I’m a boy of 13 and I thk I’m gay but I haven’t told anyone. What books n I read? | Children's books | The Guardian

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• I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?
• AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
• COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• WHY DO YOUNG GAY MEN TRY TO BE THE BT?
• HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?

“I’m a 13-year-old boy and I thk I’m gay but I haven’t told anyone.

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

What books n I read to help me get the urage to tell people – and make sure that I’m that fely gay?

COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG

” For direct, practil advice, I wrote This Book Is Gay. Siarly, Becky Albertelli’s Simon Vs the Homosapien’s Agenda and Liz Ksler’s Read Me Like A Book look at the mefield of g ’s about transgenr youths, not gay on, but Lisa Williamson’s The Art of Beg Normal is warm and upliftg and looks at the rewards and challeng of livg a more thentic, hont life.

Two Weeks Wh The Queen by Morris Glezman was wrten the 80s at a time when there was a lot more homophobia about and AIDS was still a new, uncurable disease – this book is surprisgly funny and heartwarmg, given the subject. S., and ns om the fifti to the neti but do start wh two ne year old s, both gay, who form a lifelong iendship. If he is gay, havg a uple of role mols like Achill and Patrocl will make a nice (healthy) change om the vast majory of gay trop out there.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Every norm everywhere all at as a gay man, I celebrate an nvenient tth of Pri Month: We’ll never be normal. That majory asi, when we discs self-intifyg gay men, lbians, asexuals, pansexuals, two-spir, nonbary and transgenr folks, ’s jt roughly 3 percent of the populatn. Heterosexuals make up a greater percentage of the untry than whe people do on the Supreme ask everyday Amerins to gus at jt the gay and lbian populatn, and Gallup shows they nsistently overtimate.

A majory of the untry thks that at least 20 percent of Amerins — at least one five of — are gay or lbian. Every remr of my different path ma me yearn for a fettable broar, blanr mastream sir thenticy foreign cuise or subtled foreign streamg shows, but mands sad homogenizatn of the forever foreign nature of queerns.

And I realized how different is to be gay , say, Havana or the Bronx. Beg normal is a lie people tell themselv to ver up the realy that they are merely how few number we are, ’s a lerally unpopular thg to say but I am gay.

WHY DO YOUNG GAY MEN TRY TO BE THE BT?

A 9-year-old Colorado boy who died by suici last week had been bullied at school after announcg over the summer that he was gay and exprsg his sire to share the news wh his classmat, his mother said. Pierce said her son told her over the summer that he was gay while they were together her r and he was ridg the back seat.

“He was like, ‘Mom I’m gay, ’ ” she said, reports KDVR. The revelatn apparently eed Jamel to share the rmatn wh others, his mom said: “He went to school and said he was gonna tell people he’s gay bee he’s proud of himself.

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HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

And when you thk about all the adults who are prottg gay marriage and tryg to keep same-sex upl om gettg the same rights as straight upl, basilly tryg their bt to spread hate, 's remarkable that two boys who are so young n be so mature and lovg. At nothg wrong wh beg gay my iend. Both lbians and gay men often have a history of cross-sex-typed behavrs: ltle boys beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg.