Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

The Island of Last Things
Automatic Noodle
Lucky Day
The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood and Boyfriends
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (Magic and Romance, #1)
The Build-a-Boyfriend Project
Black Flame
Voidwalker (Beasts of the Void, #1)
Alchemy and a Cup of Tea (Tomes & Tea, #4)
The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
This Vicious Hunger
The Sun and the Moon
Dogs
The Sunflower Boys
Atmosphere
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
We Used to Live Here
Blue Sisters
The Safekeep
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Emperor of Gladness
A Family Matter
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Seduction Theory
Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Razorblade Tears
気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
Hot Head by Damon SuedeTigers and Devils by Sean KennedyBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. KluneSomething Like Summer by Jay BellLatakia by J.F.  Smith
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LGBTQ for YA
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The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
One Last Stop
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Giovanni’s Room
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)

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