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While the overall figures for Australian children’s publishing are harder to establish than you might imagine, Catriona Mills tells us that in 2015 the database AustLit contained 2798 young adult novels by Australian authors. On one hand, these statistics indicate that Australian children’s literature still has a long way to go before it can be described as representing LGBQ characters fairly, let alone creatively. That adds up to at least 134 Australian novels for or about kids dealing in some way with LGBQ experience – and I haven’t looked at the related categories of picture books, short story anthologies, memoirs and non-fiction titles, which would expand the Australian total.
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I can now say with certainty that the years between 19 saw the publication of at least 86 Australian children’s and young adult contemporary realist novels containing 321 characters explicitly identified as LGBQ, plus at least 48 more novels in other genres, with older protagonists or with less explicit LGBQ content. In 2015 I accidentally discovered that it was possible for LGBQ and LGBQ-friendly writers and reviewers to be completely unaware of a 30 year tradition in Australian children’s literature of writing about characters who identify or are identified as gay male, lesbian, bisexual or questioning and I decided I wanted to know exactly how many books had been forgotten. Why compile a list like this? There are arguments for and against the importance of a specifically queer and / or specifically Australian literature for younger readers but my own agenda was less ambitious.