Being a Straight Ally

By |2020-03-28T13:43:21-05:00April 5th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , |

Chandra Rooney has threatened to stop watching Glee if Kurt and Blaine break up. She sporadically updates her personal blog (Dreaming in Red,) and you can follow her on twitter as @sakuralovestea.   If you had asked teen me to name LGBTQ characters and canon pairings in YA lit, most of them would’ve come from Asian comics. The novels I remember reading as a teen—LJ Smith, Christopher Pike, RL Stine—were all hetro couples; manga was where to find the variety. It was probably Cardcaptor Sakura that I most connected with; CLAMP had written a story reflecting the relationships [...]