Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA
Sep 12th, 2011 by steve
Authors Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith were offered representation on their jointly written YA novel IF:
The agent offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to his sexual orientation.
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3 Responses to “Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA”
Thanks for the link. It reminds me of a line from the introduction from the “Am I Blue” anthology: “I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child”
On a related note, did anyone ever give you any guff over Rick in Wildside?
I got guff from misguided individuals in the gay community about the attempted rape in JUMPER. I do not equate rape with sexuality but some saw it as gay bashing.
[...] (This is a further development on my previous link to the YesGayYA controversy. [...]