May 1st: I'll Write Queer Characters Forever by Francesca Lia Block May 2nd: I Kissed a Girl and I Liked It but not in a Vapid Katy Perry Way Justina Ireland May 3rd: They Turned My Gay Teen Novel Into a Movie. Here’s What I Learned. by Brent Hartinger May 4th: Have You Ever Considered Writing About Straight People? by Robin Talley May 5th: DOUBLE POST The Love That Does Not Know Its Name by Elizabeth Wein Booktube Needs You! by Danika Leigh Ellis May 6th: Guest Blog by Kimberly Derting May 7th: Guest Blog by Tanuja Desai [...]

GayYA has many goals, but everything we do essentially comes down to one purpose: get more LGBTQIA+ YA published. We are more committed to this than ever! This May, we're thrilled to bring you a month long blogathon. Every day, you'll hear from different authors, librarians, educators, and bloggers. We hope to use this opportunity to spread the love far and wide for LGBTQIA+ YA, and show anyone that might have any doubt that there is huge audience for LGBTQIA+ YA. (If we can accomplish these things, more LGBTQIA+ YA will be published!) We so look forward to [...]

Join us in our mission to provide a platform to discuss and promote queer YA! As a GayYA volunteer you can connect with our group of volunteers who are all extremely passionate about queer YA, create unique resources that support authors and enable teens to find queer books, and occasionally read queer YA before it is published. We are looking for five new volunteers. The general time commitment for volunteers is 5 hr/wk, but it is subject to change as our busyness increases and decreases, and we can be a little flexible around your schedule. Volunteers may be [...]

For our Fourth anniversary, we are taking a trip back through the best of GayYA's archives, and celebrating 4 years of excellence from authors, readers, educators, and more by featuring a post a day for the month of April. In May, we'll host a month long blogathon, which we are SO EXCITED ABOUT!! :D To keep up with which posts we're featuring as the #BestofGayYA, follow this post! Speaking Into the Frost by Jessica Albrecht One of my characters recently – and completely unexpectedly – came out to me. I smiled when it happened. I looked up into the trees. It [...]