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From: nancegar
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:49:36 -0400
The exchange about I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip?is fascinating! I've mentioned I'll Get There many times as being the first YA to include homosexuality and I think many of us consider it and 1969, when it was published, as the beginning of gay literature for kids. (1969, of course, was also the year of the Stonewall Riots, usually said to be the beginning of the modern gay rights movement--an interesting sidelight although there's no real connection that I know about--and certainly none if Donovan was amused at its being considered a "gay novel.")
Thank you, Norma Jean and Leonard Marcus, for giving us this information--and Nancy Silverod for bringing it up!
Nancy G
Received on Wed 23 Jul 2008 02:49:36 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:49:36 -0400
The exchange about I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip?is fascinating! I've mentioned I'll Get There many times as being the first YA to include homosexuality and I think many of us consider it and 1969, when it was published, as the beginning of gay literature for kids. (1969, of course, was also the year of the Stonewall Riots, usually said to be the beginning of the modern gay rights movement--an interesting sidelight although there's no real connection that I know about--and certainly none if Donovan was amused at its being considered a "gay novel.")
Thank you, Norma Jean and Leonard Marcus, for giving us this information--and Nancy Silverod for bringing it up!
Nancy G
Received on Wed 23 Jul 2008 02:49:36 PM CDT
