Are You A Friend of Dorothy?
The True Story of an Imaginary Woman and the People she helped.
Written by Kyle Lukoff
Illustrated by Levi Hastings
Published by Simon & Schuster
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?
This picture book tells the story of how an imaginary woman and helped a community find connection and care amidst adversity.
“★ “Straightforwardly detailing how LGBTQ+ people have long found each other via verbal and visual cues, this approachable, engaging work is a primer on both queer history and how ‘learning about the ways we survived in the past could help people in the future.’””
“★ A venturesome, refreshingly frank reading for elementary-level audiences.”
