I'm very excited to team up with the remarkable author Sarah Prager (love her A Child’s Introduction to Pride and Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World) to talk about researching and writing Queer history for kids and teens. I hope you can join...
#QueerHistoryisEverywhere
October Queer History Month Book Recommendations and Events!
Happy October! This month I'll be presenting at 3 events: The San Diego Writers Festival - I'll be on two panels, There’s No Such Thing as “Self” Publishing – How to Publish Professionally (I'm moderating, with Kirk Whisler and Leslie Ferguson), and Kid Lit Experts...
And the Winners of the #QueerHistoryIsEverywhere Contest from October 2021 are…
Congratulations to _xoxo.alanah._ @TikTok and tommyshea23 @TikTok and Vin_Kyl @Instagram for liking the contest post all about Plato and an army of gay male couples and being randomly chosen to win one of these very cool Abraham Lincoln Good Luck Penny bracelets!...
Join Melanie Gillman, Rob Sanders, and Me(!) for a Discussion of “LGBTQ+ History in Children’s Books” on Oct 12, 2021
I'm really delighted to be part of this conversation. We're going to have a panel discussion, and with the help of everyone attending, put together a crowd-sourced list of wonderful Kid Lit that covers and includes LGBTQ+ History! You can register for the free webinar...
A Fun Way To Celebrate LGBTQIA2+ Pride This June: Take the Queer History Quiz to Reveal Your Pride Colors
You know those BuzzFeed-style quizzes that tell you if your colors are Fall, Winter, Spring, or Summer; or which Disney Princess castle you would live in; or which Grey's Anatomy character would be your soul mate? They're fun, and fast, and some of them tell us things...
I’m Interviewed in Publishers Weekly about “No Way, They Were Gay?”
This Publishers Weekly interview with me by Jennifer Young, Four Questions for Lee Wind, is really nice. It's a chance for me to speak from my heart about what inspired me to write "No Way, They Were Gay?", what Queer History means to me, my hopes for readers, and so...