When I wrote my first novel, Rainbow Boys, I was writing the book I wished had been available when I was a teen—a book that would’ve told me: “It’s okay to be who you are.” I never imagined that with its 2001 my book would set off an ever-growing parade of LGBT-themed books for and about teenagers. Ten years later, at least a dozen wonderful new LGBT teen novels come out each year—to the point that it’s hard to keep up with what’s new. I’ve listed ten of the many, many awesome titles from the past decade. I encourage you to curl up with one, or two, or all of them, and recall your own coming of age. Marvel at what has changed and what remains the same.

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‘Want’ by Rick Barot

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Rick Barot, whose first book, The Darker Fall, won Sarabande Books’ Kathryn A. Morton Prize in 2002, is back with [...]

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‘Sweet Core Orchard’ by Benjamin Grossberg

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Benjamin Grossman’s second collection of poems is a book about writing—about writing’s processes and demands and possibilities.  The volume tends [...]

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Barbara Hammer Interview for Mütter Museum

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Host, Robert Hicks, PhD, Director of the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia interviews filmmaker Barbara Hammer. [...]

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‘Hammer!’ by Barbara Hammer

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“A film rests in a can until it’s screened but a book can be opened at any time by anyone [...]

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‘Toothpick House’ by Lee Lynch

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In the late 70s, I studied Women in Literature in a college-level course. I feel cheated that Lee Lynch’s short [...]

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‘More of This World or Maybe Another’ by Barb Johnson

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Anyone who has been worrying about the current state of fiction or who has any questions about why that matters [...]

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‘Leave the Light On’ (Trailer)

by Antonio Gonzalez *Lesbian

In her first memoir, Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America, Jennifer Storm recalled her haunting descent into [...]

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Sherlock Holmes: Queer, Straight, Neither?

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I don’t remember how I discovered Sherlock Holmes, but I remember when—I was 10 years old—and I remember why—I was [...]

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‘The Queer Child’ by Kathryn Bond Stockton

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Lawsuits to ban GSAs from schools continue to prove what Anita Bryant most famously did in her 1977 “Save Our [...]

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‘Sex as God Intended’ by John McNeill

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When I read Sex as God Intended by Fr. John McNeill, an ordained Jesuit priest, I thought of another Jesuit, [...]

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Julie Bolcer Interviews Mary Cappello

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Author Mary Cappello talks with journalist Julie Bolcer in the Here TV studios, in New York, about her latest book [...]

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Vulval Chaos: The Poetry of Susan Hawthorne

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“chaos/ in the shape of two vulval wings—/the butterfly effect”
This line is from the opening poem of The Butterfly Effect, [...]

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