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| Wide Awake by David Levithan - |
 M or F? by Lisa
Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts - Frannie and her
best friend Marcus are both "boyfriend virgins," but Marcus has an excuse --
eligible gay boys are hard to come by in their small Illinois town. Frannie
is desperate to get the attention of her crush, Jeffrey, but she's way too
shy to make a move. Marcus insists that Frannie chat with Jeffrey online,
but Frannie won't type a word without Marcus's help. In the chat room,
Marcus and Jeffrey hit it off. The whole plan seems to be working! But the
more Marcus writes, the more he's convinced that Jeffrey is falling for him,
not Frannie. Whose romance is this anyway? |
 Rainbow Road by Alex
Sanchez - Jason Carrillo came out to his
basketball team senior year and lost his university scholarship. Now, with
graduation behind him and summer ending, he's asked to speak at the opening
of a gay and lesbian high school across the country. But after spending
years in the closet and losing his scholarship dream, what message can he
offer? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the fall and trying
to see as much as possible of his boyfriend Jason before they have to
separate. When Jason tells him about his speaking invitation, Kyle jumps at
the chance to drive across country with him. Yet he can't help worrying:
Will their romance survive two weeks crammed together in a car? Nelson
Glassman is happy his best friend Kyle has found love with Jason. Now he's
looking for his own true love -- and hopes he might find his soul mate
during the road trip. But will being the "third wheel" in a trio ruin his
friendships with Kyle and Jason? During an eye-opening postgraduation summer
road trip, each of the three very different boys also embarks on a personal
journey across a landscape of love, sexuality, homophobia, and above all,
friendship. Sequel to
Rainbow Boys and
Rainbow High |
 Totally Joe by James
Howe - As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old
boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of
friendship, family, school, and the difficulties of being a gay teenager.
Sequel to
The
Misfits. |
 Absolutely,
Positively Not by David
LaRochelle -
Steven's a 16-year-old boy with two obsessions: sex and getting his driving
license. The problem is, Steven's not thinking girls when he's thinking sex.
Could he be -- don't say it -- gay? Steven sets out to get in touch with his
inner he-man with Healthy Heterosexual Strategies such as "Start Hanging Out
with the Guys," and "Begin Intensive Dating." But are Steven's tactics going
to straighten him out, or leave him all twisted up? Absolutely hilarious.
Positively sidesplitting. But absolutely, positively NOT GAY! |
 Far From Xanadu by
Julie Anne Peters - Mike Szabo must deal with more
than her share of problems in this engaging, angsty novel. Her alcoholic
father committed suicide, her obese mother has given up on life, and her
no-good brother has driven the family plumbing business into the ground. To
make matters worse, Mike falls deeply in love with a new girl in their small
Kansas town. Bad-girl Xanadu has been sent to live with her aunt and uncle
after getting into serious trouble dealing drugs. She befriends Mike
instantly, though she's undeniably straight, and Mike suffers when Xanadu
starts dating. Mike copes by working out at the gym, fixing her neighbors'
plumbing, leading her softball team to a winning season, and occasionally
binge drinking with her friends. Throughout the novel, she struggles to come
to terms with her sexuality–while she is attracted to girls, she doesn't
want to label herself, and objects when her gay best friend, Jamie, tries to
do so. The people of Coalton are accepting of Mike and Jamie, but eventually
Mike realizes that she will need to leave her small town in search of a
first relationship, and that her athletic talent might give her a way out. |
 Bermudez Triangle
by Maureen Johnson - The friendship of three high
school girls and their relationships with their friends and families are
tested when two of them fall in love with each other. |
 Orphea Proud by
Sharon Dennis Wyeth - While reciting her poetry at
a club in Queens, New York, seventeen-year-old Orphea recounts her childhood
in Pennsylvania, leaving after her parents and the girl she loves die, and
learning about her family and herself while living with her great-aunts on a
Virginia mountaintop. |
 Sugar Rush by Julie
Burchill - After fifteen-year-old Kim transfers to
a new school, she finds herself falling in love with the glamorous Maria
"Sugar" Sweet. |
 Not the Only One
edited by Jane Summer - This revised edition of
Alyson's groundbreaking anthology for gay and lesbian teens features new
original fiction which reflect both the tension and relief of being true to
oneself. Contributors include Gregory Maguire (Wicked), Brent Hartinger (The
Geography Club), Claire McNab (The Wombat Strategy), Michael Thomas Ford
(Last Summer) and Bonnie Shimko (Letters in the Attic). These stories
