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Day:
Lesbian and Gay Voices : an annotated bibliography
and guide to literature for children and young adults. An annotated
bibliography of over 275 recommended books for children and
young adults that feature major and minor lesbian and gay characters. |
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Mastoon:
The Shared Heart. Forty gay, lesbian, and bisexual
young adults share their stories of coming out to friend and
families, and their struggles to live honestly and openly. |
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Andryszewski:
Gay Rights. Traces the history of the gay rights
movement in America, from the Stonewall riots to the legal and
societal status of gay rights at the turn of the century. |
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Marcus:
Is It a Choice? : answers to 300 of the most
frequently asked questions about gay and lesbian people. Presents
answers to three hundred commonly asked questions about homosexuality,
addressing a variety of topics including self-discovery, coming
out, dating, relationships and marriage, religion, sex, AIDS,
and others. |
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Stewart:
Gay and Lesbian Issues : a Reference Handbook.
Presents an overview of the gay civil rights movement, provides
information about court decisions, laws and statutes, prominent
people, the positions of major organizations, and other issues
related to gay rights, and includes a chronology of events. |
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Marcus:
What If Someone I Know is Gay? : answers to questions
about gay and lesbian people. Answers questions teenagers may
have about gay men and women. Includes a chapter listing resource
organizations and media. |
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Gay
Marriage. Presents a series of essays that discuss the
Controversy over gay marriages and the proposed constitutional
Amendment that defines marriage. |
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Kaeser:
Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families. Uses photographs
and interviews to chronicle the experiences of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender parents and their families |
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Winick:
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned.
In graphic art format, describes the friendship between two
roommates on the MTV show "Real World," one of whom
died of AIDS. |
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Lipkin:
Beyond Diversity Day
Uses a question-and-answer format to offer teachers, counselors,
administrators, parents and students an overview of sexuality
differences and the importance of acceptance. |
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Perrotti:
When the Drama Club Is Not Enough : lessons from
the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. Three
schools -- Strategies for change -- What do race and gender
have to do with it? -- Sports, sexual orientation, and school
climate -- Elementary and middle schools -- Controversy : challenge
and opportunity -- Nuts and bolts -- Sustaining your spirit.
Presents the stories of young students and teachers who have
expressed why and how schools must address sexual orientation.
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Houle:
AIDS in the 21st Century : What You Should Know. An
overview of the AIDS epidemic that describes its history, how
it is spread and prevented, its extent in specific world regions,
advocacy and debates, and the impact of education, and includes
a glossary and lists of further reading and related organizations. |
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Revolutionary
Voices. Celebrates the future of gay youth and provides
a collection of their experiences, ideas, dreams, and fantasies
which are expressed in prose, poetry, and artwork. |
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Growing
up Gay / Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology. Contains
over fifty coming-of-age stories, by a variety of famous and
lesser-known authors, written specifically for gay and lesbian
youth |
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Roy:
The Other Side of the Closet : A Drama. A powerful
dramatization about teen tolerance by Canadian playwright Ed
Roy. Set in and around a high school, the play tells the story
of five teens who are grappling with issues of peer pressure,
youth violence, homophobia, behavior norms and expectations,
self-esteem, discrimination, identity and the meaning of true
friendship. |
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Lesbian
and Bisexual Fiction Writers. Analyzes the works and
lives of lesbian and bisexual women fiction writers including
Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Sarah Orne Jewett. |
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Gay
& Lesbian Biography.
Contains 275 alphabetically arranged
entries that provide biographical information on gay men and
lesbians from throughout the history of the world who have made
significant contributions to their chosen fields; and includes
nationality, occupation, and general subject indexes. |
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I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence. Edited by Marion
Dane Bauer. A collection of short stories about being gay by
such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and
Jane Yolen. |
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Bechard:
If It Doesn't Kill You. High school freshman
Ben should be enjoying playing football, meeting girls, and
going to parties, but he's too busy trying to cope with his
father's moving out to live with another man. |
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Cart:
My Father's Scar. As he enters into his first
relationships as a gay man, a college freshman recalls the aching
loneliness of life with his alcoholic physically abusive father
in a community prejudiced against homosexuals. |
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Chambers:
Dance on My Grave : a life and a death in four parts.
Hal's summer affair with Barry Gorman ends tragically when Hal
discovers he is much more committed to the relationship than
his friend |
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D'Erasmo:
A Seahorse Year
A San Francisco family that prides itself on being non-traditional
is left grasping for some sort of stability when sixteen-year-old
Christopher, the son of a gay father and lesbian mother, is
diagnosed with schizophrenia. |
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Donovan:
Dive. Fifteen-year-old Virginia's world begins
to fall apart when her dog is hit by a car, her father is hospitalized
with a mysterious illness, and her best friend ignores her.
