LGBTQ+ Resources
Reading
- Q&A: For a Better Understanding of Sexual Orientation & Homosexuality
- Human Right’s Campaign’s Glossary
- Q& A About Transgender People, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
- Action Tips for Allies of Trans People
- Sister Outsider
- LGBTQ : the survival guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens
- LGBTQ at Work: Your Personal and Working Life
- The LGBTQ Story
- The Importance of Pronouns in the World and the Workplace
- Faculty as Sources of Support for LGBTQ College Students
- The Lives and Livelihoods of Many in the LGBTQ Community are at Risk During the COVID Crisis
- When a Student Comes Out to You
- LGBTQ Students on Campus: Issues and Opportunities for Higher Education Leaders
- Teaching Tolerance’s Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
- LGBT Life Center: Understanding Pronouns
- Glossary of transgender words
- 46 Terms That Describe Sexual Attraction, Behavior, and Orientation
- LGBTQ Competency Toolkit
Watching/Listening
- Defining LGBTQ
- Trans Voices YouTube List
- Incorporating LGBTQ History in your Classroom w/ Daniel Hurewitz
- “Ask Me”: What LGBTQ Students Want Their Professors to Know
- Geena Rocero TED Talk: Why I Must Come Out
- Boys Don't Cry
- One From the Vaults
- What are Pronouns?
- Why Gender Pronouns Matter
Recommended Books
Book Title |
Author |
Synopsis |
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World | Mason Funk | A true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen |
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate | Jeannie Gainsburg | An enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities |
Beyond the Gender Binary | Alok Vaid-Menon | A fierce, penetrating, and empowering call for change |
What If It's Us | Becky Albertall | Two very different boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together—or pulling them apart. |
Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens | Marke Bieschke and Kathy Belge | Honest and engaging, Queer takes LGBT teens on an awesome and enlightening journey through the sometimes scary, sometimes silly, and always fabulous world of queer life |
The Real Lives of Transgender and Nonbinary Humans: A Publish Your Purpose Anthology | Publish Your Purpose Press | Powerful collection of stories, told by transgender and nonbinary people of all ages and from all walks of life |
Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens | Leigh Finke | Answers to all these questions and more about LGBTQ+ for chistianteens |
Where Go From Here | Lucas Rocha | An absorbing debut novel about three gay young adults in Brazil whose lives become intertwined in the face of HIV |
Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students | Miachael Sadowky | Illustration of how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities |
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | Jen Winston | An intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West, Samantha Irby, and Rebecca Solnit—and anyone who wants, and deserves, to be seen. |