Good Comics for Kids
Tag: Gay
Jane Austen, Cowboys, and Comics, a guest post by Rey Terciero
The idea bubbled up practically overnight: the story of a young, gay, Hispanic teen (that’s me), who falls in love with a cowboy (that’s Texas), who may or may not be a killer (and that’s Jane Austen).
Book Review: I Have Something to Tell You–For Young Adults: A Memoir by Chasten Buttigieg
Buttigieg wants readers to know they are never alone. He shows that you get to write your own story. A hopeful and comforting look at a life that finally feels like it fits.
To Remember is to Live Again, a guest post by Federico Erebia
Daniel was the funniest person I’ve known, and I believe I have brought him back to life within the pages of our book. I’m sharing him with the rest of the world, which was my ultimate goal.
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Book Review: Different for Boys by Patrick Ness with illustrations by Tea Bendix
This raw, emotional, experimental story is a powerful read. In turns melancholy, brutal, and funny, this is an innovative look at loneliness and sexuality.
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?
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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.
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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