This is a networking group for authors and other children's literature professionals of fiction and nonfiction featuring gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer/questioning, gender-fluid, and transgender characters. Although we naturally hope to reach readers in this community, ultimately we hope to reach all teen readers and widen their perspectives with our work.

You do NOT have to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer/questioning, gender-fluid, or transgender yourself in order to belong to the group, however you must understand and respect our mission if you're a member, and you must be writing about, or have an interest in writing about, this demographic.

Many of us belong to the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, but that's not a requirement either.

NOTE: A MODERATOR WILL NOT BE INTRODUCING YOU TO THE WHOLE GROUP ONCE YOU JOIN, SO JUST JUMP IN WHEN YOU'RE READY. THE NATIVES ARE FRIENDLY!