5 More Books for Young People Featuring LGBT+ Characters

Am I imagining it, or do we continue to see more books that represent the many types of LGBT+ young people in the world? I’m unsure of the volume — but I am reading books that are telling stories I’ve not seen in print in their ways before. As in the related post noted above, I’ve attempted to indicate identities in the descriptions, though the nature of naming characters as specifically gay or bisexual, for example, is limiting, and I generally try to avoid doing so.

Felix Yz – Ages 8 to 11
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780425288511
Lisa Bunker
June 2018 (paperback release)
The Trans grandparent figure in this book inspires Felix to be accepting — and to realize that what confuses him doesn’t necessarily give him the right to know things about Trans people. Includes a constant story line of ongoing alien possession, but that deepens the story while making the novel accessible to the target audience. Perhaps the novel to read after George.

Features a young man who has family members (e. g., mother) portrayed as having sexuality outside of heterosexuality. Much of the story focuses on the loss of an older brother (who was shot at a club); and how to be friends with someone others make fun of.