It’s a rare and refreshing moment for the queer coffee table book collector (your reporter included): As New York City prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion by hosting World Pride this June, an array of titles celebrating the L.G.B.T.Q. community’s history, art and culture are suddenly on offer. The lineup is impressive, both in its scale — there are more books than the 10 fit to print here — and in its sweep, comprising histories of rights, artworks and lovers gained and lost to time.

[Read Holland Cotter’s review of Stonewall exhibitions, and our guide to Pride events.]

“We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation” (Ten Speed Press, $40), the tallest of the titles, ironically began as a pocket-sized project: the Instagram account @lgbt_history. Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown, the creators of the 400,000-strong account and the book’s co-authors, were compelled to immerse themselves and their readership in a legacy that eludes many of today’s Millennials and Generation Z-ers. In print, this translates to an impassioned photographic tour of an ever-changing, increasingly vocal and insistently resilient L.G.B.T.Q. community and culture, from 19th-century ideology to contemporary conversations around intersectionality.