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About This Reading And Resource Guide.
This is a reading guide designed and arranged for teens that have an interest in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Inter-sexed (LGBTQI) themed literature and other LGBTQI themed resources.
The titles included in this reading and resource guide have been chosen to reflect the diverse range of LGBTQI themed titles the library holds and has access to acquire. The guide is not meant to represent an exhaustive list of LGBTQI themed titles the library holds and has access to, but has been designed and arranged to promote positive language, literacy and literary practices to those who have an interest in this genre of literature.
The aim of this reading guide is to extend the reading possibilities of teens that have an interest in LGBTQI themed literature. It is designed to recommend quality resources that meet the needs of LGBTQI identifying teens and their stakeholders. It is also designed to encourage these readers to discover more titles beyond this resource. The guide has been made available to bring to our reader’s attention the diversity of LGBTQI themed titles the library has access to that meet their recreational, information, and education requirements.
This is an inclusive reading and resource guide aimed at meeting the needs of all readers. Selection criteria and evaluation practices have highlighted quality literature resources the library has access to that meets the needs of LGBTQI identifying teens including those from an indigenous background, those teens from an ESL environment, and those teens that have diverse and multicultural needs. This reading and resource guide is also designed to meet the needs of teens and their stakeholders that require reading and learning assistance.
Multiemedia, E-books, and Audiobooks.
E-books, Audiobooks, and other multimedia formats are available from the library resource database. To download on to a device enter your borrower number and pass word .These can also be borrowed and downloaded anywhere the library website can be accessed. Wi-Fi connections are available within the library.
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Young Adult Fiction
Title: Annie On My Mind
Author: Nancy Garden
Publisher: New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Year Published: 1982
Awards: Nancy Garden received the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award for this work.
Format: Print
Location: YA GARD
Summary: Since its first publication in 1982 Annie On My Mind has been one of the most challenged books in print. Through advocacy practices of individuals and literary organizations the novel has faced these challenges, and because of their efforts is still available today. Since its publication this title has never been out of print. The history of this title reflected through its cover art shows the change of attitude to LGBTQI themed YA Literature through its 35 years in publication. This title has been a source of comfort for many teens through its publication history, and today is regarded as a literary classic of not only the LGBTQI genre but young adult literature.
Set in New York City, Liz Winthrop and Annie Kayton meet for the first time on a rainy day at the Metropolitan Museum. Although they come from different backgrounds, they become fast friends and their relationship grows. Facing both internal and external challenges, the two girls learn from each other what love means to each of them
The novel uses accessible language as a literary device to engage its audience. It has won many prestigious literary awards, and today continues to be a benchmark other tittles in the young adult literature cannon strive to achieve. The novel offers a quality and pleasurable literary engagement experience for those willing to take the time to read it. Annie On My Mind is a great title for young readers to begin discovering the pleasures of young adult LGBTQI themed literature.
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Young Adult Fiction
Title: Two Boys Kissing
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Melbourne, Vic: The Text Publishing Company.
Year Published: 2013
Award: Stonewall Book Award- Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children and Young Adult Literature Award.
Format: E-Book
Location: This e-book can be accessed and borrowed from the library database.
Summary: David Levithan is today one the most engaging and ground breaking writers producing work in the LGBTQI themed young adult literature genre. His most prolific work is the book Will Grayson Will Grayson (2010), which he co-wrote, with The Fault In Our Stars (2012) author John Green. His first published novel was the ground breaking and engaging young adult novel Boy Meets Boy (2003).
Two Boys Kissing is a based on a true-events story of Harry and Craig. Both boys are 17-year old. Harry and Craig decided to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record. As the two boys become increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived they become a focal point in the lives of other teen boys dealing with long-term relationships, coming out, and navigating gender identity. While this is taking place Harry and Craig are trying to come to terms with their current feelings for each other
Here is a video of David reading from his novel.
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David Levithan uses a Greek Chorus of gay men lost to the AIDS generation to narrate this story. His awareness of LGBTQI history and culture is built upon throughout the work to provide an engaging literary experience. For young LGBTQI identifying readers and those with an interest in the genre, this work offers an enjoyable and engaging reading experience that reflects their interests and values in a positive and relatable context.
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Young Adult Fiction
Title: Better Nate Than Ever
Author: Tim Federle
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Year Published: 2013
Awards: Stonewall Honor Books
Format: Audiobook.
Narrator: Tim Federle
Available: This audiobook can be accessed and borrowed from the library database.