provide hope and inspiration to gay and lesbian teenagers as they take the
first exciting, often difficult steps toward accepting their sexuality and
emerging from the shadows as open and proud individuals. |
 Geography
Club by Brent Hartinger -
Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind
High School. Then his online gay-chat buddy turns out to be none other than
Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel
meets other gay students too. There's his best friend, Min, who reveals that
she's bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend, Terese. And there's Terese's
politically active friend, Ike. But how can kids this diverse get together
without drawing attention to themselves? "We just choose a club that's so
boring, nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it. We
could call it Geography Club!" Brent
Hartinger's debut novel is a fast paced, funny, and trenchant portrait of
contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual geography in their latest
school club, but who learn plenty about the treacherous social terrain of a
typical American high school and the even more dangerous landscape of the human
heart. |
 Order of the
Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger - This powerful
sequel to "Geography Club" is a humorous, hip, and thoroughly engaging story
filled with skinny-dipping, making out, Indian legends, and the mystery of a
secret society called The Order of the Poison Oak. |
 So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez -
New to California, Frederick makes fast
friends with Xio, an outgoing girl who develops a crush on him. But Frederick is
drawn to Victor, the popular captain of the soccer team. Frederick is confused
about what his feelings can mean--and part of him is afraid to find out. |
 Am I Blue? Coming Out from the
Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer -
A collection of short stories about
homosexuality by such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and
Jane Yolen. |
 My
Father's Scar by Michael Cart -
In a series of flashbacks, college
freshman Andy Logan tells his story of coming out to his family and his
hometown, and how he dealt with the aftermath. |
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann Weyr -
Ellen has always been in love with
James, her older brother Link's best friend. At fourteen, she is ready to do
something about it; until she hears at school that James already likes
somebody-- Link. Ellen loves James, James love Link, and no one knows who Link
loves... |
 Letters
in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko -
Lizzy McMann, A Feisty
twelve-year-old, lives with her immature mother and Manny, her father (she
thinks) in a fleabag Phoenix hotel. One night, Manny's sudden announcement that
he wants a divorce forces mother and daughter to move to upstate New York to
live with Lizzy's grandmother and grandfather--a mixed blessing. At school,
Lizzy befriends, then falls in love with, Eva Singer, who is dyslexic, looks
like Natalie Wood and lives right down the street. Like all girls her age, Lizzy
has to deal with her first period, her first bra and her first boyfriend. But
what scares her most is her love for Eva. She is also concerned with getting a
new husband for Mama--especially after reading Mama's letters that she has found
in the attic. Then Eva gets a boyfriend and Mama's life enters what seems to be
a new crisis. . . . How Lizzy comes to grips with life's strange twists and
turns makes fascinating reading for adults and young readers alike. |
 Dare
Truth or Promise by Paula Block -
When Louie and Willa first meet, they
don't know their lives will soon be changed forever. Self-assured Louie is
gearing up for another successful year in high school, starring in a production
of Twelfth Night and running the Comedy Club. Kicked out of her last school and
still stinging from a past relationship, Willa wants only to get through her
final year at school quietly so she can graduate and become a chef. More than
anything, she wants to be left alone. But each girl unexpectedly finds that
plans mean nothing when it comes to love. Louie discovers that everything she
was sure of-acceptance, faith, and identity-are not what they had seemed. And
Willa finds herself suddenly willing to take another chance. |
 The Eagle Kite by Paula Fox
- Liam's father has AIDS, and
his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to
deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.
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| Real Heroes by Marilyn Kaye - When his father joins other parents in demonstrating against a teacher who is HIV-positive, Kevin is torn between his loyalty to his father whom he has always considered a hero and his admiration for his favorite sixth grade teacher. |
 Deliver Us from Evie
by M.E. Kerr - Sixteen-year-old
Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through
their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the
family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker. |
 Bad Boy
by Diana J Wieler - A.J.
