LGBT Library

The LGBT Library at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center features more than 2,500 books, CDs and DVDs celebrating LGBTQ+ literature, history, community, and culture!
Check out our catalog on LibraryThing!

For specific requests or inquires, please contact [email protected].


Recognized by the Allentown Arts Commission with the 2018 Arts Ovation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literary Arts

Our collection includes:

  • fiction
  • poetry and plays
  • young adult books
  • books for children of LGBTQ+ families
  • biographies and memoirs
  • other non-fiction
  • CDs by LGBTQ+ artists
  • DVDs
  • documentaries

Community members are invited to borrow items from the library and LGBTQ+ authors are invited to donate copies of their books. Authors or publishers interested in donating a new book should mail a copy to: Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, ATTN: Library, 522 West Maple Street, Allentown, PA 18101.

Our library frequently hosts community book discussions and author visits at the center.

The Library at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center is proud to have hosted dozens of events with notable LGBTQ+ authors:

  • Peter Staley (Never Silent)
  • Anne Balay (Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Steelworkers)
  • Renee Bess (Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices from the Gay Bars)
  • Charles A. Bush (Every Variable of Us)
  • Robin Gow (A Million Quiet Revolutions)
  • Kay Haring (Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing)
  • Austen Hartke (Transforming: the Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians)
  • Patrick Horrigan (Pennsylvania Station)
  • A.S. King (I Crawl Through It)
  • Joy Ladin (The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective)
  • Jay Michaelson (God vs Gay: The Religious Case for Equality)
  • Dee Michel (Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love the Wizard of Oz)
  • David Pratt (Wallaçonia)
  • Cindy Rizzo (The Papercutter)
  • Rev. Brandan Robertson (Nomad)
  • Eric Rosswood (The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads)
  • Hugh Ryan (When Brooklyn Was Queer)
  • Mark Segal (And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality)
  • Vincent Stephens (Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnny Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music)
  • Rae Theodore (Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender)
  • Jason Whitesel (Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth & The Politics of Stigma)
  • Brian Zepka (The Temperature of Me and You)