Summary: Nate is a small town kid who loves musicals, theatre, and all things Broadway. When he finds out about an open audition in New York searching for a boy to play Eliot in the big budgeted ET The Musical, Nate knows just the person who is right for the part. Nate is prepared to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
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This is a fun and pleasurable read. The work is directed at younger readers aged 11-14, but can be enjoyed by all. When Nate is asked how he identifies, he simply says as Nate. This approach to storytelling in LGBTQI themed young adult literature is refreshing, original and reflects how a lot of the readers of this title feel about themselves at this age. The audiobook format is also a great way for readers to be introduced to a different type of storytelling that is as pleasurable to engage with as reading from a page.
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Tim Federal the author of the Nate Series of books has a fondness for the audiobook format. In this video he draws a comparison between audiobooks and the traditional form of oral storytelling.
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Young Adult Fiction
Title: Golden Boy
Author: Abigial Tarttelin
Publisher: London, England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Year Published. 2013
Awards: ALA/ YALSA Alex Award
Format: Print
Available. YA/ TART
Summary: Max is an inter-sexed person who identifies as teenage boy. He is a prolific athlete, popular at school and plenty of friends. Max’s highly motivated and successful parent’s adore him, and he is a role model to his younger brother. One night a terrible event occurs that has a devastating effect on Max. His happiness is shattered and its aftermath places at risk everything he believes about himself, and his life. Decisions have to be made, but whom can Max turn to when throughout his whole life who he really is has been treated as a secret?
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It is the manner of LGBTQI themed young adult literature to be informative and inclusive, as well as pleasurable to read. Dealing with its diverse themes calls for authors to respectful and considerate, while also shaping their work to make the reading experience engaging and reflective of their reader’s interests and needs. Golden Boy accomplishes all these things, while highlighting the challenges faced by those who identify as inter-sexed in a way that is reflective of their issues and concern. Golden Boys successes make us relies just how rare a title this work is. For those who can identify with Maxs experience, the title offers a quality literary engagement experience that will not only be pleasurable but highly personal
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Graphic Novels
Title: Strangers in Paradise Omnibus Collection.
Author: Terry Moore
Publisher: Houston, Texas: AbstractStudioComics.com.
Year Published: 2013
Awards: GLAAD Media Award
Format: Print
Available: Graphic Novels Collection/ Moore
Summary: Strangers in Paradise is the story of Katchoo, Francine and David. Katchoo loves Francine, but then meets David. David is a gentle but persistent young man who is determined to win Katchoos heart. Katchoo though has a very dark past and history. Her former employer comes looking for not only her, but the $850,000 in missing mob money. As her idyllic life begins to fall apart, Katchoo discovers no one can be trusted and that the past she thought she left behind now threatens to destroy her and everything she loves, including Francine.
For this work Terry Moore was the recipient of a Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Award. This honor acknowledges an ongoing theme throughout Terry Moore’s cannon of work, which focuses on the positive representation of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexed, and Questioning community.
Strangers In Paradise is today considered a landmark piece of literature. It is a highly revered graphic novel title and is used as a literary standard other authors strive to achieve. Importantly to LGBTQI themed literature it is one of the best examples to young readers of the positive contribution the genre and format have made to expand the practice of storytelling.
Graphic Novels are not only fun to read, but they are a great way make use of multiliteracy skills. They motivate reluctant readers and those who find reading difficult. There are also some great titles that cover a range of LGBTQI themes. Why not try these titles as well which the library also has in its Graphic Novel Collection.
Love and Rockets: New Stories# 7 (2015) by Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernández & Mario Hernández
Available in the Graphic Novel Collection / HERN
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Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash (2015)
Available in the library’s Graphic Novel Collection/ THRA
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Biography
Title: Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing The World
Author: Jack Andraka with Matthew Lysiak
Publisher: Melbourne, Vic: Scribe
Year Published: 2015
Awards A National Science Teachers Association Book Best STEM Book 2017
Format: E-Book
Availability: This e-book can be accessed and borrowed through the library database.
Summary: In 2012 Jack Andraka was a fifteen year old gay teen who was also battling to overcome depression and homophobic bullying. After the loss of a family friend to pancreatic cancer, Jack decided to create a better method of early cancer detection. Jack’s work was taking place during a traumatic period in his life. He was battling resilience and fighting to persevere. Jack was also in the process of come out as a gay teen. Through Jack's perseverance he manage to discovered a ground breaking early-detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. This test has the potential to be over four hundred times more affective than the medical standard. This biography is Jack’s story.
LGBTQI identifying teens deserve to see their lives, their experiences, and the issues that concern theme reflected back in the literature they engage. Jack Andraks story and other biographies that deal with LGBTQI themes are great tools for young readers. They help young LGBTQI identifying readers to construct a positive image of themselves and their community as they develop a personal identity and discover the people they are.
