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.