LGBTQ+ Plays and Musicals from Perpich Library

June 15, 2026

In celebration of Pride Month, the Perpich Library is proud to highlight some amazing LGBTQ+ plays and musicals. We have an extensive script collection at the Library, with many more LGBTQ+–themed plays for your perusal!

All items on this list are available at the Perpich library. Click on titles for more information.

1. Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to take his rightful place as leader of the school’s legendary gospel choir, but can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? Known for his unique brand of urban lyricism, Tarrell Alvin McCraney follows up his acclaimed trilogy “The Brother/Sister Plays” with this affecting portrait of a gay youth trying to find the courage to let the truth about himself be known.

2. Cissy: Three Gender Plays: Nelly Boy, My Funny Valentine, and Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls by Dave Deveau
A collection of three plays on gender and young LGBTQ+ folk by the acclaimed playwright Dave Deveau. In “Nelly Boy”, an unknown man sits in a nondescript room trying to discover how Nelly came to be running naked along the side of a six–lane highway. “My Funny Valentine” examines the 2008 murder of 14–year–old Lawrence Laetitia King who asked Brandon McInerney to be his valentine. “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” is the story of 9–year–old Fiona who comes out as a boy and wants to be called Fin.

3. Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat
Three kids – Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji – are all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America. With little adult supervision, they feed and care for each other, making up the rules as they go. But when Kenny’s and Benji’s relationship becomes more than friendship, and Edith shoots something she really shouldn’t shoot, the formerly indifferent outside world comes barging in whether they want it to or not.

4. Everybody’s Talking about Jamie by Tom MacRae, Dan Gillespie Sells, Jonathan Butterell
Sixteen–year–old Jamie New comes out and wears a dress to the school prom, with encouragement from his friends and his loving mother.

5. Fat Ham by James Ijames
Juicy – a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity – is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother’s wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder. How will Juicy, a sensitive and self–aware young Black man, trying to break a cycle of trauma and toxic masculinity, avenge his father’s premature death? “Fat Ham” reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South.

6. Fun Home music by Jeanine Tesori; book and lyrics by Lisa Kron; based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel
When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one–of–a–kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires. “Fun Home” is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown–up eyes.

7. Hir: A Play by Taylor Mac
Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Isaac’s father, who once ruled the family with an iron fist, has had a debilitating stroke; his younger sister, Maxine, is now his brother, Max; and their mother, Paige, is committed to revolution at any cost. Determined to be free of any responsibility toward her formerly abusive husband – or the home he created – Paige fervently believes she can lead the way to a “new world order”. “Hir”, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our so–called normative and progressive ideas about gender, families, the middle class – and cleaning – in hilarious and ultimately tragic disarray.

8. The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez
Inspired by E. M. Forster’s novel “Howards End”, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, “The Inheritance” wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation’s responsibilities may be to the next.

9. She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition by Qui Nguyen
A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role–playing games, in a new edition created specially for high school performing groups! “She Kills Monsters” tells the story of high schooler Agnes Evans as she deals with the death of her younger sister, Tilly. When Agnes stumbles upon Tilly’s “Dungeons & Dragons” notebook, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action–packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge.

Perpich Library also owns the version for adults.

10. A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
Usher is a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical. This blistering musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons – not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head – in an attempt to understand his own strange loop.

All items on this list are available at the Perpich Library.

Title descriptions are provided by Amazon and/or the publisher.