lgbtqreads:

medicseyebrows:

it kinda sucks that the lgbt section in the b&n near me has like a single shelf and is only historic books. i’ve gone to other stores and had entire young adult sections just for that and i’m sure they do have lgbt books there but you can’t really browse for them,

You can’t browse there, but the blog has a bunch of LGBT posts throughout the year, including two preview posts - one in December/January, one around June. Here’s this year’s: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/teen/23-anticipated-lgbtqa-ya-books-2017/

And here’s the tag, for help finding backlist: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/teen/?s=lgbt

Hope those help!

This is sort of a controversial topic, and it makes sense that a big chain wouldn’t pull all their LGBTQ books out of the general sections and put them in their own category, the same way that pulling all the books by or about a certain race and putting them in their own section probably wouldn’t be done.

Having an LGBTQ fiction section is helpful for browsing if that’s what you’re looking for, but it also means that someone browsing YA is not going to find any LGBTQ books, even if they were looking for a particular author.

I actually wrote a Book Riot post about this: 5 Reasons To Get Rid of the LGBTQ Ficiton Section (and One Good Reason To Keep It)