Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture RN ' Heather Fowlie

' Heather Fowlie

the story of tenacity in the wake of defeat

consultant and professor John Roch

these nurses cared for their patients with compassion

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Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture RN ' Heather FowlieYoung adult literature featuring LGBTQ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more frequently in film, on television, and in video games. This explosion of queer representation, however, has prompted new forms of longstanding cultural anxieties about adolescent sexuality. What