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- If I Lie
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- Sara
- Shine
- Something Like Fate
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- Way He Lived, The
- Whistle Me Home
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- Winger
- WONDERland
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- Fag
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- Fly On The Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything
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- Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, The
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- Red Sheet, The
- Secrets of Truth and Beauty
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- Something Like Fate
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- Tillmon County Fire
- Twelve Days In August
- Undone
- Waiting Tree, The
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- Anything That Loves
- Artifice
- Blue Is The Warmest Color
- Boy Princess, vol. 1
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- Cardcaptor Sakura
- Charm School Graphique
- Cheeky Angel
- Day I Became A Butterfly, The
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- Friend of Dorothy
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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- Lesbians 101
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- Meeting You
- Not So Bad
- Only The Ring Finger Knows
- Pedro and Me
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- Power Within, The
- Princess Princess
- Princess, The : Gals 'n Pals
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- Silver Diamond
- Skim
- So Super Duper
- Stop Bullying Me!
- Stuck Rubber Baby
- Toe Tag Riot
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- Wandering Son, Book Two
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Easy Reader / Chapter Books with GLBTQ (and Gender Non Conforming) Content
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- Gordon the Giraffe
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- My Family: My Two Dads
- My Family: My Two Moms
- My Princess Boy
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- Ouch! Moments: When Words Are Used In Hurtful Ways
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- Pop-It - an ipad picture book app
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Books Still To Come! (I'll post them as soon as I can...)
A Gay (GLBTQ) Book Flyer
The GLBTQ Middle Grade Bookshelf
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The GLBTQ Teen Short Story Bookshelf
- Am I Blue? Coming Out From The Silence
- Athletic Shorts
- Awake
- Day I Became A Butterfly, The
- Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
- Disparate Youth (Flash Fiction)
- Diverse Energies
- Edge
- Girl Goddess #9
- God Loves Hair
- Grl2Grl
- Growing Up Gay: A Literary Anthology
- Hear Us Out: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress and Hope, 1950 to the Present
- How Beautiful The Ordinary
- How They Met, And Other Stories
- Kaleidoscope (Diverse Science Fiction and Fantasy)
- Learning To Kiss Girls
- Love and Sex: Ten Stories Of Truth
- Natural Selection
- Nightsiders
- Not The Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction For Teens
- One In Every Crowd
- Openly, Honestly
- Poison Eaters and Other Stories, The
- Resilience: Stories, Poems, Essays, Words For LGBT Teens
- Sam & Aaron
- Seasonal Velocities: Poems, Stories and Essays
- So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction
- Sock It To Me, Santa!
- Voting Booth After Dark, The
- We'll Always Have Paris
- Winter Garden and Other Stories, The
- Zombies Vs. Unicorns
GLBTQ Teen Nonfiction
- Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
- Breakthrough (Teen Scientist Jack Andraka)
- Dear Bully
- GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Teens
- Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide For Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws
- It Gets Better
- Lesbians 101
- Letter Q, The: Queer Writers' Notes To Their Younger Selves
- My New Gender Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity
- Prayers For Bobby: A Mother's Coming To Terms with The Suicide Of Her Gay Son
- Real Teen Voices Series: Vicious, Rage and Pressure
- Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
- V-Word, The: True Stories about First-Time Sex
GLBTQ Biography and Memoir
- "Bumbling Into Body Hair: A Transsexual's Memoir" by Everett Maroon
- "Deflowered: My Life In Pansy Division" by Jon Ginoli
- "Ellen: The Real Story of Ellen DeGeneres" by Kathleen Tracy
- "Fairyland: A Memoir Of My Father" by Alysia Abbott
- "Flying Through Yellow" by Gay Dancer Michael Apuzzo
- "I Used To Think I'd Make A Good Boy" by Carol Little
- "Impossibly Glamorous: How A Misfit From Kansas Became An Asian Sensation" by Charles Ayres
- "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
- "Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer" by Chely Wright
- "Man In The Middle" by John Amaechi
- "Mayor of Castro Street, The: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" by Randy Shilts
- "Me" by Ricky Martin
- "My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus" by Kelly Barth
- "My Two Wives And Three Husbands: A True Love Story" by S. Stanley Gordon
- "Naked" by David Sedaris
- "Rapture Practice: My One Way Ticket To Salvation" by Aaron Hartzler
- "Reappearing Act, The: Coming out as Gay on a college basketball team led by born-again Christians" by Kate Fagan
- "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade" by Justin Spring
- "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" by Gertrude Stein
