![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The industry also started putting racy covers on YA novels where sexuality was barely even a tangential part of the story.Īnd yet even with those boundaries redrawn, something as simple as two fully-clothed girls kissing on a cover is something that somehow has eluded the industry’s norms. The traditional YA world pushed content boundaries in the ’90s and ’00s, becoming increasingly comfortable with realistic, even graphic portrayals of teenage sexuality. Still, while homosexuality has been explored in YA novels for quite some time, it still says something that the cover for my friend Sarah McCarry’s About a Girl felt like something new. The traditional publishing industry is located in one of the most liberal cities in America. ![]()
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