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LGBTQ YA by the Numbers: Gender and Genre

By |2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 28th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Updates and Announcements|

After seeing an ask about speculative fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists on the Gay YA tumblr a few weeks ago, I got curious, so I did what I often do in circumstances like these: I went through the masterlist to figure out just how much LGBTQ+ speculative fiction was on it. Thinking about speculative fiction numbers got me thinking about other numbers, so I thought it might be interesting to do a gender breakdown as well. This turned into a slightly more involved project ("more involved" meaning "I had to count more books", basically). These numbers are based on [...]

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The (im)possibilities of Openly Straight

By |2020-03-28T13:42:06-05:00March 11th, 2015|Categories: Archive|Tags: , |

I first read Bill Konigsberg’s Openly Straight in April, 2014. Ten months later, reading it again, the questions it poses are as powerful as they were the first time. How do I really feel about being gay? I always thought I was okay with it. Am I though? Relative to many (most, even) members of the LGBTQ+ community, I have had something of a charmed life. I was never really in any doubt about my sexuality: like Paul from Boy Meets Boy, it just seemed obvious to me. I talk sometimes about my parents having two sets of [...]

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Gay YA: a personal retrospective

By |2020-03-28T13:42:18-05:00January 14th, 2015|Categories: Archive|Tags: , |

How They Met and Other Stories (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008) The first gay YA I picked up, in early 2009, was David Levithan’s short story collection How They Met, and Other Stories, recommended to me by someone on tumblr. The first story in the collection, “Starbucks Boy”, radically changed the way I thought about myself. My interest in guys, to that point, had been mostly theoretical. I knew I liked them, theoretically and I knew there were some attractive ones at school with me, but only towards the end of 2008 did the idea [...]

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Hey, Dollface: Pushing the Boundaries of YA in 1978

By |2020-03-28T13:42:23-05:00November 26th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: , , |

It was around then I began to realize that there was some current between Chloe and me that was unlike anything I’d ever experienced before; it was a vague, clouded feeling that I couldn’t quite place or identify. It didn’t happen all of a sudden; it was more like moments of dim awareness, followed by a gradual recognition that it was there without my understanding what it was. Deborah Hautzig’s Hey, Dollface, written while she was a student at Sarah Lawrence College, was originally published in 1978, one of the first books of its kind. I’ve only ever [...]

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