Jim Brogan, Gay Teens Lerature, The High School Journal, Vol. 77, No. 1/2, The Gay Teenager (Oct./Nov., 1993 - Dec. 1993/Jan., 1994), pp. 50-57
Contents:
- A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
- STRAIGHT MEN SCED 1: SNA STUDS - A GAY EROTIC STORY
- THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
We're two gay men, each stable relatnships, but when we went on vatn together, he cly me on to me * teen gay story *
We are both gay men and have traveled many tim together over the years wh few problems and a hell of a lot of fun. Like many gay men, our platonic iendship began wh a roll the hay.
At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks. Gay people are an abomatn and are gog to Hell if they don’t get right wh God.
” Years later he warned: “If you turn out gay, I’ll fuck you up.
STRAIGHT MEN SCED 1: SNA STUDS - A GAY EROTIC STORY
Adolcence n be a ighteng perd for young gay men, who are sudnly faced wh new sexual feelgs that n often nflict wh social prsur placed on them by fay, iends, and the media. Mike Curato explor this tumultuo perd his new Godw Books graphic novel, Flamer, a semi-tobgraphil… * teen gay story *
Image me, a young black gay Christian male, tryg to rencile my sexualy wh school, home, and church life. What happens to a black gay Christian who liv a hoehold that hat him; who really believed that he was gog to Hell.
Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please? A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs.
THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
"Joe Bell" is a new movie that tells the heartbreakg te story of Jad Bell, a gay teen who died by suici, and his father's walk his memory. * teen gay story *
I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia. All imag: Godw BooksAdolcence n be a ighteng perd for young gay men, who are sudnly faced wh new sexual feelgs that n often nflict wh social prsur placed on them by fay, iends, and the media.
Growg up Hawaii, was different, was a b isolated, I didn’t have a lot of gay iends, I didn’t have any gay iends actually. I didn’t really know anybody who was gay but I knew that I was gay.
We went through middle school to high school together and I fely had a csh on him, I jt never really, was jt like I really liked him, I didn’t know if he was gay, we never talked about , I never even let that part of me really out. We were on dance teams together, I gus I should have known he was gay then, but, we were on dance teach together, we ran track, we did a lot of sports together so I was always sleepg over at his hoe, and there would be tim that I would be over there spendg the night wishg somethg would happen, anythg, a kiss, jt him tellg me, like, you know, high school boy’s fantasy I gus.