- "They Call Me A Hero: A Memoir of My Youth" by Daniel Hernandez
- "Transition: The Story Of How I Became A Man" by Chaz Bono
- "Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain" by Portia De Rossi
- Barriers To Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity by Marina Peralta
- Forgery of the Month Club
- Honor Girl
- I Am Jazz: A picture book memoir by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
- Land Near Oz, The: Two Gay Yankees Move To New Zealand
- Lesbian Crushes at School: A Diary on growing up gay in the eighties 1983-1989 by Natasha Holme
- Letters From The Closet - A Girl's Memoir About Her Relationship With Her Gay Teacher, by Amy Hollingsworth
- Rethinking Normal: A Memoir In Transition by Katie Rain Hill
- Seasonal Velocities: Poems, Stories and Essays by Ryka Aoki
- Some Assembly Required: The Not So Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews
- Two Spirits, One Heart by Marsha Aizumi and Aiden Aizumi
- Unspoken Compromise, An: A Spiritual Guide for LGBT People Of Faith by Rizi Xavier Timane
GLBTQ Poetry
Resources
- Asexual Awareness Week
- Bully At The Blackboard: When Teachers Are The Bullies
- Bullying Research by Jaana Juvonen at UCLA
- College Guide for current and prospective LGBT students - a web resource
- Far From The Tree
- From the Dress Up Corner To The Senior Prom: Navigating Gender and Sexuality Diversity in Pre-K - 12 Schools
- Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth, The - a great Non Fiction Book On Bullying
- Gender Now Coloring Book
- It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health - for ages 10 and up
- Joy Nash's Fat Rant
- Michael Levin was at the Stonewall Bar the night the Rebellion began
- Not All Trans People Feel "Trapped" In The Wrong Body
- On Starting A Middle School GSA
- Phyllis Lyon Tells About Falling In Love With Another Woman in 1953 and the Founding of The Daughters of Bilitis
- Rainbow Family Collections: Selecting and Using Children's Books with LGBTQ Content
- Straight Parent, Gay Kid
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project's "Toliet Training" video on the challenges gender non conforming people face in using public bathrooms
- Teaching Teachers How To Stop Bullying
- The Beauty Industry exposed
- The Importance of GLBTQ books in Middle Schools
- This Is A Book For Parents Of Gay Kids
- Transforming Practice - a transgender resource for health care providers (you may want to suggest it to yours)
- Two Spirits, One Heart
- Video From Teen Line – LGBTQ: Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
- What Makes A Baby (Picture Book)
- Where Are The Gay Parents In Children's Literature?
"No Way, They Were Gay? Hidden Lives and Secret Loves"
Publishes April 6, 2021
No Way, They Were Gay?
"Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill"
"Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill" YA Novel
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What if you knew a secret from history that could change the world?
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill
- Why I'm serializing my entire YA novel for free here on this blog
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill Kickoff: Chapters 1 & 2
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 3
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 4
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 5
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 6
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 7
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 8
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 9
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 10
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 11
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 12
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 13
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 14
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 15
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 16
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 17
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 18
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 19
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 20
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 21
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 22
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 23
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 24
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 25
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 27
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 26
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 28
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 29
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 30
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 31
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 32
- Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Chapter 33, Epilogue, and Author's Note
Gay Teen Books, Culture, Politics, Social Justice, Equality, GSA Info... and More!
Yes, "Gay Teen" includes Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Queer and Gender Non-Conforming Teens! And of course, Allies are welcome!
contact me via e-mail: leewind (at) roadrunner (dot) com
Lee will be at...
September 2018
“Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa Pei” Talk Radio show - Lee booked as featured guest on September 25
October 2018 - Publish Date of Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: Oct 2, 2018
Lambda Literary Festival - panel on Crowdfunding Queer Lit and reading - online Oct 1. Register here.
Star Style Radio Show with Cynthia Brian - Lee featured guest on October 3 program. Listen here.
