Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture RN narratives used not only to

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the story of tenacity in the wake of defeat

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consultant and professor John Roch

Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture RN narratives used not only toYoung adult literature featuring LGBTQ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more frequently in film, on television, and in video games. This explosion of queer representation, however, has prompted new forms of longstanding cultural anxieties about adolescent sexuality. What