303.3 GIL Gillam, Scott. Discrimination : prejudice in action. Discrimination in action -- Defining discrimination -- Racial discrimination -- Gender discrimination -- Discrimination against homosexuals -- Age discrimination -- Discrimination against people with disabilities -- The future of discrimination. Examines the history, background, and societal ramification of discrimination and cites possible ways to deal with discrimination and its consequences.

305.2 KUK Kuklin, Susan. Speaking out : teenagers take on race, sex, and identity. Rustin High School for the Humanities students talk about social, racial, religious, and sexual diversity in the US.

305.23 POL Pollack, Rachel. The journey out : a guide for and about lesbian, gay, and bisexual teens. Who am I? -- The journey to self-acceptance -- I think I have something to tell you... -- Could this be love? -- Coming to terms with the terms -- To your health -- Myths and stereotypes and how to fight them -- Keeping the faith: religion and spirituality -- Where we've been and where we're going -- Youth in the lead -- The best of all possible worlds. Suggests how gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers may discover their sexual orientation, find self- acceptance, come out, cope with prejudice, and deal with religious and political issues.

305.235 MAR Marcovitz, Hal. Teens & gay issues. 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.

305.38 AAR Aarons, Leroy. Prayers for Bobby : a mother's coming to terms with the suicide of her gay son. Tells the story of Mary Griffith, who became a crusader for gay and lesbian youth after her homosexual son Bobby's suicide, and the discovery of his diaries, led her to make radical changes in her thinking about homosexuality.

305.9 DUB Duberman, Martin B. Stonewall. Examines the Stonewall riot of June 28, 1969 in New York's Greenwich Village that marked the ongoing struggle for gay and lesbian rights.

305.9 HER Two teenagers in twenty : writings by gay and lesbian youth. A selection of stories by gay and lesbian teenagers describing their own experiences as to what it is like to be gay or lesbian.

305.9 STE Everyday activism : a handbook for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and their allies.

305.9 WAL Walzer, Lee. Gay rights on trial : a reference handbook. Explores the legal, social, and religious conflicts that have arisen due to the integration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals into mainstream American culture and explains how the public's increased acceptance of sexual minorities has influenced judicial opinion in some cases and how the courts have led public opinion in others.

305.9 WIL Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history. Presents primary documents, including laws, court cases, personal testimonies, and others, that provide insights into the history of conflict over the issue of gay and lesbian rights in the United States, from colonial times to 2000.

306.76 HAU Homosexuality. Presents a collection of eighteen essays that discuss the subject of homosexuality, and addresses such issues as acceptance from family members, struggling with personal identity, marriage and parenting, discrimination, and more.

306.76 HEL Helminiak, Daniel A. What the Bible really says about homosexuality.

306.76 HUE Huegel, Kelly. GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning) : the survival guide for queer & questioning teens. Describes the challenges faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teens, offers practical advice, real-life experiences, and accessible resources and support groups.

306.76 LEV The full spectrum : a new generation of writing about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other identities. Presents a collection of original poems, essays, and stories by young adult gays, lesbians, bisexuals, straights, and others sharing real life experiences on a variety of subjects.

306.76 MAR Marcus, Eric. Is it a choice? : answers to the most frequently asked questions about gay and lesbian people. Presents answers to three hundred commonly asked question about homosexuality, addressing a variety of topics including self-discovery, coming out, dating, relationships and marriage, religion, sex, AIDS, and others.

306.76 MIN Minor, Robert Neil. Scared straight : why it's so hard to accept gay people and why it's so hard to be human.

306.76 PAS Pascoe, C. J., 1974-. Dude, you're a fag : masculinity and sexuality in high school. Introduction: Making masculinity :adolescence, identity, and high school -- Becoming Mr. Cougar : institutionalizing gender and sexuality at River High -- Dude, you're a fag : male adolescent homophobia -- Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and dominance -- Look at my masculinity! : girls who act like boys -- Conclusion: Thinking about schooling, gender, and sexuality -- Appendix A: What if a guy hits on you? : intersections of gender, sexuality, and age in fieldwork with adolescents -- Appendix B: Resources.

306.76 PRO Prono, Luca. Encyclopedia of gay and lesbian popular culture.

306.76 REN Rench, Janice E. Understanding sexual identity : a book for gay teens and their friends. Presents the facts in question and answer format about gays and gay relationships, and what it means to a teenager who is attempting to understand his or her own gay identity.

