Some of our favorite posts:
(WIP)
Author Guest Blog: Taking the Homophobia Out of Fantasy by Malinda Lo
Author Guest Blog: All Those Who Default From the Default Will Be Punished (But I Personally Think They Will Be Awesome) by Sarah Rees Brennan
A Discussion: “Just Happening to be LGBT” Dismisses a Depth of Character Part 1 & Part 2 by Robin Talley and Lucas J.W. Johnson
Author Guest Blog: Gay in YA Guest Blog by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
Author Guest Blog: My Goals as a Trans Writer by Everett Maroon
Author Guest Blog: Speaking Into the Frost by Jessica Albrecht
Guest Blog: I Was Made to Believe There’s Something Wrong With Me: Why #BlackLivesMatter in YA Lit
Guest Blog: Women In Love
Guest Blog: Let’s Save Some Lives, Shall We? Asexuality in Mainstream YA
Teen Voices: Minor Queer Characters in YA by Georgie
2015:
January
Book Club: Just Girls by Rachel Gold
Announcement: The New Year for GayYA!
Review: Lies my Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters
New Releases: January 2015
Review: Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
Guest Blog: Gay YA: A Personal Retrospective
Review: Remember Me by Melanie Batchelor
Author Interview: Danny M. Cohen
Author Guest Post: Love, War, and Fairy Tale Endings by Danny M. Cohen
February:
Stonewall Book Award 2015 Winners
Cover Reveal (And Author Interview): Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian
Guest Blog: Leelah Alcorn and Invisible Monsters
Review: I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
Author Interview: Steven Dos Santos
March
5 Reasons to Love Benjamin Alire Saenz’s Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
New Releases: March 2015
Exclusive Cover Reveal and Interview: Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz
Guest Blog: The (im)possibilities of Openly Straight
Author Guest Blog: A Girl Like Me by Jennie Wood
2014:
March
Author Guest Blog: Authenticity and the Coming Out Process by J. Lee Graham
Announcement: Find Us Other Places on the Internet!
April
Author Guest Blog: Stereotypes by Kate Larkindale
Teen Voices: Haircuts, the Media, and Free Electrons by Georgie Penney
May
Review: Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Book Haul: May Book Haul
Book the Month Review: Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Book of the Month Interview: Tess Sharpe (Author of Far From You)
June
Author Guest Blog: The Intersection of Art and Advocacy by Juliann Rich
Review: Caught in the Crossfire by Juliann Rich
Book Haul: June Book Haul
Book of the Month Review: Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Author Guest Blog: The Cross-Dresser in YA Literature by Sally Bosco
Author Guest Blog: Sexy Girl Sex! (and Why it’s Important) by Sarah Harian
Book of the Month Interview: Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Author of Beautiful Music for Ugly Children)
July:
Review: Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin
Author Guest Blog: Wait! This novel has GAY people in it! by Molly Beth Griffin
Announcement: August 2014 Book of the Month, and Other Updates!
Author Interview: Shannon LC Cate
August:
Book of the Month Review: Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
Teen Voices: We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 1 by Emily
Review: Jack by Shannon LC Cate
Teen Voices: We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 2 by Emily
Guest Blog: The Impact of Representation by Nita Tyndall
September
Teen Voices: We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 3 by Emily
Teen Voices: Minor Queer Characters in YA by Georgie
Book of the Month Interview: Francesca Lia Block
Author Guest Blog: Girl Sex 101 (NSFW) by Allison Moon
Book of the Month Review: The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Transcript: Interview with Francesca Lia Block
Author Guest Blog: The Magic of Rhyming Words (And the Agony of Titling Books) by Juliann Rich
Author Guest Blog: How Ideas Evolve by Rachel Gold
Author Guest Blog: Author KE Payne
Author Guest Blog: From Activist to Author, and Back Again by Andrew J. Peters (CW for Suicide)
Book of the Month Interview: Alaya Dawn Johnson
Review: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
October
Announcement: Announcing our October Book of the Month: Pantomime by Laura Lam!
Review: Searching for Grace by Juliann Rich
Author Guest Post: Writing Noir for Teenagers by Greg Herren
Recap: #JustGrace Book Launch
Author Interview: Annameekee Hesik
Book of the Month Fan Artist Feature: Laya
Author Guest Blog: When Two Dads Are Better Than One by Jessica Verdi
Author Guest Blog: Are Coming Out Stories Still Relevant in 2014? by Amy Dunne
Announcement: Welcome to Gay YA’s first ever Book Club!