Jacks TED Talk.
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TED Talks are a great way for LGBTQI teens to learn about issues and developments that effect their everyday lives. Here is a video of Jack Andraks inspiring TED Talk.
Other TED Talks of interest are available here
https://www.ted.com/talks
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History and Culture
Title: Stonewall: Breaking Out In The Fight For Gay Rights
Author: Ann Bausum
Narrators: Tim Federle and Ann Bausum
Publisher: New York, NY: Penguin Randon House Audio Publishing
Year Published: 2015
Award: School Library Journal Top Ten Audiobooks of the Year, 2015
Format: Audiobook
Available: This audiobook can be downloaded and borrowed from the library database.
Summary: This audiobook is an informative resource that tells the story of the Stonewall riots of 1969. The text aims to be a resource that introduces teens be they LGBTQI identifying or not to the history of the ongoing struggle for gay rights. This is an accessible high quality literary resource for those teenagers who are interested in the history of LGBTQI culture, and the ongoing struggle for human rights. This audiobook is a fine example of a quality non-fiction title.
It is important that LGBTQI teens have access to the titles and resources that reflect their culture, lifestyle, and history in an inclusive and positive manner. Though there are many titles addressing LGBTOI themes it is rare to find one that is written for an adolescent audience.
One of the major problems for LGBTQI identifying teens finding appropriate resource materials addressing their needs is that often these titles are scholastic, academic, didactic and alienate younger audiences. Stonewall: Breaking out in the fight for gay rights is specifically written for teenagers. The author uses a plain and accessible literary language that avoids jargon. The author adopts an approach to her subject that uses language as a tool to engage her young audience and make the subject accessible and relevant. From this resource LGBTQI identifying teens can learn about an important event in their cultures history in a plain and accessible voice, that can be used as a starting point to further investigate the history and culture of the LGBTQI community.
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Gender Identity
Title: Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Author: Written and photographed by Susan Kuklin
Publisher: Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press
Year Published: 2014
Award: Flora Stieglits Straus Award for Non-Fiction 2014
Format: Print
Availability: YA Non-fiction Collection.
Call Number: 306.768/KUK
Summary: Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out focuses on the lives of transgender teens. Renowned photographer and writer Susan Kuklin photographed and interviewed six gender natural, transgender, and transitioning young adults. The artist used her skills to represent these unique teens thoughtfully, respectfully, and proudly.
To tell the emotional and moving journeys of these transgender teens the author uses personal portraits, family photographs, and candid images in addition to written text. Both written text and images are used as equal literacy aids to engage the works audience. The work offers a chance to emotionally engage with the teenagers through discussions, images and disclosures that are personal, joyful and at times saddening as they tell their stores in their own words.
The work focuses on the importance of acceptance, and mental health and well-being and the role they play in the personal journeys these teenagers have taken in order to live as their authentic selves. This is a great LGBTQI themed literary resource for LGBTQI identifying teens to engage with, and share with their supporters and stakeholders in an effort to educate those who wish to understand the challenges and issues faced by LGBTQI teens in their everyday lives.
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Personal Stories
Title: Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out.
Editors: Lani Ka’ahumanu & Loraine Hutchins
Publisher: Bronx, NY: Riverdale Avenue Books
Year Published: Originally Published 1991. This edition with a new introduction was published in 2015
Format: E-book
Available: This e-book can be borrowed and accessed through the library database.
Summary. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out is a literary title that discusses the experiences of people whom identify as bisexual. Since its first publication in 1991 this has been a highly recommended resource for young readers to engage with as they begin discovering their sexual orientation. The title offers advice and reflects upon the diversified experiences of people from across the range of the bisexual spectrum. The work deals with the experiences of teenagers through to octogenarians. One of its major strengths is that it is an inclusive work in which people from many different backgrounds, cultures, and family arrangements share their experiences. The text also challenges the oversimplifications that reduce sexual spectrums to mere opposites.
This title is a highly revered LGBTQI themed title within LGBT community. A new introduction was published in 2015 that focus on how the work is still relevant today as it was when first published. The issues and themes of the work are reflective of the issues young LGBTQI identifying teens face today. It offers opinions, advice, and guidance to teenagers that they can use as a personal guide, reflect upon, relate to and discuss and share with their peers. It is a positive and inclusive literary tool teenagers can engage with and use to enrich their lives and guide them in times of concern.
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A Reference Resource
Title: Top 250 LGBTQ Books For Teens: Coming Out, Being Out, And The Search For Community
Author: Michael Cart and Christine. A. Jenkins
Publisher: Chicago: Huron Street Press, an imprint of the American Library Association.
