Laurie’s answer to “Why haven't you written any books with LGBT characters? I love your books and feel they are realist…” > Likes and Comments
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There are probably more that I can't think of, but I loved The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Silhouette of a Sparrow, Lies We Tell Ourselves, Wildthorn, and Coffee Will Make You Black/Ain't Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice. Tell The Wolves I'm Home is amazing; however, I'm not sure how this book counts because the main character isn't canonically queer. (There are prominent gay characters and I interpreted the protagonist to be a heteroromantic asexual)
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin is a fantastic story about an intersex boy. It seem realistic. There is a new book out about an intersex girl that doesn't sound as realistic, so I get what you mean. In this book she doesn't realize that anything is different about herself until she decides to have sex for the first time and the boy freaks and tells everyone she is a freak. I have my doubts that anyone in this day and age would not know what "normal" is supposed to be and wouldn't know that she was different.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson came to mind.
Gracefully Grayson is a fantastic book with a transgender main character.
Ask the Passengers x 1000. And my WIP, but we won't talk about that yet ;)
I really liked the first book in "Changers," which wasn't so much about an LGBT character as it was about the spectrum of sexuality.
: I have so many YA favorites featuring QUILTBAG characters! Along with some titles that others have mentioned, my favorites include . . .
*Fan Art
*Annie on My Mind
*the Proxy series
*the Coda series
*the Micah Grey series
*the Battle Hall Davies series
*the Weetzie Bat series
*the Leviathan series -- maybe, LHA, you could incorporate some supporting QUILTBAG characters like this one did and like the Heroes of Olympus series eventually did, while potential main character ideas percolate?
*practically anything by David Levithan
*ditto Malinda Lo
*ditto Julie Anne Peters
*ditto Alex Sanchez
*Eight Seconds
*Made of Stars
*The Difference between You and Me
*A Hero at the End of the World
*Hero (Perry Moore)
*The Summer I Wasn't Me
*One Man Guy
*Kings of Ruin
*Openly Straight
*How to Repair a Mechanical Heart
*Debbie Harry Sings in French
*Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie
*My Heartbeat (Garret Freymann-Weyr)
*Gone, Gone, Gone (Hannah Moskowitz) -- which really got to me and which I think might also strike a chord with you, LHA
I think this makes complete sense, and I really respect that despite being a great writer, you won't just put together a story for the sake of having one on that topic.
I'd recommend Everyday by David Levithan. It doesn't directly deal with LGBT issues, but it instead looks at gender and sexual identity in a grander sense among other things.
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There are probably more that I can't think of, but I loved The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Silhouette of a Sparrow, Lies We Tell Ourselves, Wildthorn, and Coffee Will Make You Black/Ain't Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice. Tell The Wolves I'm Home is amazing; however, I'm not sure how this book counts because the main character isn't canonically queer. (There are prominent gay characters and I interpreted the protagonist to be a heteroromantic asexual)
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Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin is a fantastic story about an intersex boy. It seem realistic. There is a new book out about an intersex girl that doesn't sound as realistic, so I get what you mean. In this book she doesn't realize that anything is different about herself until she decides to have sex for the first time and the boy freaks and tells everyone she is a freak. I have my doubts that anyone in this day and age would not know what "normal" is supposed to be and wouldn't know that she was different.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson came to mind.
Gracefully Grayson is a fantastic book with a transgender main character.
Ask the Passengers x 1000. And my WIP, but we won't talk about that yet ;)
I really liked the first book in "Changers," which wasn't so much about an LGBT character as it was about the spectrum of sexuality.
: I have so many YA favorites featuring QUILTBAG characters! Along with some titles that others have mentioned, my favorites include . . . *Fan Art
*Annie on My Mind
*the Proxy series
*the Coda series
*the Micah Grey series
*the Battle Hall Davies series
*the Weetzie Bat series
*the Leviathan series -- maybe, LHA, you could incorporate some supporting QUILTBAG characters like this one did and like the Heroes of Olympus series eventually did, while potential main character ideas percolate?
*practically anything by David Levithan
*ditto Malinda Lo
*ditto Julie Anne Peters
*ditto Alex Sanchez
*Eight Seconds
*Made of Stars
*The Difference between You and Me
*A Hero at the End of the World
*Hero (Perry Moore)
*The Summer I Wasn't Me
*One Man Guy
*Kings of Ruin
*Openly Straight
*How to Repair a Mechanical Heart
*Debbie Harry Sings in French
*Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie
*My Heartbeat (Garret Freymann-Weyr)
*Gone, Gone, Gone (Hannah Moskowitz) -- which really got to me and which I think might also strike a chord with you, LHA
I think this makes complete sense, and I really respect that despite being a great writer, you won't just put together a story for the sake of having one on that topic.I'd recommend Everyday by David Levithan. It doesn't directly deal with LGBT issues, but it instead looks at gender and sexual identity in a grander sense among other things.
