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Celebrate Pride With Queer Rainbow Book Stacks!

Danika Ellis

Associate Editor

Danika spends most of her time talking about queer women books at the Lesbrary. Blog: The Lesbrary Twitter: @DanikaEllis

I will admit: I love a rainbow. Rainbow arrangements of objects, rainbow flags, and sure, even the real thing. It’s a good thing I’m queer af, so I can happily array myself with rainbows without appropriation. So of course, combining rainbows with books is also going to be a success for me.

During Pride month, I love seeing all the Pride-themed rainbow stacks of books get posted. Pro tip, though: please don’t make rainbow stacks of cis/straight/allo books during Pride. This is a great opportunity to promote LGBTQIA+ authors, not the authors that get the spotlight the rest of the year. Luckily, I’ve already seen a ton of great ones, and I wanted to share them!

From the classic rainbow:

https://www.pageswithinme.com/post/145915691946/ft-only-yana-books-with-lgbtq-themes

To some snazzily accessorized versions:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVBMmn1FPg1/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BU96c_4DS7n/

There are stacks that reach for the ceiling:

And some like to spread out:

And, of course, the rainbow isn’t the only flag flown this month! Here’s a bi pride version!

https://b00kstorebabe.com/post/161318050180/happy-pride

Have you seen any rainbow Pride stacks that I missed? I hope to see more throughout the month! And to build my own. Happy queer reading!