reading! Celebrate Pride with Brooklyn Public Library's list of new queer books for all ages, published since last year's Pride Month:
KIDS
TEENS
ADULTS
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
Jimmy's rhythm & blues : the extraordinary life of...
It's Pride, baby!
The rainbow parade : a celebration of LGBTQIA+...
Marley's pride
Circle of love
Lunar Boy
Green
Just Lizzie
Paige not found
Emma and the love spell
Alex Wise vs. the end of the world
Mehndi boy
All the truth I can stand
Blame My Virgo Moon
Losing hit points
Being Ace : An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme,...
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
Songs of Irie
The Only Light Left Burning
Damned if you do
Cupid's revenge
Something kindred
The final curse of Ophelia Cray
Infinity alchemist
Dragging Mason County
Kindling
Kween
For the stolen fates
Ariel crashes a train
Out of Blue Comes Green
One summer in Vancouver
By any other name
Another first chance
Gwen & Art are not in love / The Path to True Love...
Rules for camouflage
Okay, Cupid
Wren Martin ruins it all
The Lilies
The last girls standing
Playing for keeps
Godly heathens
Merciless saviors
The best hardcore band in PA
Dead girls walking
Gimmicks and ghosts
Rana Joon and the one & only now
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
The forest demands its due
Just happy to be here : [a novel]
Finally Fitz
Flyboy
My fair Brady
The breakup lists
Who we are in real life
Beholder
Monstrous
True Love and Other Impossible Odds
Pride and prejudice and Pittsburgh
Otherworldly
Otherworldly
The evolving truth of ever-stronger Will
The fall of Whit Rivera
Airlock
No one left but you
Under this red rock
Escaping Mr. Rochester
Off with their heads
We got the beat
Pritty
Annie Leblanc Is Not Dead Yet
Skater boy
Most ardently : a Pride & prejudice remix
Radio Silence
Night of the living queers / 13 Tales of Terror &...
The diablo's curse
This Winter
Dark heir
The absinthe underground
Furious
Daniel, deconstructed
Dancehall Rebel
Teach the torches to burn : a Romeo & Juliet remix
Emmett
We are mayhem
If tomorrow doesn't come
Your lonely nights are over
Charming Young Man
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
Finding My Elf
These bodies between us
The cursed rose
Every time you hear that song
The Queer Girl Is Going to Be Okay
All That Consumes Us
The blonde dies first
The spirit bares its teeth
One Killer Problem
A different kind of brave
Unbecoming
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
Power to yield and other stories
A shore thing
Bad Seed
Cuckoo
City of laughter
The Weavers of Alamaxa
The Emperor and the Endless Palace
Game on
The sea elephants
Don't want you like a best friend
Don't want you like a best friend
Interesting facts about space
Luscious Love
Bookshops & bonedust
The friendship study
Truly, madly, deeply : A novel
No one dies yet
Dead in Long Beach, California
Alice Sadie Celine
Sons, daughters
Henry Henry
A long time dead
Fly with me
Becoming Ted
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
But how are you, really
One night in hartswood
Nearlywed
The happy couple
Perfume & pain
Blessed water
Outsider
Late bloomer
Faebound : A novel
Wild geese
We could be heroes
What grows in the dark
A bluestocking's guide to decadence
Bugsy & other stories
The words that remain
I want you more
A shot in the dark
A Deadly Walk in Devon
Mouth
An education in malice
Grey dog
Green Dot
In tongues
Director's cut
10 things that never happened
For real
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
Blessings
Bachelorette number twelve
Trondheim
A liaison with her leading lady
The (fake) dating game
Antiquity
All Fours
The default world
Sunbringer : a fallen gods novel
Molten Death
How you get the girl
I will greet the sun again
What feasts at night
The Z word
Heartsong
Ravensong
Lies that bind
Memory piece
Invaginies
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
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
Everyone I kissed since you got famous
Mona of the manor
To cage a god
We can be heroes
You only call when you're in trouble
People collide
Cicada summer
A season in Chezgh'un
A botanical daughter
All friends are necessary
Redsight
Dangerous recall
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
Pucking wild
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
Cinema love
Camp Damascus
Blackouts
The abyss
Rend me, the wayward knight
My darling dreadful thing
The abyss
Wound
Like happiness
I'm a fool to want you : stories
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
Experienced
Thirst