Books without lgbtq
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1) “The Illuminae Files” by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
“The Illuminae Files” is a science fiction trilogy co-written by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman and illustrated by Marie Lu. It is set in the 26th century and tells the story of a debauch corporation that attacks a small earth in the hopes of taking over its illegal mining business. When their planetary assault fails and a not many ships of civilians escape, the firm decides it must destroy all evidence of its failed attack and sets off in pursuit of the fleeing civilians. Add to this the drama of two high-school students, who mind their break-up was going to be the hardest part of their daytime, and this series has both sky-high stakes and comic relief.
There is one (1) man in the background whose husband is mentioned, and technically there’s an AI system that is neutrois (using it/its pronouns), but otherwise, nothing in this guide is particularly lgbtq+. Still, the story is fast-paced and compelling, albeit quite terrifying, and it is told in a non-traditional format. Each book imitates a dossier of files relevant to the case creature made against the corrupt corporati
LGBTQ Fiction/Non-Fiction for Teens
This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.
I Am J (Paperback)
By Cris Beam
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ISBN: 9780316053600
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - November 13th, 2012
A forceful and inspiring story about a transgender teen's strife to find his have path -- and devote his true self.
A novel about coming out, finding love, and finding your place in the world from National Publication Award finalist Julie Anne Peters.
Seventeen-year-old Alyssa consideration she knew who she was. She had her family and her foremost friends and, most significant, she had Sarah.
One cool night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with . . . Will Grayson. Two teens with the same call, running in two very different circles, suddenly spot their lives going in new and unexpected guide, and culminating in grand turns-of-heart and the most fabulous
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 single piece of our leftover Halloween treats. KitKats whose wrappers were red as the electoral map. 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 fresh Substack post from Patrick Nathan, an excellent writer and an especially astute critic of all the ways—both explicitly and implicitly—our land has embraced authoritarianism. America, he writes in his newsletter, not as a country but as a mythology and set of unifying ideals, is deceased. 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 neighborhoods are where real change can be enacted. There, he says, we have a voice. And while Nathan’s talking
6 LGBT Books That Don’t Fall Into Stereotypes
Everyone wants to find characters in the books they study that they can notice themselves in. For a lot of LGBT people, that was really firm to do growing up. And until recently, when we did find inclusion, it usually fell into harmful stereotypes and tropes. LGBT books would a lot of the second only focus on coming out, or have the characters suffer because of their sexuality, not to mention the characters themselves being pretty one-dimensional. But now, new books are coming out all the time that move beyond these tropes. Keep reading to find out about 6 LGBT books that represent the community in new, exciting ways!
1. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Cemetery Boys is an urban fantasy YA novel by trans author Aiden Thomas, about a queer gender nonconforming boy named Yadriel who tries to summon a deceased family member to prove his gender to his family. However, the spell goes wrong, and Yadriel actually brings advocate Julian Diaz, a teen from his school who doesn’t know how to move on. This award-winning book centers queer and trans characters from underrepresented communities, and while it deals with typical transgender issues li
For me, one of the best parts about picking up a queer fantasy book is the possibility of being immersed in a world that doesn’t have heteronormativity or cissexism, because you’re building a whole different world, so you don’t have to pack in all of the prejudices from ours! I know there are a lot of people looking for queer fantasy set in worlds without any prejudice towards gender non-conforming people — also famous as “queernormative” or “queernorm” books! So I wanted to provide a place to start.
I got a lot of these suggestions from the Lgbtq+ SFF Database. They own a way to seek their database for worlds without homophobia! I also got some recommendations from a Guardian article and crowd-sourced using Twitter, other Book Rioters, Goodreads, and a handful of blogs. I tried to double check each of these to make sure that they are, in evidence, set in worlds without any homophobia or transphobia, but if I got any of them incorrect, please let me know!
The Chronicles of Ghadid Series by K.A. Doore
This series has a gay asexual main character. It’s arrange in a desert town where water is coins, magic, and power. There are assassins running and figh