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Posted 2014-02-23 5:47 AM (#6563 - in reply to #6551)
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spoltz - 2014-02-22 12:19 AM What astonished me the most was that the book was published in '85, which I thought was pretty early and progressive for putting positive LGBT characters in a YA book.


I was a teen in the 80s and I don't really recall YA being a genre. There were a few authors who wrote on topics of particular interest to teens but it wasn't like today when half of a bookstore is devoted to a YA section. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly? I've often pondered on this.

I recall some genre books I read in the 80s that had a glbtq theme (though I don't know if they would be classified as YA) - The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Chronicles of Tornor by Elizabeth Lynn.

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