Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection
Contact Mechanics' InstituteRecords connected to library challenges, censorship, public controversy, and the institutional question of whether children could encounter these books openly.
Lesléa Newman; illustrated by Diana Souza
A 1989 picture book about a child with two mothers, represented here through its In Other Words first-edition history and later public life.
Michael Willhoite
An early picture book about a child, his divorced parents, and his father's partner Frank.
Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell; illustrated by Henry Cole
A Simon & Schuster picture book based on two male chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo and the chick they helped hatch.
Sarah S. Brannen
A picture book about a same-sex wedding whose gentle family story became part of public library challenge history.
Nancy Garden
A young adult lesbian love story with a major public record in school-library access and censorship history.
The Advocate
A periodical record about gay fatherhood and family formation in late-1980s LGBTQ journalism.
The Advocate
A periodical issue documenting the brief California marriage-equality moment between the state Supreme Court decision and Proposition 8.