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Alyson, Sasha, editor. Young, Gay and Proud! 3rd ed. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1991. ISBN: 1555830013. Geared toward high school students, this book answers questions such as, “Am I the only one?” “What would my friends think if I told them?” “Should I tell my parents?” and “How can I avoid AIDS?” Click Here to Purchase This Book
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Bass, Ellen and Kaufman, Kate. Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. ISBN: 0060951044.This book covers self-discovery, friends and lovers, family, school, spirituality, and community, with advice on: how to come out; dealing with the problems coming out can entail; and making the world safer for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth.
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Bauer, Marion Dane, editor. Am I Blue? Coming Out From the Silence.New York: Trophy Press, 1995. ISBN: 0064405877.An award-winning anthology of funny, sad, and memorable short stories for teens about coming out as gay or lesbian. Contributors include C.S. Adler, Bruce Coville, Nancy Garden, Cristina Salat, William Sleator, and Jacqueline Woodson.
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Blumenfield, Warren J, editor. Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price.Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. ISBN: 0807079197.Activists and academics offer concrete suggestions for transforming homophobic attitudes, behaviors, and institutions.
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Bornstein, Kate. My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely.New York: Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 0415916739.Bornstein offers a series of humorous and poignant exercises around issues of gender identity.
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Chandler, Kurt and Ivers, Mitchell, editors. Passages of Pride: Lesbian and Gay Youth Come of Age.New York: Crown Publishing, 1995. ISBN: 0812923804.In this landmark study, six teenagers speak eloquently of the challenges of realizing at an early age that they are different, learning how to hide, facing depression and suicidal tendencies, and finally coming out and making peace at home, at school, and on their own.
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Due, Linnea. Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the ’90s. New York: Anchor Books, 1995. ISBN: 0385475004. This informative and compassionate book realistically and vividly portrays the challenges faced by gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers. Click Here to Purchase This Book
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Ferrante, Tony, and Jacobson, Paulette. Letters From the Closet. Tzedakah Publications, 1994. ISBN: 0929999037.
In this fictional portrayal, two youth communicate the experience of coming out through postcards, journal entries, and letters. |
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Futcher, Jane. Crush.3rd ed. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1995. ISBN: 155583602X.
In this story of manipulation, betrayal, and sexual awakening, Jinx, a senior at the posh Hamilton Hill girl’s school, develops a huge crush on Lexie. Click Here to Purchase This Book |
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Garden, Nancy. Annie On My Mind. New York: Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1992. ISBN: 0374404143.
Seventeen-year-old Liza’s friendship with Annie turns into passionate love. After their relationship is discovered, they must find the strength to stay together. Click Here to Purchase This Book |
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Grima, Tony, editor. Not the Only One: Gay and Lesbian Fiction for Teens.Boston: Alyson Publications, 1995. ISBN: 155583275X.
Twenty-one stories for lesbian and gay teenagers tell about coming out, falling in love, sexuality, and courage. |
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Harbeck, Karen M. Coming Out of the Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers and Curricula.Binghamton, N.Y.: Harrington Park Press, 1992. ISBN: 1560242167.
This volume discusses school-based interventions and the needs of gay and lesbian youth, the treatment of gay and lesbian educators and their current legal rights, and many other issues concerning gay men and lesbians and the educational setting. |
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Heron, Ann, editor. Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth.Boston: Alyson Publications, 1994. ISBN:1555832822.
A new teenage generation talks about being gay or lesbian in stories that can ease the way for teenagers just coming out and help the adults who seek to support them. Click Here to Purchase This Book |
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Huegel, Kelly. GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens.New York: Free Spirit Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 1575421267.This book covers the basics that every GLBTQ teen needs to know, then moves through the primary issues and questions such as coming out, dating and sexuality, religion, and life at school, work, and home.
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Jennings, Kevin, editor. Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students.Boston: Alyson Publications, 1994. ISBN: 1555832547.
Suggestions for classroom activities and questions follow selected readings that span 2000 years of history and a diverse range of cultures; suitable for ninth grade and up. Click Here to Purchase This Book |
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Remafedi, Gary. Death by Denial: Studies of Suicide in Gay and Lesbian Teenagers.Boston: Alyson Publications, 1994. ISBN: 1555832601.
This serious review identifies suicide risk factors and important research on homosexuality, sexuality education in schools, anti-gay violence against young people, and family pressures to be heterosexual. Click Here to Purchase This Book |
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Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys.New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN: 0689857705.The author follows three very different high school seniors, coming of age and out of the closet, in a struggle with sexuality and intolerance that draws them into a triangle of love, betrayal, and friendship.
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Savin-Williams, Ritch C. The New Gay Teenager. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0674016734.This is a refreshing and frequently controversial introduction to confident, competent, upbeat teenagers with same-sex desires, who worry more about the chemistry test or their curfew than they do about their sexuality.
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Singer, Bennett L., editor. Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology.New York: New Press, 1994. ISBN: 1565841034.
More than fifty stories by prominent lesbian and gay writers and scholars address coming of age and coming out. Contributors include James Baldwin, Gloria Anzaldua, Quentin Crisp, Audre Lorde, Walt Whitman, and Rita Mae Brown. |
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Stevenson, Michael R and Cogan, Jeanine C., editors. Everyday Activism. New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 0415926688.The comprehensive new reference collects in one volume the strategies, hard data, and legal arguments that are central to GLBT people’s fight for equality.
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Summer, Jane, editor. Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens. New York: Alyson Publications, 2004. ISBN: 1555838340.This collection offers 21 stories in which lesbian and gay teens tell about coming out, falling in love, sexuality, and courage.
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Unks, Gerald, editor. The Gay Teen: Educational Practice and Theory for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents.New York: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415910951.
Written for educators, this book focuses on the problems gay teens face in school and guides educators to develop gay-friendly curricula and intervention techniques for reducing homophobia. Click Here to Purchase This Book |
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