October 2010
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Fuck Yeah, YA Books: GLBT Books →
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In honor of Spirit Day today, I’ve compiled a list of great YA books featuring gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered characters.
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan
- Hero by Perry Moore
- Rainbow Boys, Rainbow High, and Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez
- Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
- Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
- Naomi And Ely’s No-Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- The Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
- The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
- Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
- Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
- Keeping You A Secret and Luna by Julie Anne Peters
- Ash by Malinda Lo
- The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson
- Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
- Empress Of The World by Sara Ryan
- The Vast Fields Of Ordinary by Nick Burd
- The God Box by Alex Sanchez
Some of these are my personal favorites (like Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Hero) and some were contributed by others. Thanks to everyone who helped! Books like Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson helped me get through depression as a teen, and maybe some of these books can provide the same kind of support for GLBT teens who are struggling every day.
Reblog if you have a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered friend in your life who you love & accept unconditionally.
I may be a self-described Boring Heterosexual Person, but that doesn’t mean I can’t celebrate Coming Out Day in my own little way.
I’m a bisexual who has several friends across the LGBT spectrum; reblogging in the name of love ♥
Love to all <3.
“I guess I look for songs that bring tears to my eyes – is the Sufjan Stevens song Casimir Pulaski Day . It’s a recollection of a friend who died of bone cancer as a teenager. The key moment is that after the friend dies in a hospital room, there’s this line ‘the cardinal hits the window’. The cardinal is the beautiful Mid-Western red bird. Oh, God. That’s a killer line. It’s just so good.”
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Jonathan Franzen in the Irish Times.
You know, despite all the hullabaloo nothing fully convinced me that I had to read him — until this. Too bad the realisation comes one week after he gave a reading ten minutes from my house. Ah well.
Stuff
- Life is kind of terrifying, but hiding under the covers forever isn’t really an option, so yeah. Facing it it is.
- I feel like a kid going to kindergarten for the first time most days. I guess some things never change.
- My social skills could really use some brushing up. I’ve no idea what to do about it, though, because it’s not like I don’t know the theory of how to interact with people. But when the moment to actually do it comes, I freeze.
- I know the failing is completely my own, but having said that I still wish people weren’t so quick to mistake shyness for snottiness and didn’t react quite so aggressively or resentfully.
- My professor and most of my classmates hadn’t heard of Patrick Ness before. That has now changed. #Ilivetospreadthelove
- Future librarians aren’t necessarily as book-obsessed as I am. I don’t mean that this is a failing on their part, of course. But I guess my illusions about a room full of kindred spirits have been shattered.
- I miss my cats and dogs.
- I’m going to see a stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol in December! I’m sure it’s going to be wonderful and Christmasy and awesome.
- Perfect Autumn days, books, walks in the park and chocolate make even the loneliest, most difficult days at least bearable.
