I also have a big issue in general with this notion that "teens are more accepting than adults of queer/intense/political content" when I have seen how teens react to anything that they perceive as "bad" on the internet. See: fandom spaces.
imo, this distinction between YA and adult is reductive and tells me people who actually believe that teen/YA fiction is the only place to find accepting stories/stories about marginalized people, don& #39;t actually read adult books and don& #39;t actually think of their fellow adults-
-as people who think, feel, and grow with their literature. As much as I enjoy YA books, no YA has SHAKEN ME as a queer, Black reader than the works of authors who write ADULT literature.
So what is the point of this specific division? "Teens are just more accepting and adults can& #39;t get with the times" is incredibly harmful not only to readers looking for those stories, BUT ALSO to the authors who BEEN DOING THIS SHIT.