Hal has written educator and reader guides for several LGBT children’s and YA titles. You can find them here:
Discussion Guide for Too Bright To See by Kyle Lukoff
Teacher Guide to If You’re A Kid Like Gavin by Kyle Lukoff and Gavin Grimm
Teaching guide to Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke by Andrew Maraniss
Discussion Guide to Let Them Stare by Jonathan Van Ness and Julie Murphy
Hal also contributed to Reading With Pride, an educator’s guide to contemporary queer picture books.
Blog posts and booklists
Recommended reading for kids and teens for LGBT History Month
Nonfiction reading for adults for LGBT History Month
Books to help kids understand Israel/Palestine
Readalikes for Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues (recommendations for adults)
Presentations
Book Bans and Libraries (presented 4/9/25 to Regina Bernard-Carreno’s Urban Education class at Baruch College)
Virtual, In-Person and Hybrid Comics Workshops for Kids in Public Libraries (presented to Center for Cartoon Studies)
Transgender Speculative Fiction (presented as a peer training at NYPL and at Vanderbilt University in February 2024)
Policing the Library (contributor; presented to a consortium of public librarians online in 2021)