Books Banned for LGBTQ+ Content
33 books · 296 total challenges
All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson's #1 ALA 2024 banned book and memoir-manifesto became key in contemporary censorship conversations....
Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier's Stonewall Honor graphic novel has 57 documented bans....
Flamer
Mike Curato's Lambda Award-winning graphic novel ranked #5 ALA 2023 and #10 ALA 2024....
Lawn Boy
Jonathan Evison's Alex Award winner became a major political controversy and ban target....
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A novel about an aging Hollywood icon who finally tells the truth about her glamorous, scandal-filled life and the great...
This Book Is Gay
Juno Dawson's #3 ALA 2023 banned book is a sex education guide for LGBTQ+ teens being aggressively challenged....
Girls of Paper and Fire
A Malaysian-inspired fantasy about Lei, a girl chosen as one of the Demon King's Paper Girls, who falls in love with ano...
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon's YA novel about Madeline Whittier, a teenager with severe combined immunodeficiency who has never left her ...
The Song of Achilles
A retelling of Homer's Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus, exploring his love affair with Achilles from boyhood to ...
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Saenz's acclaimed YA novel about two boys discovering love became a beloved classic....
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram's debut YA novel about a gay Persian teen became an instant classic....
Define Normal
Julie Anne Peters' YA novel about a gay teen and his friendship became a groundbreaking work of representation....
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel's award-winning graphic memoir became a Tony Award-winning musical....
Heather Has Two Mommies
The pioneering 1989 picture book that first represented gay families to children became an instant ban target....
The Vanishing Half
A multigenerational saga about identical twin sisters from a small Southern Black community, one of whom secretly passes...
Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan's ALA-ranked YA novel about gay relationships was #10 ALA 2024....
Iron Widow
A sci-fi reimagining of Chinese history where Zetian, a girl from a patriarchal society, pilots giant mechs to fight ali...
Without Merit
Colleen Hoover's novel about Merit Voss, whose family keeps so many secrets that she decides to expose them all, only to...
Blackout
A YA anthology of six interconnected love stories set during a New York City blackout, all featuring Black teen characte...
The House in the Cerulean Sea
A cozy fantasy about Linus Baker, a caseworker for magical children, who is sent to a mysterious orphanage on an island ...
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth's novel about Cameron Post, a teenager in rural Montana sent to a conversion therapy camp after being ...
A Separate Peace
John Knowles' classic novel about the intense friendship between Gene and Phineas at a New England boarding school durin...
Ace of Spades
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's debut thriller about two Black students at an elite prep school who become targets of an anonymo...
Every Body Looking
A novel-in-verse about a Nigerian American college freshman navigating her mother's addiction, her father's strict expec...
Little and Lion
Brandy Colbert's novel about Suzette, a bisexual teen who returns home from boarding school to help her stepbrother Lion...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel about aging Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo, who finally reveals the truth about her glamorous an...
Beauty Queens
Libba Bray's satirical novel about teen beauty pageant contestants who survive a plane crash on a deserted island and mu...
Razorblade Tears
A crime thriller about two ex-convict fathers, one Black and one white, who team up to avenge the murders of their gay s...
A River of Royal Blood
A North African-inspired fantasy about a princess who must kill her older sister to claim the throne, but discovers a co...
Rural Voices
An anthology of stories, poems, and comics by YA authors set in rural America, featuring diverse characters including LG...
The Fascinators
A YA novel about three teen witches in the American South, one of whom is gay and navigating his first love while their ...
The Hand on the Wall
The conclusion of the Truly Devious trilogy, where Stevie Bell solves both a modern murder and a 1930s kidnapping at an ...
10 Things I Can See from Here
A YA novel about Maeve, a teen with severe anxiety who falls for a girl named Salix while spending the summer with her p...