Review: Bottled Up Secret by Brian McNamara
Review: Unicorn Hunting by A.R. Hellbender
Book Lists: Halloween Reads
Teen Voices: Why the Angst? Where’s the Gay?
Announcement: Call for Asexual Guest Bloggers for Asexual Awareness Week
Regular Contributors: On Seasickness and Honest Sexuality in Witch Eyes
Review: Camp Carnage by Elliot Cross
Review: My Date from Hell (The Blooming Goddess Trilogy) by Tellulah Darling
Transcript: Interview With Alaya Dawn Johnson
Guest Blog: How about NO? Your fave is problematic; deal with it.
Book of the Month Review: Pantomime by Laura Lam
Guest Blog: Let’s Save Some Lives, Shall We? Asexuality in Mainstream YA
Guest Blog: A Journey of Discovery: Asexuality and Fanfiction
Guest Blog: Reading Without Role Models: Asexual Awareness Week Day #3
Guest Blog: Straight is Not My Default: Understanding Katniss Everdeen as an Ace Aro
November
Guest Blog: Liraz’s Asexual Armor: Second-Guessing AceAro Representation in YA
Review: Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
Guest Blog: Resilient Butterflies: On Rigoberto González’s The Mariposa Club
Review: Being Emily by Rachel Gold
Regular Contributor: How David Levithan Stole My Heart
Regular Contributor: Welcome to the Mainstream
Book of the Month Author Interview: Laura Lam
Cover Reveal Exclusive: The Tear Collectors by Billy Jolie
Author Interview: Ami Polonsky
Author Interview: Becky Albertalli
Review: Shadowplay by Laura Lam
Review: Hey, Dollface: Pushing the Boundaries of YA in 1978
Announcement: Call For Black Lives Matter Series Guest Bloggers
December
Fandom: How Do I Love “Teeth”
Author Interview/Guest Blog: The Question of Queering the Mainstream Novel: A Conversation with authors Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
Announcement: GayYA Community Survey
Announcement: Introduction to Black Lives Matter Series
Guest Blog: I Was Made to Believe There’s Something Wrong With Me: Why #BlackLivesMatter in YA Lit
Guest Blog: Black Lives Matter But Where Are We?
Guest Blog: On Queer Characters of Color
Author Interview: Mystic Thompson
Review: Fighting Kudzu by Mystic Thompson
Review: Orphan Blade by M. Nicholas Almand & Jake Myler
Guest Blog: Women In Love
Teen Voices: Sneaky Stand-Up Stands Up to Homophobia
2013:
April
Author Guest Blog: “Awkward…” by J.T. Fairfield
Guest Blog: The New LGBTQ Teenager
Author Guest Blog: Diversity in YA
Guest Post: Kenneth Creech
Author Guest Post: Normal’s Overrated: On Being a Lesbian YA Author and Completely Not Normal by Sarah Deimer
May
Author Guest Blog: Brittany Fonte
Guest Blog: Kenneth Creech
Author Guest Blog: The N-Word vs. The F-Word by Craig Laurance Gidney
Author Guest Blog: FML by Shaun Hutchinson
Author Guest Blog: Kelly York
Author Guest Blog: If Only There Were a Gay Version of… by Robin Talley
Review: The Waiting Tree by Lindsay Moynihan
Guest Post: When Everything Goes Wrong… It’s Actually Pretty Funny by Foxglove Lee
Guest Blog: Shaun Hutchinson
Author Guest Blog: AWAKE: A YA Anthology for the Trevor Project
June:
Author Guest Blog: The Grey of Gender: Intersex and Gender Variant/Non-Binary Characters in YA by Laura Lam
Author Guest Blog: Zoe Marriott
Author Guest Blog: Marriage Equality is Only One Step by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Guest Blog: James from Book Chic Club
Guest Blog: E.M. Kokie
Industry Week Guest Blog: Amy Stern
Industry Week Guest Blog: Erin Daly
Industry Week Guest Blog: Anna Mickelsen
2012:
February:
Review: Speaking Out Anthology edited by Steve Berman
2011:
April– Our First Blogathon!
