Sweepstakes: Old Habits and Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr!
We're starting a series of weekend giveaways, with great books featuring LGBTQ characters or authors! We'll be posting Twitter polls to determine what we give away, so keep watching our feed to make sure we're [...]
Review of The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
The coming out story represents probably the largest portion of stories in LGBTQ young adult literature. It’s an important topic, to be sure, in part because trying to figure out who we are and who [...]
The Importance of Outing Dumbeldore
Today's featured author is Robin Talley, who writes here on Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series. While the Harry Potter series was still being released, I kept crossing my fingers one of the kids would [...]
2% Gay
Sometimes I wonder why I started questioning my sexuality. If it was because my father called me a dike when I told him I preferred stud earrings to hoops; or the few years my mother [...]
Books or Bells: The Gift of Words
In 1778, a community in Massachusetts incorporated itself into a town called Franklin, after Benjamin Franklin. Seven years later, the leaders of Franklin, Massachusetts contacted their namesake. Pointing out how they had honored him, they [...]
My Goals as a Trans Writer
Like many writers I know, I took a meandering path to this writing profession, starting out confident and then dedicating a long decade in quicksand—I think it's called self-doubt—after which I think I found myself [...]
A Message to Writers
To some people, I guess it'd be a mystery as to why I would choose to come out as a bisexual for the first time here and now. (God, writing this is so scary. Bear [...]
Author Wednesday: Ellen Wittlinger
Ellen Wittlinger is the author of Hard Love, Parrotfish, and many other novels for young adults. She can be found online at her website. In 1997 when I began writing the novel Hard Love, most [...]
Hannah Moskowitz
I grew up, by virtue of gay friends and family members, bonded to the gay community. I was often the only straight girl in the room. Emphasis on straight girl. Now that I'm writing YA, [...]
First Encounters
by Rachel Caine When I was growing up, I was sheltered. Really sheltered. I still remember the first book I read that had a different kind of sexual experience in it: Ursula K. LeGuin's Left [...]