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This book is gay author6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Follow Juno on Twitter: or on Facebook at Juno Dawson Books. She writes full time and lives in Brighton. Author of This Book Is Gay Stands Firm Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Opponents Juno Dawson says the book is meant for teens as a way to provide them with an additional resource in sex education. In 2015, Juno announced her transition to become a woman, having lived thus far as the male author James Dawson. Juno's titles have received rave reviews and her books have been translated into more than ten languages. After graduating from Bangor University, she worked as a primary school teacher and later became a PSHE co-ordinator. Dawson lived in Bingley and was educated at Bingley Grammar School. She is a School Role Model for the charity Stonewall, and also works with charity First Story to visit schools serving low-income communities. Juno Dawson was born James Dawson on 10 July 1981 at Bradford Royal Infirmary in West Yorkshire. Juno is a regular contributor to Attitude, GT, Glamour and the Guardian and has contributed to news items concerning sexuality, identity, literature and education on BBC Woman's Hour, Front Row, This Morning and Newsnight. Her first non-fiction book, Being a Boy, tackled puberty, sex and relationships, and a follow-up for young LGBT people, This Book Is Gay, came out in 2014. In 2015, she released her first contemporary romance, All of the Above. Former PSHCE teacher and acclaimed YA author Juno Dawson gives an uncensored look at what its like to grow up as LGBT. Queen of Teen 2014 Juno Dawson is the multi award-winning author of dark teen thrillers Hollow Pike, Cruel Summer, Say Her Name and Under My Skin, written under the name James Dawson. ![]()
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