I love title of this entry. May I make it into a Livejournal icon sometime soon?
We need explicitly queer YA the way we need sports books and horse books and The Babysitter's Club and every other niche story: to tell us that this is okay, that this is an option.
Yes. A thousand times yes. If I had had more of that to read when I was young, I might have figured it out for myself a lot sooner than college.
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Date: 2011-09-13 03:59 pm (UTC)We need explicitly queer YA the way we need sports books and horse books and The Babysitter's Club and every other niche story: to tell us that this is okay, that this is an option.
Yes. A thousand times yes. If I had had more of that to read when I was young, I might have figured it out for myself a lot sooner than college.