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Night Diving. Rose Salino lives the San Francisco
chic lesbian life. When she goes home for her grandmother's
funeral she sees Jessie, her childhood best friend and first
love. Through these crises Rose is forced to look at her life
and find the courage to create a future that is true to her
real self and her heart. Rose takes the risks necessary to create
a life she wants rather than the life she's "supposed to
have." |
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Ferris:
EightSeconds. Eighteen-year-old John must confront his
own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself
strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated,
gorgeous, and gay. |
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Forrest:
Sleeping Bones. Los Angeles homicide detective
Kate Delafield's latest adventure takes her to the famous La
Brea tar pits on a bizarre case of murder. |
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Fox:
The Eagle Kite : a novel. 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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Garden:
Annie On My Mind. Liza puts aside her feelings
for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows
love to triumph over the ignorance of people. |
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Garden:
Holly's Secret. When she starts middle school,
eleven-year-old Holly decides to become sophisticated and feminine,
change her name to Yvette, and hide the fact that her two moms
are lesbians. |
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Greene:
The Drowning of Stephan Jones. As her mother
battles a citizens' group that wants to ban all "antiChristian"
literature from the public library, Carla faces her own battle
of torn loyalties when her boyfriend starts persecuting the
homosexual owners of an antiques shop. |
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Hartinger:
Geography Club. A group of gay and lesbian teenagers
finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club"
at their high school. |
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Homes:
Jack. Fifteen-year-old Jack's confused feelings
for his father, who left him and his mother four years earlier,
are further complicated when he finds that his father is gay.
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Howe:
The Misfits. Four students who do not fit in
at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party
for the student council elections to represent all students
who have ever been called names. |
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Kerr:
"Hello," I lied : a Novel. Summering
in the Hamptons on the estate of a famous rock star, seventeen-year-old
Lang tries to decide how to tell his longtime friends that he
is gay, while struggling with an unexpected infatuation with
a girl from France. |
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Koertge:
The Arizona Kid. Sixteen-year-old Billy spends
the summer with his gay uncle in Tucson and works at a racetrack
where he falls in love with an outspoken horse exerciser named
Cara Mae. |
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Levin:
The Sea of Light. A novel about surviving, excelling,
winning, and trying to hold on to the self in the highly-charged
world of athletic competition. This story centers around three
women's athletic victories, losses, and battles with family
and identity. |
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Levithan:
Boy Meets Boy. Paul's simple high-school life
is confused by his desire for another boy who seems unattainable,
until Paul's friends help him find the courage to pursue him. |
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Levithan:
The Realm of Possibility. A variety of students
at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and
relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories. |
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Myracle:
Kissing Kate. Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship
with her best friend changes after they kiss at a party and
Lissa does not know what to do, until she gets help from an
unexpected new friend. |
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Peters:
Keeping You a Secret : A Novel. As she begins
a very tough last semester of high school, Holland finds herself
puzzled about her future and intrigued by a transfer student
who wants to start a Lesbigay club at school. |
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Love Rules. Seventeen-year-old Lynn experiences
surprise, discomfort, and a new awareness of prejudices and
stereotyping when her best friend Kit comes out as a lesbian.
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Ryan:
Empress of the world. While attending a summer
institute, fifteen- year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle,
falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult
and confusing. |
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Sanchez:
Rainbow Boys. Three high school seniors, a jock
with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and
a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues,
gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each
other. |
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Sanchez:
Rainbow High. Gay friends Nelson, Kyle, and Jason,
nearing the end of their high school days, struggle with issues
of coming out, safe sex, homophobia, being in love, and college
choices. |
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Trying Hard To Hear You. Faced with the revelation
that her best friend is gay, a sixteen-year-old tries to cope
with her own and her friends' reactions toward him. |
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Shyer:
The Rainbow Kite. Twelve-year-old Matthew describes
the prejudices and struggles that his entire family faces when
people learn that his older brother Bennett is gay. |
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Taylor:
The Blue Lawn. A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges
his attraction to an older rugby teammate as he also begins
to break out of preconceived notions about him held by his family
and others. |
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Wittlinger:
What's in a Name? Each of ten teenagers living
in Scrub Harbor, Massachusetts, explores his or her identity
at the same time that the local residents consider changing
the name of their town. |
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Woodson:
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun. Thirteen-year-old
Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his
mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman. |
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Woodson:
The House You Pass On the Way. When fourteen-year-old
Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends
a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality
to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.
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Wyeth:
Orphea Proud. Presents a lyrical story about
Orphea Proud, who shares her experiences with an audience in
a dramatic performance as she talks about her sexuality, her
family, prejudices, and identity. |
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Conversation with Brian McNaught On Being Gay. Author,
counselor, and lecturer Brian McNaught dispels myths about homosexuality.
He talks about growing up gay in a straight world and discusses
such topics as Bible-based bigotry, stereotypes, transvestism,
transexualism, and AIDS. |
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Reaching
Out To Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Youth. Interviews
with gay, lesbian and bisexual teens. |
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Advocate: National LBGT news magazine |
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