Celebrating Pride Month

Photo: Note Pride month over a rainbow lgtbt flag by Marco Verch under Creative Commons 2.0 It’s Pride Month and we highly recommend all library workers who are interested to get involved with ALIA Rainbow, a new special interest group dedicated to facilitating networking, support, professional development and resources for LGBTQIA+ library people and allies. Check out their details and join their eList . At ALIA Graphic we’re celebrating Pride Month in a couple of ways.  Of course, we have our Pride themed Graphic Novel Club this month, on Thursday June 23 at 8pm AEST, where we’ll be discussing three excellent graphic novels with LGBTQIA+ themes. Check out the details and how to join our online graphic novel club here . We also wanted to recommend graphic novels by LGBTQIA+ creators, as we believe graphic novels are fantastic vehicles for representation and recognition. So here’s a list of some of our favourites and some recent releases for Pride Month. Bloom (First Second) by Kevin Panetta, Savanna Ganucheau Fence (Boom!) by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad Fun Home (Mariner Books) by Alison Bechdel Gender Queer (Oni Press) by Maia Kobabe Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Arsenal Pulp Press) by Julie Maroh Given (SubLime Manga) by Natsuki Kizu The Greatest Thing (Allen & Unwin) by Sara W. Searle [Australian creator] The Girl From the Sea (Scholastic) by Molly Knox Ostertag Heartstopper (Hodder and Stoughton) by Alice Oseman Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (First Second) by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero O'Connell Magical Boy (Graphix) by The Kao The Magic Fish (Random House) by Trung Le Nguyen  Mooncakes (Lion Forge) by Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu, Joamette Gil My Brother's Husband (Pantheon Books) by Gengoroh Tagame Nimona (HarperCollins) by ND Stevenson Our Dining Table (Seven Seas) by Mita Ori Patience & Esther (Iron Circus) by Sarah W. Searle [Australian creator] The Prince and the Dressmaker (First Second) by Jen Wang A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities (Limerence Press) by Mady G, J.R. Zuckerberg Slip (Algonquin) by Marika McCoola, Aatmaja Pandya Spinning (First Second) by Tillie Walden Stars in Their Eyes (Fremantle Press) by Jessica Walton, Aśka [Australian creators] Stone Fruit (Fantagraphics) by Lee Lai [Australian creator] The Tea Dragon Society (Oni Press) by Kay O'Neill To Strip the Flesh (Viz Media) by Oto Toda A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow (Viz Media) by Makoto Hagino - final volume, #9,out in July Welcome to St Hell (Scholastic) by Lewis Hancox Witchy (Lion Forge) by Ariel Slamet Ries [Australian creator] Young Men in Love : A Queer Romance Anthology (A Wave Blue World) edited by Joe Glass and Matt Miner You Brought Me the Ocean (DC) by Alex Sanchez, Julie Maroh Runaways (Marvel) by Brian K Vaughan, Adrian Alphona / Rainbow Rowell, Kris Anka The Wicked + the Divine (Image) by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie