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New Releases: June 2015.

By |2020-03-28T13:41:34-05:00June 9th, 2015|Categories: Archive, New Releases|Tags: , , |

June 1st (USA) Love Spell by Mia Kerick -- (G,Q) Love Spell (Cool Dudes Publishing, 2015) Goodreads Summary: "Strutting his stuff on the catwalk in black patent leather pumps and a snug orange tuxedo as this year’s Miss (ter) Harvest Moon feels so very right to Chance César, and yet he knows it should feel so very wrong. As far back as he can remember, Chance has been “caught between genders.” (It’s quite a touchy subject; so don’t ask him about it.) However, he does not question his sexual orientation. Chance has no doubt about his gayness—he [...]

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Queer YA Scrabble: Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez

By |2020-03-28T13:41:37-05:00June 6th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Boyfriends with Girlfriends is a LGBTQAI+ book written by Alex Sanchez and published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Boyfriends with Girlfriends (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011) What is it about? While Sergio is attracted to both girls and guys, he’s only dated girls before. Lance has always known he’s gay, but he’s never had a serious boyfriend. When they meet, there’s an instant sizzle, and they know that they’ve got something special. But will it be enough to overcome their differences? Allie has been into guys her whole life, and [...]

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New Releases: May 2015.

By |2020-03-28T13:41:38-05:00May 29th, 2015|Categories: Archive, New Releases|Tags: , , , , , |

  May 1st (USA) Flesh and Bone (Luminis Books, 2015) Flesh and Bone by William Alton — (G,Q) Goodreads Summary: "A literary novel for young adults that deals with a despairing teen uncertain about his sexual preferences who turns to drugs, alcohol, and unreliable friends for solace. Told in a series of images and fragments, Flesh and Bone is a raw and real portrayal of a teen struggling to find love in his life. When Bill’s father leaves and he and his mother move far away to live with her parents, his whole world implodes. His grandparents [...]

Review: Hold Still by Nina LaCour

By |2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 29th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: , , |

reviewed by Marie Hagen of MarietheLibrarian Hold Still by Nina Lacour Hold Still | Nina LaCour | 231 pages | Paperback | With illustrations Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic fiction Themes: Death, friendship, loss, suicide Goodreads rating: 3.99 Synopsis: Hold Still tells the story of Caitlin who recently lost her best friend Ingrid, to suicide. Ingrid and Caitlin shared everything together, and Caitlin is facing an unknown life without her best friend to laugh, cry and share her secrets with. One day Caitlin finds Ingrids journal under her bed, and through her journal, Caitlin gets to [...]

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Writing Across Barriers

By |2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 26th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , |

by Bill Konigsberg With my new novel The Porcupine of Truth, I tried to be brave. I decided to do the one thing that writers talk about as being among the most challenging things an author can do. To give a realistic interior to an “other.” To write across a boundary such as sexual orientation. I wrote from the point of view of a straight male character. I know, I know. I should probably get a medal. But I did it because I fully believe that straight guys deserve the same rights and privileges I’ve been afforded. They [...]

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Searching the Aisles for Girls Kissing Girls

By |2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 23rd, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Fun Things|Tags: , |

by emily m. danforth It’s nearly summer, and for me that always means more time to read and write: long mornings spent at my desk followed by endless hammock-afternoons spent with a stack of novels and a pitcher of iced coffee kept close. But in our house, summer also means movie nights. Lots and lots of movie nights. (I tend to indulge my love of horror films in the summer—I save them up all year and binge in June, July, and August. Usually my wife will not watch these particular movies with me, which means I end up [...]

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Making Choices in LGBTQ YA

By |2020-03-28T13:41:47-05:00May 18th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , |

by Dahlia Adler I've spoken a lot about how Under the Lights wasn't originally a f/f romance. I had always planned to write one, but my very first was going to be the YA I'm actually drafting now, which is a contemporary inspired by the historical War of the Roses. (It's still f/f - not to worry!) But when I was drafting UtL, I really, really struggled with the romance I was writing for Vanessa with this boy, and why there was zero story and zero chemistry. I was talking to one of my critique partners about it, and I [...]

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Graphic Novel Review: Lumberjanes.

By |2020-03-28T13:41:48-05:00May 16th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: , , , , , , |

Lumberjanes (Boom! Studios, 2014) One of the biggest challenges I face when reading, reviewing and now, publishing, is to find balance in the types of queers stories I read/review/publish. It often feels to me that the vast majority of what is out there - and what is made more visible when it comes to reviewing and award-winning - are the stories that deal with violence, homophobia, or the ones where being queer is the story. Don’t get me wrong, because those? Are super important and should be told, read and talked about. But equally important in [...]

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M.E. Kerr and Deliver Us from Evie

By |2020-03-28T13:41:48-05:00May 12th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Book Review, Guest Blogs|Tags: , |

by Sara Zarr I knew about M.E. Kerr long before I read her. When I was growing up in the seventies and making regular visits to our neighborhood library, there was a beat-up paperback on the spinning rack of “teen fiction” that caught my eye: Dinky Hockey Shoots Smack by M.E. Kerr (HarperCollins Publishers, 1989) DINKY HOCKER SHOOTS SMACK! How could I not notice a title like that? The cover image had the title spray-painted across a brick wall like graffiti. At age nine or ten I made a mental note to myself to read that [...]

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Tanuja Desai Hidier’s “Dimple Lala/ GayYA Bday Party Playlist”

By |2020-03-28T13:41:49-05:00May 7th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Fun Things, Guest Blogs|Tags: , , , , , , |

4 original songs from Tanuja’s ‘booktrack’ albums When We Were Twins (songs based on her first novel, Born Confused) & Bombay Spleen (songs based on her new novel, sequel Bombay Blues) to celebrate GayYA’s 4th birthday! And for now, and always, I knew: Love had to be allowed in wherever, whenever, and in whatever form it took. We didn’t have to shrink to fit it, box it to casket. And even then, when we found it dying, could opt for ashing down rather than burial, scatter it to all five corners of the earth and ether. Whatever could [...]

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