"queer content by queer creators" is the laaaaaaaaast hill I will die on, especially in books

You can't just take the "POC content by POC creators" discourse and plaster it across other marginalizations. It doesn't work like that.

like...I'm a queer guy who works in children's publishing. the issues facing queer books within the industry are very different from the issues POC books face

With queer books, the internal obstacles are often rooted in censorship--"we think this is a great book, but we're scared it won't sell in the midwest"--and as those sayings are proven untrue, it becomes easier to sell queer books, especially by white authors

There's not some flood of non-queer authors writing queer YA books for easy money. What there IS, is a lot of queer people discovering their queerness through writing, and other queers gatekeeping them

You don't need to prove your queerness to anyone in order to write a queer book. And no matter what, there's always some queers out there who claim you're not queer *enough* to count--ignore them

What frustrates me is how this is always applied under cissexist lines. The assumption “true” queerness only exists as dimorphic shades of gay/lesbian identity. Looking at someone’s profile picture and assuming that tells you what books they *should* write