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Hello friends! Hope you’re “springing” into May with hope and blooms of good cheer! For some of us, whose thoughts turn towards warm sand and ocean breezes instead of flowering meadows, May also signifies a swimmingly good time- MerMay! During MerMay, artists, professional merfolk, and people who just love seafaring fantasy create and post content about merpeople. After seeing some books featuring transgender merfolk on some reading lists during the Trans Rights Read-A-Thon, we were inspired to start a similar event- the MerMay LGBTQ+ Read-A-Thon! So here’s how it works: Over the course of the month of May, we are going to be reading books with LGBTQ+ characters that also feature merpeople. For every book we finish, we are going to donate $5 to Mermaids UK ! Mermaids UK: “Mermaids has been supporting transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse children, young people,  and their families since 1995…Today, Mermaids has evolved into one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ charities, empowering ...

Hello friends, and welcome to  National Reading Month ! March also contains World Poetry Day and Trans Day of Visibility . Sounds like a great convergence of events to celebrate some queer books, don't you agree? DISCLAIMER: We at Virtual Queer Library do not endorse the individual views or actions presented within the books available here. We do, however, believe in learning and growing through literature. We appreciate you being on this journey with us. Our virtual catalogue of books is now live and can be viewed Here . This list and spreadsheet are a work in progress, so a few important notes: ❤ Not all the books have trigger warnings added! It does not mean that there are no triggers in the book. Please read with caution. We will be updating this continuously. ❤ Books that have explicit content are marked as Mature. Having frank, age-appropriate content about the human body is not Mature. The existence of trans bodies is not Mature. Discussion of gender affirming tools such a...

 Hello everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Queer Library! We are a small organization dedicated to making sure LGBTQ+ stories- real and fictional- are always told, and accessible to all. The Virtual Queer Library (VQ Library) is a private collection of books centering LGBTQ+ stories and history. By filling out our Google Form request, a person anywhere in the United States or Canada can have one of our books mailed to them free of charge. The book will also come with a pre-paid return envelope for the reader to return the book when they are finished with it. On this site, you can look through the list of books that we have and also find the link to the Google form that you must fill out to request a book. Note- Because the entire point of this endeavor is to reduce barriers to accessing LGBTQ+ books, we will never charge money for shipping or return postage. That means that as of now, we are paying for this ourselves. We're hoping to apply for grant funding in the near future, but...