Queer Librarianship

• ALA’s Rainbow Round Table
  • Open to All Toolkit
  • Stonewall Book Awards
• Drag Story Hour Planning & Safety Guide
• Free For All: New Yorkers for Intellectual Freedom
• Freedom to Read Foundation
• LGBTQ+ Archives and Libraries
• Lambda Legal 
• Lambda Literary Awards
• LGBTQ Initiative from NYPL
• LGBTQ+ Web Archives from LOC
• LibGuide: Resources for Long Island Unhoused LGBTQIA+ Teens: Home
• NYLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee
  • NYLA Legal Defense Fund: The purpose of this fund is to assist libraries on legal matters that have statewide implications for the library community. If interested in submitting a request for fiscal support, please send a letter via email to NYLA’s Executive Director- director@nyla.org
• Pronoun Practice from Minus18
• Queer Liberation Library

 

Long Island LGBTQIA+ Organizations

• LGBTQIA+ Centers via Stony Brook Medicine
  • The Edie Windsor Center (English)
  • The Edie Windsor Center (Spanish)
• LGBT Network
  • LGBT Mental Health Services
• Long Island LGBTQ+ Resources & Terms from the Patchogue Medford Library
• Pride for Youth via Long Island Crisis Center
• The Transgender Resource Center
• PFLAG Long Island
• Glaad’s LGBTQ Resource List
• The Trevor Project
• The Center NYC

Presentation Slides

• LILPA: Pride & Programming
• The Banned Librarians: LILC 2024
• Sports Belong to Everyone
  • Find the recording of this presentation on LILRC’s website
• LILPA: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Families
• LILPA: Show the Rainbow
• Queeriosity
• The Banned Librarians: NYLA 2024
• Libraries Are For Everyone: Supporting Rainbow Families YSS 2025

Support Groups

Suffolk County

• Friday Night Out (Ages 13-18)
• LITE (Long Island Trans Experience)  (18+) *
• TAG (Talking About Gender) (Ages 13-19) *
• Parents of Transgender & Gender Diverse Children *

 

* If a group has an asterisk, county residence does not matter.