July is Disability Pride Month! Every year, we celebrate the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was passed in the summer of 1990. This month celebrates the resilience of people with disabilities, removes shame and embraces the joy of being disabled. There’s no one way to be disabled—just check out our stories!
Ever since my niece, Grace, was born, I’ve dreamed of sharing books with her, and now that she’s three years old, she’s discovering a whole new world of picture books with big ideas. In our family, Grace is surrounded by people with various disabilities. The people she loves think differently, move differently and learn differently.
July is Disability Pride Month, so today, I’m highlighting seven new books coming out in 2026 that are about queer people with disabilities. We have poetry, romance, fantasy, memoir and essays to choose from. This is not a complete list, but it is a place to start. This is one aspect of queer book publishing
We’ve put together a list of runs that celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community. Find one near you. Throughout June, hundreds of Pride runs like this one take place in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Courtesy of Portland Pride Run) Updated June 4, 2026 04:00 PM Greenwich Village, June 1969: Law enforcement raids a bar called Gay Bar Stonewall
Every Pride month, I try to pack my reading list with as many LGBTQ+ books as possible. Not that I don’t read a lot of weird books the rest of the year, but I always love an excuse to read some themed books. There are countless LGBTQ+ historical fiction books I could recommend — and
It’s Pride month, and you know what that means: It’s the perfect excuse to buy a bunch of new quirky books. To get you started, I’ve highlighted seven weird books that check out the 2026 Read Harder Challenge tasks, including a non-fiction book about the resistance, a recent Gothic novel, a fabulist book, a book