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A Holiday Gift Guide to 2024's LGBTQ Middle-Grade Books

A Holiday Gift Guide to 2024's LGBTQ Middle-Grade Books

Moving tales of self-growth and finding family, epic adventures of magic and mystery, sweet stories of friendships and crushes, and combinations of the above: the LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade novels of 2024 are a wide-ranging lot. Here are some favorites.

Life in the Slow Lane

Marking Time

Marking Time

My face, my hair, my scalp, look up at me from this snapshot on my Northeastern University alumni ID, pre-pandemic, a younger version of myself.

Living in a Liminal Space

Living in a Liminal Space

The Drumbeat

The Drumbeat

The Mother I Wanted

The Mother I Wanted

Sitting Still

Sitting Still

Holding the Center

Dismantling America brick by brick

Dismantling America brick by brick

The threat of Trump's band of con artists

Trump's illusory mandate

Trump's illusory mandate

In sorrow and hope, fight on

In sorrow and hope, fight on

Ending Trump's 'rough hour'

Ending Trump's 'rough hour'

Ripping America's fabric

Ripping America's fabric

Stop the watchmakers

Irene Monroe

Why HIV/AIDS persists in Black America

Why HIV/AIDS persists in Black America

Dec. 1 was World AIDS Day.

Black Male Votes Matter!

Black Male Votes Matter!

Laughs, and more, in Spanish

Laughs, and more, in Spanish

Cardinal O'Malley's mixed legacy

It's Kamala time!

It's Kamala time!

Billy Masters

Billy Masters 12.12.24

Billy Masters 12.12.24

This week, we enter the Filth2Go Wayback Machine with the assistance of Mr. Peabody to go back to a simpler, happier, gayer time—1978.

Billy Masters 11.28.24

Billy Masters 11.28.24

Billy Masters 11.14.24

Billy Masters 11.14.24

Billy Masters 10.31.24

Billy Masters 10.31.24

Billy Masters 10.17.24

Billy Masters 10.17.24

Billy Masters 10.03.24

Billy Masters 10.03.24