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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In a series of personal essays, journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. -- Publisher's description.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
A LGBTQ chronicle for teens shares hip, engaging facts about 23 influential gender-ambiguous notables from the era of the Roman Empire to the present, exploring how they defied convention to promote civil rights, pursue relationships on their own terms and shape culture.
Author
Publisher
Book Surge
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In The Rest of the Way psychotherapist Enid Duchin Jackowitz tells the story of her son's coming out over twenty years ago. Her journey is one of personal transformation and reconciliation that can help parents cope with, and overcome the myriad of feelings that come with the news: 'I'm gay.' The story will both empower readers and help them come to a new awareness of homosexuality"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Laurie Classen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The story offers companionship and comfort to a parent or child who may identify with one or more of the family's experiences, and provides awareness of the devastating effects of bullying, isolation, and intolerance."--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the author's experiences raising an effeminate son who may be gay.
Duron's younger son, C.J., is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who likes girl stuff, floating on the gender-variation spectrum from super-macho-masculine on the left all the way to super-girly-feminine on the right. He's a muddled mess or a rainbow creation-- and Duron and her family choose to see the rainbow....
Author
Publisher
Kimimi Publications
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Cleaning Closets is the personal faith story of Beverly Cole as she discovers her son, Eric, is gay. Cole describes her spiritual pilgrimage from dismay to denail to understanding to acceptance. Sharing the fruits of much research- and even more prayer- she offers sociological and spiritual bases for rejecting hate and accepting homosexuals as worthy human beings whom God loves.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a small Midwestern town that didn't understand why he was so... over the top. From choreographed carpet figure skating routines to the unavoidable fact that...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of America's best-known and least understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. After World War II, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence and collection of whimsical bow ties synonymous with the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observation turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There's a dirty joke shared...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he's here to tell us. He's bothered that he has to play football in high school gym when he'd rather be in the guidance counselor's office, faking sick and dishing about the latest dramas on his beloved soap operas. He's annoyed when, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, there's a serial killer loose in his neighborhood, but Carole Burnett is on tv and he really doesn't want to miss...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's deep depression. As lives are made...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in rural Oregon, Brandon Wolf grappled with the devastating loss of his supportive mother and with the embedded racism and homophobia of a community that made him feel like an unwelcome stranger. After the lack of connection and role models led him down a spiral of risky behavior, Wolf escaped to survive. In Orlando, he found what he'd been searching for: belonging-in a community that was a safe space with people he'd come to call his...
Author
Language
English
Description
Combining memoir, social criticism, and research, the author explores what it means to be solitary and celebrates the notion, common in his Roman Catholic childhood, that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. Delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic "solitaries," including Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Bill Cunningham, Cézanne, and Zora Neale Hurston.
"A meditation on solitude as a font of creativity and spirituality. Known...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Paul Burston wasn't always the iconic voice of LGBTQ+ London that he is today. Paul came out in the mid-1980s, when 'gay' still felt like a dirty word, especially in the small Welsh town where he grew up. He moved to London hoping for a happier life, only to watch in horror as his new-found community was decimated by AIDS. But even in the depths of his grief, Paul vowed never to stop fighting back on behalf of his young friends whose lives were cut...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog-walker...
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