My Essay For Gay YA

[jbknowles]

This piece also appears over at Gay YA. They are doing guest blogs by YA authors all month. Please check them out! Thanks. :-)

For Gay YALast weekend I was driving near the Brown campus in Providence, RI with my family. When we stopped at a light, two male students crossed the street, holding hands. They were chatting away, smiling, like what they

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[chicleeblair]

I am grateful every day that I went to a high school where my friends were openly gay, allowed to question their sexuality safely and were not ridiculed. It's so untrue in many places, and probably in many places in my hometown, but somehow we were safe.

This gave me the ability and the knowledge to write homosexuality in the same way I write disability--it's there, but it's not the focus--and hopefully, one day, teens will be able to read my books and see themselves reflected as not-an-issue.

And maybe, one day, all of our society will believe this too.

[jbknowles]

This makes me so happy. I think slowly but surely we will get there. You give me a lot of hope. Thanks.

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[dreamerwrites]

Thank you for this beautiful post. I hope it's read far and wide <3

[jbknowles]

That is so kind. Thank you.

[jbknowles]

<3

[artistq]

perfect.

[jbknowles]

Thanks sweet lady.

[jbknowles]

Thanks Melodye.