”Pride Month brings together the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to celebrate and remember those who have fought for equality and the freedom to live authentically. While this is a time for festivities and celebration, Pride Month this year takes place against the backdrop of an unprecedented rise in attempts to ban books in schools and libraries across the country—bans that overwhelmingly target books with LGBTQ+ themes and characters.”  New York Public Library Staff

Saratoga Pride invites you to join us as we read from our favorite LGBTQIA+ banned books on Sunday, June 2, 1-3 pm at the Frederick Allen Elks Lodge and the Mary A. Carter Temple at 69 Beekman Street, Saratoga Springs. This is a FREE event and open to the public and all ages. Refreshments will be served.

Those interested in sharing a reading may contact Mason Stokes at: MStokes@Skidmore.edu

2023 Most Banned LGBTQ+ Books

• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
  All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, by Goerge M Johnson
  Flamer by Mike Curato
  Looking for Alaska by John Green
  The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
  This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

Sponsored by Saratoga Pride, The Pride Center of the Capital Region, Frederick Allen Lodge #609 & Mary A. Carter Temple #362, and Our Lodge Foundation.