gay youth

A collection of writings and artwork by gay and lesbian people from age fourteen to twenty-six, including prose, poetry, and performance pieces.

Draws on more than 150 interviews with teens to explore how teenagers make the decision to tell their parents they are gay and how families react to the news, discussing how the coming out experience differs for girls and boys and offering insight into common parent-child dynamics.

A collection of writings in which homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth share their stories of surviving abuse, discrimination, and hopelessness while living on the streets.

Fee, a Korean-American child growing up in Maine, finds himself lost in a fantasy world of heroes and spirits after his choir director takes out his pedophilic urges on Fee and his friends.

First-person accounts of four homosexual Americans--three teenagers and a twenty-year-old university student.

Provides an overview of sexuality and sexual orientation and discusses the issues and concerns of teenage homosexuals, including coming out, support systems, risks, fears, prejudices, and healthy sexual behavior.

Contains over fifty coming-of-age stories, by a variety of famous and lesser-known authors, written specifically for gay and lesbian youth.

A young man struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality while coming of age in the 1950s.