From YA Pride: 2012 LGBT YA by the numbers — in which I crunch some 2012 numbers and make pie charts.
YA Pride: 2012 LGBT YA Books, July-September
Every Friday in June, I’ll be listing the YA novels first published in the United States in 2012 that include LGBT main characters. Today I’m covering books published in the third quarter: July-September.
Check it out! Author Malinda Lo is compiling a great reference of LGBT YA books that are being published this year!
YA Pride: Change Without Blame
Over Memorial Day weekend, I attended WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention, in Madison, Wisconsin. I did a couple of panels there, including one called “De-Gaying and Whitewashing: What Publishing Trends Mean for Writers.” Here’s the program description:
Can radically feminist and anti-racist works survive the “gate-keeping” process? Is there room in the mainstream for works that dramatically challenge the status quo? In the past year or so, the twitto-sphere has been abuzz with hashtags like “YESGayYA” and “YASaves”. Articles about the “de-gaying” and whitewashing of YA literature have raised people’s ire and ignited a volleying of retorts from writers and reviewers/agents/editors. Let’s talk about some of these perceptions in publishing and what they might mean for writers, particularly those who want to challenge commonly held notions and beliefs.The panel was moderated by the very capable Mary Anne Mohanraj, and the other panelists were author and professor Andrea Hairston, Tor editor Liz Gorinsky, and author Neesha Meminger. At the beginning of the panel I wrote down something that Andrea Hairston said that I think is very important. She asked us to focus on how we can make change without making blame.
Thanks, Penguin Teen!
I am going to need to start organizing all these book and reading lists for future reference (and I know I have more somewhere around here… will compile a future post with links to these). Tumblr has been awesome for this lately.
I will also try to reblog ANY reading lists I find on tumblr - all will be filed into the tag reading resources. I often come across some unique queer themed or feminist or ya reading lists/suggestions/recommendations, that a lot of people probably didn’t even know they were looking for or needed.
PS, Anything YA gets the tag ya lit. Just so you know how this blog rolls.
Great Gay Teen Books from Alex Sanchez
Alex Sanchez has compiled a great list of LGBTQ books for teens. He’s the author of a number of books including, Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box and Boyfriends with Girlfriends.
