gays

Gay and lesbian teenagers relate their experiences regarding the discovery and acceptance of their sexual orientation.

Contains over fifty coming-of-age stories, by a variety of famous and lesser-known authors, written specifically for gay and lesbian youth.

Examines homosexuality in the United States, discussing its misconceptions and the gay subculture and the moral predicament of the gay individual.

Jess knows her summer plans are ruined but little could she imagine the huge surprise that awaits her when she visits her dad's home for the first time in years.

After starting classes at a new school, Reyna befriends a provocative misfit who harbors a secret that forces Reyna to choose between true friendship with an outcast and superficial friendships with more popular kids.

Robert Westfall's life is falling apart--everywhere but in math class. That's the one place where problems always have a solution. But in the world beyond high school, his father is terminally ill, his mother is squabbling with his interfering aunts, his boyfriend is unsupportive, and the career path that's been planned for him feels less appealing by the day. Robert's math teacher, Andrew McNelin, watches his best student floundering, concerned but wary of crossing the line between professional and personal. And if that line is crossed, what then?.

In the eight months since their cautious flirting became a real, heart-pounding, tell-the-parents relationship, Nate and Adam have been inseparable. Even when local kids take their homophobia to brutal levels, Nate is undaunted. He and Adam are rock solid. Two parts of a whole. Yin and yang. But when Adam graduates and takes an off-Broadway job in New York at Nate's insistence, that certainty becomes uncertain. But it's the attention of a new boy who is looking for more than guidance from Nate that forces him to confront who and what he really wants.

If only Taylor had kept on lying to his parents, everything would be fine, or so he told himself. When they found out he was gay, they sent him to Straight to God, an institution devoted to "deprogramming" teenagers and ridding them of whatever vice they have. Now Taylor has to try to change what cannot be changed, but in the meantime he meets all kinds of people there and discovers that no one, from staff to residents, is quite who they first appear to be.