Brandiosa becomes the bad boy of the Cyclone hockey team, and learns that his
best friend is gay, as he tries to cope with his own sexuality during his senior
year in high school. |
 The Perks of
Being a Wallflower by Steve Chbosky -
A high school freshman, who is straight,
finds a new circle of friends including a boy who is comfortable with his own
homosexuality. |
 The
Misfits by James Howe - What do a 12-year-old
student who moonlights as a tie salesman, a tall, outspoken girl, a gay middle
schooler and a kid branded as a hooligan have in common? Best friends for years,
they've all been the target of cruel name-calling and now that they're in
seventh grade, they're not about to take it any more. Howe focuses on the
quietest of the bunch, overweight Bobby Goodspeed (the tie salesman), showing
how he evolves from nerd to hero when he starts speaking his mind. Addie (the
outspoken girl) decides that the four of them should run against more popular
peers in the upcoming student council election. But her lofty ideals and
rabble-rousing speeches make the wrong kind of waves, offending fellow
classmates, teachers and the principal. It is not until softer-spoken Bobby says
what's in his heart about nicknames and taunts that people begin to listen and
take notice, granting their respect for the boy they used to call "Lardo" and
"Fluff." The four "misfits" are slightly larger than life, wiser than their
years, worldlier than the small town setting would suggest, and remarkably
well-adjusted but there remains much authenticity in the story's message about
preadolescent stereotyping and the devastating effects of degrading labels. |
 The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy -
It is 1978 in the Twin
Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love
with keggers, rock and roll, and-unbeknownst to anyone else-a boy in his class
with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. His mother Eileen died two years
earlier when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Mississippi River, and
since then Kevin's relationship with his father Patrick has become increasingly
distant. As lonely women vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers
Patrick's own closely guarded secret: he had planned to abandon his family for
another woman. More disturbingly, his mother's death may well have been a
suicide, not an accident. Complicating the family dynamic is the constant
meddling of Kevin's outspoken Aunt Nora-who will never forgive Patrick for
Eileen's death-along with Patrick's inability to stay single for very long. His
loyalties divided between his father and his aunt, between his internal reality
and his public persona, Kevin is forced to reevaluate his notions of family and
love as painful truths emerge about both. |
 Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan -
High school sophomore Paul lives in a
present-day gaytopia, where boys come out of the closet to become class
president, and the Gay-Straight Alliance has more members than the football
team. The cheerleaders ride Harleys, and the cross-dressing homecoming queen is
also the star quarterback. Paul meets artistic Noah in the bookstore. They pass
notes rife with meaningful detail; paint in Noah's psychedelic, art-covered
room; and fall in sweet, realistic teenage love, unencumbered by gay bashing,
sexual-identity crises, and parental rejection. With these real-world plot
constraints removed, the narrative is driven completely by colorful, literate
characters at their unfettered best. Paul is the cerebral teen's dream
narrator-reflective and insightful, occasionally snarky, and consistently
hilarious. |
 Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle -
The kisser is
best-friend-since-seventh-grade Lissa. The kiss is no peck on the cheek, and
therein lies the rub. Since the fateful event, Kate has been cold to her friend.
In this first-person narrative, Lissa, hurt and confused, details her present
state of inner turmoil, with frequent flashbacks to the girls' blissful
(pre-kiss) days. To complicate matters, Lissa and her younger sister are being
raised by an uncle (their parents died in a plane crash), and lack the emotional
rudder a maternal figure might have provided. At first Lissa misses Kate dearly,
but gradually, through personal insights derived from some new and unexpected
friendships (and forays into new-age dream therapy), she finds the strength to
confront both Kate and her own sexual identity. |
 Keeping you a Secret by Julie Anne Peters -
Holland Jaeger goes steady with
a good-looking boy and contemplates attending an Ivy League college in the fall.
Then she meets "out-and-proud" lesbian Cece Goddard, and her life changes.
