- Twixt
A dark fantasy YA with a lesbian heroine.
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Project Unicorn, Volume 1
Thirty young adult short stories featuring lesbian heroines.
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The Dark Wife
A YA, lesbian retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth.
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Tag Archives: being gay
I Met My Wife Because of Sailor Moon: Or, Why Stories With Queer Characters Really Fucking Matter
So, picture me as a gangly, passionate young teenager. Really obsessed with dead poets and graveyards, spends obscene amounts of time in the woods furiously scribbling Really! Dramatic! stories into a notebook. Oh, yeah. I was obviously the archetype of … Continue reading
A Day of Victory, Redux: Shine
Almost ten years ago (ten years on December 1st! I can hardly believe it’s been almost a decade–it seems like we’ve been together forever~ <3), Jenn and I got together. I remember very, very clearly this particularly moment from early … Continue reading
Sparkle Vlog 5: We Know Our Own Hearts — Being a Teenage Lesbian & Its Validity
(The fifth in my Sparkle Vlog series, where I—YA author Sarah Diemer—talk about inspiration, writing, and gay, queer and lesbian YA!) In this Sparkle Vlog: I wanted to begin talking about more serious things, especially as they relate to queer … Continue reading
Staying In and Coming Out: On National Coming Out Day
(photo by unitopia) National Coming Out Day always makes me uncomfortable. It’s an awesome idea: come out, come out wherever you are! But it also involves a lot of unspoken judgement. Like: I came out, why can’t YOU come out? … Continue reading
Honesty: How a Homeless Gay Girl Transformed Her Life, and How a Homophobic Mother Changed Her Mind
A really good friend of mine went shopping for her wedding dress a few days ago. With her mom. My really-good-friend is gay, and her mom has changed her views a LOT since she first came out to her, many … Continue reading
Witch Girls, a Free YA Short Story — Part of Project Unicorn (A Lesbian YA Extravaganza)
Welcome to Project Unicorn–a fiction project over the course of one year by both me, author Sarah Diemer, and my wife author Jennifer Diemer, to put out, twice weekly (Mondays and Fridays!), free YA stories with lesbian heroines. Today, we … Continue reading
Why Lesbian YA Stories Are Important: A Dialogue on Project Unicorn by Its Authors
Project Unicorn: A Lesbian YA Extravaganza! is a fiction project created by lesbian YA authors Sarah Diemer and Jennifer Diemer. It was created because of the obvious lack of lesbian heroines in the Young Adult genre, and the critical need … Continue reading
For Better or Worse: Why It's Bittersweet That I Could Get Legally Married in NY
The beginnings of our marriage license. ❤ Jenn hung our marriage license in our bedroom today. I noticed it when I was taking off my earrings when I came home from work. We’d talked about finding the most special place … Continue reading
Hooray, You're GAY! — National Coming Out Day and a Celebration of Your Queerness
So, we kind of GOT LEGALLY MARRIED last week–something I’m going to post about, and in detail, very, very soon, I promise. 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤ We are still coming down from the joyousness that is GETTING LEGALLY MARRIED, and … Continue reading
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The Epidemic
Jamey Rodemeyer lived in my hometown. He was fourteen years old, had a pervasive sense of humor, loved Lady Gaga fiercely and blogged, often, about the fact that he was being mercilessly bullied in school for being gay. He killed … Continue reading
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