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A Special Queer YA Scrabble Giveaway

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:41:37-05:00June 7th, 2015|Categories: Archive|

We had a great day of Queer YA Scrabble yesterday... today we're thrilled to bring you a special giveaway of a SIGNED copy of Undone by Cat Clarke! You do not need the solved anagram to enter this giveaway... this post is however one of the seven that contains a hidden letter! Find letter hidden in this post (it will be in green), and you’ll be one step closer to solving our anagram and having a chance to win a FABULOUS box of books. :) Undone by Cat Clarke (Quercus, 2013) Jem Halliday is in love with her gay [...]

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Queer YA Scrabble: Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:37-05:00June 6th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|Tags: Bisexual, gay, lesbian, LGBTQIA, PoC, Queer Girls, Queer Guys, Realistic|

Boyfriends with Girlfriends is a LGBTQAI+ book written by Alex Sanchez and published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Boyfriends with Girlfriends (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011) What is it about? While Sergio is attracted to both girls and guys, he’s only dated girls before. Lance has always known he’s gay, but he’s never had a serious boyfriend. When they meet, there’s an instant sizzle, and they know that they’ve got something special. But will it be enough to overcome their differences? Allie has been into guys her whole life, and [...]

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Author Interview: Saruuh Kelsey

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:38-05:00June 6th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Fantasy, LGBTQIA, PoC|

As part of the Queer Ya Scrabble event we got to interview author Saruuh Kelsey! Find letter hidden in this post (it will be in green), and you'll be one step closer to solving our anagram and having a chance to win a FABULOUS box of books. :) Saruuh Kelsey Saruuh Kelsey is the author of several novels for young adults, including the free Lux Guardians series and The Legend Mirror series. Her latest releases include THE BEAST OF CALLAIRE, the first novel of a new YA fantasy series, and a collection of diverse fairy tales in [...]

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Queer YA Scrabble is here!

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:38-05:00June 5th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|

Queer-YA Scrabble is an event created to support Stonewall-UK and increase awareness of LGBTQ positive YA books. Participants will hunt for letters concealed in blog posts featuring Queer YA books and then solve anagrams allowing them to compete for a chance to win a box full of great titles. Following the promotional game, another set of book-boxes will be up for bid with 100% of proceeds donated to Stonewall. The event will run from June 6th-8th, 2015 (you can find the official timeline here). We are proud to announce we are one of the hosts for the event! Other blogs who are [...]

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Give Your Characters an Online Presence

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:41:38-05:00May 30th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Writers on Writing|Tags: Representation|

by Steve Berman There was a time when you could be all alone even when surrounded by dozens, even hundreds, of people. I'm talking about high school and the time before the Internet and smart phones. Everyone feels isolated now and then, but true isolation, being ignored while the rest of the world goes about its day, is something teenagers face. Especially LGBT teens. We're the outsiders, after all. Different. Sometimes special, but very different. Where we look we see a world that was built for heterosexuals and cisgendered people. Seeing a film, watching a commercial, noticing a [...]

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New Releases: May 2015.

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:38-05:00May 29th, 2015|Categories: Archive, New Releases|Tags: Fantasy, LGBTQIA, New Releases, Queer Girls, Queer Guys, Realistic|

May 1st (USA) Flesh and Bone (Luminis Books, 2015) Flesh and Bone by William Alton — (G,Q) Goodreads Summary: "A literary novel for young adults that deals with a despairing teen uncertain about his sexual preferences who turns to drugs, alcohol, and unreliable friends for solace. Told in a series of images and fragments, Flesh and Bone is a raw and real portrayal of a teen struggling to find love in his life. When Bill’s father leaves and he and his mother move far away to live with her parents, his whole world implodes. His grandparents [...]

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Review: Hold Still by Nina LaCour

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 29th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: Minor Characters, Queer Girls, Realistic|

reviewed by Marie Hagen of MarietheLibrarian Hold Still by Nina Lacour Hold Still | Nina LaCour | 231 pages | Paperback | With illustrations Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic fiction Themes: Death, friendship, loss, suicide Goodreads rating: 3.99 Synopsis: Hold Still tells the story of Caitlin who recently lost her best friend Ingrid, to suicide. Ingrid and Caitlin shared everything together, and Caitlin is facing an unknown life without her best friend to laugh, cry and share her secrets with. One day Caitlin finds Ingrids journal under her bed, and through her journal, Caitlin gets to [...]

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LGBTQ YA by the Numbers: Gender and Genre

By Nathaniel|2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 28th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Updates and Announcements|

After seeing an ask about speculative fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists on the Gay YA tumblr a few weeks ago, I got curious, so I did what I often do in circumstances like these: I went through the masterlist to figure out just how much LGBTQ+ speculative fiction was on it. Thinking about speculative fiction numbers got me thinking about other numbers, so I thought it might be interesting to do a gender breakdown as well. This turned into a slightly more involved project ("more involved" meaning "I had to count more books", basically). These numbers are based on [...]

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Friendships Are Hard.

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 27th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Teen Voices|Tags: gay, LGBTQIA, Queer Guys|

by John Hansen By most standards, I've won the queer lottery. I live in one of the first U.S. states to have legalized gay marriage; I have parents who went through only a minimal learning curve when I came out to them; I attend a high school that not only has a gay-straight alliance, but whose gay-straight alliance is active enough that the school newspaper often reports on its activities. I'm lucky. I know that. And yet, here I am: seventeen years old, proudly queer, out to everyone I know online—but I'm still beyond terrified to tell anyone [...]

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Writing Across Barriers

By Olivia|2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 26th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: New Releases, Queer Girls, Realistic|

by Bill Konigsberg With my new novel The Porcupine of Truth, I tried to be brave. I decided to do the one thing that writers talk about as being among the most challenging things an author can do. To give a realistic interior to an “other.” To write across a boundary such as sexual orientation. I wrote from the point of view of a straight male character. I know, I know. I should probably get a medal. But I did it because I fully believe that straight guys deserve the same rights and privileges I’ve been afforded. They [...]

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