I am so excited about the movie (which is so true to the book) and. The book would not be seen as groundbreaking in the same way if it were published now because we have, at last, moved on. The trailer is now up Theres the regular trailer and then one with an intro from me. “It was probably a radical notion in literature back then that teenagers could be gay, and happy, and in love, and that this alone would drive the plot forward. “I guess that the book was seen as pretty daring at the time,” Levithan, 42, says from his home in Hoboken, New Jersey. When his 2003 debut, Boy Meets Boy, became a runaway bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, it also courted – as runaway bestsellers often do – an attendant controversy, not merely because his lead characters were gay, but because they weren’t persecuted or in peril, but simply in love. In the dozen years that US author David Levithan has been writing young adult (YA) novels that focus either on or around LGBT issues, teen-marketed books with gay narratives have come out of the closet, and into the mainstream.
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