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

Nothing Tastes as Good
Hell's Heart
Spoiled Milk
Almost Life
The Fox and the Devil
That's What Friends Are For
The Dreadfuls
Ruins
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
She Drinks the Light
A Lady for All Seasons
The Adjunct
Robbie McNeil's Hit List
Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw
This Will Be Interesting: A Novel (This Will Be, #2)
We Used to Live Here
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Blue Sisters
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
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]
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Razorblade Tears
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Wayward Girls
The Emperor of Gladness
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
A Family Matter
All the Way to the River
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliCarry On by Rainbow RowellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
LGBTQ for YA
1,257 books — 2,291 voters
Heartstopper by Alice OsemanLoveless by Alice OsemanCemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasFelix Ever After by Kacen CallenderOnly Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
2020 YA Books with LGBT Themes
215 books — 769 voters

Bareback by Chris OwenFaith & Fidelity by Tere MichaelsCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanKeeping Promise Rock by Amy LaneBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. Klune
Best Gay Tear Jerker with a Happy Ending
628 books — 869 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Price of Salt by Claire  Morgan
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,045 books — 2,710 voters

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn FlewellingCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatMagic's Pawn by Mercedes LackeyStalking Darkness by Lynn FlewellingThe Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Best Fantasy Books with Gay Main Characters
1,282 books — 2,678 voters
Captive Prince by C.S. PacatCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatThe Foxhole Court by Nora SakavicCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanKings Rising by C.S. Pacat
Best M/M With An Actual Story
1,547 books — 1,252 voters

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)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

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