gay young adult lit Archives

Blue book cover with sunrise over a tent in the woods. Title says Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World. By Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: “I am the luckiest.” On Writing Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

November 15, 2021 11 min read

An Interview with Bejamin Alire Sáenz on his Ari and Dante sequel, Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World. Read More

‘Bereft’ by Craig Laurance Gidney

Lydia Harris

Reviews Young Adult

June 24, 2013 2 min read

Rafael Fannen is indeed young (14 years old), gifted (recipient of a minority scholarship to an all-male Catholic preparatory school),...

‘Zero Fade’ by Chris L. Terry

Lydia Harris

Reviews Young Adult

February 20, 2013 2 min read

Thirteen-year old Kevin wants to be a zero fade: the guy with a haircut done with clippers set to zero...

‘Beauty Queens’ by Libba Bray

Shanna Shadoan

Reviews Young Adult

November 15, 2011 4 min read

Don’t be misled by the bikini-clad model on the cover of Beauty Queens (Scholastic Press); this is decidedly not a...

‘Smoketown’ by Tenea D. Johnson

Anthony Darden

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction Young Adult

September 19, 2011 2 min read

In her debut novel, Smoketown (Blind Eye Books), Tenea D. Johnson magically creates a verdant jungle from what was once...

‘From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth’ edited by Victoria A. Brownworth

L. Michael Gipson

Fiction Reviews Young Adult

August 24, 2011 3 min read

Young adult fiction has come a ways since the blonde-haired, blue-eyed yesterdays of Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High and the...

‘Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy’ by Bil Wright

Diana Denza

Reviews Young Adult

August 7, 2011 3 min read

Makeup obsessed Carlos Duarte knows he has major talent when it comes to making faces look fresh and fabulous. The...

Patrick Ryan: Vampires for the Post-Gay Generation

Brandon Will

Features Interviews

June 13, 2011 10 min read

“The thing I wanted to do in this one was take a new approach to how the sexuality is dealt...

Nick Burd: Making Cool Books for the Kids

Brandon Will

Features Interviews

June 6, 2011 7 min read

“…I think that’s important, to show young people that you can be gay and have a cool life…” With his...

‘will grayson, will grayson’ by David Levithan and John Green

Dan Cullinane

Young Adult

May 11, 2010 3 min read

“if i wasn’t such a lame excuse for a person something right might happen to me. it’s not fair because...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: “I am the luckiest.” On Writing Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

‘Bereft’ by Craig Laurance Gidney

‘Zero Fade’ by Chris L. Terry

‘Beauty Queens’ by Libba Bray

‘Smoketown’ by Tenea D. Johnson

‘From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth’ edited by Victoria A. Brownworth

‘Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy’ by Bil Wright

Patrick Ryan: Vampires for the Post-Gay Generation

Nick Burd: Making Cool Books for the Kids

‘will grayson, will grayson’ by David Levithan and John Green

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta