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Queer young adult fiction isn’t all gloomy realism. Here are 5 uplifting books to get you started – The Conversation AU
Sci-fi, fantasy and rom-coms: books with LGBTQIA+ characters are as diverse as their readers.
Early ventures in queer young adult (YA) fiction followed certain conventions: they tended to be set in the contemporary world and their narratives focused on coming out, bullying, heartbreak or fighting for acceptance. Most unfortunately, these stories also have a long history of ending in tragedy.
There is absolutely a place for stories that address the often harsh reality of being queer in a heteronormative world. However, this history has left many adolescents (and adults!) under the LGBTQI…
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