Public libraries are more than the materiality of their built form and collections. Within ever-widening mandates to enhance social inclusion and citizen emotional and physical well-being through micro-political practices of care, this paper addresses the resourceful community resilience that insider activist and ally librarians may foster for LGBTQ + suburbanites. Turning its attention to Canadian suburban public libraries in three case study peripheral municipalities (Mississauga, Brampton, and Ajax) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), this paper draws on participant observation and semi-structured interviews with librarians to identify affordances of care selectively available for sexual and gender minorities. Following its original usage in psychology of perception scholarship, affordances are understood as the perceived differential, functional, and relational possibilities of objects, places, and people for action. The range of affordances of care discussed in this paper include: LGBTQ + -positive space iconography; LGBTQ + Pride book displays, reading lists, and book marks; and LGBTQ + book clubs, writing workshops, and story times. These empirical examples are used to explore the performative progressive limitations of suburban public libraries.

公共图书馆不仅仅是其建筑形式和馆藏的重要性。在不断扩大的任务范围内，通过微政治关怀实践来增强社会包容和公民的情感和身体健康，本文探讨了内部活动家和盟友图书馆员可能为 LGBTQ + 郊区居民培养的足智多谋的社区复原力。本文将注意力转向大多伦多地区 (GTA) 的三个案例研究外围城市（密西沙加、布兰普顿和阿贾克斯）的加拿大郊区公共图书馆，利用参与式观察和对图书馆员的半结构化访谈，有选择地确定护理的可供性可用于性和性别少数群体。遵循其在感知心理学中的原始用法在学术研究中，可供性被理解为物体、地点和人行动的感知差异、功能和关系可能性。本文讨论的护理可供性范围包括： LGBTQ + - 正空间图像；LGBTQ + Pride 图书展示、阅读清单和书签；和 LGBTQ + 读书俱乐部、写作研讨会和故事时间。这些经验性的例子被用来探索郊区公共图书馆的表演性进步限制。