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Three young children experience the joys and challenges of being raised by two mothers.

Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker.

Almost-fourteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman.

Discusses themes related to the presence of gay men and women in the sports world, such as the hostility and stereotyping that may be encountered by homosexual athletes.

Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship with her best friend changes after they kiss at a party and Lissa does not know what to do, until she gets help from an unexpected new friend.

Fourteen-year-old Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky 2, some pet fish, and two mothers, whose relationship complicates his entire life as they face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation.

Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after a scandal at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.

Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.

Holland starts a difficult last semester of high school, and she finds herself puzzled about her future but intrigued by a transfer student who wants to start a lesbian and gay club at school.

Contains four sets of essays that provide opposing opinions on issues related to gay rights, discussing same-sex marriage, homosexual parenting, workplace discrimination, and military policies.

Romaine Patterson recounts her efforts to stop hatred and homophobia after the murder of her best friend, Matthew Shepard, explaining how she set out to stop Baptist minister Fred Phelps and his followers from picketing the trial of Shepard's killers and supporting the accussed in their actions.

A collection of short stories portraying gay and lesbian teenagers at different moments in their lives.

During a summer in New York, Hope falls in love with another girl and must decide whether she is gay.

A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress, whom she loves.

Contains fourteen articles in which the authors debate issues related to gay marriage, homophobia, gay adoption and parenting, family support for gay and lesbian children, and the role of religion in gay marriage.