LGBTQIA2+ Books, Culture, and More for Kids and Teens
Over 4.3 Million Served
I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I Read?
“A Different Kind of Enemy” is out now! And you can still enter the Fan Art Contest for a chance to win a spy swag pack!
To celebrate publication of the follow-up to my Gay Teen Action Adventure Romance “A Different Kind of Brave,” I’m doing a collab with a handful of Queer and Queer-friendly independent bookstores across the USA and a fan art contest!
(1) Buy a copy from one of the stores below…
(2) Make some cool “Queer Teens Spies Save the World” art and send me the image!
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating – to prove to her friends she’s Bi, Hani fake-dates another girl, Ishu, in this teen first-love rom com
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar Everyone likes Humaira Hani Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's...
The Fabulous Zed Watson! – A middle grade novel starring a nonbinary tween on a “literary scavenger hunt”
The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester, Illustrated by Kevin Sylvester Zed Watson loves a few things: their name (which they chose themself!), their big rambunctious family, and--oh yeah--monsters. When Zed discovered the mystery surrounding an unpublished novel...
The Joys of Communally Reading “No Way They Were Gay?” with Teenagers in Cyberspace – A Guest Post by Jim Cartwright
As a gay/queer man with a passion for queer history who is also an educator and an author, I was very excited when Lee Wind’s No Way They Were Gay was released. I pre-ordered it, devoured it as soon as I got it, and...
GET THE TEA, REGULARLY
(a.k.a. Sign up for email updates.)
My Occasional Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Listen to my award-winning novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, chapter by chapter, in its entirety. The idea is to empower Queer teens and their allies with the information that would have changed my life if I’d learned it back when I was a closeted Gay Jewish 13 year old who loved adventure books but thought history had nothing to do with me.
I’m also doing the occasional podcast episode about other things, too… Listen wherever you listen to podcasts!
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
Celebrate #QueerJoy
(a.k.a. Events and News)
Recent Media
Big Gay Fiction podcast -- Audiobook Connection podcast -- Read Your World Instagram Live -- Mombian article-- Paper Phoenix Ink interview -- Publishers Weekly (“Love of the Half-Eaten Peach” announcement) -- Publishers Weekly (“A Different Kind of Brave” announcement) -- Books that Make You podcast -- Remarkable Leadership Lessons podcast -- and more to come!
