Resources

A Key Resource: The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project's Resource Database is a comprehensive collection of educational materials, tools, and support services designed to assist LGBTQIA+ individuals, their families, educators, and allies. See more information below.
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Articles about Discrimination & Minority Stress:

Tools for Handling Discrimination & Minority Stress:

  • Shutting Down Microaggressions: A beautiful article by The American Psychological Association (APA) that details ways in which bystanders and people experiencing microaggressions can intervene.
  • How to Combat Microaggressions: A podcast discussion with Dr. Derald Wing Sue by the APA about what microaggressions are, why they are harmful, and ways to disarm them.

For Minoritized Youth: 

For Parents of Minoritized Youth: 

Books for Diverse Youth and Young Adults:

  • Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, MD [Anti-Racism]
  • White Fragility by Robin Diangelo [Anti-Racism]
  • Salvation by bell hooks [Anti-Racism]
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [Anti-Racism]
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates [Anti-Racism]
  • The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault [LGBTQ+]
  • The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World by Alan Downs [LGBTQ+]
  • Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin [Fiction][LGBTQ+]
  • Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston [Fiction][LGBTQ+]
  • Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman [Fiction][LGBTQ+]
  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes [Fiction][LGBTQ+]
  • Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele [LGBTQ+]
  • The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor [Disability]
  • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong [Disability]
  • Communion by bell hooks [Gender]
  • The Will to Change by bell hooks [Gender]
  • All About Love by bell hooks

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Heroes and Pop Cultural Icons for Diverse Youth:

  • Affirming Artists, TV, and Other Media:
    • Chappell Roan, LGBTQ+ Grammy-nominated Singer
    • Troye Sivan, LGBTQ+ Grammy-nominated Singer
    • Frank Ocean, Black LGBTQ+ Grammy-nominated Singer
    • Doechii, Black LGBTQ+ Grammy-nominated Rapper
    • Billie Eilish, LGBTQ+ Grammy-nominated Singer
    • Heartstopper, LGBTQ+ TV Show
    • Pose, Black LGBTQ+ TV Show

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