The 2021 LGBTQ Pride Month Treasure Hunt is over. Check back next year.

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2021 LGBTQ Pride Month Treasure Hunt

It's June, and our annual Pride Month Hunt has returned!

We've let loose a shower of rainbows around the site. You'll solve the clues below to find the rainbows and gather them all together.

  • Decipher the clues below and visit the corresponding LibraryThing pages to find a rainbow. Each clue points to a specific page right here on LibraryThing. Remember, they are not necessarily work pages!
  • If there's a rainbow on a page, you'll see a banner at the top of the page.
  • You have just over one week to find all the rainbows (until 4pm EDT, Thursday June 24th).
  • Come brag about your shower of rainbows (and get hints) on Talk.

Win prizes:

  • Any member who finds at least one rainbow will be awarded a rainbow badge Badge: .
  • Members who find all 12 rainbows will be entered into a drawing for one of five LibraryThing (or TinyCat) coaster sets and stickers. We'll announce winners at the end of the hunt.

P.S. Thanks to conceptDawg for the cock-of-the-rock illustration! According to Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl, male cock-of-the-rock "delight in homosexuality."
ConceptDawg has made all of our treasure hunt graphics in the last couple of years. We like them, and hope you do, too!

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Arc en ciel1

A celebrated writer of the ancient world,
Among the Melic poets she was the only girl.
A devotee of Aphrodite, with her sacred dove,
Her name is given to a certain kind of love.

/author/sappho

Arc en ciel2

For 1622, a most unusual Italian play,
Whose author was a famous actor in his day.
Florinda's love of Lidia was, for its time, a fluke,
Not born of deception, not met with rebuke.

/work/10013625

Arc en ciel3

Poet, playwright, wit and beau,
A man of many faces, oft for show.
Brightest star, prosecuted and brought low,
Fame and fortune were no shield against the blow.

/author/wildeoscar

Arc en ciel4

These first saw light in 1971,
A groundbreaking award whose day had come.
Although it had a different name and origin to start,
It has since been taken to the ALA's heart.

/bookaward/ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

Arc en ciel5

Magical adventure, in a cerulean sea,
An island of orphans where our hero must be.
Sent to watch and to judge by those up above,
He's surprised when instead he finds family and love.

/work/23695725

Arc en ciel6

A hero who was killed before his time,
A pioneer unafraid of stepping out of line.
The books on him would surely fill a shelf,
But here you'll discover what he said himself.

/work/10580802

Arc en ciel7

A fairy-tale as old as time,
Bright pictures and a text in rhyme,
There is no princess that this prince would woo,
But rather, a noble knight - both brave and true.

/work/21788824

Arc en ciel8

What page this is, I think I know,
It's where our members' tags do show.
And though they are not all the same,
We group them there, beneath one name.

/tag/LGBTQ%252B

Arc en ciel9

A boy, some mermaids, a meeting on a train,
The boy then plays a magic dress-up game.
He is still himself, his abuela knows,
Whatever gender, whatever clothes.

/work/20906914

Arc en ciel10

Thirty-three years old and going strong,
The second major LGBT award to come along.
Genres, voices - a diverse array,
Twenty-two prizes to be given away.

/bookaward/Lambda Literary Award

Arc en ciel11

An academic work that looks at the border,
An idea deconstructed, and taken out of order.
English and Spanish, poetry and prose,
A Mestiza identity that the author knows.

/work/27066

Arc en ciel12

Slavery and love - two poles in opposition,
Isaiah and Samuel know their terrible position.
Not free to love, not free to be,
Their secret bond leads to tragedy.

/work/24535875