Queer people have always been here; for as long as we have existed, so has the awareness of our obvious otherness, as well as the desperate need to understand and reconcile our whats, hows, and whys. Literature has persevered as an outlet for LGBTQ+ exploration, increasingly so as the publishing industry responds to a more accepting society of queer people, writers, and stories. This paper will explore a proposed dichotomy of publishing’s current treatment of queer literature between the adult and young adult markets, through the supplemental lenses of their individual and cultural histories: to help analyze the present and form pictures of our industry’s future, we need to understand our past.

酷儿一直都在这里；只要我们存在，我们就会意识到我们明显的差异性，并且迫切需要理解和调和我们的是什么、如何以及为什么。文学一直以来都是 LGBTQ+ 探索的一个出路，随着出版业对酷儿群体、作家和故事的接受程度不断提高，文学的地位也越来越高。本文将通过对酷儿文学个人和文化历史的补充视角，探讨目前成人市场和青少年市场之间出版业对待酷儿文学的二分法：为了帮助分析现在并形成我们行业未来的图景，我们需要了解我们的过去。