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DPL Adults: Pride Month

Updated May 2026. A list of literature, resources, and non-fiction books for adults in Central Oregon to celebrate and learn about Pride Month! Organized by author last name.

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  • Inclusive events for youth, teens, young adults, and queer families throughout June. QT Collab is a group of folks from various backgrounds in Central Oregon whose primary focus is protecting and supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ youth. We are health…
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  • Guest Privileges

    Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East

    Adams, Gaar
    When journalist Gaar Adams first arrives in the Gulf States--where four out of five residents are non-citizens, and where the penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture, and death--he approaches the LGBTQ+ immigrants who…
    Book, 2025Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2025. — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 920 ADAMS GAAR
  • The food on our plates has long been designed, twisted, and elevated by queer hands. Piecing together a dazzling mosaic of queer lives, spaces, and meals, beloved food writer John Birdsall unfolds the complex story of how, through times of fear and…
    Book, 2025[New York, New York] : W. W. Norton and Company, 2025. — COOKING / GENERAL / 641.509 BIRDSALL JOHN
  • Adolescentes trans

    Manual para familias y profesionales que apoyan a adolescencias transgénero y no binarias

    Brill, Stephanie
    Adolescentes trans es una guía para construir vínculos y canales de comunicación efectivos entre adultos al cuidado de adolescencias transgénero o no binarias. También es una de las más valiosas herramientas para comprender cómo las personas que las…
    Book, 2023Ciudad de México [Mexico City, Mexico] : Editorial Terracota, 2023. — RELACIONES / 306.768 BRILL STEPHANIE
  • In Aoife Josie Clements’ electric, nightmarish, intricately layered novel, the impossibility of goodness crowds in upon two young trans women barely surviving on sex work and zero-hours contracts. Below the familiar evils of capitalism and the…
    Book, 2026Brooklyn, NY : LittlePuss Press, [2026] — HORROR / CLEMENTS AOIFE
  • Newly laid off George’s internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend’s name. He’s got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he’s walking in London have just escaped. It’s pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral—all the way to the…
    Book, 2026New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026. — FICTION / COLLETT RYAN
  • Steeped in a fabulist version of the American South, The Iridescents highlights how the LGBTQ+ community transforms everyday acts of support and survival into miracles, redefining sainthood and spiritual history through the lens of queer resilience…
    Book, 2026Huntsville, Texas : TRP: The University Press of SHSU, [2026] — FICTION / DONALDSON EMRYS
  • It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. She’s nineteen, blasting her Walkman, and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle, the only person who understood her, is dead. But she has work to do: he left her a half-finished…
    Book, 20260505Scribner Book Company 20260505 — AF Elan, P
  • Queer Lasting

    Ecologies of Care for a Dying World

    Ensor, Sarah, 1982-
    Queer Lasting asks what contemporary environmentalism's seemingly necessary emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable, and looks to the literatures from two periods of queer extinction (the 1890s and the 1980s) for grammars of care,…
    Book, 2025New York : New York University Press, [2025] — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 810.9928 ENSOR SARAH
  • Before Gender

    Lost Stories From Trans History, 1850-1950

    Erlick, Eli
    An expansive exploration of the exciting lives of 30 trans people from 1850-1950 that radically changes everything you've been told about transgender history.
    Book, 2025Boston : Beacon Press, [2025] — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 306.76809 ERLICK ELI
  • Forest Euphoria

    the Abounding Queerness of Nature

    Kaishian, Patricia Ononiwu
    Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place, too much of one thing or not enough ofanother, she found acceptance in these settings,…
    Book, 2025New York : Spiegel and Grau, [2025] — NATURE & ANIMALS / GENERAL / 579.092 KAISHIAN PATRICIA
  • An author creates a narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties.
    Book, 2025New York : Legacy Lit, 2025. — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 306.7663 LOVATT ELIZABETH
  • Queer Communion

    Religion in Appalachia

    Queer Communion is an essay collection that follows and fractures the expectation of religiously affiliated queers in the region of Appalachia by showcasing the emotional depth and intellectual capacities of becoming when a queer person from…
    Book, 2025Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2025] — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 306.76 QUEER
  • Manual de súper vivencia queer

    una guía práctica para madres, padres, educadorxs, adolescentes, jóvenes y personas diversas

    Ricci Curbastro, Emma
    "Este Manual de Súper Vivencia Queer es una guía que explica y aclara una amplia variedad de temas relacionados con género, sexualidad y activismo, proporcionando una visión profunda y completa de las experiencias queer a través de diversos…
    Book, 2024Córdoba : Editorial Cántico, [2024] — SOCIEDAD Y CULTURAS / 306.76 RICCI.CURBA EMMA
  • Jacquotte Delahaye is the mixed-race daughter of a wealthy tavern owner on the island of Tortuga. Instead of marriage, Jacquotte dreams of joining the seafarers and smugglers whose tall-masted ships cluster in the turquoise waters around Tortuga.…
    Book, 2026New York, NY : William Morrow, [2026] — HISTORICAL / RILEY VANESSA
  • Queer & Christian

    Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table

    Robertson, Brandan, 1992-
    Celebrate queer faith and take your rightful place at God's table with Brandan Robertson, the "TikTok Pastor," Biblical scholar, and social activist For too long, the Bible has been weaponized to exclude LGBTQ+ individuals, despite Jesus' radical…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Essentials, 2025. — SPIRITUALITY & BELIEFS / GENERAL / 306.76608 ROBERTSON BRANDON
  • When Judith Rice fled her childhood home, she thought she’d severed her abusive mother’s hold on her. She didn’t have a plan or destination, just a desperate need to escape. Drawn to the forests of southern Georgia, Jude finds shelter in a house as…
    Book, 2026New York, NY : Saga Press, 2026. — HORROR / SCHOLFIELD YAH.YAH
  • A queer Black feminist debunks the myth of rainbow solidarity, repositioning Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ people at the forefront of queer pasts, presents, and futures.
    Book, 2025Boston : Beacon Press, [2025] — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 306.76608 STORY KAILA
  • Shame Sex Attraction

    Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy

    An anthology of stories from survivors of gay conversion therapy - edited by an activist, academic and fellow survivor. This is an exposition of the trauma and moral injury such practices enact, and opportunity for survivors to reclaim their…
    Book, 2025London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025. — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 306.7609 SHAME