Rage poetry, personal essays, lots of love stories, and a dancing queen: Here are 12 Black LGBTQ+ books to teach and inspire you during Black History Month.
"The Song of Achilles"
"The Color Purple"
"Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue"
BOOK OF THE MONTH - JULY 2019:
”The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue” by Mackenzi Lee
What at first seems like a straight-forward book with an unlikeable and arrogant protagonist, “The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue” gives way to swashbuckling adventure and adorable romance in a book that manages to tackle several intersectional issues while remaining a fun and light-hearted read.
"Tin Man"
BOOK OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2019:
”Tin Man” by Sarah Winman
It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are inseparable. And the boys become men, and then Annie walks into their lives, and it changes nothing and everything.