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Baby Be-Bop

By Francesca Lia Block

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Lessons from a Dead Girl

By Jo Knowles

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Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

By Marion Dane Bauer (Editor)

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Annie on My Mind

By Nancy Garden

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Can't Take That Away

By Steven Salvatore

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Be Dazzled

By Ryan La Sala

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As far as you'll take me

By Phil Stamper

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Follow Your Arrow

By Jessica Verdi

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Spin with Me

By Ami Polonsky

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The Key to You and Me

By Jaye Robin Brown

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Brideshead Revisited

By Evelyn Waugh

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The Well of Loneliness

By Radclyffe Hall

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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Totally Joe

By James Howe

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Heather Has Two Mommies

By Lesléa Newman and Laura Cornell

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Perfect on Paper: A Novel

By Sophie Gonzales

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Geography Club

By Brent Hartinger

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Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology

By Amy Sonnie

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Jack of Hearts (and other parts)

By L. C. Rosen

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Giovanni's Room

By James Baldwin

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Articles About Banning and Challenging Books

News and Academic Sources

"Author Interview: Brent Hartinger on the Banning of Geography Club" (Cynsations)
"Q&A With L. C. Rosen, Camp" By Alaina Lavoie (Diverse Books)
"LC Rosen on 'Camp' and writing YA fiction for LGBTQ+ teens" By Alim Kheraj (Penguin)
"'Baby Be-Bop': Burning a gay book?" (The Week)
"LGBTQ Children’s/YA Books Dominate Decade’s Banned Books List" (Mombian)
"America’s most-banned book is a kids’ story about a trans girl – for the third year running" By Maggie Baska (Pink News)
"Schools are banning my book. But queer kids need queer stories" By Maia Kobabe (The Washington Post)
"When The Book That's Banned is Your Own" (GLSEN)
"LGBTQ advocates: Book banning is precursor for rocky legislative session" (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
"Young adult Latino literature faces conservative backlash" by Marina E. Franco (Source)
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