Skolverket (2019) always underlines the importance of implementing democratic values onto the students. But is this always easy to apply in the classroom? The purpose of this work is to examine how you can work with literature in different ways in the Swedish subject, with the focus of a multicultural and LGBTQ+ perspective. This work is for teachers and teacher students to create a bigger understanding around the possibilities of using literature. Our framing question is the following: “How can teachers work with literature texts from a multicultural and LGBTQ+ perspective, and how are the students affected?”. The method that has been used to produce this work has been by using databases to find information. Hence, there have been different selection methods to determine the usefulness and relevance of the different sources. The result showed that there are many different ways to use literature in the classroom, some with a better outcome than others. Furthermore, the lack of knowledge on how to work with or find multicultural and LGBTQ+ literature became visible. Nevertheless, it was noticed that both literature education from a multicultural and LGBTQ+ perspective is needed to create democratic values, since it develops the students critical thinking, their default natural setting, compassion and more. Through challenging students' default natural setting, the democratic society can be developed.