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June is LGBTQ Pride Month - graphic novels and memoirs

June is when LGBTQ Pride Month is celebrated, but these graphic novels and memoirs are available to place on hold or check out any time of year.

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  • Be Gay, Do Comics!

    Queer History, Memoir, and Satire From The Nib

    "The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay, Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears reality apart. These are just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. [This book] is filled…
    Graphic Novel, 2020San Diego, CA : IDW, [2020]. — GRAPHIC 306.76 Be 11/2020
  • "When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari…
    Graphic Novel, 2018Portland, OR : Image Comics, [2018] — GRAPHIC Franklin Tee 02/2018
  • Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band--if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life…
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York, NY : First Second, [2019] — GRAPHIC Panetta Kevin
  • 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…
    Graphic Novel, 2022Portland, OR : Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, 2022. — GRAPHIC Melendez Jarrett 04/2022
  • You don't have to be a lesbian to appreciate the wit, wisdom, and joyful camaraderie bursting from the pages of this thoroughly addicting, Victorian-soap-operaesque-comic-strip compendium, especially if political satire is your jam.
    Graphic Novel, 2008Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. — GRAPHIC FICTION Bechdel Alison 12/2008
  • "Nicholas, the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion, is a scrappy fencing wunderkind, and dreams of getting the chance and the training to actually compete. After getting accepted to the prodigious Kings Row private school, Nicholas is…
    Graphic Novel, 2018[Berkeley, CA] : BOOM! Box, [2018] — GRAPHIC FENCE Pacat C.S. v.1 11/2018
  • Bechdel masterfully weaves literary allusion, family stories, and LGBT history into this amazing graphic memoir. If you think you don't like "comic books" you are doing yourself a disservice by passing up this hefty achievement.
    Graphic Novel, 2006Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006. — GRAPHIC Bechdel Alison
  • "An essential comic-book journey from the creators of Queer: A Graphic History that will change the way you think about gender. Is masculinity 'toxic?' Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender…
    Graphic Novel, 2019London : Icon Books Ltd, 2019. — GRAPHIC 305.3 Barker 01/2020
  • "Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of…
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2021. — GRAPHIC Ostertag Molly 05/2021
  • "Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, [2020] — GRAPHIC HEARTSTO Oseman Alice v.1 06/2020
  • "Y'all... I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It's nothing…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : First Second, 2018. — GRAPHIC CHECK Ukazu Ngozi v.1 10/2018
  • In this delightfully compelling full-color graphic memoir, the author shares her process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom. Reflecting on the ways in which…
    Graphic Novel, 2021Brooklyn, New York : Street Noise Books, [2021] — GRAPHIC BIO DELACRUZ S. DelaCruz 05/2021
  • A biography of the mathematician, reveals the story of an eccentric genius, olympic-class runner, and groundbreaking theoretician whose work is still influencing the science and telecommunication systems of the modern world.
    Graphic Novel, 2016New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2016. — GRAPHIC BIO TURING A. Ottavian
  • Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend,…
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York : First Second, 2019. — GRAPHIC Tamaki Mariko
  • Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers? bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows…
    Graphic Novel, 2019[St. Louis, Missouri] : Lion Forge LLC, [2019] — GRAPHIC Walker Suzanne 10/2019
  • Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who…
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017] — GRAPHIC MY Tagame Gengoroh v.1 07/2017
  • My Life in Transition

    a Super Late Bloomer Collection

    Kaye, Julia, 1988-
    "The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition."--Page 4 of cover.
    Graphic Novel, 2021Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2021] — GRAPHIC BIO KAYE J. Kaye 04/2021
  • Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia the…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : First Second, 2018. — GRAPHIC Wang Jen
  • When Ren Mittal is transported from a bus stop in 1996 to the year 2122, he discovers he is part of a time-travel program to help students in the future learn about history, though the tech conglomerate who brought him there may not be as benevolent…
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York, NY : Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — GRAPHIC Furedi Chelsey 02/2023
  • Working at a pumpkin patch every autumn, Deja and Josiah plan the ultimate Halloween night to celebrate their last year working together.
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York : First Second, 2019. — GRAPHIC Rowell Rainbow 08/2019