LGBTQIA+ (YA comics)

These are some of our favourite recent LGBTQIA+ comics and graphic novels. Of course, there's way more than this in our collection! Indeed, some of the titles featured in our other comic book-lists also feature LGBTQIA+ characters and themes, just proving that you can find queer characters into gaming, involved with magic or the supernatural, at a camp, or in space. They're everywhere!

Updated August 1, 2024
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Wellington City Libraries Youth team at Wellington City Libraries
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Pixels of you
Hirsh, Ananth
Paper Book
A human and human-presenting AI slowly become friends--and maybe more--in this moving YA graphic novel from award-winning writers Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota, and illustrator J.R. Doyle. "A sweet, smart tale of art, bitterness, enmity, and camaraderie."--New...
The princess and the grilled cheese sandwich
Muniz, Deya
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023  * Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2023  * YALSA 2024 Great Graphic Novel for Teens  * An ALA Rainbow List Pick * 2024...
Honor girl
Thrash, Maggie
Paper Book
All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort. Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp...
Kiss number 8
Venable, Colleen A. F.
Paper Book
A 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Longlist Selection A 2019 New York Public Library Best Books for Kids A 2020 Tayshas Reading List Selection A 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Selection ...

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