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	<title>Malinda Lo &#187; Queer Stuff</title>
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		<title>Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes in YA Fiction, Part 5: Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s post, the last of my 5-part series on avoiding LGBTQ stereotypes in YA fiction, I&#8217;m listing a number of resources you might find helpful for further research. Here are the other posts in this series: Part 1: Major LGBTQ stereotypes Part 2: Gender Part 3: Words to watch out for Part 4: Secondary [...]


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		<title>Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes in YA Fiction, Part 4: Secondary characters and gay jokes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, in part 4 of my series on avoiding LGBTQ stereotypes in YA fiction, I&#8217;m blogging about secondary characters and gay jokes. Here are the other posts in this series: Part 1: Major LGBTQ stereotypes Part 2: Gender Part 3: Words to watch out for Part 4: Secondary characters and gay jokes Part 5: Resources [...]


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		<title>Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes in YA Fiction, Part 3: Words to watch out for &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Queer Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s think-heavy post about gender, today I&#8217;m going practical with a post about words to watch out for when writing about LGBTQ characters. Here are the other posts in this series: Part 1: Major LGBTQ stereotypes Part 2: Gender Part 3: Words to watch out for Part 4: Secondary characters and gay jokes Part [...]


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		<title>Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes in YA Fiction, Part 2: Gender</title>
		<link>http://www.malindalo.com/2010/06/avoiding-lgbtq-stereotypes-in-ya-fiction-part-2-gender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in part 1 of this series, I blogged about major LGBTQ stereotypes. Today I&#8217;m blogging about gender. Once again, here&#8217;s the complete schedule of posts: Part 1: Major LGBTQ stereotypes Part 2: Gender Part 3: Words to watch out for Part 4: Secondary characters and gay jokes Part 5: Resources If you haven&#8217;t read [...]


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		<title>Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes in YA Fiction, Part 1: Major LGBTQ Stereotypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I gave a talk at a local SCBWI chapter about LGBTQ1 stereotypes and how to avoid them when writing YA fiction. I&#8217;ve been meaning to post that talk here on my website for some time, but deadlines and travel got the best of me. Now it&#8217;s June, which is also Pride [...]


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		<title>YA books that make room for queerness</title>
		<link>http://www.malindalo.com/2009/12/ya-books-that-make-room-for-queerness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re deep in the middle of List Season, which means that practically every day, there&#8217;s another &#8220;best books of 2009&#8243; list coming out. I like lists as much as the next person, and I don&#8217;t deny they&#8217;re very helpful for gift-giving ideas, but perusing all these lists made me realize that I was missing something. [...]


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		<title>A lesbian bishop for the Episcopal Church</title>
		<link>http://www.malindalo.com/2009/12/a-lesbian-bishop-for-the-episcopal-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the Rev. Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, as assistant bishop. Rev. Glasspool, if approved by a majority of dioceses in the church, would then become the second openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church. (The first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, was elected in 2003.) This [...]


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		<title>Queerness</title>
		<link>http://www.malindalo.com/2009/11/queerness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m preparing a blog post about YA books that include room for queerness, and in thinking about that, I began to think about the word queer itself. I know that for some people, queer is still an epithet, a put-down. For me, it is not. It is part of the LGBTQ acronym — lesbian, gay, [...]


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		<title>I&#8217;m in the Out 100!</title>
		<link>http://www.malindalo.com/2009/11/im-in-the-out-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August, I went down to Los Angeles for a photo shoot. I couldn&#8217;t tell you about it then, but now I can reveal that I&#8217;m in Out magazine&#8217;s 2009 Out 100! It is such an honor to be on a list with Sarah Waters (although why did they put her in a janitor&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>National Coming Out Day</title>
		<link>http://www.malindalo.com/2009/10/national-coming-out-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malinda Lo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Oct. 11, is National Coming Out Day. It was also the day of the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. I was not there, but I followed it on Twitter for a while, and this is one of my favorite signs I saw: I&#8217;ve had a few people ask me about my own coming-out [...]


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