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    QUEER STORIES FOR KIDS

    Sep 24, 2019 2 minutes
    BY DONALD PADGETT

    New Hampshire State Rep. and author Lisa Bunker’s Felix Yz and Zenobia July, aimed at middle school students, are both heavily populated with strong LGBTQ characters.

    (pronounced “Felix is”) tells the story of a gay middle school boy fused with a hyper-intelligent fourth-dimensional alien (Yz). is about a trans girl living a new life in Maine with her lesbian aunts. Like Zenobia, Bunker is also trans, and while she directs her work at mainstream middle school readers, the LGBTQ inclusion is intentional.

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