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QYA in the 80s
One of the first positiveish YA books Two girls come back together in the end Young proto-gay gets a new teachers He really likes the teacher,but not all the students do Teacher is ultimately fired on the grounds of his sexuality Divorced Parents While at her dads for the summer she learns her mother is a lesbian Father thinks it is not the right place to raise children First YA book to deal with AIDS Teen learns his older brother is gay and has AIDS and struggles with this information Published in 1989 Magical realism Shows an alternative queer family
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CCW 2019
The Theory Behind Queer Book List In her groundbreaking 1998 essay “Sponsors of Literacy,” Deborah Brandt argues that literacy, and more accurately illiteracy, is not a problem of the individual, but of the social, cultural, and political environment. Brandt claims that “Intuitively, sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most typically in people’s memories of literacy learning: older relatives, teachers, priests, supervisors, military officers, editors, influential authors. Sponsors, as we ordinarily think of them, are powerful figures who bankroll events or smooth the way for initiates” (167). The vast majority of these sponsors have historically been anti-queer. Indeed, for many young queers and proto-gays the only…