Within a matter of weeks, the two begin an affair that eventually leads to a
committed relationship. Holland loses old friends, encounters vicious
discrimination, and is thrown out of the house by her hysterical mother. She
finds help at the local Gay Resource Center, however, and begins to look forward
to attending a local college after high school, with Cece by her side. |
 Luna by Julie Anne Peters -
From as early as she can remember, Regan
O'Neill has known that her brother,Liam, was different. That he was, in fact, a
girl. Transgender.Having a transgender brother has never been a problem for
Regan until now. Liam (or Luna, as she prefers to be called by her chosen name)
is about to transition. What does it mean, transitioning? Dressing like a girl?
In public? Does Liam expect Regan to embrace this decision, to welcome his sex
change? Shes always kept her brothers secret, always been his confidante, but
now Regans acceptance and love will be put to the test. |
 Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I
Learned by Judd Winick -
Pedro Zamora Changed Lives. When the HIV-positive AIDS educator appeared on
MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, he taught millions of viewers about being
gay and living with AIDS. Pedro's roommate on the show was Judd Winick, a
cartoonist from Long Island. They soon became close friends. Judd created Pedro
and Me, a book in words and pictures, to honor Pedro Zamora, his friend and
teacher, and most of all, an unforgettable human being. |
 Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir
by Zoe Trope - The 44-page
nucleus of this book was originally published by a small press when the author
was 14. Her precociously perceptive and preternaturally poisonous pen then drew
the attention of HarperCollins, which offered her a six-figure book deal to keep
the caustic coming-of-age diary ranting and raving through the increasingly
irrelevant remainder of her high school career. Zoe's entries chronicle her
tortured search for truth in love and art, her faltering faith in the value of
activism in the face of universal apathy, and her bottomless disdain for just
about every figure and fixture in her high school life. The language is
undeniably raw-a hip mixture of bald statement, cyberesque shorthand, and
stream-of-consciousness prose. Her frank accounts of her transgender search for
the perfect kiss and her first girlfriend who becomes her first boyfriend will
surely shock certain audiences. Still, like Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being
a Wallflower (MTV, 1999), this is an important offering for exceptional,
alienated readers-the talented and the tortured misfits who need to know that
they are not alone. The fact that a dorky teen can actually pursue personal
success completely on her own terms; make lots of people read, wince, laugh, and
think; and score a major wad of cash in the bargain will actually give them
something to cheer about. |
 Drowning
of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene -
Hate.
It's the farthest feeling from sixteen-year-old Carla Wayland's mind. She can't
believe people would persecute others just because they are different. But she
isn't about to worry about the injustice surrounding her because she's in love
with handsome and popular Andy Harris. Although raised to act on her ethical
beliefs, Carla finds that her enchantment with Andy makes her a silent partner
in his hate campaign and harassment of gay couple Stephan Jones and Frank
Montgomery. At first Carla manages to overlook and explain away Andy's atrocious
behavior toward the men. But Stephan drowns as a direct result of what Andy and
his friends do, and Carla can no longer deny the truth. Carla must decide before
the trial which side she's on and what she stands for. Will justice prevail? |
 Baby Be-Bop by
Francesca Lia Block - Dirk is just your average teen living in
a fairytale LA, except that he receives surreal storytelling visitations from
his dead father and grandmother. Sound weird? Well, maybe, but these visits help
him come to terms with being gay. Check out this author's other books, too:
Weetzie Bat,
Witch Baby, and
Missing Angel Juan.
|
 Ironman by Chris Crutcher -
Bo Brewster
has been fighting with his father as long as he can remember. After angry
outbursts at his football coach and English teacher that get him kicked off the
football team and almost expelled, Bo gets sent to Mr.Nak's before-school Anger
Management group. He also deals with finding out his swim coach is gay. |
 Eight Seconds by
Jean Ferris - Before his senior year of high school, John goes
to rodeo school. He likes being one of the guys, getting into fights and dating
pretty girls. Sometimes, though, he still feels like an outsider. Things only
get more complicated as he becomes close friends with Kit, a great guy who is
smart, tough, fascinating, and - gay. |
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|
 Annie On My Mind
by
Nancy Garden - Annie On My Mind tells the story of
two New York City high school seniors, Annie and Liza, who are immediately drawn
to each other in this novel of first love.
