Diversify your reading and viewing this summer with some very gay and very good books and films.
Grab a book to go
Fiction and poetry
Nonfiction
Read online
Interested in finding more? Try searching the Library Catalogue for some of these key terms/words or authors, or try the lists of award winners.
Search terms for more on specific topics
Some of the authors in our collections
Awards
Looking for more inspiration? Browse lists of award-winning authors and books.
- Lambda Literary awards (the best in LGBTQ literature since 1989)
- From the American Library Association:
- Stonewall Book Awards (awarded since 1971)
- Over the Rainbow Book List (top fiction, nonfiction, and poetry)
- Rainbow Book List (books for teens and children)
- Gaylactic Spectrum Awards (science fiction, fantasy, and horror)
View online or visit our video collections
Watch some of our streaming video collections available through the Library, or check out our physical collections.
Criterion on Demand
LGBTQ2+ collection of feature films, such as Rocketman, Love, Simon, A Fantastic Woman, Moonlight.
Films on Demand
Films on Demand provides access to a collection of documentaries, educational films, independent films, and instructional videos. Browse tags like LGBT history, LGBT studies, LGBT social movements, drag, queer theory, or transgender, or search keywords like intersex, LGBTQ, Stonewall, transgender, and people's names.
NFB.ca
The National Film Board of Canada has a collection of LGBTQ2+ animated films and documentaries.
QMUNITY's Stories of Older Queers
Video interviews chronicling the experiences of older lesbian-gay-bisexual-transfolk.
Questions?
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