306.76 TRA When I knew. A collection of anecdotes and short essays from more than eighty men and women on the precise moment they realized they were gay, illustrated with original art, pop culture images, and personal photos from contributors.

306.84 FRI Gay marriage. Presents a collection of essays that examine various issues related to gay marriage, including family, sexual morality social justice, and more. 323.3 MAR 50 Ways to Support Lesbian & Gay Equality. The complete guide to supporting family, friends, neighbors and yourself.

342.73 KEE Keen, Lisa. Out law : what LGBT youth should know about their legal rights. It's your fight -- You're a sex symbol -- The evolution of difference -- It's alive -- Law : the mother of all arts -- Sex : legal and not -- Pleading the first -- The powers of assembly -- When your life is on the line -- Protecting the private -- Protecting your privacy. Answers a number of questions about the legal rights of young people and students who are openly gay.

371.826 PER Perrotti, Jeff. When the drama club is not enough : lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. Explores how integrating gay and lesbian issues into classrooms and activities can transform school culture.

378.1 BAE Baez, John. The gay and lesbian guide to college life : a comprehensive resource for lesbian, gay, bisexual, tramsgender students and their allies. Offers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,and questioning students advice on how they can adapt to college life, with tips on finding a homosexual-friendly school, evaluating campus policies, dealing with homophobia on campus, finding support on campus, and more.

812 KAU Kaufman, Moises. The Laramie project. A play by Moises Kaufman which chronicles life in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the year following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay.

921 CAMMERMEYER Cammermeyer, Margarethe, 1940-. Serving in silence. A biography of the former U.S. Army colonel who had a long and distinguished career as a nurse, until she revealed that she was a lesbian.

921 GONZALEZ González, Rigoberto. Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa. Rigoberto Gonzalez shares the challenges he faced while coming of age as a gay man in the Chicano culture.

921 HOWEY Howey, Noelle. Dress codes : of three girlhoods-- my mother's, my father's, and mine. A memoir in which the author tells about her experiences growing up in Ohio with a tomboy mother and a brusque, distant father who, over the course of her teen years, became a loving, transgendered woman.

921 LOUGANIS Louganis, Greg, 1960-. Breaking the surface. The ninth dive -- "I can do that" -- Sissy, nigger, retard - - Suicide -- Olympic dreams -- Montreal 1976 -- Fame -- Coming out -- Diving -- Depression -- The University of Miami -- Moscow 1980 -- International dominance -- Kevin -- Los angeles 1984 -- Tom -- Sign here -- Show biz -- Tom's rules -- Diagnosed -- Living with hiv -- Olympic trials -- Seoul 1988 -- Separate ways -- Settlement -- Forgiving -- Rebirth -- Jeffrey -- Gay games 1994. Greg Louganis, four-time Olympic gold medal diving champion, tells of his life and career. Includes photographs.

921 MILK Shilts, Randy. The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk. Biography of Harvey Milk, the nation's first openly gay city official who was assassinated in San Francisco in 1978, discussing how events in his personal life and public career mirrored the emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.

921 RUSTIN Miller, Calvin Craig, 1954-. No easy answers : Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement. Tells the life story of American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, describing his pacifism, his work with such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr., and A. Philip Randolph, and the challenges he faced within the activist community because of his homosexuality.

921 RUSTIN D'Emilio, John. Lost prophet : the life and times of Bayard Rustin. Chronicles the life of Bayard Rustin, focusing on his role in the civil rights movement and his efforts to bring Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence to America.

921 SAPPHO Snyder, Jane McIntosh. Sappho. Was Sappho a lesbian? -- Sappho's life and reputation: a partial reconstruction -- Women's roles in ancient Greece --Sappho and the goddess of love -- Sappho's lesbian love songs -- What else did Sappho write about? -- Sappho as an inspiration for 20th-century women writers --The critical response. Presents a biography of Sappho, regarded as the tenth muse by Plato, a woman whose passionate voice moved some readers as much as it disturbed some others, and examines her unapologetic representation of lesbian desire has resulted in her having one of the most disparate reputations of any writer.

921 TURING Leavitt, David, 1961-. The man who knew too much : Alan Turing and the invention of the computer. Presents a narrative biography of British mathematician Alan Turing, providing information on his childhood, his family, his homosexuality, and his achievements in math and science.

DVD 323.3 OUT Out of the Past / The struggle for Gay and Lesbian Rights in America.

ER MAC Mac, Carrie, 1975-. Crush. During a summer in New York, Hope falls in love with another girl and must decide whether she is gay.

