Boy Meets Boy Themes

You know how there are all kinds of books about love for teenage girls? You know how the boys in those books always have names like Spencer or Colt, and the girls always have cute, quirky first and...

Imagine if you will a place where it's totally cool to be gay. Sure, there are still homophobic parents who shun their children because of religion (we're looking at you, Tony's mom and dad), but P...

Sure on the surface Boy Meets Boy is all about boyfriends—namely getting, losing, and/or keeping them. But the boyfriends themselves are only part of the story. When someone gets a new boyfriend,...

Okay, so let's talk about Tony. Levithan's inspiration for the character was his best friend's other best friend, who grew up in a religious household with homophobic parents. Around the same time...

Just as Paul's town is an idyllic place to be gay, it's an idyllic place to be transgender. Infinite Darlene is the only trans character in Boy Meets Boy, but she doesn't deal with any kind of tran...

That Noah, he certainly knows how to woo a boy: Oh, no biggie, Paul, I'll just invite you over to my Matchbox dream room with the multicolored ceiling, stereo hammock, and passage to Narnia, and we...

Oof, religion. Sure it's given us some great things, such as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Gaudi's Spanish churches, Mother Theresa, and holidays where we get to eat lots of delicious pie. On...

If Boy Meets Boy didn't end happily, readers who went along on this lighthearted journey in this almost-perfect town would have been sorely disappointed. And indeed, we get the basic plotline that...