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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 National Book Award Fiction Longlist
2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award Finalists 2024 (Fiction)
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award Finalists 2024 (Fiction)
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
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"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
Author
Language
English
Description
"If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they{u2019}d tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy. But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world -- letters he never intends to send -- he spills the truth: he{u2019}s trying hard, but he just isn't into...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Unique in its affirmation of both an orthodox faith and sexual diversity, this book is likely to spark heated debate, sincere soul searching, even widespread cultural change. Not only is it a compelling interpretation of key biblical texts about same-sex relations, it is also the story of a young man navigating relationships with his family, his hometown church, and the Christian church at large as he expresses what it means to be a faithful, gay...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A revised, updated edition of the acclaimed historical overview of Queer art - available for the first time in paperback Updated and revised, Art & Queer Culture is a comprehensive and definitive survey of artworks that have constructed, contested, or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexuality. Rather than focusing exclusively on artists who self-identify as gay or lesbian, Art & Queer Culture instead traces the shifting possibilities and...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Part revisionist history, part historical biography, Bad Gays is based on the hugely popular podcast series. The book subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality, and identity through its villains and baddies"--
Series
Garland reference library of the humanities volume 1874
Publisher
Garland
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
16) Alphas like us
Author
Series
Like us volume Book 3
Publisher
[Krista & Becca Ritchie]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Maverick, know-it-all bodyguard Farrow Keene knows publicly dating American royalty comes with a great cost. Everyone wants a piece of their relationship. And as a protective boyfriend, he's not here for their relationship. And as a protective boyfriend, he's not here for the malicious hands that grab at their love life and seek to rip them apart. But Farrow is confident -- he's confident that he could've never prepared for the storm to come.
17) You know me well
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
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.
19) Kissing Kate
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old 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.
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