Rainbow Bibliography Helps Librarians Help LGBTQ Youth

The American Library Association (ALA) has published its fourth annual Rainbow Bibliography, a list of recommended children’s and young adult books with significant LGBTQ content. The list is a yet another arrow in the quiver of those looking to support LGBTQ youth and children of LGBTQ parents—and I don’t need to tell you how important that is these days.

I have a lengthy interview with Lynn Evarts, chair of the Rainbow Project committee that selects the bibliography, in my Mombian newspaper column this week. You can read it over at Windy City Times, and it should appear in a few other papers over the next week or so. (I’ll crosspost it here after that.) She talks about the composition of this year’s Bibliography, some of her favorite books from it, and the special role of school librarians in supporting LGBTQ youth.

My interview with last year’s chair, Nel Ward, is here. Be sure to check out the full Rainbow Bibliography—for 2011 and years past—at the Rainbow Project Web site. Also see the ALA’s new 2011 Over the Rainbow list of LGBTQ titles for adults.