tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post4493851778331089289..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: To A Happier Year: LGBT Stories for Children, Teens and YA, by Tess Berry-HartUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-4252858535669830452015-07-15T15:36:15.573+01:002015-07-15T15:36:15.573+01:00I remember Tunes For A Small Harmonica by Barbara ...I remember <i>Tunes For A Small Harmonica</i> by Barbara Wersba - a brilliant YA comedy about a teenage girl living in New York who was definitely very confused about her identity...I feel there must have been others but I can't think of them.Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718171070716804800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-72712027401045764142015-07-15T12:37:35.708+01:002015-07-15T12:37:35.708+01:00Actually, Sheena, I'm still stunned about the ...Actually, Sheena, I'm still stunned about the "gay is not marketable" response even in 2011 - publishers are so weasely sometimes!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15664007848875130573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-12098980998651997252015-07-15T12:36:08.517+01:002015-07-15T12:36:08.517+01:00Thanks so much for all your comments and suggestio...Thanks so much for all your comments and suggestions, everyone! Great tip Sue, I haven't read The Boy Within but will check it out. Yes, Every Day is amazing - really shows how bodies "don't matter" when love is involved. And I've heard of Hey Dollface but never read it - though at one point I did read all of Tales of the City too!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15664007848875130573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-62356427109566953562015-07-15T11:57:28.899+01:002015-07-15T11:57:28.899+01:00I recommend F2M: The Boy Within by Hazel Edwards a...I recommend F2M: The Boy Within by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy, a novel about transitioning from female to male. It's not a woe-is-me-everybody-is-persecuting-me book at all. The girl/boy is a member of an all-girl punk rock band and having to tell not only the family but the band that she is going to be a he. And then research it all on line. And meet some fascinating characters in the transgender community, including a couple of which the husband used to be a woman and the wife used to be a man. It's enjoyable and as much about the music as the trans issue. <br /><br />David Levithan is great. Have you read Every Day, in which the protagonist is neither male nor female but occupies a different body each day? Amazing!Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-47102573834467954832015-07-15T10:45:01.370+01:002015-07-15T10:45:01.370+01:00Great post. In 2011 nobody would buy my LGBT story...Great post. In 2011 nobody would buy my LGBT story because 'gay is too niche; it's not very marketable'. As a teen, even though I wasn't gay, I was very questioning, and loved books like 'Hey Dollface' and 'Annie On My Mind', but they weren't easy to find in Belfast.Sheena Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13847659993713606837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-30276732714437315872015-07-15T09:37:37.002+01:002015-07-15T09:37:37.002+01:00Ha ha I always love your posts Tess, they are so f...Ha ha I always love your posts Tess, they are so funny! "No queers up north!" I grew up in Edinburgh and nobody every talked about that kind of thing, thank you very much! All the examples you list here are very eye-opening, I never saw anything like that in the 80s either. I suspect that actually lots of people never got to see books like these. Having said that, I haven't seen many these days at my local library either, but its great to know they are out there.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563985663459575095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-24203569088914396032015-07-15T09:31:38.734+01:002015-07-15T09:31:38.734+01:00I find this story very interesting, i grew up in v...I find this story very interesting, i grew up in very repressive society and there was nothing for anyone who would go outside the norm, when i came to university i found many more things that totally blew my mind, among them the armisted maupin tales of the city, which is for older ppl but very good, most american stories, i didn't read any of the ones here, but i will go and read them now!Soo Rekka Lalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17710679718798335137noreply@blogger.com