Stuart Biegel: The Right to Be Out

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools. USA 2010, 303 pp., brochure, € 18.30
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University of Minnesota Press - GLBT Studies
Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the U.S., the public school environment remains daunting, even frightening, as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination, bullying, violence, and suicide. Yet efforts to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and educators, or to enhance curricula to better reflect the experience of differing sexual orientations and ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Bait

USA 2010, 239 pp., brochure, € 9.99
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When a gay student looks at him funny, and he feels his masculinity threatened, Diego punches him out and lands himself on probation. Belligerent and angry, at first he mistrusts his probation officer, Mr. Vidas. But soon Diego realizes that Vidas is the only person in his life who ever wanted to listen to him, and he reluctantly opens up. ... Weiterlesen

David Walliams: The Boy in the Dress

USA 2009, 236 pp., pb., € 10.00
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Harper Collins
Everybody needs friends especially a boy in a dress! Dennis' life is boring and lonely. His mother left two years ago, his truck driver father is depressed, his brother is a bully and, worst of all, no hugging is one of their household rules. But one thing Dennis does have is soccer: he's the leading scorer on his team. Oh, ... Weiterlesen

Elizabeth J. Meyer: Gender, Bullying, and Harassment

Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools. USA/UK 2009, 102 pp., brochure, € 32.95
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While there have been countless studies of bullying and harassment in schools, none have examined the key gender issues related to these behaviors. In this book, the author offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help them positively transform the culture of their school and reduce the incidences of gendered harassment. The text integrates research, theory, and practical ideas connected ... Weiterlesen

Ariel Schrag: Likewise

The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag. USA 2009, 361 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The hefty final volume of Schrag's high-school chronicles has been a decade in the making and shows her development as an artist and storyteller. Employing a stream-of-consciousness style, she examines her relationship with an unenthusiastic lover and her sexuality and anatomy. She argues with her parents over wanting to attend Barnard rather than a public university in California, and she ... Weiterlesen

Ariel Schrag: Awkward and Definition

The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag. USA 2008, 84 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in »Awkward and Definition«, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years. During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California, Ariel wrote a comic book about her experiences, which she would then photocopy and sell around school. ... Weiterlesen

Ariel Schrag: Potential

The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag. USA 2008, 224 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Ariel Schrag continues her tumultuous passage through high school in the second book of her series of frank, insightful, and painfully honest autobiographical graphic novels. Written during the summer following her junior year at Berkeley High School in California, »Potential« recounts Ariel's first real relationship and first-time love with a girl, her quest to lose her virginity to a boy, ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Getting It

USA 2007, 211 pp., brochure, € 9.99
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It's embarrassing enough that Carlos Amoroso is 15 and the only virgin among his friends, but he's never really kissed a girl. The object of Carlos's desire, Roxy Rodriguez, is popular and hot - and has no idea that Carlos is alive. But watching a TV show one night gives Carlos an idea: what if he got a makeover from ... Weiterlesen

C.J. Pascoe: Dude, You're a Fag

Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. USA 2007, 228 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are explored in this incisive ethnography. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, this book plumbs the dynamics of masculinity among high school boys and sheds new light on the complex interplay of masculinity, homophobia, sexuality, and the body, compelling us to rethink ... Weiterlesen

Larry Duplechan: Blackbird

USA 2006, 252 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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First published by St. Martin's in 1986, »Blackbird« is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of »Romeo and Juliet«. If that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Getting It

USA 2006, 213 pp., hardback, € 16.59
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It's embarrassing enough that Carlos Amoroso is 15 and the only virgin among his friends, but he's never really kissed a girl. The object of Carlos's desire, Roxy Rodriguez, is popular and hot - and has no idea that Carlos is alive. But watching a TV show one night gives Carlos an idea: what if he got a makeover from ... Weiterlesen

Brent Hartinger: Geography Club

USA 2003, 226 pp., brochure, € 9.99
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Harper Collins
Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. ... Weiterlesen

John Fox: The Boys on the Rock

USA 1984, 146 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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St. Martin's Press
Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, who in his 16th year has to face the fact that he's a little different from everyone else, a little »weird«. Though he's sort of going steady with a girl and ... Weiterlesen