FIC BAU Am I blue? : coming out from the silence. A collection of short stories about homosexuality by such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr,William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.

FIC BEC Bechard, Margaret. If it doesn't kill you. High school freshman Ben should be enjoying playing football, meeting girls, and going to parties, but he's too busy trying to cope with his father's moving out to live with another man.

FIC BLO Block, Francesca Lia. Baby Be-Bop. Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.

FIC BOO Boock, Paula. Dare truth or promise. Louie Angelo, a Woodhaugh High prefect who plans to be a lawyer, falls in love with a girl who lives in a pub and just wants to get through her exams so she can become a chef.

FIC BRO Brownrigg, Sylvia. Pages for you. Flannery Jansen, overwhelmed by her new life at college, finds herself drawn to an older woman who teaches her many of life's most important lessons.

FIC CAR Cart, Michael. My father's scar. As he enters into his first relationships as a gay man, a college freshman recalls the aching loneliness of life with his alcoholic physically abusive father in a community prejudiced against homosexuals.

FIC CHB Chbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower. Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemma of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver.

FIC CLI Clinger, R. W. Just a boy. Jove Tyler, a high school wrestler, struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and find a place to fit in at the high school.

FIC COH Cohn, Rachel. Naomi and Ely's no kiss list : a novel. Although they have been friends and neighbors all their lives, straight Naomi and gay Ely find their relationship severely strained during their freshman year at New York University.

FIC DER D'Erasmo, Stacey. A seahorse year. A San Francisco family that prides itself on being non-traditional is left grasping for some sort of stability when sixteen-year-old Christopher, the son of a gay father and lesbian mother, is diagnosed with schizophrenia.

FIC DOL Dole, Mayra L. Down to the bone. Laura, a Miami high school student, gets caught kissing her lesbian lover which marks the start of big changes in her life, including getting kicked out of her Catholic school, thrown out of her home by her mother, and forced to build a new kind of family with the help of friends and supporters.

FIC EMB Embree, Michelle. Manstealing for fat girls. Angie, a sixteen-year-old from a working-class suburb of St. Louis, struggles with her weight, her sexuality, the arrival of her mother's boyfriend in her home, and, especially, the hostility of the jocks and popular girls at her school after her short-lived friendship with the school's prettiest girl--who is anorexic and trying to hide it--ends badly.

FIC ESP Esposito, Michelene. Night diving. A coming-of-age and a coming-out story about Rose Salino, who, at 30 years old, returns home to deal with a family crisis and reconnects with her childhood best friend. Through a series of crises Rose is forced to look at her life and find the courage to create a future that is true to her real self and her heart.

FIC FRE Freymann-Weyr, Garret. My heartbeat. As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.

FIC FRO Frost, Helen. Keesha's house. Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.

FIC GAR Garden, Nancy. Good moon rising. Jan begins her senior year of high school not expecting that she will lose the starring part in the school play, take over as director when her beloved drama teacher becomes ill, and realize that she is a lesbian.

FIC GAR Garden, Nancy. The year they burned the books. 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.

FIC GLA Glass, Julia. Three Junes. Patriarch Paul, his loveable, slightly repressed gay son Fenno, and other members of the McLeod family deal with difficult issues of love and loss over the course of several years.

FIC GRE Greene, Bette. The drowning of Stephan Jones. As her mother battles a citizens' group that wants to ban all "antiChristian" literature from the public library, Carla faces her own battle of torn loyalties when her boyfriend starts persecuting the homosexual owners of an antiques shop.

FIC HAR Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club. A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.

FIC HAR Harmon, Michael B. The last exit to normal. 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.

FIC JAM St. James, James. Freak show. Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

FIC JOH Johnson, Kathleen Jeffrie. Target. After being brutally raped,Grady finally goes to a new high school where he meets an outgoing African American and several other students who try to help him deal with the horrible secret that is robbing him of his life.

FIC KER Kerr, M. E. Deliver us From Evie. Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker.

FIC KER Kerr, M. E. Night kites. Seventeen-year-old Erick's comfortable and well-ordered life begins to fall apart when he is forced to keep two secrets: the identity of his new girlfriend and the nature of his brother's debilitating disease.

FIC KOE Koertge, Ronald. Boy girl boy. Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are who they want to be.

FIC KOJ Koja, Kathe. Talk. Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting; however, both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships.

FIC LAR LaRochelle, David. Absolutely, positively not. Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual.

