Darla Linville (PhD., City University of New York) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Counselor Education, Leadership, and Research at Augusta University. Her publications include «Becoming Sexual and Gendered Subjects: The Identities Young People Claim and the Freedoms Within Them» in The Meaning of Sexual Identity in the Twenty-First Century, edited by J. Kaufman and D. Powell.David Lee Carlson (EdD., Teachers College, Columbia University) is Associate Professor in the Division of Teacher Education at Arizona State University. His most current work explores the pedagogies of friendship and how they interact with gender and sexuality studies in education.

• Contents: Darla Linville/David Lee Carlson:Telling New Stories – Amanda Haertling Thein/Kate E. Kedley: Out of the Closet and All Grown Up: Problematizing Normative Narratives of Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age in Young Adult Literature – David Lee Carlson: Queer Recognition and Interdependence: LGBTQ Young Adult Literature and the Contemporary Moment – Angelo Benozzo/Mirka Koro-Ljungberg/Sergia Adamo: Billy Elliot, Swan Lake, and Shifting Queering Effects – Kevin J. Burke/Adam J. Greteman: Friendship as/and Shared Enmity – E. Sybil Durand: At the Intersections of Identity: Race and Sexuality in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature – Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth/Caitlin L. Ryan: Destabilizing the Homonormative for Young Readers: Exploring Tash’s Queerness in Jacqueline Woodson’s After Tupac and D Foster – William P. Banks/Jonathan Alexander: After Homonormativity: Hope for a (More) Queer Canon of Gay YA Literature – Darla Linville: Creating Spaces of Freedom for Gender and Sexuality for Queer Girls in Young Adult Literature – Jacqueline Bach/Chaunda Allen Mitchell: Exploring the Tensions of Reading LGBTQ YAL With Higher Education Student Affairs Professionals – sj Miller: Reading YAL Queerly: A Queer Literacy Framework for Inviting (A)Gender and (A)Sexuality Self-Determination and Justice – Kirsten Helmer: Queer Literacies: A Multidimensional Approach to Reading LGBTQ-Themed Literature – Nicole Sieben: Openly Straight: A Look at Teaching LGBTQ Young Adult Sports Literature through a Queer Theory Youth Lens – Mollie V. Blackburn/Caroline T. Clark: Afterword to Beyond Borders: Queer Eros and Ethics in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature.