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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England--from the 1940s to the present--as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others--especially on...
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could?" -- Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
45) Ship it
Author
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
For years, Michelle LeClair, former President of Scientology's international humanitarian organization, tried to reconcile her sexual orientation with the anti-gay ideology of the church. Michelle finally ends her horrific marriage, finds the love of her life, a woman, and ultimately leaves the Church. But the split comes at a terrible price. Her once pristine reputation is publicly dragged through the mud, the police raid her home, her ex-husband...
48) Totally Joe
Author
Series
Misfits (James Howe) volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Mix
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Peter Ackroyd is our preeminent chronicler of London. In Queer City, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality was considered admirable. The city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops and clergy, monks...
Author
Publisher
[Mecca Institute Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
'Progressive Islam' is a celebration of faith. The book focuses on the Muslim faith's rich liberal ideas, including freedom, opportunity, responsibility, and cooperation. By focusing on China, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, Imam Daayiee Abdullah also presents diverse perspectives on Islam. The book is divided into five sections, including an introduction, a short autobiography of the author, the life of Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an, and Progressive Islam....
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Chitty was a graduate student and activist at UC-Santa Cruz who committed suicide in 2015. The project that Chitty left behind, entitled SEXUAL HEGEMONY, reveals how the policing of male homosexuality happened in conjunction with the establishment of capitalist economies across Europe and the U.S. Writing against a thesis of modernization in which sexual freedom advances alongside the development of commodity production and state formation,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"Forty years in the making, [this work] sets forth Larry Kramer's vision of his homeland ... In this first volume, which runs up to the 1950s, we meet prehistoric monkeys who spread a peculiar virus; a Native American shaman whose sexual explorations mutate into occult visions; and early English settlers who establish loving same-sex couples only to fall prey to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film explores how sexuality in the movies and the performances of iconic actors have reflected cultural experimentation and the fulfillment of latent desires.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
59) Openly straight
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
60) Rainbow boys
Author
Series
Rainbow trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
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