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LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng, tersex, asexual, and more. The terms are ed to scribe a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty.

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To mark the anniversary, the PBS NewsHour asked the New York Public Library’s Calyn Colman-McGaw, manager of young adult programs, for remendatns of some of her favore gay YA books.

For transparency’s sake, on this list there are: 32 books wh lbian characters, 33 books wh bisexual+ characters, 30 wh gay characters, 17 wh trans characters, 5 wh tersex characters, and 4 wh asexual characters (y, I know that don’t add up to 100 bee some of the books have more than one LGBTQIA character them! There’s a lot of awome stuff happeng this book narrated by teen poet Gabi: llege applitns, pregnancy, tersectnal femism, race, beg Mexin-Amerin, fat activism, and your parents not acceptg that you’re gay.

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A science fictn book that speaks directly to gay nversn mps, More Happy Than Not is about 16-year-old Aaron, who is reverg om his father’s suici wh the help of his mom and girliend who he lov. Serg is bi, but is datg his first boyiend Lance who’s gay and feelg secure about Serg’s inty.

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