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Without my long-helpful librarians I'm going to put up a thread for the year, rather than month by month.

Please post any YA LGBTQ book releasing in 2025 that you want the group to know about.

Didn't See You Coming by Gabbi Grey

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights by Ashley Hope Pérez et al.

https://a.co/d/hB2Tfqv
This is a new Gay/Historical Fiction book about 12 artists in 12 stories I hope you like it. SECRETS INSIDE THE ORANGE

Michael Joe wrote: "https://a.co/d/hB2Tfqv
This is a new Gay/Historical Fiction book about 12 artists in 12 stories I hope you like it. SECRETS INSIDE THE ORANGE"

SECRETS INSIDE THE ORANGE: 12 artists, 12 short stories by Michael Joe Armijo

Run Away with Me by J. L. Simmonds

YA Sapphic mystery romance - Now live in the UK, releasing in Oct in the US

Infinite Drift by Brent Hartinger - an alternate-universe-travel slightly dystopian adventure with a bi MC

The Lifesaver The Lifesaver audiobook is now available for preorder! Get this touching YA coming-of-age story, narrated by voiceover actor Lawrence Thunell. Audiobook releases on November 26.

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Lifesa...

Hollywood Pride, by Amy Kaufman Burk

Caroline Black, a bookish nerd growing up in a film industry family, leaves her wealthy college prep academy for Hollywood High School. At first, she is overwhelmed by the bullying targeting the LGBTQ+ students, and has no idea what to do. As she figures it out, she finds hidden strength she never imagined, and discovers what can happen when a targeted group and their allies stand together and hold their ground

YA, historical fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction

Selected for the Miami Book Fair, 2025

Amy wrote: "Hollywood Pride, by Amy Kaufman Burk

Caroline Black, a bookish nerd growing up in a film industry family, leaves her wealthy college prep academy for Hollywood High School. At first, she is overwh..."

Thanks - Hollywood Pride