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The Love That Lives Here: On Queer Girls, Transboys, and Sex on the Page

By admin|2020-03-28T13:40:50-05:00June 1st, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Blogathon 2016, Writers on Writing|Tags: Latinx, PoC, Trans|

by Anna-Marie McLemore Sex-on-the-page. Doesn’t that sound like some kind of drink book lovers should come up with? Like sex-on-the-beach, but more bookish. (Paging Dahlia Adler, because I think she would have some ideas about what should go in this.) The fact that I'm talking about drink recipes probably gives away the fact that I'm a little uncomfortable with what I'm gonna talk about right now. But I'm gonna do it anyway. For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m a queer girl of color, and I'm married to a transgender guy I met as a teen, and who I [...]

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Transcript: Gay YA Interview with Francesca Lia Block

By admin|2020-03-28T13:42:41-05:00September 13th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|

In August of this year, we had the honor of interviewing Francesca Lia Block, author of numerous Gay YA novels including Weetzie Bat, first published in 1989, and our August Book of the Month, Love in the Time of Global Warming, and its companion, The Island of Excess Love. The audio has already been released, and can be found HERE. The interview below is between Francesca Lia Block and Victoria & Kathleen, admins of GayYA.org. - V: Hi everyone, I’m Victoria. K: And I’m Kathleen. We’re going to be talking to Francesca Lia Block today about her book [...]

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REVIEW: Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

By admin|2020-03-28T13:42:42-05:00July 4th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Club, Book Review, Teen Voices|

SILHOUETTE OF A SPARROW is GayYA’s July Book of the Month. We are giving away a signed copy in our monthly raffle, which you can enter HERE! Upon opening Silhouette of a Sparrow, I took its first-person narrative as a tragic misstep, which is the case in many YA novels I have read (or, attempted to read). I was pleasantly mistaken, and by chapter 2, I was hooked. Silhouette of a Sparrow is narrated by 16-year-old Garnet Richardson, a bird-lover with a curious mind and an honest voice, who is sent to stay with relatives, the Harringtons, over the summer while [...]

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Being a Straight Ally

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:21-05:00April 5th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: Allies, Bisexual|

Chandra Rooney has threatened to stop watching Glee if Kurt and Blaine break up. She sporadically updates her personal blog (Dreaming in Red,) and you can follow her on twitter as @sakuralovestea. If you had asked teen me to name LGBTQ characters and canon pairings in YA lit, most of them would’ve come from Asian comics. The novels I remember reading as a teen—LJ Smith, Christopher Pike, RL Stine—were all hetro couples; manga was where to find the variety. It was probably Cardcaptor Sakura that I most connected with; CLAMP had written a story reflecting the relationships [...]

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THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 4th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: Representation|

I think my greatest hope as a writer is that I’ll resonate with someone. Not everyone. I think it’s impossible to write something that resonates with everyone. But even if just one person reads something I wrote and can empathize with a character or a situation, I’ve done what I set out to do. When writing succeeds, it’s because of resonance. The writer holds up a mirror and gives us the shock of recognition. Sometimes we relate to a character’s aspirations. Sometimes we just understand their hardships. I’m not sure I believe in universal truths but I definitely [...]

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Review: Ash by Malinda Lo

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 4th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: lesbian, Queer Girls|

Review by Andrea of Aines Realm. Andrea is a book reviewer and blogger and can be found on Twitter @AineFey. I read Ash by Malinda Lo a few months ago for a book club. It was one of my favorite books I’ve read this year. It’s a retelling of the classic Fairy Tale, Cinderella, but with many differences. It starts out very similar, with the mother passing away and the father remarrying a woman with two daughters of her own, followed shortly by his own death. Due to her father’s money not being able to keep a household running, [...]

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The Gay Gamut

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 2nd, 2011|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading|Tags: Representation|

Today's guest post was written by Charlotte Johnson of Lady Charlotte's House of Delirium. Enjoy! Admittedly, my exposure to LGBT characters in young adult fiction has been less than desired. Perhaps the first gay character I met was in Holly Black’s second novel, Valiant, which of course was Ruth (and eventually Luis, but only in retrospect…actually, I wasn’t even sure Ruth was a lesbian because Jen, a girl who did not approve of Val, had called her so). Then, when I read Tithe, I met Corny. Oh dear, Corny, those scenes between him and Nephamael were almost [...]

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Old Dog, New Tricks

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 2nd, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: censorship|

Originally posted at Making Stuff Up For A Living. Thanks to Saundra for allowing us to repost! By: Saundra Mitchell When sister Deb Jessica Verday told us that her editor for WICKED PRETTY THINGS insisted that the G-rated, one-kiss gay romance in her story had to become a het romance to be published, I was appalled, but not surprised. I came out in 1989, and as a YA author, I try not to spend a lot of time pointing out how much older I am than my audience. But even though 1989 seems recent to me, it’s more than two [...]

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Blogathon Schedule

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 1st, 2011|Categories: Archive|

We are so excited to have so many great participants in our "Gay in YA" Blogathon launch! We'll be posting the first installment in the blogathon in just a few moments, but first we wanted to say a big, gigantic THANK YOU to all our bloggers. We couldn't have made any of this happen without you, and we are so excited to see what you have to say about LGBTQ in YA and share it with the rest of the worlf. The outpouring of support from everybody we have talked to and approached with this idea has been overwhelming [...]

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By admin|2016-05-24T14:54:18-05:00April 1st, 2011|Categories: Archive|

Hey everyone! We're almost there - launch day! We'll be starting our Gay in YA Blogathon and opening up our brand new forums at 7 PM CST tonight. Stay tuned to join the community and look for some giveaways coming up on our Twitter!

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