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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
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Language
English
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"There's a long-running joke that, after coming out as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex person, you should receive a membership card and instruction manual. This is that instruction manual. You're welcome. Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Titles for Pride Month
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Titles for Pride Month
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Description
Henry Denton has been abducted by aliens on several occasions over the years. His boyfriend killed himself, his mom barely makes ends meet, his brother is an unemployed dropout with a baby on the way, and his grandmother is losing her battle with Alzheimer's. When aliens tell Henry the world is about to end, he has 144 days to decide whether to push the button that will save Earth...or welcome the end of his miserable, messed-up life.
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Language
English
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When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mark and Kate sit next to each other in school but are barely acquainted until they meet at a San Francisco club during Pride Week and connect over each one's forbidden love.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
12) Okay, Cupid
Author
Publisher
Push, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As a cupid Jude's job is to bring couples together, and their new assignment involves a couple of teenagers--except Jude's attraction to a certain human boy keeps getting in the way, and threatening their career.
13) Ship it
Author
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Forest, a television actor who needs more fans, and Claire, a teen fan fiction blogger, are teamed to raise his profile despite their disagreement over whether his character is gay.
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cicero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he and Cicero fell in love, only to have Raimundo's father brutally beat his son when he discovered their affair. Even after Raimundo succeeds in making a life...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes how after a series of life-altering events, including her husband of fifteen years announcing his homosexuality and near-fatal car accident, the California poet journeys back to her family to heal within the Mennonite community that she had parted with years before.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Garay, a gay man living in Buenos Aires, is stifled by his job as an English teacher, his overbearing mother, and his need to hide his homosexuality, but his mother's death and an offer by two American diplomats set him on a course to a new life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives. "You Can Tell Just by Looking" unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths, such as "all religions condemn homosexuality," have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Other myths, such as "LGBT...
18) Queens at Heart
Publisher
Jenni Olson
Pub. Date
1967.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (22 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A rare and poignant glimpse into pre-Stonewall LGBT life! Produced in 1967, this amazing 22-minute short introduces us to Misty, Vicky, Sonja and Simone—four courageous trans women who candidly discuss their personal lives with a somewhat lurid interviewer who claims to have interviewed "thousands of homosexuals"(and who obviously doesn’t understand the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity) ..The film offers an extremely rare...
19) Giovanni's room
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair...
Author
Language
English
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"At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own."--
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