Raffy has a passion for bedazzling and making clothes. He is determined to make his mark at this year's biggest cosplay competition. But there's one small problem: Raffy's ex-boyfriend, Luca, is his main competition. Luca's insecurities…
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- Dean Foster has watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure he's a trans guy. But everyone at his high school thinks he's a lesbian - including his girlfriend Zoe and his theater director, who just cast him as a…
- Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. As he gets older, Michael's coming-out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs - and the…
- After his boyfriend Joey breaks up with him to pursue more "serious" guys, Blaine decides to run for senior class president as Joey's successor to prove his worth - but is Blaine willing to sacrifice everything about himself to do it?
- Welcome to Camp Outland, a camp for LGBTQIA+ teens. Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland. It's where he met his best friends. Where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim -…
- When Noa closes his eyes on Earth and wakes up on a spaceship called "Qriosity" just as it is about to explode, he's pretty sure things can't get much weirder. Also trapped aboard Qriosity are DJ and Jenny, neither of whom remember how…
- Lara's dream of catching Chase Harding's eye finally comes true even as Jasmine, with whom she just spent a confusing, oddly romantic summer, reenters her life.
- Felix Love is proud of his identity but fears that he's one marginalization too many - Black, queer, and transgender. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages, Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. He didn't…
- When his father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas. There, he looks for a story to report and finds an ally (and crush) in Leon, the…
- Competing for a first-prize trip to a Los Angeles film festival, die-hard romantic Emma and her archnemesis Sophia find their frequent clashes turning into something more.
- Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian, and out. Critically acclaimed writer Gabby Rivera…
- Piper Kitts is spending the summer living with her grandmother, training at the barn of a former Olympic horseback rider, and trying to get over her ex-girlfriend. Her grandmother is making her face her coming out to her small North…
- On boy band Kiss & Tell's first major tour, lead singer Hunter Drake grapples with a painful breakup with his first boyfriend, his first rebound, and the stress of what it means to be queer in the public eye.
- Sammy spends his summer in small-town New York falling in love with a trans boy, hanging out with his drag queen friends, and dealing with family issues.
- Twenty-one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, tons of followers on Instagram. Except it's all fake. Max is actually 17-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic, bisexual Puerto Rican teenager living in Bakersfield,…
- A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and…
- After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, 17-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. But, trying to…
- Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.
- When Dean Arnault's mother decides to run for president as the Republican nominee, Dean doesn't want to be part of the public spectacle that is the race for the White House. Then he meets Dre Rosario, the son of the Democratic nominee. As…
- Tired from all the attention he got at his old school after coming out as transgender, Pony just wants to fly under the radar at Hillcrest High during senior year. Georgia plans on keeping a low profile until graduation and promised…
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