Author Guest Blog: Old Dog, New Tricks by Saundra Mitchell
Guest Blog: The Gay Gamut by Charlotte Johnson
Review: Ash by Malinda Lo
Author Guest Blog: The Shock of Recognition by Brian Farrey
Guest Blog: Being a Straight Ally by Chandra Rooney from Dreaming in Red
Review: Pink by Lili Wilkson
Author Guest Blog: Teen Novels: Once Again, a Decade Ahead of Television by Brent Hartinger
Review: Tell Me What You See by Zoran Drvenkar
Author Guest Blog: Jo Knowles
Review: Boy Meets Boy by David Leviathan
Guest Blog: We Want More Gay YA by Maggie Hira
Guest Blog: The Kids May Be Alright, But What About the Parents? by Nora Coon
Guest Blog: Holding Out for a Gay (Super)Hero! (LGBT Characters in Comics) by Karen Mahoney
Author Guest Blog: Unexpected Gifts by Julie Anne Peters
Review: Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr
Day of Silence, No Posts
Review: I Am J by Chris Beam written by Brian Katcher
Author Guest Blog: Skin Deep by Caitlin Kitteredge
Author Guest Blog: Mike Mullin
Author Guest Blog: Taking the Homophobia Out of Fantasy by Malinda Lo
Author Guest Blog: All Those Who Default From the Default Will Be Punished (But I Personally Think They Will Be Awesome) by Sarah Rees Brennan
Guest Blog: Not Through the Looking Glass But In: Seeing Yourself in YA by Debra A Touchette
Review: Vintage by Steve Berman; Review by The Book Smugglers
Author Guest Blog: Pass it On by Tiffany Trent
Author Guest Blog: The Brent Effect by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Author Guest Blog: The Coming Age of Normal by Scott Tracey
April 26th: Announcing: Guest Blog Submissions!
Author Guest Blog: Gay in YA Guest Blog by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
Author Guest Blog: “Why?” by Jennifer R. Hubbard
Author Guest Blog: First Encounters by Rachel Caine
Author Guest Blog: On Being a Straight Author Writing Queer Characters by Hannah Moskowitz
May:
Author Guest Blog: Ellen Wittlinger
Author Guest Blog: Bisexual Representation by Amy Lukavics
Author Guest Blog: My Goals as a Trans Writer by Everett Maroon
Books or Bells: The Gift of Words
Guest Blog: 2% Gay by Brittany Clarke
Author Guest Blog: The Importance of Outing Dumbledore by Robin Talley
Review: The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
Author Guest Blog: LGBT Themes and Science Fiction: Fast Friends by Everett Maroon
Author Guest Blog: Why Straight People Need to Read Gay Books by Sarah Diemer
Author Guest Blog: When the Story is About Love by Gilian Chisom
Author Guest Blog: The One Who Matters by Sara Zarr
Review: Wide Awake by David Levithan
Author Guest Blog: Considering Intersectionality by Everett Maroon
Guest Blog: The GLBT Genre by Liz Miles
Review: My Tiki Girl by Jennifer McMahon
June
Author Guest Blog: How Trans Happens by Everett Maroon
Short Story: Gomorrahs of the Deep, a Musical Coming Some Day to Off-Broadway by Steve Berman Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Guest Blog: Jacob Woods on HIV
Author Guest Blog: When Darkness Falls by Everett Maroon
Guest Blog: The Persistence and Power of Labels by S. Jae-Jones
Giving Back To LGBT and Ally Teens
Author Guest Blog: Pushing Fluids by Sarah Ryan
Author Guest Blog: Finding an Audience by Everett Maroon
Author Guest Blog: How I Knew I Was a Klutz by Everett Maroon
Author Guest Blog: James Crawford
July
Author Guest Blog: Who’s Qualified? by Karen Kincy
Author Guest Blog: Please Sir, I Want Some More by Dennis R. Upkins
Guest Blog: What I Want To See In The Bookstore by Emma Allison
Review: Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff
August
Author Guest Blog: Morning Rising by Samantha Boyette
Author Guest Blog: Relationships in YA Lit by Shannon LC Cate
A Discussion: “Just Happening to be LGBT” Dismisses a Depth of Character Part 1 & Part 2 by Robin Talley and Lucas J.W. Johnson
Author Guest Blog: Gay or Straight? Check Only One by Alex Sanchez
Guest Blog: A Letter To Young Writers by Reese Delaney
September
Review: Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey
Teen Voices: Caribbean Life of a Gay Teenager by Aju
October
Author Guest Blog: Jackie Dolamore
Review: Hushed be Kelley York
November:
Guest Post: Being Queer Friendly In Your Library by Suzie Day
Author Guest Blog: Speaking Into the Frost by Jessica Albrecht
December:
Author Guest Post: Kelly York
Teen Voices: Unbroken by Aju (sexual assault/rape tw)
Author Guest Blog: Imagine by Devin O’Branagan