young gay men

"Salem Amani is a world-weary sixteen-year-old living with his mother and older sister in a haunted house. But all Sal really wants is to be ordinary, which is hard to do when you live in a house full of ghosts. And when a strange boy arrives on his doorstep asking more questions than he's at all comfortable with, Sal's efforts to be ordinary are put under even greater strain. Until Pax makes his offer: 'I could help you with the hauntings. . .I'm good with ghosts.' But despite his initial dislike of Pax, Sal can't help but find himself unexpectedly drawn to the boy. And as the two grow closer, and Pax offers to help Sal scare away his ghosts for good, Sal finds himself sinking deeper into a lie concealing the truth about his family. When the true nature of the "hauntings" is revealed, Sal must confront reality--or risk losing Pax for good"--Provided by publisher.

"There's one thing Jay Collier knows for sure--he's a statistical anomaly as the only out gay kid in his small rural Washington town. While all his friends can't stop talking about their heterosexual hookups and relationships, Jay can only dream of his own firsts, compiling a romance to-do list of all the things he hopes to one day experience--his Gay Agenda. Then, against all odds, Jay's family moves to Seattle and he starts his senior year at a new high school with a thriving LGBTQIA+ community. For the first time ever, Jay feels like he's found where he truly belongs. But as Jay begins crossing items off his list, he'll soon be torn between his heart and his hormones, his old friends and his new ones... because after all, life and love don't always go according to plan." --.

The young author describes his childhood and youth with his flamboyant mother in East Texas, his father's departure when he was sixteen, his realization that he was gay--which came as a surprise to only him--and his relationship with his beloved, choreographer Michael Leleux.

"...an insightful, compelling debut novel about an Indian American boy's struggle to fit into a society where his race and sexuality are outside the norm and to find a sense of belonging, identity, and hope"--Provided by publisher.

Explores identity and sexuality as told by today's generation of gay young men through a series of interviews with teens and men in their early twenties and offers a contemporary perspective on key life milestones.

Living in a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business, Tretch struggles with his feelings for his straight best friend, Matt, and the advances of a girl who has no clue how off-base her crush on him is.

Mikey Walsh, who was born into a Romany Gypsy family, tells how he decided to leave this community and enter the outside world.

Mikey Walsh's memoir of his life in a Romany Gypsy family, and his choice to leave.