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Malinda Lo’s New Coming-of-Age Queer Novel “A Scatter of Light” Shines Brilliantly
Lo’s newest offering is beautifully composed, often feeling like a peek into your best friend’s hot (queer) girl summer.
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8 Awesome Queer Books for the Youth and Tweens in Your Life
LGBT fiction for the tween / young teen in your life, or for anyone who likes a good queer book (spoiler: that’s everyone).
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68 LGBT YA Books to Get Excited for in 2019
Can you even believe this list has 68 (!!) upcoming 2019 queer YA books? WOW. No matter what kind of LGBT YA you’re into, there is something on this list for you.
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For Your Consideration: Revisiting The Books You Loved in Middle School
You’d be surprised the kind of memories that can be sparked by a simple phrase or even by the look and feel of a book.
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Check Out the Cover & New Excerpt of Malinda Lo’s Forthcoming “Last Night at the Telegraph Club”!
Malinda Lo’s work has been incredibly relevant and sustaining to this site and this community, and her voice on current leaps forward in lesbian cultural production remains unparalleled. Which is why we’re more excited than we can say to partner with PenguinTeen to debut the cover and a new excerpt from Malinda’s latest and most personal book, Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
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24 Queer YA Books Coming Out This Summer and Beyond
The queer YA books you’ll want to read at the beach, the park, and everywhere else this summer!
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8 Queer YA Novels With Coming of Age Hope to Relive Alice Wu’s “The Half of It”
Queer YA novels with themes similar to Alice Wu’s already beloved movie: falling in love through letter writing, figuring out your queer identity, keeping secrets, new friendships, small towns, and slowly getting to new your new girl crush.
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Trans Representation in YA Fiction Is Changing, But How Much?
We are in a crucial moment where we can change trans representation in YA and do it in a way that doesn’t leave anyone behind.
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25 New Queer YA Books To Read This Spring and Summer
Queer young adult fiction is exploding right now, but with so much out there, how can you figure out what to read next? These 25 queer YA novels — including superheroes, romance, small-town mysteries, mermaids, assassins and more — all feature or were written by LGBTQ women.
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8 Books with Masculine-of-Center Characters and No Sexual Assault
Many books that feature masculine women characters or characters on the trans masculine spectrum show sexual assault. These ones don’t.
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EXCLUSIVE: Malinda Lo’s Creepy New Book Cover + Delightful Q&A
“There’s a certain kind of girl you never really see — even when she’s right in front of you. Some of those invisible girls are watching you as carefully as you’re overlooking them. A story of friendship, love, loyalty, and murder.”
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KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
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8 Middle Grade Books with LGBTQ Characters
“I have a very precocious eight year old daughter who began speaking at nine months and decided that she would marry a woman before she turned two. She learned the term lesbian from the show Supergirl, and now matter of factly proclaims herself a lesbian to anyone.”
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Disney’s “Hocus Pocus” Sequel Is a Teenage Lesbian Love Story!
Disney has retold their most famous Halloween story with a trio that’s comprised of two people of color, one of whom is queer; and the queer daughter of Max and Allison. It’s silly and spooky, and it’s an unabashed love story.
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8 Feel-Good, Comfort Reads Featuring Lesbians of Color
Here are eight light-hearted books featuring queer women (mostly lesbian) characters of color. Some are YA, some are romance, and one is science fiction/fantasy. All are fluffy gay goodness!
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Read A F*cking Book: “Go Deep” by Leigh Matthews
The latest installment in the All Out Vancouver series brings back all our favorite characters — and some heavy themes.
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Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender
“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made manifest in a thousand tiny ways, often between people and between words, unspoken.”
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Emily Danforth Is Drawn Back to Montana and We’re Drawn Back to “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (the Movie!)
I didn’t get to be at the set for the whole shoot, because I was teaching last year. I went once with my wife Erica and we got to go for a few days. I was in a daze of disbelief, touching people like, “Are you real?”
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How YA Novels Unexpectedly Enabled My Own Bisexual Revelation
I wonder why the story of a bisexual teenage boy is the one that allowed me to explicitly consider my identity as a bisexual adult woman for the first time.
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The Bisexual Character in My YA Novel Isn’t “Perfect” — Which Is Perfect
Being bi is Gen’s favorite thing about herself. It’s as freeing for her as it’s become for me.