Pride Month is Coming: Are Your Ready via Book Riot

Celebrating Pride in 2025 is nonnegotiable (see below if you think you can't do anything at your library), but there are better ways than others to celebrate in June. Kelly Jensen over at Book Riot has you covered with an extensive article filled with best practices and tips in: How to Prepare for Pride Month in Libraries in 2025.

The article is filled with information, links, and real world advice, even for libraries who cannot participate without getting in trouble. Click through to read the entire piece, but to give you a sense of what to expect, it is organized into the following 7 main points:

1. Take photos of your display and/or track the books being put on it 

2. Use QR Codes/Images of Book Covers for Displays 

3. Encourage Engagement 

4. Track Your Stats 

5. Be Frank About Intellectual Freedom and the Library 

6. Be Prepared for a Challenge — and Be Transparent About Patron Rights  

7. Do No Display At All and Explain Why

Click through to read it all for free.

That number 7 is the one for all of you who think you cannot do anything. Again, it is nonnegoiatble that you do something, and sometimes doing nothing and making it clear as to why you are doing nothing is in actuality, something. Jensen explains it very well.

The article also has links to past pieces she has written about Pride; they are all worth a look. You can also see this post from 2023 by me as well.

Please do something this June. Your community-- every single person-- needs to see LGBTQ representation loudly and proudly all year long, but especially during June.