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LOVE, SIMON is officially out in the world today! We’re so beyond excited to see many more LGBTQIAP+ YA books adapted for film and tv in the coming years. What book(s) do you want to see adapted next? 

Autoboyography is very close to my heart as a queer ex-Mormon, but I fear it’s too close in content to Simon in some ways for a studio to consider it. Which sucks.

I think Juliet Takes a Breath is a really important book and has a lot to say, not just about queerness, but about feminism and race and how these things intersect. I think it’s got a lot to connect and relate to and think about, much like movies like Better Than Chocolate did for 90s kids like me. I know it’s probably more NA than YA, but that’s my pick. If kids can read about murder and drugs in het books without it being challenged, they can read about intersectional feminism in queer books.