|
 Empress of the World
by Sara Ryan - Nic Lancaster knows exactly what she wants in
life. She's even attending an advanced summer college program for high school
students to get a jump on her chosen profession, archeology. But her detached
point of view doesn't help her much as she finds herself falling for one of her
cool new friends- a friend who just happens to be another girl. |
 Rainbow Boys by Alex
Sanchez - Here are three high school boys with some serious
issues. Jason is a top football player with a serious girlfriend. Kyle is a
quiet, serious student. Nelson is a flamboyant loner. What could these guys
possibly have in common? All three are gay. Seeking help through a Gay/Straight
Alliance, the boys find the courage to be themselves and stand up to those
around them. |
 Rainbow High by Alex
Sanchez - Nelson Glassman and
Kyle Meeks, best friends for many years, are gay teens at Walt Whitman High
School. Kyle becomes romantically involved with basketball jock Jason Carrillo,
while Nelson embarks on a strained relationship with Jeremy, who has tested
positive for HIV. Jason comes out to his teammates and endures public scrutiny
on television, eventually losing his athletic scholarship. On the homefront,
Kyle's parents desperately want him to attend Princeton, although this would
mean leaving Jason behind, and Nelson's mother insists that he end his
relationship with Jeremy. Throughout these vicissitudes, the young men provide
support for one another as graduation approaches. |
 Hard Love by
Ellen Wittlinger - John has found the best girl in the world.
In fact, she is absolutely perfect for him in every way- except she's gay.
Though Marisol is completely honest with John about her orientation, John can't
help but think he can change her mind. But his plans to win her over just might
ruin their friendship for good... |
 Flamboyant by
Elizabeth Swados - When Chana Landau begins to
teach at Manhattan's Harvey Milk High School, she leaves the protection of
her familial, safe world - a traditional Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn
- for a school that embodies everything she has been forbidden to
experience.
Adult Book |
 Middlesex by Jeffrey
Eugenides - In the spring of 1974, Calliope
Stephanides finds herself drawn to a classmate at her girls' school in
Grosse Point, Michigan. That passion -- along with her failure to develop --
leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. The explanation
for this is a rare genetic mutation -- and a guilty secret -- that have
followed Callie's grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to
Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor
City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the
foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl,
part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own
odyssey has only begun.
Adult Book |
| Non-Fiction |
 Bend, Don't Shatter:
Poets on the beginning of Desire Edited by T. Cole Rachel & Rita D.
Costello - This new poetry anthology navigates the
rocky waters of teenage sexuality and confusion with insight, clarity, and
understanding. The poems were written by adults who keenly remember the
turmoil and excitement of their own adolescent sexual explorations but now
have the perspective and sense of self that come with growing up. They
employ concrete details - reaching across car seats, the electric touch of
fingertips - as well as more ephemeral concepts, such as facing desire as
powerful as a thunderstorm. Offering comfort, illumination, and acceptance,
the book reflects the nuances and complications of teenage sexuality, and
explores the confused joy of it, the bright desire, the shame and isolation,
the shock of sexual discovery, and the thrill - or horror - of waking up to
a new identity. The poems give teens new insight and new language for
dealing with gender issues as a whole. |
 GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer &
Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel -
Are you queer or questioning? If you are,
this book is for you. Do you know someone who might be queer or questioning? If
so, this book is for you, too. Or are you someone who just wants to learn more
about what it's like to be queer or questioning? This book is a great place to
begin. Discovering that you, or someone you love, might be GLBTQ is a
revelation. Accepting it is a process. One thing that can help that process is
information. This book can't answer all of your questions or counter all of the
misinformation, misconceptions, myths, half-truths, and outright lies you might
have heard about being GLBTQ, but it's a start. |
 Hear
Me Out: true stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia : a
project of Planned Parenthood of Toronto by Planned Parenthood -
Twenty-two young people involved in a Toronto
organization talk about the experiences that led them to T.E.A.C.H. (Teens
Educating and Confronting Homophobia), as well as their ups and downs as
program volunteers and counselors–and beyond. The stories are frank and
personal and sometimes heartbreaking, but they all share a sense of
individual growth, personal acceptance, and hope. Another thing they share
is a strong allegiance to T.E.A.C.H., which seems to be an effective tool in
promoting not only self-awareness, but also tolerance and understanding.
