Georgia Oakley (R): Blue Jean

UK 2022, engl. OF, dt. UT, 97 min., € 19.99
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Salzgeber
Nordengland, 1988: Die Sportlehrerin Jean sieht sich zu einem Doppelleben gezwungen: Margaret Thatcher hat mit ihrer konservativen Parlamentsmehrheit gerade Section 28 verabschiedet - ein homophobes Gesetz, das »die Förderung von Homosexualität« verbietet. Deswegen darf in der Schule niemand wissen, dass Jean lesbisch ist - andernfalls könnte sie ihren Job verlieren. An den Wochenenden taucht die Lehrerin mit ihrer kämpferischen Partnerin ... Weiterlesen

Casey McQuiston: I Kissed Shara Wheeler

USA 2022, 368 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Macmillan
Swoon-worthy rom-coms and Casey McQuiston have become synonymous in our minds, and McQuiston's YA debut »I Kissed Shara Wheeler« is no exception. Chloe is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school she's spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing thats ... Weiterlesen

Emily M. Danforth: Plain Bad Heroines

USA 2021, 640 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Harper Collins
In 1902, Flo and Clara, two impressionable students at Bookhants School for Girls, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club - »The Plain Bad Heroine Society«. They meet in secret in a nearby ... Weiterlesen

Kristof de Witte / Oliver Holz / Lotte Geunis (eds: Somewhere over the Rainbow

Discussions on Homosexuality in Education Across Europe. D 2018, 168 pp., brochure, € 30.99
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Schools should offer a safe and secure environment for all young people to develop, to learn, and to thrive. Sadly, for many, they fall short. Homophobic and transphobic behaviour is still painfully common in schools across Europe. A significant number of LGBT pupils experience homophobic and transphobic bullying, and they are more likely to experience violence than heterosexual peers. This ... Weiterlesen

Nina LaCour and David Levithan: You Know Me Well

USA 2016, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Macmillan
Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year, but have never spoken. For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed. That is, until Kate spots Mark miles away from home, out in the city for a wild, unexpected night. Kate is lost, having just run away from a chance to finally meet ... Weiterlesen

Michelle L. Teichman: The Space Between

D 2016, 280 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Ylva Verlag
Everything's great for Harper Isabelle, the most popular girl in grade nine. That is, until she meets Sarah Jamieson. Sarah is a reclusive artist, a loner who wears black makeup and doesn't have any friends, but for some reason, Harper can't stop thinking about her. Sarah isn't used to people looking her way, especially popular girls like Harper Isabelle. Scared, ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Theall: Teaching the Cat to Sit

A Memoir. USA 2014, 275 pp., hardbound, € 24.99
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Simon and Schuster
Even when society, friends, the legal system, and the Pope himself swing toward acceptance of the once unacceptable, Michelle Theall still waits for the one blessing that has always mattered to her the most: her mother's. Michelle grew up in the conservative Texas Bible Belt, bullied by her classmates and abandoned by her evangelical best friend before she'd ever even ... Weiterlesen

Judith Schalansky: The Giraffe's Neck

Transl. by Shaun Whiteside. UK 2014, 213 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
Adaptation is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. It is the beginning of the new school year, but, as people look west in search of work and opportunities, it's future begins to be in doubt. Frau Lohmark has no ... Weiterlesen

Mark McCormack: The Declining Significance of Homophobia

How Teenage Boys Are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality. USA 2013, 166 pp., brochure, € 43.95
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Oxford University Press
Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over the last three decades, »The Declining Significance of Homophobia« tells a different story. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews of young men in three British high schools, the author shows how ... Weiterlesen

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

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