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Raegan Revord Confirms Nonbinary Identity as Debut Queer YA Novel Launches

The 17-year-old is using a new YA rom-com release to model queer visibility for young readers.

Overview

  • In a recent Entertainment Tonight interview, the Young Sheldon alum said they are nonbinary and use they/them pronouns.
  • The announcement comes as Revord promotes Rules for Fake Girlfriends, a queer young adult rom-com released on Sept. 2.
  • Set in England, the novel centers on a U.S. teen who enters a pretend relationship while following a scavenger hunt connected to her late mother.
  • Revord said seeing public figures come out helped them feel represented and that they hope to offer that visibility to other kids.
  • They wrote much of the book between takes on Young Sheldon and have engaged readers since launching the Read with Raegan book club in 2019.