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I was searching for zombie news to post and came across this interesting article:

Attack of the Gay Teen Zombies: An Interview with Geography Club’s Brent Hartinger
by Michael Jensen, February 5, 2007

Brent Hartinger made a splash with Geography Club, his 2003 gay teen novel about a group of kids who start a secret high school gay-straight alliance, then give it the most boring name they can think of, the Geography Club, to keep others from joining. A sequel, The Order of the Poison Oak, followed in 2005.

Hartinger, a contributor to AfterElton.com (and the partner of this writer!), is back with another sequel to Geography Club. Called Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies, and it’s actually two-books-in-one. Read the first “book,” Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies, which is told from the point-of-view of gay boy Russel, then flip the book over and read the second “book,” Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies, which is told from the point-of-view of Russel’s bisexual best friend Min. The two books together are the story of when Russel and Min get jobs working as an extra on a zombie film being shot in town…

[the interview and the rest of the article at AfterElton]

I guess as this is outside of my realm of experience, I didn’t realize there are novels directed toward gay teens let alone zombie related novels directed toward gay teens. Anything that makes a teenager (which it is hard enough being) feel like less of a freak for living a gay lifestyle has to be a good thing.

I grew up with a few people who could have had a hell of a lot easier time in their teens with this kind of novel. Perhaps someone else will be saved some grief by this. Nice work Brent Hartinger.

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