Yet, at times, this often-moving collection can sound a bit like a vehicle
to promote the organization, which, in some sense, it is. Accordingly, it
may prove to be most useful as a resource for educators, youth workers, and
parents, functioning as a catalyst for ideas, discussions, and programs.
Stories are written by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual/transgendered
youth, and short biographies of the contributor are appended. |
 The Journey Out: A Guide for
and about Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Teens by Rachel Pollack -
Suggests how gay, lesbian, and bisexual
teenagers may discover their sexual orientation, find self-acceptance, come out,
cope with prejudice, and deal with religious and political issues. |
 Gay and Lesbian
Rights by Marilyn Oliver Tower -
Examines the issue of gay and lesbian
rights in the United States, covering the history of the gay rights movement,
the current struggles it faces, and arguments both for and against it. |
 What if Someone I Know is Gay? Answers to
Questions About Gay and Lesbian People by Eric Marcus -
Marcus's question-and-answer book "about
gay stuff for young people" is similar to his popular book for adults, Is It a
Choice? Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Gay and
Lesbian People (HarperCollins, 1999). The author provides useful information and
anecdotes on many issues concerning friends and family, dating, sex, religion,
school, activism, and discrimination. |
 The Shared Heart:
Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by
Adam Mastoon - This non-fiction book features photos and
first-person accounts about the challenges of growing up gay. Meet class
presidents, athletes, artists, and their families, and read their true stories.
|
 The
Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality by Michael Basso -
The classic guide to teen sexuality
updated and expanded with information on sexually-transmitted diseases;
contraception; sexual abuse; healthy relationships; hotlines and resources; and
more. |
 She's Not There: a Life
in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan -
She's Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a
person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a
love story. By turns funny and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan
explores the remarkable territory that lies between men and women, examines
changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. She's
Not There is a portrait of a loving marriage -- the love of James for his
wife, Grace, and, against all odds, the enduring love of Grace for the woman
who becomes her "sister," Jenny. To this extraordinary true story Boylan
brings the humorous, fresh voice that won her accolades as one of the best
comic novelists of her generation. With her distinctive and winning
perspective, She's Not There explores the dramatic outward changes and
unexpected results of life as a woman: Jenny fights the urge to eat salad,
while James consumed plates of ribs; gone is the stability of "one damn
mood, all the damn time." While Boylan's own secret was unusual, to say the
least, she captures the universal sense of feeling uncomfortable, out of
sorts with the world, and misunderstood by her peers. Jenny is supported on
her journey by her best friend, novelist Richard Russo, who goes from
begging his friend to "Be a man" (in every sense of the word) to accepting
her as an attractive, buoyant woman. "The most unexpected thing," Russo
writes in his Afterword to the book, "is how in Jenny's story we recognize
our shared humanity." As James evolves into Jennifer in scenes that are by
turns tender, startling, and witty, a marvelously human perspective emerges
on issues of love, sex, and the fascinating relationship between our
physical and our intuitive selves. Through the clear eyes of a truly
remarkable woman, She's Not There provides a new window on the often
confounding process of accepting ourselves.
Adult Book |
 As Nature Made Him
by John Colapinto - The riveting story of the
famous "twins case" of Joan/John, which became a major touchstone in the
hotly contested "nature vs. nurture" debate on human sexuality.
Adult Book |
 Kings and Queens:
Queers at the Prom by David Boyer - Like so
many closeted gay teenagers who faced this high school rite of passage,
David Boyer asked a girl to his senior prom. More than a dozen years later,
now openly gay Boyer began collecting stories of this enduring ritual from
queers who survived it. These stories form the basis of Kings and Queens:
Queers at the Dance.The book is divided into two major sections: Before
Stonewall begins around the time of the Depression and ends at the 1969
uprising. These stories suggest what it was like to come of age before the
gay rights movement really began, before the word gay assumed its current
meaning. After Stonewall charts queers' progression from closet to
mainstream. Not intended as a definitive retelling of gay history, Kings and
Queens illustrates how growing up gay has - and has not - changed over the
years. It is a bumpy but irresistible ride through a history that has been
unspoken for too long. |
Popular GLBTQ Authors
Brent Hartinger
Nancy Garden
Francesca Lia Block
M.E. Kerr
Alex Sanchez
David Levithan
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