Transgender Warriors
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
"In this fascinating personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg - one of the most prominent transgender rights activists today - unearths a vast body of evidence that throughout history there have always been people who defy cultural boundaries of sex and gender.
During an embattled childhood and teenage years as a gender outlaw, Feinberg began a search for others struggling to assert an identity. What s/he found was a long tradition of individuals fighting back against injustice - from Joan of Arc to the Welsh peasants who cross-dressed to protest taxes, from the Black and Latina drag queens who led the Stonewall rebellion to transsexual parents fighting for custody today. Traditional society often exacted a terrible price from these transgender warriors, and Feinberg urges us now to receive them as hero/ines and visionaries.
Illustrated with many previously unpublished historical images and contemporary photographs, Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening excursion through the history of sex and gender expression and a powerful testament to the resilient and rebellious spirit." Reviewed here.
Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
This is a biographical resource which includes portrayals of 47 gay men and women who are outstanding in art, literature, philosophy, economics, mathematics, music, and entertainment.
1996
Cowan, T.
My Gender Workbook
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
"In My Gender Workbook, Kate brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical guide to living with or without a gender. Using a unique, deceptively simple and always entertaining workbook format, Kate gently but firmly guides you to discover your own unique gender identity. She also takes aim at recent efforts to naturalize gender differences, putting books like Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus squarely where they belong: on Uranus. If you don't think you are transgendered when you sit down to read this book, you will be by the time you finish it!"
1998
Bornstein, K.
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Coming Out to Parents
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Coming Out to Parents: A Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their Parents
"For gays and lesbians she explores the fears and misgivings accompanying the revelation of themselves to their parents, providing suggestions on how and when to come out, what reactions to expect, and how to deal with the awkwardness that follows. For parents, she guides them through the reactions of grief and loss and shows how understanding, compassion, and insight can lead to an even deeper love between the parent and the finally whole child."
1993
Borhek, M.V.
Bad Boy
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
"This insightful book about violence in hockey, male teenage friendship and homosexuality created some controversy when it was published, provoking varied reactions both positive and negative."
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1989
Wieler, D.
Happy Endings are All Alike
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
"This suspenseful yet touching love story looks at the relationship between Jaret and Peggy who spend their last summer before college together and in love. Jaret's sense of forboding is not unfounded as her worst fears turn into brute reality. Scoppetone addresses issues of discloure, safety and violence against women in a simply told story that affirms teenage same-sex love."
1978,1991,2004
Scoppetone, S.
Rainbow Boys
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. In a revealing debut novel that percolates with passion and wit, Alex Sanchez follows these very different high-school seniors as their struggles with sexuality and intolerance draw them into a triangle of love, betrayal, and ultimately, friendship (from amazon.com)
2001
Sanchez, A.
What Happened to Lani Garver
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How old is Lani? And most disturbing of all, is Lani a boy or a girl?
Popular Claire McKenzie isn't up to tormenting Lani with the rest of the high school elite. Instead, she decides to befriend the intriguing outcast. But within days of Lani's arrival, tragedy strikes, and Claire is left questioning herself, her friendships, and, most interesting of all, the possibility that angels may exist on earth.
2002
Plum-Ucci, C.
Luna
[ Categories: Anti-homophobia : Books ]
A groundbreaking novel about a transgender teen's struggle for self-identity and acceptance.
2004 National Book Award Finalist: Young People's Literature
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Peters, J
2004
Night Kites
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from amazon.com
"What do you do when your best friend's girlfriend makes a pass at you?
Erick Rudd isn't sure how it happened -- he did nothing but look. It was Nicki who made the first move. And if that doesn't complicate things enough, Erick is about to get some news that will blow his safe world apart: Pete, his older brother and idol, has fullblown AIDS."
Kerr, M.E.
1986