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Publishers Are Lamenting the Collapse of LGBTQ Children’s Books Right as Pride Month Begins

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Jon Del Arroz
Jun 01, 2026
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Pride Month starts today and Book Riot primed the sadness as their movement dwindles in cultural relevancy. They put out an article declaring that queer books and authors “are at a breaking point” and calls on readers to join the fight. What the article documents, stripped of its framing, is a market that rejected a product category being pushed on children and the industry now paying the price for that overreach.

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