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LGBTQ Themes
Fiction / Nonfiction
/ Websites FICTION Atkins, Catherine. Alt Ed. Participating in a special after-school
counseling class with other troubled students, including a sensitive gay
classmate, helps Susan, an overweight tenth grader, develop a better sense of
herself. Bechard, Margaret. 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. Benduhn, Tea. Gravel Queen. All Aurin wants to
do the summer before her senior year in high school is hang out with her
friends Kenney and Fred, but when she falls in love with Neila,
everything changes.
Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living
in ________. Cherokee Bat and the Goat
Guys. With their
parents away, four young people form a rock band that becomes wildly popular,
carrying them into a "freer" life than they can cope with. ________. Echo. Jealous of her
perfect mother and ignored by her artist father, Echo seeks attention and healing
from a variety of people living in beautiful ________. Witch baby. Witch Baby comes
to live with Weetzie Bat and
My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man and has wild adventures in ________. Violet & Claire. In search of
material for a screenplay they are developing, seventeen-year-old Violet and
her new friend Claire try to make life a movie as they chase their dreams
through dangerously beautiful Brande, Robin. Evolution, me
& other freaks of nature. [2007].
Mena, ostracized at church, home, and school for writing a letter
of apology to a gay teen who was harassed into trying to kill himself by her fundamentalist friends, struggles to find
her way when new friends and school experiences force her to think about what
she really believes. When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's
childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect,
but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that
evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet. Carlson, Melody. Bright purple : color me confused. [2006]. When Jessica LeCroix,
a fellow teammeber on Ramie Grant's basketball
team, reveals she is a lesbian, the rest of the girls quickly begin to attack
Jessica, and Ramie struggles to do the right thing and defend Jessica and her
lifestyle. Cart, Michael. 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. Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of being a wallflower. A coming of age novel about Charlie, a
freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very
intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide
of his best friend.
After being expelled from a fancy boarding
school, Cyd Charisse's
problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls
in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from Cohn, Rachel and Levithan,
David. Naomi and Ely's no kiss list : a novel. Although they
have been friends and neighbors all their lives,
straight Naomi and gay Ely find their relationship severely strained during
their freshman year at Crutcher, Chris. Athletic Shorts. A collection of short stories featuring
characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.
When Sam meets Toby, another boy who is
attracted to both boys and girls, he discovers that both of them are
struggling to learn where they fit in. Desai Hidier, Tanuja. Born Confused. Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is
from Dole,
Mayra Lazara. Down
to the bone. [2009]. Laura,
a seventeen-year-old Cuban American girl, is thrown out of her house when her
mother discovers she is a lesbian, but after trying to change her heart and hide from the truth, Laura finally comes to
terms with who she is and learns to love and respect herself. Ferris, Jean. Eight seconds. 18 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. Ford, Michael Thomas. Suicide notes: a novel. [2008].
Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New
Year's Day to find he has been admitted to the psychiatric ward after trying
to kill himself and is offended that anyone would think he has anything in
common with the other "crazies" in the hospital with him, but as his
stay lengthens he begins to see he is more like them than he thought. Francis, Brian. The secret fruit of Peter Paddington: a novel. [2005]. Peter Paddington is your typical
thirteen-year-old paperboy with a few exceptions; he’s 204 pounds, at
the mercy of an overactive imagination, and his only friend is a
trash-talking beauty queen reject from across the street. If that wasn’t bad enough, Peter’s
nipples pop out one day and begin speaking to him, threatening to expose his
private fantasies to an unkind world. Forbes, Edith. Navigating the Darwin
Straits. Computer geek Jordy
McNeil is uprooted from the city of his childhood and moved to a tiny Western
town where he struggles to adapt to his new surroundings and fit in with his
new classmates. Freymann-Weyr, Garret. My Heartbeat. As she tries to understand the closeness
between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds
her relationship with each of them changing. Frost, Helen. Keesha's
house. Seven teens
facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and
abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and
where they found home again. Garden, Nancy. 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. Geerling, Marjetta. Fancy white trash. [2008]. Fifteen-year-old Abby Savage hopes that
her five rules for falling in love will keep her from making the same mistakes
as her mother and two older sisters--all unwed mothers who have slept with
the same man, among others--while she also tries to help her best friend Cody
admit that he is gay, and decide how she really feels about Cody's older
brother, Jackson. Goldman, Steven. Two parties, one tux, and a very short film about the Grapes of wrath.
