The links in question:

• Authors Say Agents Try to "Straighten" Gay* Characters in YA
  
• Guest blogger Joanna Stampfel-Volpe responds to a recent PW article on LGBTQ YA
  
• Malinda Lo's statistics on LGBTQA YA published in the US

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