Celebrate the Rainbow with Gifts for Pride Month!

By Kat La Mantia | April 23 2025 | AdultsChildren'sGeneralAllPop CultureBlog

Celebrate queer love, identities, and history in June with books and gifts perfect for Pride Month!

Highlight queer culture and icons with books like The Art of Drag, The Queer Film Guide and Friends of Dorothy, or feature real-life queer love stories with feel-good books like LOVE: The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality, Queer Love in Color, and Hick. Honor LGBTQ+ history with Queer Happened Here, Marsha, and What Was Stonewall?, or add a unique gift to accent any colorful Pride display with titles like Pride playing cards, Out of Print’s Rainbow Readers Tote Bag, and Category Is: Cocktails!

Explore our favorite picks for Pride Month down below, and build an assort that’s as joyful and diverse as the LGBTQ+ rainbow!

Gift & Non-fiction
Out of Print

Children’s
Teen & YA
Trending & Bestselling Fiction

The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
9780593185667
Black trans luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQ+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy.
$30.00 US
May 20, 2025
6 x 9
Hardcover
320 Pages
Tiny Reparations Books

A Story Inspired by the Life and Activism of Marsha P. Johnson
9780593525371
You can sparkle, shimmer, shine – just like Marsha did.This vibrant and joyful picture book celebrates the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman and activist who played an instrumental role during the Stonewall Riots that lead to PRIDE month, written by award-winning filmmaker and artist Tourmaline.
$18.99 US
May 20, 2025
8-1/2 x 11
Hardcover
40 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Age 4-8 years

100 Years of NYC's Landmark LGBTQ+ Places
9783791380414
This sprawling, unique visual history of New York City’s queer spaces documents the evolution of LGBTQ+ culture, community, and activism within Manhattan’s dynamic landscape over the course of a century, spanning from 1920 to 2020.
$50.00 US
Apr 29, 2025
8-1/4 x 10-1/2
Hardcover
304 Pages
Prestel

9780241743508
Learn about Pride, its history, and the importance of celebrating all year long.
$19.99 US
Apr 08, 2025
7-11/16 x 10-1/16
Hardcover
64 Pages
DK Children
Age 5-9 years

Icons of the LGBTQIA+ Community
9781923049109
A celebration of queer trailblazers!
$14.95 US
May 07, 2024
5-1/8 x 7-2/3
Hardcover
108 Pages
Smith Street Books

9780593807859
This nonfiction Little Golden Book is a beautifully illustrated reminder to be proud of who you are. Each page of this introduction to the history of Pride and the rainbow flag features scenes of diverse people, couples, and families celebrating one another.
$5.99 US
Mar 04, 2025
6-5/8 x 8
Hardcover
24 Pages
Golden Books
Age 2-5 years

9781838749767
Take a peek into the cultural phenomenon that is Drag, in this lusciously illustrated guide to the history of the phenomenon, from ancient theatre to the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
$21.99 US
May 20, 2025
10-5/8 x 9
Paperback
136 Pages
Flying Eye Books
Age 16 and up

9780593473443
A new coloring book from the immensely popular drag queens and New York Times bestselling authors of Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood and Working Girls.
$18.00 US
Aug 22, 2023
7-3/8 x 9-1/8
Paperback
96 Pages
Plume

Mixed Drinks Inspired by Legendary Drag Performers
9783791389806
Slip on your best heels, beat your face for the gods, and get ready to toast sixty iconic drag queens, kings, and nonbinary performers with cocktails and zero-proof drinks made in their honor.
$16.99 US
Mar 26, 2024
6 x 7-1/3
Hardcover
144 Pages
Prestel

An LGBTQIA+ (and Friends!) Travel Guide to More Than 100 Destinations Around the World
9781426223501
This first-of-its-kind travel guide explores inclusive destinations around the world where LGBTQIA travelers and their allies can have an uncensored and memorable vacation experience.
$30.00 US
May 07, 2024
7-1/8 x 9-1/8
Hardcover
304 Pages
National Geographic

9781524792787
Learn about one of the most influential leaders in the fight for gay rights.
$6.99 US
May 19, 2020
5-5/16 x 7-5/8
Paperback
112 Pages
Penguin Workshop
Age 8-12 years

Icons of the LGBTQ+ Community
9781922417800
This deck celebrates the LGBTQ+ community’s most iconic sisters, brothers and gender nonconforming friends. 
$14.95 US
May 31, 2022
2-1/2 x 3-1/7
Other Formats
54 Pages
Smith Street Gift

9780593749654
Read with Pride adult socksRead with Pride, today and every day! Product DetailsUnisex socks75% cotton, 20% polyester, 5% spandexSize & FitSmall: Shoe Sizes: 5.5-9/Sock: 9-11Large: Shoe Sizes: 8.5-12/Sock: 10-13
$12.50 US
Oct 20, 2021
4-9/16 x 9-4/5
Merchandise
Out of Print


Poems and Fragments
9780140455571
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry—among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance—that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
$15.00 US
Oct 27, 2009
Paperback
160 Pages
Penguin Classics

Giovanni's Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain
9780593688120
A box set of James Baldwin's principal novels, featuring Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk.
$51.00 US
Jun 18, 2024
Boxed Set
Vintage

Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
9781524761486
Now in paperback, a "vital and powerful new memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender equality movement, written by the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign
$19.00 US
Mar 05, 2019
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
304 Pages
Crown

A Memoir
9780593448786
AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK · ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023: Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, BookPage · ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: Electric Lit, Autostraddle, BookRiot, SheReads, WBUR, them, Bay Area Reporter, Lambda Literary, Write or Die Magazine“A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart.” —GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and inspiration from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir, now in paperback.
$20.00 US
Feb 06, 2024
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
336 Pages
Dial Press Trade Paperback

9780593540473
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel to the Thurber Prize-winning novel The Guncle, in which Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties… this time for a big family wedding in Italy.
$19.00 US
May 20, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
352 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons

A Novel
9798892420341
“Heartfelt.”—The New York TimesHit the dance floor with a coven of queer witches on 1980s Fire Island in this gay fantasy romance about finding magic, love, and family in the face of tragedy.A heartwarming LGBTQ+ novel for fans of steamy romance, loathe-at-first-sight, and Red, White, and Royal Blue.This paperback edition will have sprayed teal edges and foil on the cover!
$19.99 US
May 06, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
352 Pages
Alcove Press