[2008]. Mitch, a shy and awkward high school
junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls
and with his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay. Greene, Bette. Drowning of Stephan Jones. As her mother
battles a citizens' group that wants to ban all "antiChristian"
literature from the public library, Clara faces her own battle of torn
loyalties when her boyfriend starts persecuting the homosexual owners of an
antiques shop. Hall, Lynn. Sticks and stones. A seventeen-year-old
boy's life is nearly destroyed when a rumor that he is a homosexual is
started in his new high school. Halpin, Brendan. Donorboy: a novel.
[2004]. Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan,
becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother,
and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew. Harmon, Michael B. The last exit to normal. [2008]. Yanked out of his city life and plunked
down in a small Montana town with his newly outed
father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and
resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice
something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to
figure out what is going on. Hartinger, Brett. Geography Club. A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds
mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high
school. _______. Contains two stories, told in flip book
format, in which friends Russel and Min see the
same events from different perspectives as they work together as extras in a
zombie film, while Russel deals with his parents'reaction to the news that he is gay, as well as
the return of an old boyfriend, and Min struggles to accept her girlfriend's
decision not to come out. A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage
girl meet while living on the streets of Jacobson, Jennifer. Stained In
Johnson, Kathleen Jeffrie.
Target. After being
brutally raped, Grady finally goes to a new high school where he meets an
outgoing African American and several other students who try to help him deal
with the horrible secret that is robbing him of his life. Jones, Carrie. Girl, hero. [2008]. High
school freshman Lily pours her heart out in letters to her hero, dead movie
star John Wayne, in which she tells him about the death of her beloved stepfather,
her mother's abusive boyfriends, her fears that her father is gay, getting
the lead in the high school play, and her burgeoning romance with a classmate
who reminds her of Mr. Wayne. Juby, Susan. Another kind of cowboy. In Kerr, M. E. Deliver us from Evie. Sixteen-year-old
Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult
times when word spreads through their rural Kluger, Steve. My most
excellent year: a novel of love, Mary Poppins,
& Three teenagers in Koertge, Ron. Boy Girl Boy. Three troubled high school seniors, who plan
to run away together from Koja, Kathe.
Talk Kit auditions for a controversial school play
and discovers his talent for acting; however, both he and his costar face
crises in their view of themselves and in
their close relationships. Konigsberg, Bill. Out of the pocket, [2008]. As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his
high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay,
events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed
in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his
father has cancer. LaRochelle, David. Absolutely, positively not. Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts
to fit in at his
In 1957 in Levithan, David. Wide awake. In the
not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the
United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his
boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his
rightful place in the world. Limb, Sue. Girl, nearly 16, absolute torture. [2005]. Jess knows her summer plans are ruined
but little could she imagine the huge surprise that awaits her when she
visits her dad's home for the first time in years. Mac, Carrie. Crush. [2006]. During a summer in Moore, Terry. Strangers in A graphic novel about high school teen
girls. (this is shelved in the graphic novels section) Myracle, Lauren. 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. Newbery, Linda. The Shell House. Seventeen-year-old Greg's interest in
photography draws him to a ruined mansion whose history becomes more
personally relevant as he slowly discovers the tragic events that led to the
destruction of the house during World War I. O'Connell, Calypso Kelly, a California teenager
attending an upscale boarding school in England, sets out to become popular
by claiming that her mother's gay assistant is her boyfriend and finds
herself in a royal mess when she gets a
chance at a real relationship with a prince. Papademetriou, Lisa and Tebbetts, Christopher. M or F? a novel. [2005]. Gay teen Marcus helps his friend Frannie chat up her crush online, but then becomes
convinced that the crush is falling for him instead. Peters, Julie Anne. Luna. Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has
always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality
a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of
"transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is
a girl who was born in a boy's body. _________. Far from Xanadu Sixteen-year-old
Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo, struggling
to understand her father's suicide and her own
homosexuality, reaches the breaking point when she falls in love with Xanadu, an exotic girl who has moved to small Coalton, Plum-Ucci,
Carol. What happened to Lani Garver. Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her
fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to
fit in with the popular crowd on Reynolds, Marilyn. Love rules. Seventeen-year-old
Ryan, Patrick. Saints of Augustine. [2007]. In Ryan, Sara. Empress of the world. While attending
a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Sanchez, Alex. 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.
