If you’re looking for great recommendations to share with your patrons, add to your collection, or simply enjoy yourself, book blogs are a fantastic resource to explore. Here are just a handful of the many amazing LGBTQ-themed book blogs that have taken the internet by storm. Be sure to check them out, and let us know which book blogs you love to follow!
I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read?
If you work with or support queer young people, or simply want to improve the diversity of your YA collection, this is definitely the blog for you. Positive, respectful, supportive and inclusive, “it’s for teens (queer or not), for librarians, for teachers, for booksellers, for people with teens in their lives and for anyone interested in YA books with GLBTQ characters and themes. What books are already out there? What’s new? Your answers are here.”
This carefully curated collection of LGBTQ+ titles spans the whole gamut of queer literature, from picture books to adult selections, but with an emphasis on Young Adult / New Adult fiction, and is maintained by YA author Dahlia Adler.
The Lesbrary focuses on lesbian/bisexual books, with a dedicated and diverse group of reviewers providing feedback on a wide variety of titles celebrating literature by and about queer women.
OK, we might be a bit biased here (Casey is one of our awesome group members), but if you’re looking for queer book reviews and recommendations with a Canadian focus, this is definitely the blog for you.
As the name suggests, GayYA.org is dedicated to everything LGBTQIA+ in YA! Its mission “is to empower authors to write LGBTQIA+ characters, help ensure that what’s being published contains positive and affirming representation, and enable all teens to find themselves on the page! We pursue these goals with things like sharing best practices for librarians and teachers on how to get LGBTQIA+ YA books into the hands of teens, critiquing problematic narratives, and holding space for authors to talk about writing LGBTQIA+ characters.” Sounds good to us!
What are some of your favourite LGBTQ+ book blogs?
LGBTQ2+ Interest Group 
Reblogged this on Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian and commented:
I’m in this lovely round-up of LGBTQ book blogs and so are some of my favourites! If you need more queer and trans book recommendations, you can’t go wrong with any of these blogs.
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