Spinning
A graphic memoir recounts the years Walden spent competitively figure skating, before her developing love of art and first girlfriend causes her to question the insular world of figure skating.
741.5
year: 2017
copies: 30
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: walden, tillie, coming out (sexual orientation), figure skaters, lesbian teenagers, gays [X], comics (graphic works), ice skating, femininity, cartoonists, women figure skaters, coming of age
Alan Cole Is Not A Coward
Hoping to keep his older brother Nathan silent about his secret crush on another boy at their school, twelve-year-old Alan agrees to a ruthless sibling competition involving nearly impossible tasks--from standing up to their demanding father to getting a first kiss.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers, family life, gays [X], friendship, middle schools, school stories, family problems, schools
Perfect Ten
Sam Raines performs a love spell with his Wiccan best friend after breaking up with the only other gay guy at school and finds himself pursued by three seemingly perfect suitors.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
We Now Return To Regular Life
"When fourteen-year-old Sam Walsh returns home after three years in the custody of his kidnapper, his older sister Beth and childhood friend Josh must deal with their survivors' guilt, their memories of what really happened the day Sam disappeared, and with the fact that Sam is not the boy they remember, but a troubled teen struggling to re-adapt to normal life"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: gays [X], schools, high schools, emotional problems, kidnapping, emotional problems of teenagers
Finding Community
Explores the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trangender community in the United States.
306.76
year: 2017
copies: 4
call number/section: 306.76
lexile:
Keeping Physically Healthy
Discusses the resources and support available to LGBT youth to deal with shame, rejection, low self-esteem, and other issues that may lead to health problems like obesity and substance abuse.
362.1
year: 2017
copies: 4
call number/section: 362.1
lexile:
Staying Mentally Healthy
Discusses the resources and support available to LGBT youth to fight depression, self-hatred, and other mental health issues.
306.76
year: 2017
copies: 7
call number/section: 306.76
lexile:
subjects: self-esteem, coming out (sexual orientation), gays [X], homosexuality, self-esteem in children
Boy Erased
"A[n] ... account by a survivor of a church-supported sexual orientation conversion therapy facility that claimed to 'cure' homosexuality describes its intense Bible study program and the daily threats of his abandonment by family, friends and God, an experience that transformed the author's relationships and self-understandings"--NoveList.
920
year: 2017
copies: 7
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: conley, garrard, gays [X], sexual reorientation programs, ex-gay movement, gay men, autobiographies
Stand By Me
Presents the history of gay life in the 1970s, and the sense of community that was created amongst people who felt alienated from mainstream American life.
306.76
year: 2016
copies: 2
call number/section: 306.76
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Logical Family
Armistead Maupin reflects on growing up as a gay man in the heart of conservative North Carolina, chronicling his own liberation and evolution amongst America's queer community over the last four decades.
813
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: 813
lexile:
A Very, Very Bad Thing
Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: gays [X], prejudices, honesty, suicide, friendship, parent-child relationship, winston-salem (n.c.)
Lgbtq Stats
A collection of statistics related to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Burn
"High school senior William "Wee Wee" Tucker may not be able to meet his pastor-father's expectations, stop his mother's drinking, or protect his gay brother, but his heroism as a volunteer firefighter has a big impact on his small Alabama town"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fire fighters, pyromania, dysfunctional families, clergy, gays [X], alcoholism, family problems, family life
Meg & Linus
"Two nerdy best friends navigate high school, drama club, Star Trek fandom, and being gay"--.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
All We Can Do Is Wait
In the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, four teens are forced to face their pasts and the prospect of very different futures as they wait at Boston General Hospital for news of their loved ones.
FIC
year:
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: disasters, hospitals, families, brothers and sisters, dating (social customs), gays [X], family life