Simon is gay and in the closet, even as he finds himself falling for his online penpal, "Blue." Then someone discovers his secret, and he finds himself blackmailed into being his wingman, but there may be more than his sexuality and his relationship…
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Born This Way - LGBT+
Books, series, and graphic novels that star LGBT+ protagonists.
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- Whenever Melody falls in love during a stage production, the show and romance ends in failure. So Mel swears off love until their production of Les Mis is over. Out of her many plans, she definitely didn't expect Odile to step into the spotlight and…
- Monty, a bisexual raised as a gentleman, had just planned for one last trip around Europe with his best friend/crush and his sister before finally taking over his lordship duties. What starts as a final hurrah turns into a whirlwind adventure as…
- Amanda just wants to be a normal girl, but at the same time, she wants to share her biggest secrets. One of them being that she used to be called Andrew.
- Alice is asexual, and she's practically given up on finding a love that can understand this. But then she meets Takumi, and with the unexpected turns her life takes through the summer, Alice starts to rethink a few things about her life and what…
- Ari was used to being alone, but when he meets Dante and they slowly grow closer, he begins to ask some questions about himself, his family, and his place in the world.
- When Sana asked Rachel out, she was so harshly rejected that she never tried to ask a girl out again. Rachel, convinced that this was a prank, has sneered at her ever since. Until she's making her senior project and realizes that Sana is the perfect…
- Darcy, a bisexual girl who runs an anonymous love advice service, gets caught collecting the letters for it by Alexander. He hires her as his relationship coach to get back his ex or else he'll reveal her secret to the whole school, which she cannot…
- Felix, a trans 17 year old, attempts to get revenge after a bully posts pictures of him pre-transition and his dead name for all of the school to see. However, he may just end up discovering more about himself and those close to him.
- Jamie's not sure what draws her to bind her breasts, but slowly, with love and support, they'll figure out who they are.
- Tired of simply being known as "The Gay Kid," Rafe decides to hide who he is to fit in at his new school. But complications arise as he catches feelings and he tries to define what it means to be "out."
- Juliet manages to come out to her family, which ends in disaster, right before she flies to Portland to work as an intern for a feminist author she greatly admires. Though she soon finds that her hero's view of feminism is a bit... limiting, and may…
- Nate's tired of dealing with romantic relationships, after all, they all end eventually, and worries for his dreams of being a screenwriter, so he instead decides to focus on just getting through life. The return of his childhood best friend and…
- When denied his rights by his traditional family, Yadriel takes matters into his own hands to complete the ritual and prove himself as a brujo, and a boy, to his family. And though he accidentally summons Julian, his school's resident bad boy,…
- Kamai can journey into people's souls when they sleep, though her mother gives her one warning: never open the black door she sees in every person's soul. In the aftermath of tragedy however, Kamai opens the door. And beyond it she learns more than…
- Paul is gay, but that's never been a problem. Relationships, both romantic and platonic, school, and everything else? Now that'll take a bit more work to figure out.
- Lei is chosen as one of the Paper Girls, the king's concubines. But Lei's got a bit more of fire in her, and it'll cause sparks - both in her country's foundations and between her and one of the other concubines.
- Corinne still isn't ready to come out as bisexual, so when her secret girlfriend Maggie dies, she has no one to confide her heartbreak with. No one but Maggie's ex, Elissa, who understands exactly what Maggie feels. Struggling with her grief and…
- Leo just wanted to be invisible, but when he defends one of his classmates and finds a kindred spirit, he may learn what it's like to support someone and have someone at his back.
- After coming out as nonbinary, Ben has to leave and live out the rest of their senior year with their sister and her husband. But starting over may not be the worst thing in the world.
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