2010 GLBT Mini-Challenge: Why This Challenge?

I'm participating in the GLBT 2010 Challenge this year.  The first mini-challenge is to write a post about why this challenge is important to you.

This challenge is important to me because all librarians everywhere need to be familiar with literature about all oppressed minorities.  (It is not too lofty a goal.)

This challenge is important to me because my husband is a surrogate father to two beautiful girls whose mothers are lesbians.  I want to stay current about what books to recommend to them as they grow up.

This challenge is important to me because I'm a bisexual woman in a marriage to a straight man, and it's easy to marginalize this part of my identity.  By intentionally reading books about GLBT characters, I'm renewing and strengthening my connection to the GLBT community.

2010 Challenges: GLBT Challenge

Here's challenge #2 for 2010, and it's only January 1!

GLBT Reading: GLBT Challenge 2010

My goal is to read picture books and middle grade books, which will be shorter but will keep me aimed at my target audience. I can easily get off track when I see a beautiful stack of teen/ya novels on my to-read shelf...

Here are the books I have read so far.  I'm trying to hunt down some more picture books before moving on to middle grade, and I have a few I haven't yet read.  

1. And Tango Makes Three - Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson
2. In Our Mothers' House - Patricia Polacco
3. King & King - Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland
4. Everywhere Babies - Susan Meyers
5. Mini Mia and her Darling Uncle - Pija Lindenbaum
6. Oliver Button is a Sissy - Tomie de Paola
7. William's Doll - Charlotte Zolotow