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Person who has spent all their cash on rent and food still has a place to get out of the house and do something interesting.

Cool community classes and community art shows.

ESL tutoring.

Okay so I did a little google search, and came up with these (PLEASE double check them, just to be safe, okay?; also, I think you’re doing a great thing for your brother, I’m hugging the both of you so hard!)

* Proxy by Alex London* And I Darken by Kierstan White (the gay romance isn’t the focus, but it’s there)* The Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera* Anger is a gift by Mark Oshiro* Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Joy Gilbert* Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley

I’m also leaving a link here to a website I found that could be suuuuuper helpful: https://lgbtqreads.com/category/under-the-gaydar/

More Than This by Patrick Ness. Again not super obvious at all. 

The Five Stages Of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson. The cover and blurb don’t make it super obvious at all, and I believe it holds a lot of important messages for younger readers. 

Friendly Fire by Patricia Gale has gay male characters in it and isn’t very obvious about it. It also has male characters exploring femininity which I think is important. 

Gives Light by Rose Christo is the first in a series. It is very sweet and deals with young gay love well. The cover and blurb don’t seem to showcase any lgbtness in my opinion. 

I haven’t read it yet, but The Black Tides Of Heaven by Jy Yang has lots of LGBT themes in it. I’m looking at my copy now and it doesn’t have signs of LGBT characters in it. 

Peter Darling by Austin Chanted is  a gay and trans retelling of Peter Pan. The cover doesn’t revel that but a few things in the blurb do.

A Boy Worth Knwoing by Jennifer Cosgrove doesn’t look gay from the cover but one line from the blurb alludes to it being gay. 

The trade paperback of Captain America called “Captain America Death Of The Read Skull” (one of the writers is called J.M Dematteis, so just look out for that). The character is an older guy but he is a friend of CA. While it is never stated outright that he is gay it is blazingly obvious that he is and that he has a BF. There is one scene where he goes on a long talk about being less than because he is gay and Captain America gives him a long speech about how he is still a good man and his love is still wonderful. If he likes CA I would really recommend it, it helped me alot when I was younger. And there is no way of knowing it is in there, nothing on the cover or blurb alludes to it. 

Giant Days  by John Allison is a graphic novel set in college. It is about a group of female friends, and one of the girls is gay. I don’t think it is super obvious. 

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson is really really good. While not stated outright there are two guys who can interpreted as being a couple. It also has  a really sweet plot and meaningful messages. Plus it is hilarious. 

Noelle Stevenson also has another series called Lumbejanes which is really sweet. There are characters that are gay/bi and trans in it. I dont think it is very obvious that the series holds LGBT themes. 

The Tea Dragon society by Katie O'Neill is a super adorable graphic novel with LGBT themes and I don’t think anything really gives that away. 

I haven’t read it but I’ve heard very good things about the middle grade book called Drama by Raina Telgrmeir. 

Later on in the Percy Jackson series there are lots of different LGBT characters and the blurbs and covers don’t give that away at all. Plus most of the characters are younger. 

Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green has an LGBT character and from what I can see it doesn’t really give that away. 

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson is supposed to have an LGBT character and I don’t think anything makes that super obvious

The Trylle series by Amanda Hocking has a minor gay character. He is super sweet and if memory serves correct he gets a Bf. Since he is a minor character no one would know it is in there

That’s all I can think of right now but if I remember anymore with younger gay male characters  that aren’t obvious about it I’ll be sure to add them!

A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab (the prince of Red London is bisexual; this doesn’t get a lot of play in the first book but there’s a mlm romance subplot in book 2 I believe?)