Pasadena Fall Art Night - YA panel on Oct 12 in Pasadena
West Hollywood Library Teen Read Week - 10:30am October 13
San Gabriel Valley Pride - Authors Tent presentation, 1:00 pm on Oct 13 in Pasadena
Launch Party at Highways - 7:00pm in Santa Monica
Models of Pride - present "Discover our LGBTQ History" and give out free copies of Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill from the Camp Brave Trails booth on Oct 20 in Los Angeles
November 2018
Book Baby Independent Authors Conference - lead networking session "How do you measure success?" in Philadelphia, PA
Presentation and Reading at Palm Springs Public Library on Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill on Nov 7
March 2019
KidLitCon19 in Rhode Island
April 2019
IBPA Publishing University in Chicago
June 2019
ALA Annual in Washington, D.C.
Agents Looking For Diversity: The Interviews!
- Adriana DomÃnguez (Full Circle Literary)
- Jennifer Laughran (Andrea Brown Literary Agency)
- Marietta Zacker (Nancy Gallt Literary Agency)
- Tina Wexler (ICM Partners)
- Sarah Davies (Greenhouse Literary)
- Joanna Volpe (New Leaf Literary and Media)
- Bridget Smith (Dunham Literary)
- Amy Boggs (Donald Maass Literary Agency)
- Jen Rofé (Andrea Brown Literary Agency)
- Jim McCarthy (Dystel & Goderich Literary Management)
- Maria Vicente (P.S. Literary)
- Sara Megibow (KT Literary)
- Thao Le (Sandra Dijkstra & Associates Literary Agency)
- Laura Zats (Red Sofa Literary)
- Linda Epstein (Emerald City Literary Agency)
- Linda Camacho (Prospect Agency)
- Penny Moore (Fine Print Literary)
- Tricia Lawrence (Erin Murphy Literary Agency)
- Ayanna Coleman (Quill Shift Literary Agency)
- Jennifer Udden (Barry Goldblatt Literary)
- Tanusri Prasanna (Hannigan Salky Geltzler Agency)
Agents Looking For Diversity: Interviews Coming Up...
- we'll see who's next...
Editors Looking For Diversity
End Bullying And Smash Stereotypes!
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Gender 101 Video Series
- A Map Of Gender-Diverse Cultures Across The World
- Episode #01: Don't Box Me In
- Episode #02: Thinking About Gender
- Episode #03: A New Vocabulary
- Episode #04: "cis," "trans," and "queer": Words To Describe Gender
- Episode #05: "Bisexual" & "Pansexual" - what's the difference?
- Episode #06: Being Gender Queer In Our World
- Episode #07: Gender Neutral Bathrooms - and why they're important
- Episode #08: Gender Queer Advice & Resources
- Episode #09: Family & Coming Out As Gender Variant
- Episode #10: Gendered Words in our Language and Culture
- Episode #11: Gendered Vitamins and Toys
- Episode #12: Gender-Neutral Restaurant Etiquette (and socks!)
- Episode #13: Presenting & Passing
- Episode #14: Genderfork.com
- Episode #15: Transsexual, Transgender and Drag Queen/Drag King
- Episode #16: The Alien Abduction Question
- Episode #17: The No Pronoun Preference
- Episode #18: Being Trans Enough
- Episode #19: Meet Frankie
- Episode #20: Gender Queer People Of Color and the QPOCC2012 Conference
- Episode #21: Frankie's Gender Queer Heroes
- Episode #22: Community Insurance
- Episode #23: Meet Nenu
- Episode #24: Nenu's Gender Non-Conforming Heroes
- Episode #25: How Gender Non-Conforming Are YOU?
- Episode #26: Meet Emmi
- Episode #27: Emmi's Gender Non-Conforming Heroes
- Episode #28: Emmi's Advice On Interacting With Gender Non-Conforming People
- Episode #29: Meet B J
- Episode #30: B J on Role Models, Hiding and Healing
- Episode #31: Benji, Nenu, Frankie and Emmi on Presenting
- Episode #32: Nenu and Frankie on being Gender Queer and People Of Color
- Episode #33: Benji, Nenu, Emmi and BJ on being "Enough"
- Episode #34: Lucy, Nenu, Emmi and BJ on the "T" in GLBT
- Episode #35: Lucy, Nenu, Emmi and BJ on Misconceptions About Being Gender Queer
- Episode #36: Gender Queer Panel Finale
- Episode #37: Sylvia Rivera
Coming Out or Looking For Support? Check out
- Brent Hartinger Says It So Well!
