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Queer and Fearless: Poems Celebrating the Lives of LGBTQ+ Heroes
Rob Sanders
Illustrator: Harry Woodgate
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-52369-8
Keywords: Biography/Memoir-courageous, trailblazers, personal pronouns, sexual labels, gender labels, equal protection, nonviolence, marriage, protests, debates
Seventeen LGBTQ+ activists and politicians, from Harvey Milk to Pete Buttigieg, are introduced through poems, biographical sidebars, and colorful, painterly, evocative illustrations. Back matter. Poetic styles explained.