Dive deeper in Sonoma County Library's Together at the Table series by exploring the following materials.
MATERIALS LIST
Explore this topic further through extensive booklists of materials available to check out in the library. Materials are available for kids, families, teens and adults and come in a variety of formats including fiction, nonfiction, picture books, DVDs and graphic novels.
The materials on this list offer people of all ages opportunities to dig deeper into the topic of LGBTQI from LGBTQI history and rights to understanding the LGBTQI experience, relationships and culture.
NONFICTION
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sara McBride
Transgender History: the roots of today's revolution by Susan Stryker
When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T. Anderson
Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Toshino
Saving Alex: when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began by Alex Cooper
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Eleanor and Hick: the love affair that shaped the First Lady by Susan Quinn
Boy Erased: a memoir by Gerrard Conley
Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
Radical Hope: letters of love and dissent in dangers times by Carolina de Roberts
A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein
Becoming Nicole: the transformation of an American family by Amy Ellis Nutt
Forcing the Spring: inside the fight for marriage equality by Jo Becker
The New Old Me: my late-life reinvention by Meredith Maran
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
How to Survive a Plague: the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by David France
The Gay Revolution: the story of the struggle by Lillian Faderman
StoneWall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution by David Carter
Becoming an Ally to the Gender-Expansive Child: a guide for parents and carers by Anna Bianchi
FICTION
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Dryland by Sara Jaffe
The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
The Danish Girl: a novel by David Ebershoff
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
How To Survive A Summer by Nick White
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Lauras by Sara Taylor
Before Everything by Victoria Redel
A House Among the Trees by Julia GlassTEENS
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
Fun House: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
All Out: the no-longer secret stories of queer teens throughout the ages by Saundra Mitchell
The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List: a novel by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
Look Both Ways by Alison Cherry
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girad
We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
You Know Me Well by David Levithan
LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Being Jazz: my life as a (transgender) teen by Jazz Jennings
Beyond Magenta: transgender teens speak out by Susan Kuklin
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
CHILDREN'S
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey 
Worm Loves Worm by J.J. Austrian
¡Soy Una Niña! by Yasmeen Ismail
Introducing Teddy: a gentle story about gender and friendship by Jessica Walton
Home At Last by Vera B. Williams
The Family Fletcher takes Rock Island by Dana Alison Levy 
Pride: celebrating diversity and community by Robin Stevenson
My Two Moms by Claudia Harrington
George by Alex Gino
Sex is a Funny Word: a book about bodies, feelings, and YOU by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings & Jessica Herthel
The Great Big Book of Families by Mary Hoffman
The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
Saturdays with Hitchcock by Ellen Wittlinger
Gracefully Grayson by Ami PolonskyDOCUMENTARIES & FILMS
How to Survive a Plague (2013) 
StoneWall Uprising (2011) 
The Normal Heart (2014) 
The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: inside the fight to speak out (2012) 
Milk (2009)
3 Generations (2015)
Philadelphia (1993)
Pride (2014) 
Paris is Burning (1990)
The Case Against 8 (2014) 
Bridegroom (2012)The Together at the Table project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
The opinions expressed herein do not reflect the position of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Srevices, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library, and no official endorsement by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library should be inferred.
