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May Book Haul

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:44-05:00May 3rd, 2014|Categories: Archive|

Hey everyone! So I'm going to be starting a new thing: book hauls! If you're unfamiliar with the term, it basically means I'm going to be slightly self-absorbed and hope you care about my very interesting thoughts on all the books I just bought. Except because I'm poor I'll probably mostly be doing library book hauls...where I talk about all the books I just checked out. So. Yay? Oh, and it'll be all (or mostly) Gay YA. Here we go! I got: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz on Audiobook I've [...]

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Review: Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:44-05:00May 1st, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|

Review by Alex Mccoy Craig and Harry, ex-boyfriends, are trying to break the Guinness World Record for longest kiss. Peter and Neil, who've been dating for a while, are trying to figure out whether they're too familiar with one another. Ryan and Avery have just met and are tentatively (but excitedly) starting something new. And Cooper just wants to stop being so lonely and feeling so misunderstood. In *Two Boys Kissing*, the stories of each of these boys are told from the unique perspective of a group of gay men that have lost their lives to AIDS in [...]

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Haircuts, the Media, and Free Electrons

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:44-05:00April 14th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Teen Voices|Tags: LGBTQIA, Representation|

About a year ago today, I announced to my friends that I was going to be somewhat spur-of-the-moment and chop off my waist-length hair for charity. I wasn't expecting huge applause, or great concern, or really any kind of reaction that involved a lot of emotion. All I wanted was someone to come with me to get it cut, for moral support. Instead I got: "Are you sure, Georgie? I mean - won't you look a bit - lesbiany?" At the time, of course, I rolled my eyes, believing it made absolutely no difference what these girls thought. I told myself they [...]

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Stereotypes

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:44-05:00April 7th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: LGBTQIA, Stereotypes|

It wasn’t long ago that you’d be hard pressed to find a YA book with a gay character in it all. We’ve come a long way. Yet there’s still a long way to go. While gay characters are represented in YA fiction, far too often they are stereotypes, there to provide an appearance of diversity without actually being fully realized characters. How often does a female YA protagonist have a quirky, funny, gay best friend? This is a great character because it’s a male presence, but one without any threat associated with him. Then there’s the sporty lesbian, another stereotype [...]

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Authenticity and the Coming Out Process

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:44-05:00March 29th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: Coming Out|

AUTHOR GUEST BLOG: J. Lee Graham The coming out process, for people of all ages, always and forever will be, a transformational and sacred journey. It is not a one-time event. It is not always a giant party nor is it always a dramatic Act Three denouement. Often I see our society responding to splashy headlines of a celebrity who decides to come out and the tendency is to assume that that is all that ‘coming out’ means: a Public Relations moment that creates a five minute discussion at the supper table. [...]

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Find Us Other Places on the Internet!

By Vee|2016-05-24T14:52:13-05:00March 25th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Updates and Announcements|

We now have a Facebook page and a tumblr! Our aim is to give each social media outlet, respectively, a different angle. So there's a reason to follow us everywhere! ;)

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Praesent Et Urna Turpis

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Praesent Et Urna Turpis

By Vee|2012-07-31T17:26:20-05:00July 31st, 2012|Categories: Creative, Design|Tags: Video|

Quisque ligulas ipsum, euismod atras vulputate iltricies etri elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Nulla nunc dui, tristique in semper vel, congue sed ligula. Nam dolor ligula, faucibus id sodales in, auctor fringilla libero. Pellentesque pellentesque tempor tellus eget hendrerit. Morbi id aliquam ligula. Aliquam id dui sem. Proin rhoncus consequat nisl, eu ornare mauris tincidunt vitae. Vestibulum sodales ante a purus volutpat euismod. Proin sodales quam nec ante sollicitudin lacinia. Ut egestas bibendum tempor. Morbi non nibh sit amet ligula blandit ullamcorper in nec risus. Pellentesque fringilla diam faucibus [...]

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Donec At Mauris Enims

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Donec At Mauris Enims

By Vee|2012-07-31T17:25:18-05:00July 31st, 2012|Categories: Creative, Design|Tags: artwork, Photo, Videos|

Quisque ligulas ipsum, euismod atras vulputate iltricies etri elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Nulla nunc dui, tristique in semper vel, congue sed ligula. Nam dolor ligula, faucibus id sodales in, auctor fringilla libero. Pellentesque pellentesque tempor tellus eget hendrerit. Morbi id aliquam ligula. Aliquam id dui sem. Proin rhoncus consequat nisl, eu ornare mauris tincidunt vitae. Vestibulum sodales ante a purus volutpat euismod. Proin sodales quam nec ante sollicitudin lacinia. Ut egestas bibendum tempor. Morbi non nibh sit amet ligula blandit ullamcorper in nec risus. Pellentesque fringilla diam faucibus [...]

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Class Aptent Taciti Soci Ad Litora

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Class Aptent Taciti Soci Ad Litora

By Vee|2012-07-31T17:24:55-05:00July 31st, 2012|Categories: Creative, Design, Videos|Tags: artwork, Photo, Video|

Quisque ligulas ipsum, euismod atras vulputate iltricies etri elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Nulla nunc dui, tristique in semper vel, congue sed ligula. Nam dolor ligula, faucibus id sodales in, auctor fringilla libero. Pellentesque pellentesque tempor tellus eget hendrerit. Morbi id aliquam ligula. Aliquam id dui sem. Proin rhoncus consequat nisl, eu ornare mauris tincidunt vitae. Vestibulum sodales ante a purus volutpat euismod. Proin sodales quam nec ante sollicitudin lacinia. Ut egestas bibendum tempor. Morbi non nibh sit amet ligula blandit ullamcorper in nec risus. Pellentesque fringilla diam faucibus [...]

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Nullam Vitae Nibh Un Odiosters

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Nullam Vitae Nibh Un Odiosters

By Vee|2012-07-31T17:23:43-05:00July 31st, 2012|Categories: Creative, Design|

Quisque ligulas ipsum, euismod atras vulputate iltricies etri elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Nulla nunc dui, tristique in semper vel, congue sed ligula. Nam dolor ligula, faucibus id sodales in, auctor fringilla libero. Pellentesque pellentesque tempor tellus eget hendrerit. Morbi id aliquam ligula. Aliquam id dui sem. Proin rhoncus consequat nisl, eu ornare mauris tincidunt vitae. Vestibulum sodales ante a purus volutpat euismod. Proin sodales quam nec ante sollicitudin lacinia. Ut egestas bibendum tempor. Morbi non nibh sit amet ligula blandit ullamcorper in nec risus. Pellentesque fringilla diam faucibus [...]

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