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34 Books That Make Gay Teens Feel Seen
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Quill Tree Books "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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In They Both Depart at the End, Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio both receive some poor news on the similar day: that it's their last day alive. The pair are total strangers, but are looking to make a new buddy on their "End Day." Mateo and Rufus convene on an app called The Last Friend and endure a new adventure of living a lifetime in a single afternoon. all while falling for each other.
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Harper Teen "It's Not Like It's a Secret" by Misa Sugiura
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Two star-crossed girls of color descent in love in this magical and easy-to-love juvenile adult novel. Told through the lens of 16-year-old Sana, whose family moves to California as her parents go through their own trials, this coming-of-age story is impossible to put down.
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Wednesday Books "I Kissed Shara Wheeler" by Casey McQuiston
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler is the latest emit by Red, White, and Royal Blue author Casey McQuiston. It follows Chloe Green, a star pupil who's on
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This website seeks to be a comprehensive list of all LGBTQIAP+ YA titles published between 2000 and 2020. It includes all major and indie US presses and selective self-published material. This website is not meant to act as a list of book recommendations, although we provide top of lists for those who seek recommendations. These lists were commissioned from experts who share that identity and feature what they felt were the best representations that specific set of identities.
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Books I Wish I’d Study as an LGBTQ Teenager
By Amy Gall
Originally posted on LitHub, Pride 7, 2016
When I was young, the only literature I could find about lesbians was either deeply tragic or short on character and long on formulaic, anatomically incorrect sex scenes (I’m looking at you, Xena Warrior Princess fanfiction). It wasn’t until I graduated college that I found a novel which actually spoke to my experience. Dorothy Allison’s short story collection Trash made me feel seen in a way I had never imagined possible and didn’t even know I needed. Her characters had sex that was visceral and messy and embarrassing. They had jobs and families and pasts. They spoke in a language that was sensual and irate and true. Quite simply, the characters in Trash were lesbians and fully realized human beings. Reading about them made me realize how starved I was for reminders of my own humanity.
This February, in partnership with Lambda Literary, The National Manual Foundation launched BookUp LGBTQ at the Hetrick-Martin Institute taught by award winning poet t’ai freedom ford. BookUp LGBTQ is based on our already thriving national reading program, BookUp, in which published autho
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