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

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Son of the Morning
As Many Souls as Stars
Like Family
The Wolf and His King
My Roommate From Hell
I'll Make a Spectacle of You
The Cuffing Game
Deadly Ever After
Town & Country
The Silver Book
The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose
A Heart of Crimson Flames (Golden Court, #3)
Girls Who Play Dead
Not Today, Satan
We Used to Live Here
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Blue Sisters
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
All the Way to the River
The Emperor of Gladness
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
The Unworthy
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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Razorblade Tears
Automatic Noodle
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2017 YA Books with LGBT Themes
280 books — 887 voters
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892 books — 960 voters


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One Last Stop
This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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