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Hear Me Out : True Stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia : a Project of Planned Parenthood of Toronto
A group of young gay, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual, and transgender youths describe their experiences and the challenges they face.
197 p. 2004
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The Full Spectrum : a New Generation of Writing About Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Questioning and other Identities
272 p. 2006
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When I Knew
A collection of smart, funny, and often poignant stories about that revelation for all gay men and women: when they first knew. In this cleverly designed and colorful book, acclaimed fashion and celebrity photographer Robert Trachtenberg brings humor and style to the Eureka moments of more than eighty contributors, some famous and some not. Also mixed in are tales about when parents knew and when everyone else knew, as well as laugh-out-loud coming-out stories.--From publisher description.
120 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
 GLBT Voices
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Bechdel, Alison
Fun Home : a Family Tragicomic
A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
232 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
GLBT Voices
Graphic Novels: Memoirs and History
Women's Memoirs
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Brothers, Meagan
Debbie Harry Sings in French
When Johnny completes an alcohol rehabilitation program and his mother sends him to live with his uncle in North Carolina, he meets Maria, who seems to understand his fascination with the new wave band Blondie, and he learns about his deceased father's youthful forays into glam rock, which gives him perspective on himself, his past, and his current life.
234 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Guys in Love
GLBTQ
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Burch, Christian
The Manny Files
A shy young boy learns how to be more outgoing and self-confident from his male nanny.
296 p. 2006
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Cameron, Peter
Someday this Pain Will be Useful to You
Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
229 p. 2007
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Cohn, Rachel
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
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 New York University.
230 p. 2007
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Dole, Mayra L.
Down to the Bone
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.
367 p. 2008
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Ford, Michael Thomas
Suicide Notes
Brimming with sarcasm, fifteen-year-old Jeff describes his stay in a psychiatric ward after attempting to commit suicide.
245 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
GLBTQ
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Garden, Nancy
Hear Us Out! : Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle Progress and Hope 1950 to the Present
Uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and gay in America during the last fifty years, combining both social and political essays about each decade with short stories of young gay people coming of age during those times.
230 p. 2007
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Goldman, Steven
Two Parties One Tux and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath
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.
307 p. 2008
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Goobie, Beth
Hello, Groin
Sixteen-year-old Dylan tries to understand her feelings for her girlfriend Joq at the same time she is dating her boyfriend Cam.
271 p. 2006
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Grant, Stephanie
Map of Ireland : a Novel
In 1974, the first year of busing in Boston, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Ann Ahern's lesbianism, which has isolated her from other white students, draws her to her African French teacher and leads her to insights into Blacks' struggles in the post-Civil Rights era.
197 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
GLBT Voices
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Harmon, Michael B.
The Last Exit to Normal
Yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice that something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to do something about it.
275 p. 2008
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Hartinger, Brent
The Order of the Poison Oak
After coming out at school, sixteen-year-old Russel decides to take a counselor job at a camp for burn victims to get away from the antagonism of his classmates, but finds ten-year-old boys have just as many problems as he does.
211 p. 2006
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Hegamin, Tonya
M+O 4evr
In parallel stories, Hannah, a slave, finds love while fleeing a Maryland plantation in 1842, and in the present, Opal watches her life-long best friend, Marianne, pull away and eventually lose her life in the same Pennsylvania ravine where Hannah died.
165 p. 2008
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Howe, James
Totally Joe
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 challenges of being a gay teenager.
189 p. 2005
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Humphreys, Helen
Wild Dogs : a Novel
When her dog joins a feral pack after being abandoned by her boyfriend, Alice and five companions gather in the evenings by the edge of a forest, trying to call the dogs back into domesticity, in a tale that traces the experiences of each former dog owner and finds Alice moving to a cabin and falling in love with a wildlife biologist.
185 p. 2005
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Hyde, Catherine Ryan
Becoming Chloe
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
215 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
GLBTQ
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