Wisns middle school featur 'This Book is Gay' library, stirrg onle outrage | WLUK

Contents:

• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• GAY COMICS BOOKS
• GAY IC BOOKS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

One place you probably haven't been checkg but should be is the library of LGBTQ books wh POC protagonists, bee no matter what your race, genr, or sexualy is, you need to be readg the sential and diverse matter who you are — black, whe, gay, straight, male, female — readg provis you wh an opportuny to see si someone else's life. Sara is sperate to fd her hband when she meets Jaz, a gay Mlim man tryg to relote his own lost lover.

The nice short stori explore gay life Puerto Ri, om youth to adulthood, wh sight, emotn, and honty. The Cosmopolans by Sarah SchulmanEarl, a black gay man who tried to make as an actor, and Bette, a whe secretary, may be two pletely different people, but they both me to New York for the same reason: to revent themselv and fd a new home. Guapa by Saleem HaddadComg of age is difficult for everyone, but has a whole different set of obstacl if you're a young gay man an Arab muny.

Guapa brgs rears to the life of Rasa, a closeted gay man the Middle East, for 24 hours as he search for his bt iend who has been arrted and stggl wh his own problems, namely his grandmother tchg him bed wh his lover.

13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

Funny Boy by Shyam SelvaduraiSet Sri Lanka, Funny Boy chronicl the life Arjie, a young and affluent gay man stgglg wh his sexualy, his race, and the threat of war. Kafka on the Shore by Haki MurakamiHaki Murakami nsistently wr about LGBTQ characters, and his unfettable g-of-age novel, Kafka on the Shore, he clus the story of Oshima, a young gay transgenr man. If You Could Be Me by Sara FarizanIn Iran, beg gay isn't jt taboo; 's illegal and uld rult vlence, jail time, or even ath.

The Necsary Hunger by Na RevoyrNancy, a gay Japane-Amerin high schooler livg a primarily Ain Amerin muny wh her sgle father, falls for fellow basketball player, Raa, but thgs get even more plited for her when her dad mov wh Raa's mother.

GAY COMICS BOOKS

Black Dtschland by Darryl PckneyAfter gettg out of rehab, Jed, a young, gay, black man Chigo, leav Ameri behd and heads to Berl. A Visatn of Spirs by Randall KenanGrowg up the relig south, 16-year-old Horace was raised to believe homosexualy is a s, which mak his own sexual sir that much more difficult to navigate.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1). : Answers to Qutns About What It Means to Be Gay and Lbian. : Essays on Black Gay Inty.

GAY IC BOOKS

Moud is an out gay teen livg Los Angel wh his distant father, Saeed.

Beg out and queer would put an unavoidable target on his back, pecially a Filipo muny that owns on homosexualy. Carole Kim is feelg the weight of sophomore year.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

But at least here no one knows she’s gay, and Yami tends to keep that way. Beth Kramer is a “townie” who returns to her sophomore year after havg endured a year of tensn wh her roommate, Sarah.

Ram Golafshar arriv at Chandler as a transfer stunt to pe the dangers of beg gay Iran, only to suffer btal hazg unr the guise of tradn the boys’ dorms.

Jul is still figurg out what means to be gay…and jt how out he wants to be. Floatg that gray area of life, Michael is a mixed-race (Greek-Cyprt and Jamain) gay teen growg up London. He’s terrified that someone will gus the tth he n barely acknowledge about himself and while Reza knows he’s gay, all he knows about gay life are the media’s imag of men dyg of AIDS.