FIC LEV Levithan, David. Boy meets boy. Paul's simple high-school life is confused by his desire for another boy who seems unattainable, until Paul's friends help him find the courage to pursue him.

FIC MUR Murrow, Liza Ketchum. Twelve days in August. Twelve days in August change a sixteen-year-old soccer player's perceptions of himself, his family, girls, and gays.

FIC LEV Levithan, David. Wide awake. In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world.

FIC MAN Manning, Sarra. Pretty things. Presents the story of four teens in North London who come to terms with their own sexuality while they are involved in a summer drama production of "Taming of the Shrew."

FIC MURROW Murrow, Liza Ketchum. Twelve days in August. Twelve days in August change a sixteen-year-old soccer player's perceptions of himself, his family, girls, and gays.

FIC NEL Nelson, Theresa. Earthshine : a novel. Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.

FIC PAP Papademetriou, Lisa. M or F? : a novel. Gay teen Marcus helps his friend Frannie chat up her crush online, but then becomes convinced that the crush is falling for him instead.

FIC PAR Parkhurst, Carolyn. Lost and found. Competition in an international race on a reality show tests the relationships of three pairs of contestants: a mother and daughter troubled by the daughter's shocking secret, an "ex-gay" newlywed couple struggling with temptation, and a forgotten Hollywood star and the friend she may betray to regain fame.

FIC PET Peters, Julie Anne. Luna : a novel. Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.

FIC PET Peters, Julie Anne. Far from Xanadu. Sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo, struggling to understand her father's suicide and her own homosexuality, reaches the breaking point when she falls in love with Xanadu, an exotic girl who has moved to small Coalton, Kansas, from the big city.

FIC PET Peters, Julie Anne. Between Mom and Jo. Fourteen-year-old Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky 2, some pet fish, and two mothers, whose relationship complicates his entire life as they face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation.

FIC PLU Plum-Ucci, Carol. What happened to Lani Garver. Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.

FIC REY Reynolds, Marilyn. Love rules. Seventeen-year-old Lynn experiences surprise, discomfort, and a new awareness of prejudices and stereotyping when her best friend Kit comes out as a lesbian.

FIC RYA Ryan, Sara. Empress of the world. While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.

FIC SAN Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow road. While driving across the United States during the summer after high school graduation, three young gay men encounter various bisexual and homosexual people and make some decisions about their own relationships and lives.

FIC SAN Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow High. Gay friends Nelson, Kyle, and Jason, nearing the end of their high school days, struggle with issues of coming out, safe sex, homophobia, being in love, and college choices.

FIC SAN Sanchez, Alex, 1957-. Getting it. Hoping to impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help informing a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school.

FIC SAN Sanchez, Alex, 1957-. The God box. When openly gay Manuel transfers to Paul's high school, Paul, a born-again Christian, begins to question his own sexuality.

FIC SHA Shannon, George. Unlived affections. At his grandmother's death, seventeen-year-old Willie finds a box of old letters which explain many family secrets.

FIC SLO Sloan, Brian. A tale of two summers. Even though Hal is gay and Chuck is straight, the two fifteen-year-olds are best friends and set up a blog where Hal records his budding romance with a young Frenchman and Chuck falls for a summer theater camp diva.

FIC SPA Spanbauer, Tom. Now is the hour. In 1967, seventeen-year-old Rigby John Klusener leaves his hometown in Idaho to hitchhike to San Francisco, where he must face his fears and his own sexuality.

FIC TRU Trueman, Terry. 7 days at the hot corner. Varsity baseball player Scott Latimer struggles with his own prejudices and those of others when his best friend reveals that he is gay.

FIC VEL Velasquez, Gloria. Tommy stands alone. A high school student and member of a Mexican-American family struggles with his sexual identity and finally learns that he will not have to stand alone anymore.

FIC WAL Walker, Kate. Peter. An ordinary fifteen-year-old Australian kid, who enjoys riding his dirt bike and wants to be a photographer, becomes confused about his sexuality when he finds he is attracted to a gay friend of his older brother.

FIC WER Wersba, Barbara. Whistle me home. Seventeen-year-old Noli feels as if she has found her soul mate when handsome, sensitive TJ moves to Sag Harbor, but even as their feelings deepen, individual secrets threaten their relationship.

FIC WIL Williams, Bett. Girl walking backwards. The only thing Skye wants is to survive high school and get away from her New Age mother, but she soon finds out that no matter how far she runs, her problems always follow her.

FIC WIT Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard love. After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.

FIC WIT Wittlinger, Ellen. Parrotfish. Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.