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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.
62) 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.
63) 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.
Author
Publisher
Mango Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"We live in a post-binary world where gender fluency, awareness and acceptance of how people identify is essential. Ashley Mardell, a trusted voice on YouTube, looks at all things LGBT+. Mardell's book, filled with in-depth definitions and personal anecdotes, is proof it does get better every day in a world where people are empowered by information and understanding. As Mardell says, 'Learning about new identities broadens our understanding of humanity,...
Author
Publisher
Smart Pop Books, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hi Honey, I'm Homo! is the story not only of how subversive queer comedy transformed the American sitcom, from its inception through today, but how our favorite sitcoms transformed, and continue to transform, America"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kalandraka
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Con Tango son tres es la historia real de una singular pareja de pingüinos barbijo a los que el cuidador del zoo de Central Park, en Nueva York, Rob Gramzay, les dio la oportunidad-depositando un huevo en su nido- de tener una cría tras observar que incubaban infructuosamente una piedra. Así nació Tango, que fue la primera pingüino en tener dos padres. El primer libro infantil de Justin Richardson y Peter Parnellfue un éxito y, desde su publicación...
68) Warmth
Author
Publisher
Encyclopocalypse Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Following the suicide of their best friend, Ethan, high school sophomores Fox and Pete discover a mysterious cave system expanding from the site of his death, the chambers abloom with shapeshifting fragments of Ethan's memories. Racked by grief, the two friends explore the perilous mindscape in search of answers. For Fox, who shared a fledgling romance with Ethan, the quest becomes obsession, the expeditions more reckless, into deeper and wilder...
Author
Publisher
Diana
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
""Ser diferente no es malo, pero me llevó un tiempo entenderlo. Al principio me sentí solo y me asaltaron cientos de preguntas que no podía compartir con nadie. Este libro está escrito exactamente con ese propósito: despejar todas las dudas que tenía cuando aún no lo sabía. El camino no fue fácil, pero finalmente entendí que si mi historia podía ayudar a alguien más, valía la pena escribirla". A través de su experiencia y sus vivencias...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he and Cícero fell in love, only to have Raimundo's father brutally beat his son when he discovered their affair. Even after Raimundo succeeds in making a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When Lance begins to date Sergio, who's bisexual, he's not sure that it'll work out, and when his best friend Allie, who has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected feelings which she struggles to understand.
75) Hopepunk
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After her sister runs away, teenager Hope Cassidy rebels against her conservative family by starting a rock band with her former crush, Danny, who is kicked out of his house when he comes out to his family"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. My name is Ruby This book is about me. It tells the deeply hideous story of what happens when my mother dies and I'm dragged three thousand miles away from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray, to live in L.A. with my father,...
Publisher
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Recent years have seen a flood of high quality research related to the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and families. The GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health is the first comprehensive resource to gather that knowledge in one place in the service of vital information needs. Both accurate and easy to understand, the two-volume handbook addresses physical, mental and emotional health, as well as policy decisions affecting the...
Publisher
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Recent years have seen a flood of high quality research related to the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and families. The GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health is the first comprehensive resource to gather that knowledge in one place in the service of vital information needs. Both accurate and easy to understand, the two-volume handbook addresses physical, mental and emotional health, as well as policy decisions affecting the...
Author
Publisher
Des Moines Art Center
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Queer Abstraction will be the first exhibition in the Des Moines Art Center's 70-year history to focus exclusively on queer subject matter. It marks a substantial shift in the Art Center's programming by purposely including queer voices that have been left out of art history. Assistant Curator Jared Ledesma is organizing the exhibition. For more than a century, many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer artists have turned to the language...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
British soap opera/drama, containing 26 episodes. Set in Liverpool, Springhill's main theme is the battle between good and evil, entwined around a complex family drama. Issues covered included adoption revelation, genetic sexual attraction, bigamy, homosexuality, infertility, surrogacy and murder. Aside from this there was a supernatural aspect, which included elements of religion, Angels, apparitions, witchcraft, time travel and the Second Coming...
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