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Celebrating Queer Joy through Stories

By |2020-08-22T17:11:07-05:00August 25th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , |

by Auriane Desombre In my sophomore year of college, one of my best friends made me watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. I didn’t think I would like it, but he basically tied me to a chair and forced me to watch, and, a handful of episodes in, I was proved extremely wrong. I loved it. So much so that, when we’d watched all three seasons of Avatar, we kept right on going into Legend of Korra, the sequel show. The last season of Korra was still airing when we started, and I caught up in time [...]

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Love, Respect, and Celebration: The Legacy of Queer Literature

By |2020-08-19T01:15:44-05:00August 22nd, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , |

Caleb Roehrig has written several YA novels starring queer characters, including mystery, heist, and vampire novels. Buy them from one of the author's favorite indies, Literati Bookstore or The Book Cellar! by Caleb Roehrig In 2011, three and a half years before I wrote the manuscript that would become my debut novel, my husband and I put all of our belongings into storage and we moved to Helsinki, Finland. It was a world away from everything we knew, in an unfamiliar country where we didn’t speak the language, and where we had [...]

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We Can Be Heroes

By |2020-08-21T06:32:41-05:00August 21st, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Readers on Reading|Tags: , , |

This Summer, YA Pride has been running a pre-order campaign for three upcoming books by queer Black authors. The Summer of Everything is one of those books! We're at 11 pre-orders for it now, and would love to get to 25-- just 14 away! If you pre-order the book and tweet or email us proof of purchase (contact@yapride.org), we will add it to the count! by Julian Winters Growing up, I struggled with reading. I simply couldn’t get into the books assigned to me in class and rarely read [...]

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Teens Talk About LGBTQIAP+ YA: Part 1

By |2020-08-19T22:34:34-05:00August 21st, 2020|Categories: Archive, Readers on Reading, Teen Voices|Tags: , , , , , |

Earlier this year, we asked teens to tell us about the LGBTQIAP+ YA books that have touched their lives. This is our first round-up of those stories! We are so excited to be able to share these. Books can touch lives in unseen ways, something that is especially the case for LGBTQIAP+ YA books. We wanted to make some of those unseen experiences visible. This series of post is a reminder of why LGBTQIAP+ YA is so important, why it is so necessary for all of us to keep writing and advocating for these books. "Of Fire [...]

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On shelving–and unshelving–the book of my heart

By |2020-08-13T21:55:12-05:00August 20th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , |

by Rebecca Kim Wells In 2015 I reached a major milestone in my writing career: I signed with a literary agent. The book I had written was a dark fairy tale-inspired YA fantasy, drenched with blood and magic and lies and quests. It was also a book featuring a queer main character and romantic relationship. I saw no reason for this to be a problem. It was true that there weren’t that many queer YA books out there (especially not published by major US publishers), but there were some. [...]

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Writing Your Way Out Of The Closet

By |2020-08-13T21:19:35-05:00August 19th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , |

by Abdi Nazemian Many years ago, after my first book – an adult gay novel called The Walk-In Closet was published – a wonderful and open-minded Iranian therapist hosted a book club at her home. The attendees were largely Iranians of my parents’ generation. They all dressed for the event like it was an awards show. It was very formal. And I was very afraid. Because up until then, I had largely been hiding my queerness from my cultural community. Or maybe the right way to put it is that they had been choosing not to see [...]

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When Queer Books Lead to Queer BFFs

By |2020-08-18T10:25:07-05:00August 18th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , |

by Kelly Quindlen Three years ago, when I was going through a rough patch, my parents gave me some advice. “We think you need queer friends,” my dad said. “Have you considered a gay cruise?” I laughed out loud when he suggested it, but I knew the larger point was true: I was starving for friends who reflected my queerness back to me. I have some amazing friends, but they are overwhelmingly straight and cis. This is not their fault. We can’t all be blessed with queerness. But the point [...]

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The Path to Publication: Writing the Queer Black Girls of Cinderella Is Dead 

By |2020-08-13T20:48:08-05:00August 17th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

by Kalynn Bayron I’ve always been a fan of genre fiction. From horror to fantasy to sci-fi. I love all things magical and atmospheric and bone chilling. I’m a writer because I was a reader, first. In those stories I found ghosts, mythical creatures, people with impossible powers, aliens, orcs, fairies, elves, kings and queens. What I didn’t see was Black people or queer people. Until I discovered Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler I didn’t see Black women centered and I didn’t see queer people being treated with care and concern, [...]

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#PreorderWithYAPride: Queer YA by Queer Black Authors

By |2020-08-20T19:58:50-05:00June 6th, 2020|Categories: Archive, New Releases|Tags: , |

Let's give an extra bundle of love and support to the queer Black authors in our community! Over the next few weeks we'll be posting some of our favorite previously published titles by queer Black authors on social media, as well as sharing a database of LGBTQIAP+ YA written by Black authors. But we also want to give some love to upcoming titles! One way you can do that is by pre-ordering these three queer YA books by queer Black authors. Let's be clear: structural racism in the book community and publishing industry will not be solved [...]

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My YA Pride: Submit Your Story About LGBTQIAP+ YA

By |2020-05-19T01:00:18-05:00May 19th, 2020|Categories: Archive|

LGBTQIAP+ YA books change lives. This Pride month, we want to collect stories about those life-changing experiences. Has your life been impacted by LGBTQIAP+ YA? Now's your chance to tell your story! We want to feature as many as possible during this year's Blogathon. If you're interested in submitting something, you can either email us directly with your submission at contact@yapride.org, or submit your experience via Google Forms (link below). There is no hard and fast word limit-- our shortest submission to date is just under 100 words, but we also publish pieces on our site [...]

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