- Dan Savage and his husband Terry tell GLBTQ kids and teens "IT GETS BETTER!"
- Dustin Lance Black accepts his OSCAR for "MILK"... and has a message for Gay kids Today!
- Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network
- Gay Straight Alliance Network
- Human Rights Campaign's Resource Guide for Coming Out
- National Coming Out Day - Every Day
- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
- Project UROK - no matter what you're going through, you're not alone
- Q & A (Queer and Asian Pacific-Islander) Space - Coming Out Stories!
- The National LGBT Scholarship Fund
- The Trevor Project (866-4-U-TREVOR)
Visit The Official SCBWI Conference Blog (click icon below)
SCBWI TEAM BLOG!
My SCBWI Interviews - Authors, Agents & More
- Best-Selling Author, Illustrator and Author/Illustrator Adam Rex
- Best-Selling Author and Editor Jane O'Connor
- Author & #WeNeedDiverseBooks Outreach Exec. Miranda Paul
- Associate Publisher & Editor Bonnie Bader
- Editor Deborah Halverson
- Editor Sara Sargent
- Executive Editor Namrata Tripathi
- StoryApp Author Sarah Towle
- Agent Joanna Volpe
- Award-Winning Author/Illustrator Shaun Tan
- Executive Editor Françoise Bui
- Editorial Director Yolanda Scott
- Publisher and Editor Jennifer Besser
- Two Time Newbery Medal-Winning Author Lois Lowry
- Multi-Award Winning Author/Illustrator Mo Willems
- Editor Nick Eliopulos
- National Book Award-Winning Author M.T. Anderson
- Literary Agent Josh Adams
- Newbery Medal-Winning Author Paul Fleischman
- Literary Manager/Producer Eddie Gamarra
- Art Director Laurent Linn
- Multi-Award Winning Author Jacqueline Woodson
- New York Times Bestselling Author Ellen Hopkins
- New York Times Bestselling Author Holly Black
For Writers
- Dear Authors - a queer teen's spoken word poem about LGBTQAI+ representation
- Judith Marcin on Crafting Queer Characters
- Mary E. Cronin's Workshop on Gay (LGBT) & Questioning Characters In Middle Grade: a guest post
- The LGBTQ Q&A sessions at SCBWI’s twice-annual International Conferences – a resource – and community) for writing and illustrating LGBTQ characters and themes for kids, tweens and teens
Great Blogs I Read
Lee's Musings
Bitchin' Queer Quotes and Poems
GSA Mondays: Topics to Spark Discussion & Build Community
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Submission Guidelines: If you are an author or publisher, I do not generally accept review copies, since I don't really review the books featured on this blog - My goal is to let readers review them. All I need is a synopsis (including what's significantly GLBTQ about the book - so I know why I should include it here), a link to the author website or some online info or interview with the author, and the book's release date (as I don't post on books before they are available to the public.) Please make sure to include your contact info so I can follow up with you!
Disclaimer: Having said that, some of the books discussed on this blog may have been provided by the author or publisher. The opinions expressed on this blog, unless they're a comment from someone else, are my own.
Disclosure: As of July 5, 2020, if you click on a book here on this blog and it takes you to bookshop.org, there is an affiliate relationship in place where 10% of that book order will come back to me, Lee Wind. I hope that works for you. And if it doesn't, no worries. I hope you buy your books somewhere that feels good to you. Thanks!
Please, be kind and patient with each other, with yourselves, and, well - with me. Thanks! Lee
Please, be kind and patient with each other, with yourselves, and, well - with me. Thanks! Lee
6 comments:
Hey Lee - didn't know if you'd seen this:
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/summer-of-love/
Aerin, I hadn't seen it, but it's GREAT! Thanks so much,
Namaste,
Lee
Man, I wish I had her for my commencement ceremony!
BTW, Lee, I subscribe to Margaret and Helen's blog. They're hysterical.
Love that woman. That was awesome!
Thanks for posting that, Lee!!!
Here's another one:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_re_us/us_male_prom_queen
(Lee, this would be so much easier if you were on Facebook. C'mon, cave to peer pressure....!!)
:)
Hi Aerin, I'm blogging about Sergio Garcia being voted Prom Queen on MONDAY - we're so on the same page!!!
Oh, and I AM on Facebook - click on the "facebook" button just below my photo in the right hand column to find me!
Thanks again!
Namaste,
Lee
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