coming out (sexual orientation)

"As their senior year approaches, four diverse friends joined by their weekly Dungeons & Dragons game struggle to figure out real life. Archie's trying to cope with the lingering effects of his parents' divorce, Mari's considering an opportunity to contact her biological mother, Dante's working up the courage to come out to his friends, and Sam's clinging to a failing relationship. The four eventually embark on a cross-country road trip in an attempt to solve--or to avoid--their problems"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the resources and support available to LGBT youth to fight depression, self-hatred, and other mental health issues.

An autobiographical comic of ten years in the life of cartoonist, Tillie Walden, focusing on her time as a figure skater.

"[A] guide to coming out to family and friends, this title provides transgender readers with insight about what steps to take when thinking about coming out. It addresses how to answer questions that friends and family might ask as well as the potential steps involved in a gender transition ... Readers also will learn how to fight back against transgender discrimination at school and in their community"--Provided by publisher.

Addresses issues of publicly identifying oneself as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender and discusses resources for support.

Junior year is going to be the best ever for slacker Mike until he loses his girlfriend, gets roped into school activities, and becomes totally confused about his sexual orientation after sharing a drunken kiss with a guy.

"Sheldon Bates is a seventeen-year-old boy who realizes he is bisexual. When he comes out to his school he becomes a target of vicious abuse from his peers"--Provided by publisher.

Frannie has always idolized her cousin Tru. At seventeen, Tru is charismatic, rich, charming -- everything fifteen-year-old Frannie wants to be, and everything she's not. So when Frannie overhears her parents saying that after a bad coming-out experience Tru will be staying with them in Baltimore for the summer, Frannie is excited and desperate to impress him. But as Frannie gets swept up in Tru's worldly way of life, she starts to worry that it may all be a mask Tru wears to hide a dark secret. And if Tru isn't the person Frannie thought he was, what does that mean for the new life she has built with him?.

Seventeen-year-old Leroy has decided to pursue art in college and become a painter, but it is hard to be excited at anything with his older brother in jail and with his buried secret--Leroy is gay, and knows he can never come out to his family and make things even more difficult. An event sets Leroy on a journey from Dallas to Taos, to discover how to let go of his fear and embrace love.

Explores how the happiness and contentment of gay men has been destroyed by deep-rooted shame that can be traced to childhood experiences of feeling different and of being abandoned by their fathers.