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't actually read adult books and don'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'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.

I beg of y'all to literally just look for fucking books. You have the internet and refuse to use it. You have resources cultivated by marginalized people who know how to find these books and you REFUSE. That's on you.