USA 2006, 277 pp., brochure, € 9.95Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.Using works submitted anonymously through the Web site the authors created in conjunction with the »Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network« (GLSEN), the editors have selected 40 essays, mini-autobiographies, poems, and photographs that chronicle the lives of 21st-century young people, ages 13 to 23. The handsomely dense package includes real-life stories about coming out, falling in and out of love, mistaken identities, families and friends, misplaced affection, confronting homophobia, and more. A female-to-male transsexual teen describes a first trip into the men's restroom. A young man recalls his close relationship with a trash-talking, pot-smoking, horror-movie-loving burnout, illustrating the blurry lines that exist between romance and friendship.