Asexual Awareness Week begins on the 26th! We're looking for asexual guest bloggers to talk about asexuality in YA, or something related to it. You can talk about your own experience, a book with an ace character that you love, how authors can represent asexuality better, or anything else that you've come up with! We're really open to anything, provided it is in some way related to YA. We'd like to get things planned out by the 22nd so everything can be written, edited, and posted on schedule-- if you want to toss your hat in the ring, get in touch by Tuesday the 21st. [...]

UPDATE AS OF 10/30/14 AT THE BOTTOM. In the past few months, we have been witness to GayYA’s explosion. It’s been amazing and incredible and shocking and in all honesty, we were not at all prepared for it! This started as a fun side project to bring together some people, and has grown into something we’re incredibly passionate about that has a chance to really make a difference in the world. Right now, we’re so busy scrambling to cover all of our bases that we’re not able to get to everything that needs to be done done. As [...]

We are looking for 5 new regular contributors for GayYA.org. Regular contributors are people who write monthly posts for us. The posts must be somehow related to queer characters in YA lit. Contributors can go wide and talk about a lot of different things, or go deep and focus on one topic. Or they can do like a “Top 5 ___” type thing. They can be serious or fun, or anywhere in between. We’re open to people of all ages! We’re especially looking for people who are able to commit for a long period of time. This call [...]

We now have a Facebook page and a tumblr! Our aim is to give each social media outlet, respectively, a different angle. So there's a reason to follow us everywhere! ;)