Are you a friend of Dorothy? the true story of an imaginary woman and the real people she helped
"“Are you a friend of Dorothy?" In a time when the LGBTQ+ community was forced to hide in the shadows, a woman named Dorothy helped her people find each other in the dark and celebrate themselves in the light. But who was Dorothy? Was she from the neighborhood, someone's wife, mother, or sister? Was...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "“Are you a friend of Dorothy?" In a time when the LGBTQ+ community was forced to hide in the shadows, a woman named Dorothy helped her people find each other in the dark and celebrate themselves in the light. But who was Dorothy? Was she from the neighborhood, someone's wife, mother, or sister? Was she that clever writer, who threw parties where there were no rules about who you could and couldn't dance with? Or was she a girl from Kansas, who dreamed of leaving her black-and-white, small-town life and finding a vibrant, colorful world that loved her?"-- "A narrative explanation of the phrase 'friend of Dorothy,' a phrase coined by the LGBTQ+ community in the United States starting in the 1940s"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 4 - 8 Grades K-1 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781665931663 1665931663 |
| Author Notes: | Levi Hastings is the illustrator of Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg by Rob Sanders, Are You a Friend of Dorothy? by Kyle Lukoff, and The Spirit of Springer by Amanda Abler, about which The New York Times raved, "This beautiful book tells a suspenseful, heartrending true story." Levi lives in Seattle with his husband. Learn more at LeviHastings.com. |
