Amy M. Young

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Caught a few tweets tonight from the YALITChat about the lack of LGBT YA Fiction. Got me to thinking - part of me would love to do a series on my character Michaela as a kid. She has enough of a colourful background that would make for good YA fic, but I run into the problem that likely keeps a lot of people from writing it LGBT fic - she's bisexual, which sets some people into the "she's too hetero-normative" and some into the "she's not hetero-normative enough". Some would throw a fit over her current life (married to a man). But that's the thing - it was her choice.

Love, for her, does not see gender, it sees personality, it sees the person themselves, with no boundaries. In truth, she'd probably call herself "sapiosexual" - attracted to intelligence rather than the bits and bobs between the legs and what our chromosomes tag us with.

But, there is a void to be filled. Maybe I will pick up the pen - detractors be damned.

Thoughts?