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The start of 2025 has seen a wide range of terrific new middle grade books starring transgender and nonbinary youth, in contemporary settings, a near-future community on Mars, and fantastical worlds of excitement and wonder.

For Darra Gordon, her new role as CEO of Family Equality, the national organization for LGBTQ+ families, is "more of a calling than a choice."

LGBTQ+-inclusive content for kids, including performances, books, curricula, and more, has come under ever-increasing attack, bolstered in recent months by the federal government–but people are speaking out and fighting back.

Book bans are continuing to target LGBTQ-inclusive children's and young adult books...

The frequency and vitriol of anti-transgender and other anti-LGBTQ executive orders in the past few weeks have been horrifying.

In our current era, reading can be an act of resistance. Five brand-new LGBTQ-inclusive picture books out this month celebrate families and people diverse in many ways–a simple goal, but one with powerful repercussions.

As I write this column, we are just a few weeks away from arguably the most actively and intentionally anti-LGBTQ federal administration ever.

The past year has not played out the way most of us in the LGBTQ community would have wanted, with another Trump presidency looming and anti-LGBTQ legislation moving ahead in many places.

Moving tales of self-growth and finding family, epic adventures of magic and mystery, sweet stories of friendships and crushes, and combinations of the above: the LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade novels of 2024 are a wide-ranging lot. Here are some favorites.

The LGBTQ-inclusive picture books published in 2024 have been exuberant, affirming, and informative. Here are some that stand out.