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LGBTQ+: Youth Specific

LGBTQ+ Resources

Resources

ASK (Alphabet Soup Kids) Support Group (Wilmington)
LGBTQ+ support group for youth ages 12-18. Meeting twice a month and hosted by a licensed professional counselor.

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Meetings are held monthly on 1st and 3rd Saturdays.

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Support Group Meeting
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Social Hour
New Castle County Youth Pride
An annual all ages pride festival in New Castle County celebrating LGBTQ+ youth and providing information on local resources.
The Village
Northern Delaware's pop-up LGBTQ+ community center. Organizes regular events for LGBTQ+ youth.

Mazzoni Center (Philadelphia)
Youth drop-in clinic.

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Offering walk-in access to medical care and social services.
The Attic Youth Center (Philadelphia)
Youth programming and counseling.

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The Attic Youth Center creates opportunities for LGBTQ youth to develop into healthy, independent, civic-minded adults within a safe and supportive community, and promotes the acceptance of LGBTQ youth in society.
Love is Respect
Information on healthy and unhealthy or abusive relationships, including resources for getting help when needed.
Gender Spectrum
Gender Spectrum helps to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments
for all children and teens.
Camp Lightbulb
LGBTQ Youth Camp

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Camp Lightbulb celebrates LGBTQ youth, ages 14 to 18, with magical, overnight camp experiences, filled with fun, pride, community, friends, support, self-discovery and memories to last a lifetime.
ACLU- LGBT Project
The ACLU LGBT Project helps protect young people's right to express themselves, start gay-straight alliance clubs, have their gender identity respected, and be taught in a safe environment.
LGBT National Youth Talkline
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Youth Talkline provides telephone, online private one-to-one chat and email peer-support, as well as factual information and local resources for cities and towns across the United States.

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All services are free and confidential.

We speak with teens and young adults up to age 25 about coming-out issues, relationship concerns, parent issues, school problems, HIV/AIDS anxiety and safer-sex information, and lots more!

In the catalog- Teens

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
ISBN: 9780062348678
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
ISBN: 9780062348708
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
ISBN: 9780062643803
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
ISBN: 9781626012516
Publication Date: 2016-01-28
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
ISBN: 9780803734968
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
The Secret Loves of Geeks by Margaret Atwood; Gerard Way; Dana Simpson; Sana Takeda; Daniel Way; Patrick Rothfuss
Call Number: 741.59 SECR
ISBN: 9781506704739
Publication Date: 2018-02-13
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
ISBN: 9780062382863
Publication Date: 2016-02-02
Chulito by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
ISBN: 9781936833030
Publication Date: 2011-12-13
Whatever by S. J. Goslee
ISBN: 9781250115140
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
OMGQueer by Katherine E. Lynch (Editor); Radclyffe (Editor)
Call Number: FIC OMG
ISBN: 9781602826823
Publication Date: 2012-08-14
Freak Show by James St. James
Call Number: STJ; LGBT ST; FIC STJ
ISBN: 9780525477990
Publication Date: 2007-05-17
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Mark Brabant (Cover Design by)
ISBN: 9781442408920
Publication Date: 2012-02-21
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
ISBN: 9781250169440
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Becoming Who I Am by Ritch C. Savin-Williams
Call Number: 306.766 S
ISBN: 9780674971592
Publication Date: 2016-09-19
This Book Is Gay by James Dawson; David Levithan (Introduction by)
Call Number: 306.766 D
ISBN: 9781492617822
Publication Date: 2015-06-16
GLBTQ by Kelly Huegel
Call Number: 306.766 H
ISBN: 9781575423630
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
The Full Spectrum by David Levithan; Billy Merrell
ISBN: 9780375832901
Publication Date: 2006-05-09
Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
Call Number: MOS
ISBN: 9781481405966
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780142417065
Publication Date: 2010-11-11
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez; Jennifer Weiss (Editor)
ISBN: 9781416911890
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker
ISBN: 9780425288504
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
Call Number: GIR
ISBN: 9780062404176
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
ISBN: 9781250077738
Publication Date: 2017-09-05

In the Catalog- Ages 9-13

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
Call Number: CAL
ISBN: 9781338129304
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Call Number: BIG
ISBN: 9780062791146
Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Call Number: BLA
ISBN: 9780316515467
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
P. S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy
ISBN: 9781250123480
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
The Best Man by Richard Peck
ISBN: 9780803738393
Publication Date: 2016-09-20
Alan Cole Is Not a Coward by Eric Bell
Call Number: BEL
ISBN: 9780062567024
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
This Would Make a Good Story Someday by Dana Alison Levy
ISBN: 9781101938171
Publication Date: 2017-05-16
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
ISBN: 9780545946179
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
ISBN: 9781492638094
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
The Truth about Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
ISBN: 9780316236621
Publication Date: 2015-01-27
Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth
ISBN: 9780545224963
Publication Date: 2014-08-26
The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue; Caroline Hadilaksono (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780545925815
Publication Date: 2017-03-28

Reading lists- Books beyond the catalog

Transgender Resource Collection
Selected readings for teens from the Oak Park Library, Illinois.

LGBTQ List for Middle Readers
LGBTQ+ books for ages 8-12.

Last Updated: Aug 8, 2022 2:00 PM
URL: https://guides.lib.de.us/lgbtq
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Subjects: 300-399 Social Sciences

Tags: agender, asexual, bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, non-binary, pansexual, queer, questioning, trans, transgender