Below are books and support groups that queer parents have found helpful during TTC, pregnancy and the parenting experience. It is by no means a perfect list.
Online Support for Queer Conception, Fertility and Family Building
Maia Midwifery
https://maiamidwifery.com/
PSI Queer & Trans Parent Support Group
https://www.postpartum.net/get-help/psi-online-support-meetings/
Our Family Coalition
Groups for LGBTQ+ Expectant Parents and Trans & Gender NonConforming Parent Support
https://ourfamily.org/family-support/
COLAGE
https://colage.org/resources
Books for Parents and Parents to Be:
Queer Conception: Kristin Liam Kali
Your Future Family, Kim Bergman
BabyMaking for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents, Marea Goodman
Modern Families, Susan Golombok
What’s in a Name: Perspectives from Nonbiological and Nongestational Queer Mothers, Sherri Martin Baron, Raechel Johns, Emily Regan Wills
Rainbow Relatives: Real Stories And Advice On How To Talk To Kids About LGBTQ Plus Families And Friends, Saudi Karatas
And Baby Makes More: Known Donor, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families, Susan Goldberg and Chloe Brushwood Rose
Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents, Sadie Epstein Fine and Makeda Zook
Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings On Queer Parenting, Rachel Epstein
She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir Of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood, Annie Klempnauer Miller
Confessions Of The Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All, Harlan Alzley
Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions Of A Gay Dad, Dan Bucatinsky
Stuck In The Middle With You, Jennifer Finney Boylan
Where’s The Mother? Stories From A Transgender Dad, Trevor Macdonald
Queer Families Photography Books:
The Kids: Children of LGBTQ Parents, Gabriela Herman
Love Makes A Family: Portraits Of Lesbian Gay Bisexual And Transgender Parents And Their Families, Gigi Kaeser And Peggy Gillespie
Dads, Bart Heynen
Books To Read To Young Children:
Happy Together: A Two-Mom Sperm Donation Story, Julie Marie
Happy Together: A Two-Dad Egg Donation And Surrogacy Story, Julie Marie
Mommy, Mama And Me, Leslea Newman
Daddy, Papa And Me, Leslea Newman
Zak’s Safari, Christy Tyner
What Makes A Baby, Cory Silverberg
The Family Book, Todd Parr
Love Makes A Family, Sophie Beer
Books For Adolescent Children:
Families Like Mine: Children Of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, Abigail Garner
My Two Moms, Zach Wahls
Raised By Unicorns: Stories From People With LGBTQ+ Parents, Frank Lowe