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Cover Reveal Exclusive: The Tear Collectors by Billy Jolie

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 16th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Cover Reveal|Tags: gay, Realistic|

We have the great happiness of hosting our first ever exclusive cover reveal for The Tear Collectors by Billy Jolie. The Tear Collectors is a self published YA novel featuring a gay teen! THE TEAR COLLECTORS is the story of three teenage misfits whose lives entangle over the course of one summer; where secrets revealed give way to an explosive finale of love, angst, and casualty. Changes that accompany divorce can be hard. For Farrah, she’s forced to spend the summer at Crystal Lake with her alcoholic mother, but this is just the beginning of her problems. As her new [...]

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Interview With Laura Lam

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 15th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, Teen Voices|Tags: Fantasy, Intersex, Non Binary, Speculative, steampunk, Trans|

Sooo only like a month late, here is our interview with Laura Lam, author of our October and November Book Club books, Pantomime and Shadowplay! We had a lot of fun with this one, since Kathleen and I were also joined by Sarah and Laya, two of the awesome people behind lauralamfans.tumblr.com! Our transcript for it should be up soon. In the meantime, we're right in the middle of our Shadowplay book club! So grab a copy, join us on #GayYA Book Club on Tumblr, and let's discuss this wonderful book! (also check out the same tag on [...]

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Welcome to the Mainstream

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 14th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Teen Voices|Tags: gay, Non Binary, Other Media, Representation, Trans|

by Karina Rose Twenty three million worldwide downloads. Hundreds of sold out shows. One hovering glow cloud that watches us all as we point and scream at it in praise. Welcome to Night Vale. It’s hard to even find a place to begin when talking about the cult hit podcast Welcome To Night Vale, as even from the beginning its listeners have been shocked, terrified, and confused, but above all else in love instantly. I can’t even describe Night Vale, and I talk about it literally every day. The only way I could imagine it would make sense [...]

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How David Levithan Stole My Heart

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 12th, 2014|Categories: Archive|

We're thrilled to welcome one of our new regular contributors, Chiara Sullivan! Chiara will be blogging about all things LGBTQIA+ YA, with a focus on the fun side of it all. Look for more great posts from her in the coming months! by Chiara Just in case the title wasn’t completely obvious in the fact that David Levithan indeed owns my heart, I reiterate: he does. How did this come to be? Well, sit back and I shall tell you the story of how my heart came to be David Levithan’s and not mine, after all. David [...]

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Review: Being Emily by Rachel Gold

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 11th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: Trans|

Being Emily by Rachel Gold (Bella Books, 2013) They say that whoever you are it’s okay, you were born that way. Those words don’t comfort Emily, because she was born Christopher and her insides know that her outsides are all wrong. They say that it gets better, be who are you and it’ll be fine. For Emily, telling her parents who she really is means a therapist who insists Christopher is normal and Emily is sick. Telling her girlfriend means lectures about how God doesn’t make that kind of mistake. Emily desperately wants high school in [...]

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Resilient Butterflies: On Rigoberto González’s The Mariposa Club

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 10th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: gay, PoC, Trans|

We are thrilled to introduce one of our new contributors, Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez! She will be writing mostly about Latina/o characters and representation in queer YA. We are so happy to have her on board! by Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez The Mariposa Club (Alyson Books, 2009) Rigoberto González’s [1] The Mariposa Club (2009) is the first novel in a three part series followed by Mariposa Gown (2012) and Mariposa U (forthcoming 2015). The series stands out as the first of its kind because it’s the first to center queer Latino youth characters. The series is a part of a [...]

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Review: Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 4th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: Middle Grade, Realistic, Trans|

Happy Release day to Ami Polonksy! Gracefully Grayson, a middle-grade book about a transgender girl is out on shelves today. Find it in a local bookstore (this may entail badgering them to order it) or buy it online! Make sure to give the author a follow on Twitter as well, and wish her a happy release day! by Nadia “I feel like I’m covered in a layer of ice that is starting to melt. I can practically feel it loosening around me.” GRACEFULLY GRAYSON is a story about a transgender girl. Grayson Sender is a 12-year-old, a [...]

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Liraz’s Asexual Armor: Second-Guessing AceAro Representation in YA

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 3rd, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Aromantic, asexual, Representation|

Asexual Awareness Week has ended, but Aromantic Awareness Week has just begun! We were not aware of it until a couple days ago so do not have a separate series (though many of the posts from last week touch on it). But we're thrilled to present this fabulous guest post from Sarah (who is also helping to run LauraLamFans)! Minor spoilers for Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor. by Sarah When I re-immersed myself in reading YA books freshman year of college, I knew I was asexual, but I was still content to turn to popular romance-heavy young [...]

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Straight is Not My Default: Understanding Katniss Everdeen as an Ace Aro

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00October 29th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Aromantic, asexual|

For Asexual Awareness Week we reached out to bloggers who identify somewhere on the asexual spectrum to write posts related to asexuality and YA. We’re happy to bring you the third post in this series! Check back every day this week for more posts from other great guest bloggers. by Nakia I was seventeen when I read Mockingjay. I’d read the first two books in The Hunger Games series less than a year earlier, a recommendation from my contemporary literature teacher who convinced me that it was worth my time if only because the protagonist was a woman of [...]

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Reading Without Role Models: Asexual Awareness Week Day #3

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:26-05:00October 28th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: asexual|

For Asexual Awareness Week we reached out to bloggers who identify somewhere on the asexual spectrum to write posts related to asexuality and YA. We’re happy to bring you the third post in this series! Check back every day this week for more posts from other great guest bloggers. by Em Murphy When I realized I was asexual, everything made a lot more sense. I was in my last year of college and when I finally acknowledged that I wasn’t attracted to anyone, it made me a lot more comfortable with myself and with how I interacted with other people. [...]

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