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Related Books and Articles
- The Beautiful Ones, by Prince
- Books about Prince
- Books for teens about addiction and recovery
- Books for teens about healthy relationships
- LGBTQA+ YA book list
- The Sky is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (If you liked the style of characters writing back and forth in We Contain Multitudes, then this book is for you!)
Poems, Essays, and Short Writings
- Collection of LGBTQ Pride Poems Poetry Foundation
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman / The Walt Whitman Archive
- Song of Myself, Walt Whitman / Poetry Foundation
- We are large, we contain multitudes, essay by Julie Plummer
- We Contain Multitudes, essay by Chad Dickerson, co-founder of Etsy
Movies and Television Shows
- But I’m A Cheerleader!
- Camp
- Dead Poets Society
- In Search of Walt Whitman
- Love, Simon
- Mean Girls
- The Prom (So powerful. So fun. So gay.)
- Purple Rain
- Sex Education (Lots of great LGBTQ+ representation and truly good and thorough info if your own sex ed in school is lacking.)
- All the X-Men movies (No, really, think about it.)