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. ________. Rainbow Road. While driving across the
Hoping to
impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay
student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in
forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their _______. The God box. When openly gay
Manuel transfers to Paul’s high school, Paul, a born-again Christian,
begins to question his own sexuality. Scoppettone, Sandra. Trying hard to hear you. The poignant
story of a crucial summer for Camilla and her friends, the summer they all
discovered how homosexuality could touch their lives. Shaw, Tucker. The hookup artist. [2005]. As a good-natured gay teenager, Lucas
happily serves as his high school's matchmaker, but finding true love for himself is proving to be much more difficult. Sloan, Brian. A tale
of two summers Even
though Hal is gay and Chuck is straight, the two fifteen-year-olds are best
friends and set up a blog where Hal records his
budding romance with a young Frenchman and Chuck falls for a summer theater
camp diva. Sones, Sonya. One of those hideous books where the mother dies. Fifteen-year-old
Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her
aunt, and her mother's grave in St. James, James. Freak show. Having faced
teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as
persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer
keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen,
decides the only to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at
his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Tolan, Stephanie S. Plague year. A town confronts
the terrible secret about the strange, new kid in school. Torres, Laura. November ever after. In the aftermath
of her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Amy finds solace in the company of
her best friend Sara, but then she is shocked to discover that Sara is
romantically involved with another girl and has kept it a secret from her. Trueman, Terry. 7 days at the hot corner. Varsity baseball
player Scott Latimer struggles with his own prejudices and those of others
when his best friend reveals that he is gay. Vande Velde, Vivian. Alison, who
went away. Three years after the disappearance of her
older sister, fourteen-year-old Sibyl and her family struggle to continue
their lives, separately and together. Walker, Kate. Peter. An ordinary
fifteen-year-old Australian kid, who enjoys riding his dirt bike and wants to
be a photographer, becomes confused about his sexuality when he finds he is
attracted to a gay friend of his older brother. Wallace, Rich. Dishes. [2008]. Nineteen-year-old Danny spends an
eventful summer in Watts, Julia. Finding H.F. Heavenly Faith Simms feels she is being
suffocated by her loving but extremely religious grandmother, so she hits the
road with her best friend Bo in the hopes of finding the mother she has never
met. Wersba, Barbara. Whistle me home. Seventeen-year-old
Noli feels as if she has found her soul mate when
handsome, sensitive TJ moves to Wilson, Martin. What they always tell us.
[2008]. Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so
disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard love. After starting to publish a 'zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his
lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual
girl and begins to develop a healthier personality. NONFICTION 306.76 GAR Garden, Nancy. Hear us out! : lesbian and gay stories of
struggle, progress and hope, 1950 to the present. [2007]. A collection of nonfiction essays and
short stories that explores the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender people from 1950 until the early twenty-first century; discussing
prejudice, discrimination, family, emotions, same-sex marriage, and more. 306.76 Huegel, Kelly. GLBTQ (Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning): the survival guide for queer
& questioning teens. [2003]. Describes the challenges faced by gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teens, offers
practical advice, real-life experiences, and accessible resources and support
groups. Discrimination: opposing viewpoints. 305 WIL Donnelly, Katherine Fair. Recovering from
the loss of a loved one to AIDS. 155.9 DON Help for surviving family, friends, and
lovers who grieve.
Presents the writings of twentieth-century
American boys age twelve through eighteen, including essays, poems, diary
entries, and stories on topics such as friendship, family struggles, first
love, violence, homosexuality, and other concerns. Wells, Ken R. Teenage sexuality.
306.70835 TEE Burtoft, Larry. Setting the record straight: what research really says
about the social consequences of homosexuality. 306.76 BUR Am I blue?: coming out from the
silence. 813 AM A collection of short stories about
homosexuality by such authors as Bruce Coville,
M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.
GSA Network is a youth-led organization that connects school-based GSAs with one another. No
Name-Calling Week, held annually in January,
seeks to end verbal bullying in the nation's schools. National Day of Silence, to be held annually on April 18, is the nation's largest
youth-led action for LGBTQ equity. |
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