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Tag: Gay
Book Review: The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor
This book is so sweet. We need this middle grade book with sweet gay boys finding first love and connection.
Wide Open Spaces: Writing the “Rural” YA Novel, a guest post by Gary Eldon Peter
How might life be different for a gay teenager living on a farm, in a rural community? What challenges might he face that a gay teenager in an urban community would not?
Book Review: The Loophole by Naz Kutub
Part travel adventure, part magical mystery, and part personal quest for identity and direction, this was a joy to read.
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From Snow to Grow to Glow, a guest post by Naz Kutub
This book is my proudest accomplishment, and I hope that young, marginalized, underrepresented teens of the future who look like me won’t have to travel the world just to see themselves in a story.
“You Mean Not Everybody Feels Like This?”: Self-Discovery Through Writing, a guest post by Andrew Joseph White
When I was growing up, if I had a big feeling about something, books were the first place I turned…but there was nothing on the shelves that could have helped me learn about being queer, or trans, or autistic.
I Wrote a Romance, a guest post by Gary Lonesborough
Being a writer was always something I aspired to, but I think that if someone told me that I’d spend months working on a manuscript and then I’d change protagonists and perspectives and rewrite the whole story from scratch, I’d probably faint and decide to aspire to being a car salesman or something.
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There’s Something About Insta-Love, a guest post by Phil Stamper
On rom-coms and insta-love: "As an author of queer YA, I get to take it one step further. I can break the trope apart and put it back together the way I want—celebrating the similarities and differences of queer love in all its forms."
Book Review: As Far As You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper
A realistically messy and painful story about finding your people and being yourself.
Book Review: Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala
Full of messages about hiding yourself, authenticity, identity, being in costume to really be seen, trust, creation, and accomplishment, this fun read has wide appeal.
Book Review: Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha
This emotional read shows that already complicated relationships can become more complicated when HIV is involved, but that that diagnosis doesn't spell doom and gloom for the characters.
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