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Sat 07 Jul 2008Growing up and finding yourself
TEENAGE:GROWING UP IS rarely an easy process; but growing up gay, at least to judge by its fictional representation in the teenage novel, is even more of a challenge, writes Robert Dunbar.
In the time since the publication, in 1969, of John Donovan's I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip, generally regarded as the first young adult novel to have a gay central character, there has been a steady increase in the quantity of such material.
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