How Trans Happens
There's a fight going on, but not many people know about it. It boils down to what most fights look like after a long time simmering and evaporating away their unnecessary parts—the right to tell [...]
Review of Jennifer McMahon’s My Tiki Girl
I read Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels (the collected Weetzie Bat books) when I was about 17. My best friend Monica gave it to me, and that book changed my life. It’s the first place, [...]
The GBLT Genre
I’ve been musing over the labels we give books, especially labels in sales lists: ‘Gay Books’, ‘Lesbian Books’, ‘GLBT Books’. I’ve been wondering if everyone has the same understanding of these labels, exactly, and whether [...]
Considering Intersectionality
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about creating multi-layered characters as one of my goals as a transgender writer. I was talking about LGBT characters at the time, but pulling back a bit on [...]
Winners: Ink Exchange and Old Habits & Poll For Next Giveaway
Our winners for Old Habits and Ink Exchange are below: Old Habits: Alison, comment #3 Ink Exchange: Twitter user @eas770 Please email us (maria@gayya.org) with your shipping information to receive your book! Today's poll [...]
Review: Wide Awake by David Levithan
So. David Levithan. He’s pretty amazing, right? Honestly, his books pretty much send me spiraling into fangirl glee. Boy Meets Boy gets most of the accolades, and rightly so. It’s a lovely and wonderful book, [...]
The One Who Matters
Sara Zarr is the author of Story of a Girl and the forthcoming How To Save A Life. You can visit her online at her website. A couple of years ago, I was speaking to [...]
When The Story is About Love
by Gillian Chisom Almost two years ago, I was sitting in a bookstore café working on my embryonic vampire novel. Its premise, at that point, went something like this: 20-year-old Eric has a great life: [...]
Sharing Stories: Why Straight People Need to Read Gay Books
I just released my debut novel, The Dark Wife, which comes out of the closet immediately when I tell you what it's about: a YA, lesbian retelling of the Persephone/Hades myth. When sharing my happiness [...]
LGBT Themes and Science Fiction: Fast Friends
I write speculative fiction, usually somewhere between soft science fiction and magical realism, and often, though not exclusively, with LGBT themes and characters. I suppose I could write more mainstream stories, but I like to [...]