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Come to the free online launch event for LOVE OF THE HALF-EATEN PEACH!
My second picture book is out in the world and you can attend the Highlights Foundation book birthday party with me and the book’s illustrator, Jieting Chen!
Join us on Instagram at 8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern on Tuesday September 10, 2024 for the Instagram Live stream: https://www.instagram.com/highlightsfound/
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Kings of B’More – A YA with two Black Queer main characters spending one last AMAZING day together before one has to move away
Kings of B'more by R. Eric Thomas With junior year starting in the fall, Harrison feels like he's on the precipice of, well, everything. Standardized testing, college, and the terrifying unknowns and looming pressures of adulthood after that--it's like the future...
Download and Decipher This Moment from Queer History – An Activity Worksheet for NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
One of the very cool discoveries I made in doing research for NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? was Anne Lister's secret code - crypthand - that let Anne write about things in the early 1800s without fear of someone else reading it and exposing her Queerness. In fact, it took...
Two Pride Podcasts – I’m a guest on “Virgin. Beauty. B!tch” and “Millennial Housewife”
As part of this month's celebration of Queer Pride, I had the honor to be interviewed on two podcasts: Virgin. Beauty. B!tch - a great conversation with Christopher and Heather "Revealing the Hidden History of Pride with Award-Winning Author Lee Wind" and Millennial...
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My New Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Join me each Thursday in June as I share my award-winning novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, chapter by chapter, in its entirety, to empower Queer teens and their allies with the information that would have changed my life if I’d learned it back when I was a closeted Gay Jewish 13 year old who loved adventure books but thought history had nothing to do with me.
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
Celebrate #QueerJoy
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Where I'll be coming up in 2024
CALIBA Fall Fest- IBPA booth host, author - Sep 2024, Pasadena, CA
Recent Media
Big Gay Fiction podcast -- Audiobook Connection podcast -- Read Your World Instagram Live -- Mombian article-- Paper Phoenix Ink interview -- Publishers Weekly (“Love of the Half-Eaten Peach” announcement) -- Publishers Weekly (“A Different Kind of Brave” announcement) -- Books that Make You podcast -- Remarkable Leadership Lessons podcast -- and more to come!
