It was during my years as an undergrad that I first began to take interest in literature about queer adolescence.  At the time, I was only interested in adult literature and focused on coming out narratives and coming of age narratives in particular. During my first semester of graduate school, I took a class on children’s and young adult literature. It was during this class that I first thought to look at young adult literature in an academic and theoretical way. As I began to work on a paper on queer young adult literature for that course, I realized how limited the resources were. Very few records exist tracking queer…