3.3 Resources For Sexual Minority Youth: What about Books?
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This article is from the Gay-Lesbian-Bi Youth FAQ, by Jane Patterson with numerous contributions by others.
3.3 Resources For Sexual Minority Youth: What about Books?
Books are wonderful resources. They don't talk back, or react in ways
you weren't expecting, and they contain lots and lots of information.
3.3.1 Other Lists Of Relevant Fiction
Before we get into the recommendations of ssyglb readers, I would like
to recommend the "Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF" list
maintained by M.A. Mohanraj. It is posted occasionally and available
on the WWW at http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu/~mohanraj/balist.html. At
the QRD, try http://www.qrd.org/QRD/media/books/, and another list,
compiled by Lambda Rising Bookstore, is at
http://plains.uwyo.edu/~lasaga/lists.html, and yet another at
http://www.armory.com/~web/gaybooks.html
3.3.2 Sexual Minority Youth: Recommended Reading
Fiction:
The following books have been recommended by readers of ssyglb or
soc.motss. (and I am still taking recommendations :) Most of them are
novels about coming out. Spelling has been cut and pasted from the
messages, and is not guaranteed. Starred entries are endorsed by at
least one of the moderators.
* "Ambidextrous: a memoir in the form of a Novel" (Felice Picano)
* "Landscape: Memory" (Matthew Stadler)
* "White People" (a collection of short stories by Alan Garaganus)
* "Funny Boy" (Shyam Selvadurai)
* "Magic's Pawn","Magic's Price", "Magic's Promise" (Mercedes
Lackey) *
* "Pagan Babies" (Greg Johnson)
* "Rubyfruit Jungle" (Rita Mae Brown) *
* "Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian, A Literary Anthology" (edited
by Bennett L. Singer)
* "Tales of the City" (Armistead Maupin) *
* +"Half Way Home", "Becoming A Man"[autobiography] (Paul Monette)
* "Surprising Myself" (Christopher Bram)
* "A Home at the End of the World" (Michael Cunningham)
* "River Road" (C. F. Borgman)
* "The Boys on the Rock" (John Fox)
* "The Aerodynamics of Pork" (Patrick Gale)
* "Maurice" (E. M. Forster)
* "A Boy's Own Story" and its sequel "The Beautiful Room is Empty"
(Edmund White)
* +"The Best Little Boy in the World" (John Reid)
* +"Annie on my Mind" (Nancy Garden)
* +"Entries From A Hot Pink Notebook" (Todd D. Brown)
* +"Living Upstairs" (Joseph Hansen)
Recommended Non-Fiction
* "Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish." (editors,
Christie Balka and Andy Rose) Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. ISBN #
0807079081.
* "Coming Out to Parents: a two-way survival guide for lesbians and
gay men and their parents" (M.V. Borhek) Pilgrim Press,
Cleveland,1993.
* "Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out" (Edited by L.
Hutchins & L. Kaahumanu) Alyson Publications, Boston, 1991.
* "Reflections of a Rock Lobster" (Aaron Fricke) [autobiography]
* "Taking A Chance on God" (John J McNeil) [for Catholics]
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