Positive GLBT Books
Look here for stories with a positive perspective on gay and lesbian teens, plus a nonfiction survival guide for teens with questions.
Am I Blue: Coming Out From the Silence
ed. by Marion Dane Bauer
Juvenile Nonfiction/J808.83/Am
This collection of short stories about homosexuality includes authors like Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.
Boy Meets Boy
Teen Fiction/Levithan
This burgeoning love story between two boys, Paul and Noah, takes place in a kind of Everytown where, paradoxically, homophobic feelings are a thing of the past and being gay is not a hindrance to sweep-your-off-your-feet romance.
Deliver Us From Evie
by M. E. Kerr
Teen Fiction/Kerr
When Evie, an 18-year-old butch, falls for the banker‘s daughter Patty, the rural town feels the impact. Narrated by Evie‘s younger brother, Parr, this story honors the complexity of love in all its forms: family, community, and romantically.
Finding H. F.
After a disappointing first love affair with a girl, H. F. sets off on a road trip with her best friend to find her mother in Florida, who abandoned her as a teenager.
Geography Club
by Brent Hartinger
Teen Fiction/Hartinger
Seven gay teenagers form a covert support group called the Geography Club and meet to discuss their issues. After love affairs, insecurity, and betrayal, however, the group is in danger of being exposed.
GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens
by Kelly Huegel
Nonfiction/306.766/Hue
This guide for GLBT and questioning teens covers all important and basic aspects in a hip, knowing voice, such as coming out, religion, dating and relationships, family, work, and home.
The House You Pass on the Way
by Jaqueline Woodson
Teen Fiction/Woodson
Staggerlee, the child of a black father and white mother, doesn‘t have a lot of friends in her Southern community. She has even more complications when her adopted cousin comes to stay with the family and she begins to think she is gay.
Luna: A Novel
by Julie Ann Peters
Teen Fiction/Peters
Narrated by sister Regan, this is the story of her transgender brother Liam and his struggles to be accepted as the female Luna.
Rainbow Boys
by Alex Sanchez
Teen Fiction/Sanchez
This story covers three gay teenagers in high school as they deal with the different lives, from coming out, to first love, to HIV.
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