From: Vicki Cobb <vicki.cobb2_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:28:03 -0500 (CDT)

You might be interested in Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin.

Here's a link to my review in the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-cobb/gender-identity-is-not-wh_b_4770038.html


Vicki Cobb President Ink Think Tank, LLC www.inkthinktank.com www.vickicobb.com http://inkrethink.blogspot.com http://huffingtonpost.com/vicki-cobb/


Mar 16, 2014 12:19:19 AM, ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu wrote:

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CCBC-NET Digest for Saturday, March 15, 2014.

1. Sex and YA Lit: Gay vs. Straight

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Subject: Sex and YA Lit: Gay vs. Straight From: Mary Elizabeth Summer Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:58:01 -0700 X-Message-Number: 1

This is more a series of questions rather than an observation. What do you all think about the limits of explicit sexual situations in YA lit books for gay characters versus straight characters? Are the boundaries different because of the controversy surrounding gay identity? And is the answer to the question different based on whether the book is an "issue book" versus a mystery, fantasy, scifi, romance, etc.? (In my mind, issue books have far fewer boundaries than other commercial genres.)

Obviously, an author can put explicit sexual situations in his/her story regardless of genre, but I'm interested in what you think the audience/market will bear. For example, I just finished the manuscript for book 2 in a YA mystery series, and the protagonist's main love interest is the same gender. I worried while writing the kissing scenes that it would shock the audience, whereas I didn't worry about that in the first book when the protagonist's love interest was a boy.

Clearly, YA books for the older end of the spectrum can go beyond kissing. Were I to continue the relationship between to the two same-gender characters in future books, could I reasonably go beyond kissing like I might with an opposite-gender couple? Or would that catapult the book into
"issue book" territory, or even further, into "specialty audience" territory? Is today's teen audience far enough along the evolutionary spectrum to accept it? And/or would I earn a coveted spot on the banned books list?

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