(Editor's Note: Kelly York is the author of HUSHED. Check out our review of it here.) When I first started writing HUSHED, up until the point I started querying it to agents, I thought nothing except: “This is the story I want to tell.” Not once did I wonder what kind of reaction I might get to having written a male/male pairing. Even when it did dawn on me that some agents might not be into that, I wasn’t worried about that in particular. It had more to do with, “I’ve written a male/male pairing...and I’m not a [...]

To most people, I'm a pretty typical girl who likes girl things, who has been with a guy for 12 years. Simple, uncontroversial. Few people probably realize I've ever felt ashamed or confused about gender or sexuality. But as I sat down to write this post, I realized that in fact, I've dealt with layers of confusion about it as long as I can remember. When I was a little girl, I spent a lot of time pretending to be a boy. Mind you, it was in the context of pretend games, elaborate pretend games with my friends [...]

That’s the choice that both the straight and the gay community often gives us. Pick your team. You’re either one of “us” or one of “them.” But what if you’re attracted to both genders? And the fact is that most people are… bisexual. Of course you’d never know it from news reports. The media hardly ever mentions bisexuality. And yet numerous studies, beginning with those of the groundbreaking sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey over a half-century ago, have documented that the vast majority of us aren’t either 100% exclusively heterosexual or 100% homosexual. Instead, most of us are or [...]