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Queerbaiting Survival Guide: Queer Writers on Affirming Representation – Part 2

By |2021-01-14T12:43:48-05:00January 14th, 2021|Categories: Archive|Tags: , |

In November, the long-running TV show Supernatural came to an end. The finale left not only queer fans but also fans who are struggling with depression and trauma recovery feeling deeply hurt and unheard by one of their favorite shows. Although our focus here at YA Pride is not on TV, we are all too familiar with the pain of being let down by media. It hurts in a way that few other things do. While most fans have recuperated a bit from the ending of the show, some of the pain still remains. And although Supernatural is the most recent [...]

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Queerbaiting Survival Guide: Queer Writers on Affirming Representation – Part 1

By |2021-01-13T00:22:17-05:00January 13th, 2021|Categories: Archive|Tags: , |

In November, the long-running TV show Supernatural came to an end. The finale left not only queer fans but also fans who are struggling with depression and trauma recovery feeling deeply hurt and unheard by one of their favorite shows. Although our focus here at YA Pride is not on TV, we are all too familiar with the pain of being let down by media. It hurts in a way that few other things do. While most fans have recuperated a bit from the ending of the show, some of the pain still remains. And although [...]

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Fan Fiction: By Us, For Us

By |2020-08-24T18:41:25-05:00August 26th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , |

by Kayla Ancrum As the days blur together and book shipping times get longer, people are beginning to reinvest their time in fan fiction. The art form is hardly without prejudice. Even mentioning it here might elicit some wincing or an eye roll or two. Most of the serious fiction writers I’ve met view it with disdain: a 7/11 lunch of doritos, arizona tea and beef jerky to their white wine and salmon with a salad on the side. Several authors I know personally, who honed their [...]

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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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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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They Turned My Gay Teen Novel Into a Movie. Here’s What I Learned.

By |2020-03-28T13:42:00-05:00May 3rd, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , , |

by Brent Hartinger Geography Club (HarperTeen, 2003) They've turned my 2003 gay teen novel Geography Club into a movie. It came out in 2013 (and it's on Netflix now if you're curious). Since then, people have asked me how it all happened and what I've learned from the whole experience. What did I learn? The story starts when I graduated from college and decided to try to make a career writing novels and screenplays. It was the early 90s, and one of my first books was a young adult novel about a gay teen named Russel Middlebrook and his misfit [...]

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Orphan Blade by M. Nicholas Almand & Jake Myler: Review

By |2020-03-28T13:42:20-05:00December 23rd, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: , , , , , , , |

“Orphan Blade is pretty gruesome,” the email warned. “You don’t have to review it if you’re not a fan of blood, gore, guts and monsters.” Nonsense! I thought blithely, cheerful and ready to accept whatever queer YA literature might grace my inbox for review. It’s a graphic novel. How gross can it be? As it turns out, gross enough to make me wince, flip through pages, and shiver with the kind of deep, primal disgust that comes with Jake Myler’s illustrations. Myler explore all the textural unpleasantries of skin – boils, scales, slime, and of course, what skin flaps in jagged shards [...]

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Welcome to the Mainstream

By |2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 14th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Teen Voices|Tags: , , , , |

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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