Chandler Public Library – Downtown
22 S Delaware, Downtown Chandler
Grab & Go: Trans Day of Visibility
March 31, 2021
9 am – 7 pm
March 31 is International Day of Trans Visibility. It aims to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans
people around the globe. To recognize the contributions and lived experiences of trans and non-binary
people, check out the Downtown Branch’s display of library materials. There will also be fun items to take
while supplies last.
Grab & Go: Show Your Pride
June 28, 2021
9 am – 7 pm
June 28, 1969 was the beginning of an event known as the Stonewall Uprising, a series of spontaneous
demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community in New York City. In the decades following
Stonewall, June has become a month of events and parades commemorating Stonewall and
acknowledging the LGBTQ+ community’s accomplishments. This Grab & Go has the materials to make a
rainbow pennant banner based on the Philadelphia 2017 8 stripe flag. It will also contain an enamel pin.
Limited quantities, available while supplies last. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of
Museum and Library Services.
Chandler Public Library – Online
Read the Rainbow – Teen Books
March 24
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Online – Register at chandlerlibrary.org
Join Chandler Public Library’s new book club focused on books by, for, and about the LGBTQ+
community. Each month will feature a librarian curated selection of titles based on a theme, genre, or
collection. Pick a title from the monthly list and arrive ready to rate your title on a scale from 1 to 5 stars
and discuss what you liked and didn’t like about it.
This month we will be reading: TEEN / YOUNG ADULT
Pick ONE title from the list below. All titles are available from Chandler Public Library.
● Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
● The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
● Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
● I Wish You the Best by Mason Deaver
● Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
● Odd One Out by Nic Stone
● Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Read the Rainbow – Picture Books
April 28
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Online – Register at chandlerlibrary.org
Join Chandler Public Library’s new book club focused on books by, for, and about the LGBTQ+
community. Each month will feature a librarian curated selection of titles based on a theme, genre, or
collection. Pick a title from the monthly list and arrive ready to rate your title on a scale from 1 to 5 stars
and discuss what you liked and didn’t like about it.
This month we will be reading: PICTURE BOOKS
Pick ONE title from the list below. All titles are available from Chandler Public Library..
● A Plan for Pops by Heather Smith
● Boy and the Bindi by Vivek Shraya
● It Feels Good to Be Yourself: a book about gender identity by Theresa Thorn
● Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
● Maid and Maiden by Daniel Haack
● Pride: the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
● Red: a crayon story by Michael Hall
● When Aidan became a brother by Kyle Lukoff
Read the Rainbow – In the Shadow of the Expressway
May 26, 2021
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Onlline – Register at chandlerlibrary.org
Join Chandler Public Library’s book club focused on books by, for, and about the LGBTQ+ community.
This month we will all be reading Lydia R. Otero’s In The Shadows of the Freeway: Growing up Brown
and Queer.
Born in 1955, Lydia R. Otero knew they were queer the moment their consciousness had evolved enough
to formulate thoughts. Nicknamed La Butch by their family, Otero shares a unique perspective: displaced
by their queerness, but rooted in place through their relationship with Tucson, Arizona. In this book, which
combines personal memoir and the historical archive, Otero takes readers to a world that existed on the
physical and social margins and describes how a new freeway created a barrier that greatly influenced
formative aspects of Otero’s childhood. The author examines the multiple effects of environmental racism,
while the lack of services and low expectations of the schools Otero attended are further examples of the
discrimination directed at brown people. This book offers more self-disclosure than Otero’s previous
works, as the author’s memories and experiences of childhood take center stage. Otero reveals the
day-to-day survival mechanisms they depended upon, the exhilaration of first love, and the support they
received from key family members.
We welcome James Burns, Executive Director of the Arizona Historical Society, who will lead the
book discussion.
Graphic Novel Book Club – Fun Home
June 16, 2021
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Online – Register at chandlerlibrary.org
Do you love comics, graphic novels, and sequential art? Join us for our new Graphic Novel Book Club!
This month we will be reading and discussing Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. In this
Eisner and Stonewall Award winning work (which was adapted into an award-winning Broadway Musical),
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and
exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and
her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as
a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving
a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
Read the Rainbow – Biographies and Memoirs
June 23, 2021
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Online – Register at chandlerlibrary.org
Join Chandler Public Library’s new book club focused on books by, for, and about the LGBTQ+
community. Each month will feature a librarian curated selection of titles based on a theme, genre, or
collection. Pick a title from the monthly list and arrive ready to rate your title on a scale from 1 to 5 stars
and discuss what you liked and didn’t like about it.
This month we will be reading: BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS. All titles are available at Chandler Public
Library
Pick ONE title from the list below.
● Confess: the autobiography by Rob Halford
● Officer Clemmons: a memoir by Francois Clemmons
● One Life by Megan Rapinoe
● Over the Top: a raw journey to self-love by Jonathan Van Ness
● Shortest way home: one mayor’s challenge and a model for America’s future by Pete Buttigieg
● The Velvet Mafia: the gay men who ran the swinging sixties by Darryl W Bullock
