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Today on the site I&#;m delighted to welcome Rebecca Bendheim, author of the upcoming lesbian Middle Grade When You&#;re Brave Enough, which releases April 7, from Viking Books for Young Readers! Here&#;s the story:
A heartfelt, gorgeously written debut middle grade novel about best friends, first crushes, and coming out—perfect for fans of Kyle Lukoff and Jake Maia Arlow.
Before she moved from Austin to Rhode Island, everybody knew Lacey as one half of an inseparable duo: Lacey-and-Grace, optimal friends since they were toddlers. Grace and her moms were practically family. But at school, creature lumped together with overeager, worm-obsessed, crushes-on-everyone Grace meant Lacey never quite fit in—and that’s why at her new middle college, Lacey plans to reinvent herself. This time, she’s going to be hip. She’s going to be normal.
At first, everything seems to go as planned. Lacey makes new friends right away, she finds a rabbi to support her prepare for the bat mitzvah that got deprioritized by her parents in the chaos of the move, and she even gets cast in the lead role of the eigh
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Recently The Fresh York Times place out a list of the Optimal Books of the 21st Century, and it’s generated a lot of discussion — including why this list is coming out in Regardless, it’s a combination of more than authors’ and literary experts’ views on the foremost books of the century so far, which is an interesting idea. They then followed it up with the Readers Pick list, which is the top books according to everyday NYT readers.
Of course, one question that immediately came to my mind upon seeing this list was, “How many of these books are queer? What are the best gay books of the century?” So, I’ve compiled the LGBTQIA+ books on both lists here. This is imperfect, because it’s just based on me scrolling through the lists and picking out the ones I know have gay and/or trans main characters (or a focus on gay and/or trans people, if it’s nonfiction). It’s very likely I missed something, so please allow me know in the comments if you spot any oversights!
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The day after the election, November 6, having spent the previous evening cooking and consuming a healthy meal of grass-fed beef and roasted green beans and quinoa as a form of self-care, I sat at the kitchen table eating every unpartnered piece of our leftover Halloween treats. KitKats whose wrappers were red as the electoral chart. Bags of popcorn labeled, preposterously, Lesser Evil. Coconut-chocolate bars called Unreal.
Around lunchtime, deep into this who-cares sugar binge, I opened my email and saw a new Substack post from Patrick Nathan, an excellent writer and an especially astute critic of all the ways—both explicitly and implicitly—our country has embraced authoritarianism. America, he writes in his newsletter, not as a state but as a mythology and set of unifying ideals, is dead. It’s clearer than ever, he says, that “there is no ‘we’ on a national level, and there won’t be anytime soon.”
And yet, writes Nathan, “if America is dead, our communities survive.” If our national politics has become little more than farcical theater, our towns and city councils and neighborhood
LGBTQ Young Adult Fiction & Graphic Novels
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From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, Colorless & Royal Blue comes a romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to come across what you need
An legendary sci-fi graphic novel relationship between two non-binary characters as they find one another through time, distance, and war. An marvelous story that explores the complexity of human world and what brings us together.
Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
New York Common Library Best Books for Teens
Cybils Award Winner
GLAAD Media Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
A sweet, queer teen intimacy perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Check, Please!
Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her s
#1 New York Times bestseller! Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera reunite to continue the story of Arthur and Ben, the boys readers first fell for in the bestselling rom-com What If It’s Us