Yay, good list. I haven't read the last couple of Naomi Novik's books but I understand that Granby came out as gay in the last one?
I'd like to add The Graveyard Book to Neil Gaiman's list, but I can't recall if there were any sassy hairdressers, so I can't be sure. There certainly were no memorably queer characters.
Some YA novels to add:
The Hunger Games series, Susanne Collins (I was actually braced for gayness to be one of the terrible bad decadent things that went on at the Capitol, actually, but no.)
Matched by Ally Condie (This is a book that deals with the idea of government making ideal matches for people and how that doesn't work at all, and yet the author doesn't deal with queer identity at all. It's a screaming vacuum in the book.)
Goose Girl, Shannon Hale (It's a retelling of the fairy tale, so I suppose there's maybe some justification for it being all straight, but I expect anyone in that group of YA writers - Shannon Hale, Libba Bray, Karen Healey, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare - to have queer representation, since I'm pretty sure they all come from fandom.)
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Date: 2012-09-17 09:39 am (UTC)I'd like to add The Graveyard Book to Neil Gaiman's list, but I can't recall if there were any sassy hairdressers, so I can't be sure. There certainly were no memorably queer characters.
Some YA novels to add:
The Hunger Games series, Susanne Collins (I was actually braced for gayness to be one of the terrible bad decadent things that went on at the Capitol, actually, but no.)
Matched by Ally Condie (This is a book that deals with the idea of government making ideal matches for people and how that doesn't work at all, and yet the author doesn't deal with queer identity at all. It's a screaming vacuum in the book.)
Goose Girl, Shannon Hale (It's a retelling of the fairy tale, so I suppose there's maybe some justification for it being all straight, but I expect anyone in that group of YA writers - Shannon Hale, Libba Bray, Karen Healey, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare - to have queer representation, since I'm pretty sure they all come from fandom.)