Sometimes You Just Outlast It
Pride Month Blogathon: Day 1 - Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Brent Lambert Writing this makes me a bit sad because I really wanted better for all of you. I hoped that by the [...]
Introduction to GayYA’s 2017 Blogathon
What. A. Year. I began planning this blogathon the week after the U.S. election. Over the past six years, our blogathons have focused on general love of LGBTQIA+ YA, but this year, I knew that [...]
Call for Volunteers: Content Team Members
We're looking for 2-3 new volunteers to join our Content Team! Content Team Member Content Team members keep GayYA going by formatting posts before they go up and scheduling promotional tweets on Twitter. Help broaden our readership base [...]
Interview with Ashley Herring Blake
When I read Ashley Herring Blake's How To Make A Wish last year, I knew it would become one of my favorite contemporaries of 2017. It's almost Sarah Dessen-ish in feel, with an openly bisexual protagonist named [...]
Getting it Right on the Road: Positive Aro Representation in Travelogue
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 5 by Ben "Books" Schwartz Let’s be honest: there’s not a lot of aromantic representation out there in the world of fiction. Here and there, though, on the fringes, [...]
Finding the other story: disentangling love from the narrative
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 4 by Natalie Ritter (i) While considering all the ways I could approach writing something worthwhile about how being aro and reading stories intersect, I was reminded of an instance [...]
Aromantic Headcanons and Making Room for Friend-shipping
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 3 by Claudie Arseneault You know how ships go. Two people interact and have great chemistry, and suddenly fandom is all over them. They have a ship name that’s [...]
The Myth of Arospec People and Loneliness
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 2 by Ruairi There was a horrible moment in realising I was aromantic where it hit me for the first time that the majority of my life plans had gone [...]
Mistlands Launch + Aromantic Representation in Webcomics
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 1 by Laya Rose I’ve recently launched my webcomic, Mistlands! It’s about an aroace half fey girl from a small New Zealand town who suddenly gets herself and her [...]
Introduction: Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series
During our Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week series, we want to use our space on GayYA to support AroSpec voices. Last year, we decided to host Awareness Week Series over the various LGBTQIA+ Awareness Weeks throughout the year. [...]