LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month! Celebrate the history and literary contributions of LGBTQIA+ communities with these library titles.

This list was compiled by South Pasadena Public Library staff and members of the South Pasadena Public Library Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee.

Updated June 5, 2025
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Fun home : a family tragicomic
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked...
The pink line : journeys across the world's queer frontiers
Gevisser, Mark
Paper Book
Eye-opening, moving, and crafted with expert research, this is a vital journey of epic scope, across the world's most challenging new frontiers.
A psalm for the wild-built
Chambers, Becky
Audiobook
Greta & Valdin
Reilly, Rebecca K.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA...
Maurice : a novel
Forster, E. M.
Paper Book
Completed in 1914, Maurice remained unpublished until after Forster's death. Although its homosexual content was the reason for this, the novel cannot be defined simply by its theme. It was written by a great novelist at the height of his powers, as those who read it will surely discover.
The color purple
Walker, Alice
Paper Book
The price of salt
Highsmith, Patricia
Ebook
Therese is nineteen and working in a department store during the Christmas shopping season. She dates men, although not with real enthusiasm. One day a beautiful older woman comes over to her counter and buys a doll. As the purchase is a C.O.D. order, Therese makes a mental note of the customer&...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
'A triumph of execution ... one of the best narratives of the "double life" of a Victorian gentleman' Peter Ackroyd Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succès de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled by his own exquisite portrait,...
Gay bar : why we went out
Lin, Jeremy Atherton
Paper Book
An exhilarating and frequently horny bar hop spanning three cities and three decades, which asks: where shall we go tonight?
Loveless
Oseman, Alice
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI CHILDREN'S & YA BOOK PRIZE 2022 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper - now a major Netflix series. ...
Detransition, baby : a novel
Peters, Torrey
Ebook
Felix ever after
Callender, Kacen
Paper Book
From award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.
Call me by your name
Aciman, Andre.
Paper Book
The film tie-in edition to the already highly acclaimed Luca Guadagnino-directed film of one of the great love stories of our time.

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