Also, worth a read is Sara Breslor’s great piece on YA lesbian fiction over at Idol Mag: http://idiommag.com/2011/06/teenagers-in-love/
“The more refined these coming-out stories are as instructional tools, the less literary they become, and the less true. It is second nature to judge their politics; it is the responsibility of being an “actual lesbian.” But the best thing that could happen to the young-adult literary world would be for somebody to slip up and say what they really feel.”