diff --git a/juniper_rocket/src/lib.rs b/juniper_rocket/src/lib.rs
index aa27fdab..6e7bae58 100644
--- a/juniper_rocket/src/lib.rs
+++ b/juniper_rocket/src/lib.rs
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ impl<'a> GraphQLBatchResponse<'a> {
 pub struct GraphQLRequest(GraphQLBatchRequest);
 
 /// Simple wrapper around the result of executing a GraphQL query
-pub struct GraphQLResponse(Status, String);
+pub struct GraphQLResponse(pub Status, pub String);
 
 /// Generate an HTML page containing GraphiQL
 pub fn graphiql_source(graphql_endpoint_url: &str) -> content::Html<String> {
diff --git a/juniper_rocket/tests/custom_response_tests.rs b/juniper_rocket/tests/custom_response_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aeb29d4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/juniper_rocket/tests/custom_response_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+extern crate juniper_rocket;
+extern crate rocket;
+
+use rocket::http::Status;
+
+use juniper_rocket::GraphQLResponse;
+
+#[test]
+fn test_graphql_response_is_public() {
+    let _ = GraphQLResponse(Status::Unauthorized, "Unauthorized".to_string());
+}