As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
Yanked out of his city life and plunked down in a small Montana town with his newly outed father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to figure out what is going on.
While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper, finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.
Articles, essays, historical documents, and book excerpts explore the political and social controversies surrounding issues related to homosexuality, including gay marriage, sexual identity, discrimination, and society's acceptance of homosexuality.
Contains twenty-five essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to homosexuality, debating the origins and morality of homosexuality, and whether society should accept homosexuality and sanction gay and lesbian families.
Contains eighteen articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to homosexuality, discussing whether homosexuality is a moral issue, the rights of gay people, and gay marriage.
Examines the rising interest in homosexuality among the nation's youth and the effect that movies and television have on the choices teens make in regard to personal relationships.
