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Ant tri to figure out the answers to his qutns as he balanc his relatnships wh three very different boys: Charlie, who is both vilently homophobic and yet close iends wh Ant; Jack, whose mp behavur mak him the target of Charlie’s rage; and fally Freddie, who jt wants Ant to try out for the gby team. And how I would have loved a book that showed me I wasn't still aren't many books wh gay protagonists teen l, partly bee publishers fear will lim the dience. And there's certaly lots and lots of room for of the thgs gog on More Than This is that our ma character is growg up gay a world which mak that difficult.
" I apply this a lot to gay characters - Ben and Cillian the Chaos Walkg books are my bt example - and for Seth, was the same. He's had the same difficulti that any teenager has felt, that first wantg of someone all your own, which is so on the other hand really was important to me to wre a book which a gay teen uld see themselv where that fact wasn't the whole of themselv. He said, "As a gay kid, the way that we view masculy growg up is slightly different to a straight kid, bee you are always wonrg if you're mascule enough, you wonr what masculy means, you wonr if you are aware that sometim 's very, very poisono and not what you are.
The Seventi saw many women's rights, gay rights, and environmental movements. His parents would rather share their hoe wh a herd of pk elephants than accept that he is gay and the fay le (“the Yoke”, as father Brian lls ) is built on nial and Adam ch closer to eeg himself om the Yoke by acceptg himself as worthy of love, a parallel drama is unfoldg.