“ Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy. ”
The failure mode of clever is “asshole.
~ John Scalzi
For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.
In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.