OK, having defended Shakespeare, I'm going after you. I'm not going to advocate the placing of particular LGBTQ or indigenous authors to be on the curriculum, because I don't have the breadth of knowledge to do that. However, I can't see the problem with acquiring them for the libraries. Things are a lot better than when I was a kid, but even now, I have do difficulty imagining some isolated kid finding great solace in something like Andrew Tobias/John Reid's The Best Little Boy in the World. On the Indigenous side, Thomas King's  Green Grass Running Water is a hoot. Read. Expand.