Books shelved as gay-high-school: Superhero by Eli Easton, Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg, Tormented Disvery by Jayson Jam, The Redwood Boys: (Re...
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GAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOKS
* gay high school books *
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Gay mystery novelist Greg Herren won the Moonbeam Award twice three years for his “ntributns to YA l”, and, like Nancy Garn, is no stranger to book banng. His two seri for adults, Chanse MacLeod mysteri and the Stty Bradley adventur, both feature gay private ey livg New Orleans.
Herren branched to YA and found he loved , wrg Sleepg Angel, about the murr of a gay high school stunt, touchg on issu of bullyg and suici young adults. Fourteen year old Rafael Fannen is a black kid stgglg to adjt to a mostly whe all-male Catholic high school on a mory scholarship, tryg to nnect wh his ex-n dad on weekends and his mentally ill mom every day, all while drillg the “no homo” mantra to his own head for his own prott-too-much reasons.
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And then all crashg down when his mother starts to e unglued, Rafe is acced of beg the bad guy at school, and the mors start to spread about him beg gay. It’s every young, closeted/nfed gay, black boy’s worst nightmar, all at once.
The Rabow books are all about sexual inty nfn, the real life of gay teens, first love, and acceptg who you – and your iends – are. Another the banned & burned books list, Frank Mos’s All Amerin Boys was donated, along wh Annie on my Md, to high schools Kansas Cy, Kansas; and after signifint parental objectn to the book’s gay them, both books were burned. Now tobgraphil graphic novels, The High School Chronicl of Ariel Schrag starts off wh Potential, which troduc to Ariel and her first real relatnship and first time fallg love wh a girl (while tryg to lose her virgy to a boy); Awkward tells of Ariel’s hman year, Defn, her sophomore year, and Likewise wraps all up wh that mythic of tim, the senr year.
Lo’s books are lh fairytale, post-apolyptic creepers wrapped first-time-fallg gay love stori. As many of the books tail the challeng queer teens face, general ntent warng for homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, and other such bigotry.