The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question
10 best books like The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question (David Levithan): It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, What Becomes You, Another Kind of Cowboy, Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, God Loves Hair, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws, How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living
| Author | Dan Savage |
| ISBN | 0525952330 |
Growing up isn't easy. Many young people endure bullying that makes them feel they have nowhere to turn--especially LGBT kids and teens who often hide their sexuality for fear of being bullied. Without openly gay mentors, they don't know what the future may hold. After a number of suicides by LGBT students...
| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0374317593 |
What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s? In this unique history, Nancy Garden uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and...
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
| Author | S. Bear Bergman |
| ISBN | 1551522640 |
Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces...
| Author | Nick Krieger |
| ISBN | 0807000922 |
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s...
| Author | Aaron Raz Link |
| ISBN | 0803210817 |
“Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,” Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. Turning from female to male and from teaching scientist...
| Author | Susan Juby |
| ISBN | 0002007088 |
Alex Ford wishes his father had seen the movie Brokeback Mountain. Because then he might understand that it’s possible to be a gay cowboy. Trouble is, Alex doesn’t even want to be a cowboy; his dream is to ditch Western-style riding and take up dressage. But with his mother long gone, his father ensconced...
| Author | Cris Beam |
| ISBN | 0151011966 |
When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a school for transgender kids while she got settled. Instead she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she introduces four of...
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 0986551201 |
God Loves Hair is a collection of 20 short stories following a tender, intellectual, and curious child as he navigates complex realms of sexuality, gender, racial politics, religion, and belonging.
Told with the poignant insight and honesty that only the voice of a young mind can convey,...
| Author | Kate Bornstein |
| ISBN | 1583227202 |
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods...
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
| Author | Michael Cart |
| ISBN | 0061154989 |
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an accidental...
| Author | Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| ISBN | 0375866655 |
Elle is a loner. She doesn’t need people. Which is a good thing, because she’s on her own: she had to move into her own apartment so her mother’s boyfriend won’t have to deal with her.
Then she meets Frank, the guy who lives next door. He’s older and has a girlfriend, but Elle can’t stop...
| Author | Sassafras Lowrey |
| ISBN | 0978597362 |
In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). Kicked Out brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some of our nation's most vulnerable citizens. Diverse contributors share stories...
| Author | Hazel Edwards |
| ISBN | 1876462906 |
School-leaver Skye plays guitar in an all-female Chronic Cramps band. Joining the punk/indie scene is easier than FTM (female to male) transitioning: from Skye to Finn, from girl to transman. 'f2m;the boy within' was the first YA novel about transitioning co-written by an ftm. It has also inspired...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0590458817 |
Jacqueline Woodson's remarkable, award-winning story of a boy coming to grips a sudden change in his family.
Melanin Sun's mother has some big news: she's in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make: Should he stand by his mother even though it could mean losing his friends? Should...
| Author | Kelly Huegel |
| ISBN | 1575421267 |
The teen years are full of challenges.
For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning teens, these challenges can include prejudice, discrimination, rejection, reprisals, insensitive remarks (even among friends and families) and, sometimes, violence.
But being...
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1555835589 |
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
| Author | Rigoberto González |
| ISBN | 1593501064 |
As they embark on their final year of high school, the Fierce Foursome—Maui, Trini, Isaac, and Liberace—decide to do something big, something that will memorialize their friendships for when they all go their separate ways and begin their new “adult” lives.
Already accustomed...
| Author | Lois-Ann Yamanaka |
| ISBN | 0786814667 |
Had to read it for book club. Wouldn't have picked it otherwise, and probably won't read anything else by this author. Definitely would not recommend it.
Having lived in Hawaii for several years, I understood most of the pidgin/Hawaiian terms (like pau, haole, and ohana) and could even relate...
| Author | Linas Alsenas |
| ISBN | 0810994879 |
Milestones of gay and lesbian life in the United States are brought together in the first-ever nonfiction book published specifically for teens.
Profusely illustrated with archival images, the groundbreaking Gay America reveals how gay men and women have lived, worked, and loved for the past...
Manny /ma-ne/ "n" A male nanny or babysitter, known to be handsome, fabulous, and a lover of eighties music.
"Be interesting."
That's what the manny tells Keats Dalinger the first time he packs Keats's school lunch, but for Keats that's not always the easiest thing to do. Even though...
| Author | Michael Thomas Ford |
| ISBN | 1555834965 |
In That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford continues his exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive...
She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband
| Author | Helen Boyd |
| ISBN | 1580051936 |
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her...
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves
| Author | Sarah Moon |
| ISBN | 0545399327 |
If you received a letter from your older self, what do you think it would say? What do you wish it would say?
That the boy you were crushing on in History turns out to be gay too, and that you become boyfriends in college? That the bully who is making your life miserable will one day become so insignificant...
Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
| Author | Morty Diamond |
| ISBN | 1933149566 |
"This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you already know what's in these stories, or you think you don't need to know, you're wrong."—Patrick...
