Quoted: Well before gay characters began popping up in the mainstream on TV and at the movies, librarians embraced “Iâ??ll Get There,” said Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Childrenâ??s Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Another important forerunner was Nancy Gardenâ??s 1982 “Annie on My Mind” and its unabashedly happy ending for two 17-year-old girls who fall in love.
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