![]() ![]() Today, however, young queer readers can finally find characters in their favorite books with whom they can identify and draw inspiration from to find their individual voices and identities growing up gay. ![]() ![]() Martin of “The Babysitters’ Club” fame coming immediately to mind). Openly LGBTQ characters in YA novels once remained virtually nonexistent but only hinted at: Us “millennial cusps” remember quite a few “tomboy” characters who piqued our budding curiosity/gaydar, and we now know that a few authors of YA books we cherished lived queer lives ( Ann M. The representation of LGBTQ characters in young adult (YA) fiction has grown exponentially over the past two decades as our community has fought to ascend from the proverbial shadows and slowly advanced socially, culturally and politically in the quest for equality-in America and globally. ![]()
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