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LGBTQIAP+ Book Quotes: Strength & New Beginnings
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LGBTQIAP+ Book Quotes: Strength & New Beginnings

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LGBTQIAP+ Book Quotes: Strength & New Beginnings

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:39:57-05:00January 2nd, 2019|Categories: Book Lists, Fun Things|

Happy New Year, readers! Though 2019 began with fireworks and glitter, it can be easy to see the future as faded both worldwide and in our personal lives. No, there will not be fireworks every midnight. No, resolutions will not always be easy to follow. But we’re ready to meet the challenges that lie ahead, and we know that you are as well. Your hardest day last year? You made it through. Celebrate that. Celebrate you. To commemorate new beginnings, here are 11 quotes from some of our favorite recent LGBTQIAP+ YA books that will remind you just [...]

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10 Inspiring Quotes to Start the New Year With Pride
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10 Inspiring Quotes to Start the New Year With Pride

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10 Inspiring Quotes to Start the New Year With Pride

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:09-05:00January 1st, 2018|Categories: Archive, Book Lists, Fun Things|

by Kaitlin Mitchell Happy New Year! We’re so excited to announce that we’re bringing back book lists! Each month, we’ll feature a themed list to keep your tbr lists full. To start off 2018 on a positive note, our first list features 10 uplifting quotes from some of our favorite books. Do you have any favorite quotes from LGBTQIA+ YA you think we missed? Add them in the comments, or tell us on Twitter @YA_Pride! “If you want a chance at being happy, exist. Because yes, life can suck, but as long as you’re alive, there’s a chance [...]

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Announcing: GayYA’s Name Change! (& Giveaway)

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:10-05:00September 11th, 2017|Categories: Fun Things, Updates and Announcements|

When we launched GayYA in 2011, our goal was to mobilize a clear and active market for LGBTQIA+ YA, to make it known to publishers that people were excited to buy these books. In early 2011, several authors had shared stories of being told “we love your book— but can you make your character straight?” It was clear that these requests agents and editors made did not come from outright homophobia, but the idea that books like that couldn’t sell— that at best, they were issue books. This sparked many conversations in the YA Twitter community of the [...]

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Bi YA Reads Bookmarks

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 28th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Fun Things, Teachers & Librarians|Tags: Bisexual|

Introducing.....Bi YA Reads bookmarks! What: rad double-sided bookmarks with 15 of our fave Bi YA books. Who: anyone is free to use/print these out! Why: Our main goal for these was to develop a resource that librarians and booksellers can put in their teen section. Bookmarks and other hand outs are a great way to spread knowledge of inclusive books, sometimes even more so than displays. While displays are incredibly important, teens who aren't out may not feel comfortable browsing them. Bookmarks ensure that these teens can be informed & request these books privately, or find an ebook version. In [...]

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Blog Tour & Giveaway: Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

By Shelly|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 20th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, Fun Things, New Releases|Tags: Asian, Bisexual, Intersectionality|

Today we're very lucky to have C.B. Lee answering a few questions about Not Your Sidekick for the official blog tour! All of us at GayYA are SO EXCITED for this book! Hi C.B., thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book. Hello there! Thank you for having me here today. I'm C.B., a bisexual woman who grew up on the California coast. I'm a first generation Asian American and am very excited to introduce more characters whose backgrounds are like my own. My current novel is Not Your [...]

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Interview: Vee sits down with David Levithan & Nina Lacour

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:35-05:00June 29th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Blogathon 2016, Book Club, Fun Things, New Releases, Teen Voices|Tags: Coming Out, gay, lesbian, Minor Queer Characters, New Releases, Poetry, Queer Girls, Queer Guys, Realistic, Representation|

I had the INCREDIBLE opportunity to be able to sit down with David Levithan & Nina Lacour when they came to Addendum Books on the You Know Me Well book tour. This was literally one of the best experiences of my life and I am so thankful to the authors for taking the time to do this and to everyone else who had a hand in making this possible. We got to talk about the new narratives You Know Me Well brings to the table of LGBTQIA+ YA, how the collaboration on YKMW began, and what its existence [...]

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#YAPride Challenge

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:49-05:00June 5th, 2016|Categories: Blogathon 2016, Fun Things, Updates and Announcements|

Welcome to GayYA’s first ever #YAPride Challenge! #YAPride is all about spreading the LGBTQIA+ love-- and you’re entered to win an AWESOME prize while you do it! The prize? A box of 8 #OwnVoices LGBTQIA+ YA books. We’ll announce the exact titles in a few days, but one of them will be a signed copy of You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina Lacour, and there will be a couple ARCs of upcoming releases! Our #YAPride challenge will be split into 3 weeks. It's a mutli-platform challenge on Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, and Instagram. Enter as many times as you'd [...]

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Giveaway: Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:55-05:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Fun Things, New Releases|

The story follows the unlikely friendship of two young women forged via fan fiction and message boards, and is told entirely in texts, chats, and blog posts. Gena (short for Genevieve) and Finn (short for Stephanie) have little in common. Book-smart Gena is preparing to leave her posh boarding school for college; down-to-earth Finn is a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet in the big city. Gena’s romantic life is a series of reluctant one-night-stands; Finn is making a go of it with long-term boyfriend Charlie. But they share a passion for Up Below, a buddy cop TV [...]

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Cover Reveal: THE OLIVE CONSPIRACY by Shira Glassman

By Nita|2020-03-28T13:41:09-05:00January 11th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Cover Reveal, Fun Things|Tags: bisexuality, jewish rep, shira glassman, Trans|

We're fans of Shira Glassman's books here at The Gay YA, and even bigger fans of the work she does promoting diverse LGBTQIA+ lit and her passion for representation. Today, we're revealing the cover for The Olive Conspiracy, the fourth book in the Mangoverse series! Here's some info from Shira about the book: The Olive Conspiracy is due out on July 20, 2016 from Prizm Books. It's part of the Mangoverse series but you don't have to read any of the other books first because I try my best to write my books as standalone adventures about the same family-of-choice. It's [...]

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BLEEDING EARTH Exclusive Trailer Reveal + Giveaway!

By Nita|2020-03-28T13:41:14-05:00October 21st, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|Tags: Queer Girls, Speculative|

Hey everyone! We're so supremely super excited today at The Gay YA because we get to exclusively reveal the trailer for Kaitlin Ward's upcoming queer girl sci-fi, BLEEDING EARTH! We're also sharing an exclusive excerpt with you AND a chance to win signed ARCs of the book! So let's get started!!! Lea was in a cemetery when the earth started bleeding. Within twenty-four hours, the blood made international news. All over the world, blood appeared out of the ground, even through concrete, even in water. Then the earth started growing hair and bones. Lea wants to ignore the blood. She wants to [...]

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