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/
Books for Parents and Parents to Be:
Queer Conception: Kristin Liam Kali
Your Future Family, Kim Bergman
Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates, Diane Ehrensaft
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
Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings On Queer Parenting, Rachel Epstein
And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, And Our Unexpected Families, Goldberg And Brushwood
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:
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