YA Pride

Really Ravishing Review (Boy Meets Boy)

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:43:21-05:00April 9th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: gay, Romance, Utopia|

Shannon blogs online at Literati's Literary Library, and can be found on Twitter under @literati_rain66 Review of Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan. Quickie: Absolutely adorable. It will melt your heart. Full: Noah's a new boy in town. His parents travel all the time and move the family continuously to be closer to their work. This time though, they've promised to stay and settle. It means more traveling for them, less time at home, but Noah and his sister will be able to stay and make friends that they can keep. Paul has recently been dumped by Kyle. It's all [...]

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Guest Post: Jo Knowles

By Maria|2020-03-28T13:43:21-05:00April 8th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: Advocacy, censorship, Representation|

Last weekend I was driving near the Brown campus in Providence, RI with my family. When we stopped at a light, two male students crossed the street, holding hands. They were chatting away, smiling, like what they were doing was the most natural thing in the world. My husband and I both commented on how nice that was. And how rare. Because honestly? In most places in this country, you will not see two boys walking along a busy street holding hands. Carefree. Safe. In most places in this country, there are still boys and girls just like [...]

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Teen Novels: Once Again, a Decade Ahead of Television

By Maria|2016-05-24T14:54:17-05:00April 7th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: History of Queer YA, Representation|

Brent Hartinger is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. He can be found on Twitter as @BrentHartinger I've been saying for years that if you want to know what's going to be on television in five or ten years, look at what's happening in books today. Like clockwork, we authors always predict exactly where the mass culture is heading. Okay, so maybe we didn't predict the outrageous, depressing mess that so much of reality television has become. We authors tend to predict the things that appeal to, um, slightly higher aspects of human nature. Take the whole issue of [...]

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Review: Pink by Lili Wilkinson

By Maria|2020-03-28T13:43:21-05:00April 6th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: lesbian, Queer Girls, Realistic|

Sam blogs online at LoonyReads, and can be found on Twitter under @Pagan_Elina. Like many before me, my first introduction to gay and lesbian characters in YA Lit was in Holly Black’s Tithe. I remember being enthralled by Corny, and I found his and Naphemel’s relationship to be riveting and so interesting. I have always been an open minded person and from then on started to read as many GLBT books and I could, partly for my own mixed thoughts about myself. When Vicky asked me to do this Review for the opening of the GayYa.org I [...]

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Being a Straight Ally

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:21-05:00April 5th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: Allies, Bisexual|

Chandra Rooney has threatened to stop watching Glee if Kurt and Blaine break up. She sporadically updates her personal blog (Dreaming in Red,) and you can follow her on twitter as @sakuralovestea. If you had asked teen me to name LGBTQ characters and canon pairings in YA lit, most of them would’ve come from Asian comics. The novels I remember reading as a teen—LJ Smith, Christopher Pike, RL Stine—were all hetro couples; manga was where to find the variety. It was probably Cardcaptor Sakura that I most connected with; CLAMP had written a story reflecting the relationships [...]

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THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 4th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: Representation|

I think my greatest hope as a writer is that I’ll resonate with someone. Not everyone. I think it’s impossible to write something that resonates with everyone. But even if just one person reads something I wrote and can empathize with a character or a situation, I’ve done what I set out to do. When writing succeeds, it’s because of resonance. The writer holds up a mirror and gives us the shock of recognition. Sometimes we relate to a character’s aspirations. Sometimes we just understand their hardships. I’m not sure I believe in universal truths but I definitely [...]

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Review: Ash by Malinda Lo

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 4th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: lesbian, Queer Girls|

Review by Andrea of Aines Realm. Andrea is a book reviewer and blogger and can be found on Twitter @AineFey. I read Ash by Malinda Lo a few months ago for a book club. It was one of my favorite books I’ve read this year. It’s a retelling of the classic Fairy Tale, Cinderella, but with many differences. It starts out very similar, with the mother passing away and the father remarrying a woman with two daughters of her own, followed shortly by his own death. Due to her father’s money not being able to keep a household running, [...]

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The Gay Gamut

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 2nd, 2011|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading|Tags: Representation|

Today's guest post was written by Charlotte Johnson of Lady Charlotte's House of Delirium. Enjoy! Admittedly, my exposure to LGBT characters in young adult fiction has been less than desired. Perhaps the first gay character I met was in Holly Black’s second novel, Valiant, which of course was Ruth (and eventually Luis, but only in retrospect…actually, I wasn’t even sure Ruth was a lesbian because Jen, a girl who did not approve of Val, had called her so). Then, when I read Tithe, I met Corny. Oh dear, Corny, those scenes between him and Nephamael were almost [...]

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Old Dog, New Tricks

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 2nd, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: censorship|

Originally posted at Making Stuff Up For A Living. Thanks to Saundra for allowing us to repost! By: Saundra Mitchell When sister Deb Jessica Verday told us that her editor for WICKED PRETTY THINGS insisted that the G-rated, one-kiss gay romance in her story had to become a het romance to be published, I was appalled, but not surprised. I came out in 1989, and as a YA author, I try not to spend a lot of time pointing out how much older I am than my audience. But even though 1989 seems recent to me, it’s more than two [...]

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Blogathon Schedule

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 1st, 2011|Categories: Archive|

We are so excited to have so many great participants in our "Gay in YA" Blogathon launch! We'll be posting the first installment in the blogathon in just a few moments, but first we wanted to say a big, gigantic THANK YOU to all our bloggers. We couldn't have made any of this happen without you, and we are so excited to see what you have to say about LGBTQ in YA and share it with the rest of the worlf. The outpouring of support from everybody we have talked to and approached with this idea has been overwhelming [...]

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