LGBTQ+ Resources

Life as a Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi: After coming out by admitting their crush on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone at the age of 11, Amrou Al-Kadhi (also known as the drag queen Glamrou) embarks on an often hilariously recounted lifetime of coming to terms with their non-binary gender identity within the context of their Islamic faith.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Alice Walker won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction for this epistolary novel in 1983. To this day, this heartbreakingly beautiful story is the only Pulitzer-winning title written by a woman featuring a lesbian protagonist.

A memoir of hope, faith, and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Canada as a refugee, before escaping an arranged marriage at sixteen. When she realized she was queer, it was yet another way she felt like an outsider.

Much of society's thinking operates in a highly rigid and binary manner; something is good or bad, right or wrong, a success or a failure, and so on. Challenging this limited way of thinking, this ground-breaking book looks at how non-binary methods of thought can be applied to all aspects of life, and offer new and greater ways of understanding ourselves and how we relate to others.