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GLBTQ Fiction and Non-Fiction for Teens
Fiction:
Am I Blue: Coming Out from the Silence
A collection of short stories about homosexuality.
Benduhn, Tea- Gravel Queen
All Aurin wants to do during the summer is hang out with friends, but when she
falls in love with Neila, everything changes.
Blacker, Terence- Boy2Girl
Sam goes to live with his cousin and as a prank, he dresses up as a girl for
school, but it soon gets out of hand.
Block, Francesca Lia- Baby Be-Bop
Hipster Dirk comes to terms with being gay.
Carlson, Melody- Bright Purple: Color Me Confused
When Ramona learns that her best friend is a lesbian, she struggles to decide
how to respond, knowing that people of her community, and her church, have
trouble discussing homosexuality.
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.
Ferris, Jean- Eight Seconds
John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds
himself strangely attracted to an older boy.
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.
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best
friend, Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.
Liza puts asides her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but
eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
Jan begins her senior year of high school not expecting that she will lose the
starring part in the school play, take over as director when her beloved drama
teacher becomes ill, and realize that she is a lesbian.
While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie finds herself
in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health
education curriculum.
Greene, Bette- The Drowning of Stephen Jones
As her mother battles a citizens’ group that want to ban all “anti-Christian”
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.
Hall, John- Is He or Isn’t He?
Best friends Paige and Anthony both have designs on Max, figuring whether he is
straight or gay, he’ll fall for one of them.
Hartinger, Brent- Geography Club
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the
“Geography Club”.
Hartinger, Brent– The Order of the Poison Oak
After coming out, Russel decides to take a counselor job at a camp where he
learns ten-year-old boys have just as many problems as he does.
Joe writes his autobiography and explores issues of friendship, family, school,
and the challenges of being a gay teenager.
Johnson, Maureen- The Bermudez Triangle
The friendship of three high school girls is tested when two of them fall in
love with each other.
Belle expects to marry her long-term boyfriend, until he tells her that he is
gay, and both face prejudice and violence as they enter new relationships and
try to remain friends.
Parr faces difficult times when word spreads through town that his older sister
is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the
town’s banker.
Lang tries to decide how to tell his longtime friends that he is gay, while
struggling with an unexpected infatuation with a girl.
Three troubled high school seniors, try to figure out who they are and who they
want to be.
Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial
school play and struggles with coming out.
Chronicles a teenage boy’s humorous attempts to fit in by becoming a macho,
girl-loving, “Playboy” pinup-displaying heterosexual.
In this school, being gay is not only normal but accepted yet the road to true
love is still a strange and winding path, as Paul discovers when he meets the
boy of his dreams.
When a gay Jewish man is elected President,
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.
Marcus helps his friend Frannie chat up her crush online, but then becomes
convinced that the crush is falling for him instead.
Nick has two mothers, whose relationship complicates his entire life as they
face prejudice, alcoholism, cancer and separation.
Mary-Elizabeth “Mike” Szabo tries to come to terms with her father’s suicide and
her own homosexuality.
Holland
Regan’s life, has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam’s
transsexuality a secret, but that changes when Liam decides to start the process
of transitioning,
While attending a summer institute, Nic meets another girl, falls in love, and
finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.
Three high school seniors struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex,
and conflicting feelings about each other.
Xio and Frederick are friends but when Xio starts thinking of
Hoping to impress classmate, Carlos secretly hires a gay student to give him an
image makeover in exchange for Carlos’s help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance
at their school.
Lucas happily serves a his school’s matchmaker but finding true love for himself
is proving to be much more difficult.
Cameron endures a disastrous prom when he takes a girl as his date. After
fleeing he finds himself involved in an on-stage performance, a high-speed
police chase, and unexpected revelations.
Billy, a drag queen, decides to become fabulous by running for Homecoming Queen
at his elite private school.
Stoehr, Shelly- Tomorrow Wendy: A Love Story
Seventeen-year-old
The pain of growing up is explored in a story about the difficult friendship
between a boy seeking escape from a dysfunctional family and a girl who produces
a “zine” called Escape Velocity and who describes herself as a “Puerto Rican
Cuban Yankee Lesbian.”
Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his
classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
Wittlinger, Ellen- What’s In A Name
Each of ten teenagers living in
Melanin Sun’s comfortable life is shattered when his mother reveals she has
fallen in love with a woman.
Woodson, Jacqueline- 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 being sto question her sexuality to
Trout and catchers a glimpse of her possible future self.
Non-Fiction:
The Full Spectrum:
A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender,
Questioning, and Other Identities
(edited by David Levithan)
A collection of forty essays, mini-autobiographies, poems, and photographs that
chronicle the lives of 21st century young people ages 13—23.
Going decade by decade, Nancy Garden discusses the social and political issues
faced by GLBT youth from 1950 to the present, and adds two stories about gay
young people from each decade.
Describes the challenges faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-gendered
teens, offers practical advice, real-life experiences, and accessible resources
and support groups.
Presents the answers to more than one hundred questions asked by real teens with
a “parents only” chapter in case you feel like sharing.
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.
Provides answers to common questions and offers positive, and practical advice
on a wide range of topics and issues currently facing gay, questioning, and
bisexual teen guys as well as their parents, relatives, and friends.
Twenty-two memoirs of teens speaking out about the realization of their
sexuality, and about the consequences.
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