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (features two bisexual protagonists and one gay protagonist, plus one gay secondary character; the bi dude is crushing on the gay protagonist)

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (it’s about four boys and a girl on a quest; one of the boys is bi and one of them is gay and is in love with the bi boy)

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (imagine a less problematic Harry Potter, but gay; the summary gives none of this away, though)

Adaptation by Malinda Lo (she often writes lesbian couples, but the summary for this one gives none of that away, so is safe for a closet gaybie)

Ash by Malinda Lo (a lesbian retelling of Cinderella; the summary kind of hints at this but your brother could play it off because it reads like the two girls are just friends, even though they’re not)

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (bi protagonist who gets with a girl; not hinted at in summary)

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (features a lesbian protagonist, but this isn’t revealed in the summary; you can also check out the other 2 books in the series, but they don’t have all the same characters)

Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popovic (it’s about a set of female twins; one is a lesbian with a girlfriend)

Night’s Master by Tanith Lee (and the rest of the Tales of the Flat Earth series; the world is bi-normative, so most characters are open to sexual relationships and romance with both binary genders; the books are kind of old, but very interesting. Nothing lgbtq+ is hinted at in the summaries)

Wintersong by S Jae Jones (the MC’s brother is gay and gets a boyfriend; warning though, the book handles sex and sexual attraction in a very Puritanical way and it’s rather clumsy; also ends on a cliffhanger)

The Last Herald Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey (Magic’s Pawn, Magic’s Promise, Magic’s Price) (the main character comes to grips with being gay and gets a boyfriend; unfortunately, the boyfriend commits suicide, but after a few years the main character gets another boyfriend. Although the MC is killed at the end, his spirit lives on with the spirit of his second love protecting their kingdom)

Go to the library. Most libraries (with an actual librarian) in the US will bend over backwards to get books into the hands of people who need them. If you ask nice, some will even rejacket the book with a plain paper or fake cover. If they’re unable or unwilling to help conceal the books, buy a stretchy book cover and use the excuse, “I don’t like like how the mylar jackets feel.” It’s a real thing; we have people take the jackets off all the time because of it, but the stretchy cover can go over the top and hide the cover completely.

If you’re unable to checkout books without parental supervision, the library is still a good option; once you have your library card, most library systems have an ebook lending system. You can use them discreetly on your phone through one of their apps. If you’re on Android, you can even side-load some of these apps so they don’t show up in your family’s Google Play library.

If you can’t physically get a library card, you still have ebook options.

Overdrive now has a service that lets you get a card by checking your cellphone’s billing zip code. However, not all libraries pay to have the service available. If you’re in an area that has it, you can get access to ebooks almost immediately.

There are also ebook sharing groups on Goodreads and probably other forums. Kindle books can sometimes be shared to other users (the availability of this depends on the author/publisher), so it is legal. Be careful if anyone chooses to go this route because it requires sharing your email address and any books loaned on Kindle will show up in the Kindle library (which means your parents can see them if you’re on a family account).

Also, shameless plug: Goodreads has a YA LGBT+ Books Group. Join us there, and we can provide more book titles, and more importantly, support. We post queer news, have an area to vent, queer writing challenges, book of the month, share coming out stories, etc.

Bastet - Aries, Capricorn 

moon goddess, associated with ctas, protector against contagious diseases and evil spirits, also regarded as the goddess of perfumes, caring mother figure

Sachmet - Gemini, Pisces 

goddess of healing, her breath formed the desert, “the powerful one”, respresented by the searing heat of the midday sun, patron of physicians and doctors

Maat - Taurus, Libra

goddess of truth and justice, represents the primal laws of the universe, associated with balance and harmony, she decides whether a person would succesfully reach the afterlife by weighing their soul against her feather of truth

Nut - Cancer, Aquarius 

goddess of the sky, mother of the gods, barrier between the order of creation and chaos, “she who holds a thousand souls”, passionate lover, Milky Way is viewed as the celestial image of Nut

Neith - Leo, Scorpio 

goddess of war and hunting, powerful and popular, depicted as woman wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, patron of weaving, wise, protector of woman 

Hathor - Virgo, Sagittarius 

she lays an idea egg every day whether you use it or not

A Court of Nightmares, check your hand Rhys