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1) ABC pride
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ABC Pride introduces little readers to the alphabet through the colorful world of Pride. Children can discover letters and words while also learning more about the LGBTQIA+ community and how to be inclusive.
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Tristan Sadler, a gay soldier, recalls his time spent fighting in World War I and the intensity of his friendship with Will Bancroft, a soldier who became a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor.
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On Shelf
86 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
306.7662089 JOHNSON
1 available
306.7662089 JOHNSON
1 available
Springfield Forest Park Branch - YA
YA 306.7662089 JOHNSON
1 available
YA 306.7662089 JOHNSON
1 available
Springfield Indian Orchard Branch - Adult
306.7662089 JOHNSON
1 available
306.7662089 JOHNSON
1 available
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In a series of personal essays, journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. -- Publisher's description.
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Dreamers (Adriana Herrera) volume 1
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"A delicious debut."--New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann"Herrera's entertaining first Dreamers romance is fueled by love, community and plenty of Afro-Caribbean food... An adorable delicious foray into hapless romance."--Publishers Weekly No one ever said big dreams come easyFor Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He'll be a big fish...
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118 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JJ RICHARDS JUSTIN And
1 available
JJ RICHARDS JUSTIN And
1 available
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile Media
JKIT RICHARDS JUSTIN And
1 available
JKIT RICHARDS JUSTIN And
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JJ RICHARDS JUSTIN And
1 available
JJ RICHARDS JUSTIN And
1 available
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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. Based on a true story.
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7 copies.
Springfield Sixteen Acres Branch - Adult
FICT LOVE RYAN Arthur
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FICT LOVE RYAN Arthur
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"When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is prepared for the bombshell he drops: he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out. Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has a secret of his own: he's also gay, and developing serious feelings for his colleague Ben. But Teddy doesn't feel ready to come out yet - especially when Arthur's announcement causes shockwaves...
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57 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
306.76 NUTT
1 available
306.76 NUTT
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Springfield Sixteen Acres Branch - Adult
306.76 NUTT
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306.76 NUTT
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"The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The Washington Post When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn't long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his brother,...
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49 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
306.768092 JENNINGS
1 available
306.768092 JENNINGS
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Springfield Brightwood Branch - YA
306.76 JEN
1 available
306.76 JEN
1 available
Springfield East Springfield Branch - Adult
306.76 JEN
1 available
306.76 JEN
1 available
Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later, her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was much less knowledgeable or accepting of the transgender community. This groundbreaking interview was followed...
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46 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
305.3 VAID
2 available
305.3 VAID
2 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - YA
YA 305.3 VAID
1 available
YA 305.3 VAID
1 available
Springfield East Springfield Branch - Adult
305.3 VAID
1 available
305.3 VAID
1 available
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"Poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary"--
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25 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT LANE BYRON Big gay
1 available
FICT LANE BYRON Big gay
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT LANE BYRON Big gay
1 available
FICT LANE BYRON Big gay
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Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Two grooms. One mother of a problem. Barnett Durang has a secret. No, not THAT secret. His widowed mother has long known he's gay. The secret is Barnett is getting married. At his mother's farm. In their small Louisiana town. She just doesn't know it yet. It'll be an intimate affair. Just two hundred or so of the most fabulous folks Barnett is shipping in from the "heathen coasts," as Mom likes to call them, turning her quiet rescue farm for misfit...
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9 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
940.5318 SETTERING
1 available
940.5318 SETTERING
1 available
Springfield Sixteen Acres Branch - Adult
940.5318 SETTERING
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940.5318 SETTERING
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A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. This book combines historical research...
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Call me by your name novels volume 1
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42 copies.
Springfield Sixteen Acres Branch - Adult
FICT ACIMAN ANDRE Call me
1 available
FICT ACIMAN ANDRE Call me
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Available from another library
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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The story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may...
13) Cemetery boys
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82 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - YA
YAFICT THOMAS AIDEN Cemetery
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YAFICT THOMAS AIDEN Cemetery
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Springfield Forest Park Branch - YA
YAFICT THOMAS AIDEN Cemetery
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YAFICT THOMAS AIDEN Cemetery
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Springfield Mason Square Branch - YA
YAFICT THOMAS AIDEN Cemetery
1 available
YAFICT THOMAS AIDEN Cemetery
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Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered...
14) Chef's kiss
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29 copies.
Springfield Forest Park Branch - Adult
GRAPHIC MELENDEZ JARRETT Chefs
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GRAPHIC MELENDEZ JARRETT Chefs
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Watch things start to really heat up in the kitchen in this sweet, queer, new adult graphic novel! Now that college is over, English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something...anything...related to his passion for reading and writing. But interview after interview, hiring committee after hiring committee, Ben soon learns getting the dream job won't be as easy as he thought. Proofreading? Journalism? Copywriting? Not enough experience....
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20 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT WILSNER MERYL Cleat
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FICT WILSNER MERYL Cleat
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Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT WILSNER MERYL Cleat
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FICT WILSNER MERYL Cleat
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Available Online
4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women's National Team for ten years, even though she's only 26. But when she's sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn't-a gregarious jokester...
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True colors (Annabeth Albert) volume 1
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16 copies.
Springfield Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT ALBERT ANNABETH Conventi
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FICT ALBERT ANNABETH Conventi
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Conrad Stewart and Alden Parks are enemies, and that's the way it's always been. But when they're stuck together on a cross-country road trip to the biggest fan convention of their lives, the competition takes a backseat as unexpected feelings blossom. Yet each boy has a reason why they have to win the upcoming con tournament and neither is willing to let emotion get in the way-even if it means giving up their one chance at something truly magical"--...
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11 copies.
Springfield Main Library - YA
YAFICT CAMPBELL CURTIS Dragging
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YAFICT CAMPBELL CURTIS Dragging
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"A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the transformative power of drag--perfect for fans of RuPaul's Drag Race and Pumpkin. Peter Thompkins needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors about him are becoming more elaborate by the day. Meanwhile, his best friend Alan (aka teen drag queen Aggie Culture) is...
18) Fadeout
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Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 1
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8 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
MYST HANSEN JOSEPH Fadeout
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MYST HANSEN JOSEPH Fadeout
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Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd...
19) Family meal
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77 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT WASHINGT BRYAN Family
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FICT WASHINGT BRYAN Family
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Springfield Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT WASHINGT BRYAN Family
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FICT WASHINGT BRYAN Family
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Available Online
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
20) Felix ever after
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74 copies.
Springfield Main Library - YA
YAFICT CALLENDE KACEN Felix
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YAFICT CALLENDE KACEN Felix
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Springfield East Forest Park Branch - YA
YAFICT CALLENDE KACEN Felix
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YAFICT CALLENDE KACEN Felix
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Springfield East Springfield Branch - YA
YAFICT CALLENDE KACEN Felix
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YAFICT CALLENDE KACEN Felix
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Felix Love has never been in love, painful irony that it is. He desperately wants to know why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. He is proud of his identity, but fears that he's one marginalization too many-- Black, queer, and transgender. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages-- after publicly posting Felix's deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned-- Felix comes up with a plan for revenge....