Coming Out Day Book Recommendations!
National Coming Out Day is a LGBTQ+ day of celebration that supports members of the community and their experiences with “coming out of the closet”. National Coming Out Day is celebrated every October 11th and has been since 1988. In honor of this day, we’d like to share some queer books non-fiction books that discuss the lives of people in the community and/or how to support them. We hope that these books may be of interest to both members of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as their support systems
Young Adult Memoirs and Biographies:
Messy roots : a graphic memoir of a Wuhanese American
By Laura Gao
Sorted : growing up, coming out, and finding my place : a transgender memoir
By Jackson Bird
By Shaun David Hutchinson
On top of glass : my stories as a queer girl in figure skating
By Karina Manta
Still Stace : my gay Christian coming-of-age story
By Stacey Chomiak
By Tegan and Sara Quinn
Evelyn Hooker and the fairy project
By Gayle E. Pitman; illustrated by Sarah Green.
How to be ace : a memoir of growing up asexual
By Rebecca Burgess
Trans mission : my quest to a beard
By Alex Bertie
Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out
Edited by Susan Kuklin.
Adult Memoirs:
By R. Eric Thomas
Love that story: observations from a gorgeously queer life
By Jonathan Van Ness
Redefining realness : my path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more
By Janet Mock
¡Hola papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons
By John Paul Brammer
By Meredith Talusan
Deaf utopia : a memoir-and a love letter to a way of life
By Nyle DiMarco with Robert Siebert.
Uncomfortable labels : my life as a gay autistic trans woman
By Laura Kate Dale
Long live the tribe of fatherless girls : a memoir
By T Kira Madden
My lesbian experience with loneliness
By Nagata Kabi ; translation, Jocelyne Allen ; adaptation, Lianne Sentar.
By Billy Porter
Once a girl, always a boy : a family memoir of a transgender journey
By Jo Ivestor
Non-Fiction LGBTQ+ books:
By Rhea Ewing
What’s the T? (YA)
By Juno Dawson
By Alok Vaid-Menon
Queer : the ultimate LGBTQ guide for teens (YA)
By Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
A quick & easy guide to queer & trans identities
By Mady G and J.R. Zuckerberg
A quick & easy guide to they/them pronouns
By Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
A quick & easy guide to asexuality
Written by Molly Muldoon; drawn and co-written by Will Hernandez; lettering by Angie Knowles.
How to they/them : a visual guide to nonbinary pronouns and the world of gender fluidity
By Stuart Getty; illustrations by Brooke Thyng
What’s your pronoun? : beyond he & she
By Dennis Baron
By James Martin, SJ
Coming out : insights and tips for teenagers (YA)
By Kezia Endsley
Alphabet soup : the essential guide to LGBTQ2+ inclusion at work
By Michael Bach
Becoming an ally to the gender-expansive child : a guide for parents and carers
By Anna Bianchi
Supporting transgender autistic youth and adults: a guide for professionals and families
By Finn V. Gratton
By Andrew Maxwell Triska, MSW, LCSW
By Sudi “Rick” Karatas
Raising LGBTQ allies : a parent’s guide to changing the messages from the playground
By Chris Tompkins