Are You a Friend of Dorothy?

The True Story of an Imaginary Woman and the Real People She Helped

By: Kyle Lukoff, Levi Hastings (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 8 May 2025

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Hardcover
40 Pages

Age
4 - 8

Grade
P - 3

Dimensions(cm)
27.94 x 21.59 x 1.02

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Two starred reviews!

From Newbery Honor and Stonewall Book Award–winning author Kyle Lukoff and celebrated picture book illustrator Levi Hastings comes an “venturesome, refreshingly frank” (Booklist, starred review) picture book about how people found community in a time when they had to keep their true selves secret.

“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?

Dorothy might have been all these things—because Dorothy, as known by the post-WWII queer community, wasn’t real. Still, she helped a community find connection and care amidst adversity.

Industry Reviews

★ "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.'"

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