HIT: Best Gay/Lesbian books (Part 4)

[Jaye Alper <alper@MEOL.MASS.EDU>]

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:17:40 +1000
From: Brian Ralph <bralph@zeta.org.au>

Chambers, Aidan      Dance on my grave    Random House (UK)     1995
Koertge, Ron            The Arizona kid Pan Books               1990
Macleod, Mark (ed)      Ready or not    Random House (Aust)     1996
Bauer, Marion   Am I blue? Coming out from the silence   Harper Trophy  1994
Walker, Kate    Peter           Omnibus Books (Aust) 1991
Starke, ruth    Coming out      Omnibus books (Aust)  1996
Hilton, Nette   Square pegs     Angus & Robertson (Aust) 1992

You may have difficulty finding some of these in the USA but hope it helps.

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 02:28:52 -0500
From: pmoser@k12concord.colonial.net (Patt Moser)

Jaye,
A few books I would recommend:

Nonfiction:
Homophobia: How we all pay the price edited by Warren Blumenfeld
Homosexuality: opposing viewpoints from Greenhaven Press
Two Teenagers in Twenty: writings by Gay and Lesbian youth edited by
Ann Heron
Making History: the struggle for gay and lesbian rights, 1945-1990, an
oral history by Eric Marcus
Stonewall by Martin Duberman

Fiction:
Am I Blue: coming out from the silence edited by Marian Bauer
Annie on my mind by Nancy Garden

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:17:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Barbara Bourrier-LaCroix <bourrie@MINET.gov.MB.CA>

I have a bibliography on that topic on the web (independent study for my
masters).  Feel free to have a look.
http://www.mts.net/~blacroix  (you'll find the link at the bottom of the
page)

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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:52:46 -0500
From: Laura Brendon <lbrendon@galileo.enc.org>

Here's the list (I'm quoting from emails I got):

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Since I last wrote I have come across a fairly comprehensive
bibliography of homosexuality in young people's fiction (children
through young adults).  It is called _Out of the Closet and Into
the Classroom_: homosexuality in books for young people_.  (Editor is
Laurel Clyde.  Australia: Alia Thorpe, 1992.)  This is an annotated
bibliography with some 160 entries, and it includes books through
1988, I believe.  So now I am especially interested in anyone's
input regarding books published since 1988.

Books I am aware of that are not included in _Out of the Closet_
include:

Crutcher, Chris  _Athletic Shorts_
Brett, Catherine  _S.P. Likes A.D._
Mullius, Hilary  _The Cat Came Back_
_Worlds Apart_ (a gay and lesbian SF collection)
Kerr, M.E.  _Deliver Us from Evie_
Morrow, Liza Ketchum  _Twelve Days in August_
Greene, BEtte _The Drowning of Stephen Jones_  (very didactic, I thought)
Walker, Kate  _Peter_
Shannon, George _Unlived Affections_

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Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt, edd, _Gay and Lesbian Library Service_.
McFarland, 1990.

Christine A. Jenkins, "Young Adult Novels with Gay/Lesbian Characters and
Themes 1966-92: A historical reading of content, gender, and narrative
distance."  _Youth Services in LIbraries_ vol. 7 no. 1, Fall 1993,
p. 43-55. (reviews 60 YA novels!)

Janet Creelman and Roma Harris, "Coming Out: The information needs of
lesbians." _Collection Building_ vol. 10 no. 3-4, 1989. p. 37-41. (older
but solid and sensitive)

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Young, gay and proud! edited by Sasha Alyson. 3rd ed.
Boston: Alyson Publications, 1991

LeVay, Simon and Elizabeth Nonas.
City of friends: a portrait of the gay and lesbian community in America.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1995.

One teenager in ten : writings by gay and lesbian youth / edited by Ann Heron.
Boston, Mass. : Alyson Publications, c1983.
 119 p. ; 22 cm.

The gay almanac / compiled by the National Museum & Archive of Lesbian and
Gay History, a program of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center,
New York.
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
New York : Berkley Books, 1996.
  xii, 525 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

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Carlip, Hillary.  _Girl Power_.  New York: Warner Books, 1995.
        Here's the toc:
_Outlaws and Outcasts_
Homegirls
Riot Grrrls
Teen Mothers
Queer and Bi Girls

_Outskirts_
Cowgirls
Native American Girls
Farm Chicks

_Outsiders_
Rappers and Sistas
Surfers and Sk8rs
Jocks

_Insiders_
Sorority Girls
Homemakers
Teen Queens


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