Year Published: 2015
Format: Print
Availability: YA Reference Collection.
Call Number: YA REF 016.3 CART
Summary: LGBTQI identifying teens often have difficulty connecting with quality literary titles that reflect their interests, values, and needs. Top 250 LGBTQ Books for teens coming out, being out, and the search for community is written for LGBTQI teens and their stakeholders. The title is published by The American Library Association (ALA) as part of an ongoing effort to connect LGBTQI identifying teens with quality literature.
This is an informative guide that contains the bibliographic details, reviews, and plot summaries of what are currently regarded by the authors as 250 of the best books for LGBTQI teens. Its contents reflect the diverse nature of LGBTQI themed literature. As one of the few bibliographies available that deals exclusively with the literary needs of LGBTQI teens this is a resource of high value.
Titles are chosen for their quality and literary merit, and address a broad range of fiction and non-fiction formats and genres. Users can find information on recent publications as well as LGBTQI themed classics that continue to be read and enjoyed by 21st-century teens. This is a valued title that LGBTQI identifying young adult readers can engage with to continue their literary journey beyond this library reading guide.
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A Literary Blog
Bookish
https://www.bookish.com/
Summary: Bookish is a literary resource in the form of a blog. The goal of Bookish is to provide readers with information about the books, authors, and genres that they love. What makes this blog of such value to LGBTQI identifying teens is that a major focus of the resource is the role it plays in introducing readers to new titles, debut writers, and genres they never thought they’d read.
Often LGBTQI themed titles and their authors have problems connecting with their audiences. The competition to promote titles is so competitive, many little known titles and authors become shunned by mainstream media. This can often also unfortunately be the result of conscious and unconscious censorship practices. When this happens the audiences the titles have been designed to support are often unaware of the works existence. Bookish is an attempt to overcome this problem for readers who have a love of reading. Value for LGBTQI identifying teens can also be found in the inclusive and diverse focus of this blog as it focuses on little known new releases and titles that are of interest to both the casual and avid reader.
Here are some examples
https://www.bookish.com/articles/the-10-lgbt-ya-books-you-need-to-read-this-year/
The website provides lists and suggestions such as this the one above that highlights some of the past year’s new LGBTQI Young adult titles.
It also contains articles and interviews with authors that have not been promoted in mainstream media. April Daniels recent Young Adult title release Dreadnought (Daniels, 2017) focuses on the adventures a teenage transgender superhero. The book was widely praised in the LGBTQI community but received little publicity elsewhere. Here is an interview she did for Bookish .https://www.bookish.com/articles/the-making-of-a-transgender-superhero/
For LGBTQI identifying teens that wish to engage with a literary resource that promotes LGBTQI themed young adult literature and positive language, literacy and literary practices this is a great resource.
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Literary Organizations
Lambda Literary
http://www.lambdaliterary.org
Summary: The Lambda Literary Foundation is an LGBTQI literary organization whose aim is to promote LGBTQI literature through programs that encourage the development of emerging writers. They have a prestigious literary award history that is a great way to connect with quality LGBTQI themed literary titles. Lambda also publishes a literary review of LGBTQI titles and resources called the Lambda Literary Review, and publish an e-letter that can be subscribed to called Bookish (available through subscription from their website here http://www.lambdaliterary). Lambda also publishes an annual anthology of quality writing , and support scholarships for emerging writers.
For LGBTQI teens who are emerging writers, want to connect with quality literature that reflects their interests and values, or want to keep abreast with the latest developments in the literary world that reflects their interests, this is an authoritative LGBTQI themed literary resource that is of value to their needs. The resource promotes positive language, literacy and literary practices and fosters a love for pleasure reading through its promotion of the quality LGBT themed literature in all mediums. This a resource built upon a framework of the promotion and fostering of positive language, literacy and literary practices that reflect the interests of LGBTQI identifying teens in a diverse, inclusive and welcoming environment.
The library also runs writer workshops for teen writers. Details can be gained from the information desk.
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Database Resource
Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/
Goodreads is an online resource and also a mobile app that supports all users in their passion for pleasure reading. The resource allows users to freely search its database of books, annotations, and reviews to support their reading needs. LGBTQI identifying teens who love literature can create their own group of book suggestions reflecting their genre preferences, and share the list with other readers and write reviews. They can also receive recommendations, investigate and contribute to competitions, surveys and polls, or start a personal blog, and join literary discussions.
Here are two examples
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1702.Best_GLBT_books_for_teens
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https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/ya-lgbt
Summary: For LGBTQI identifying teens it can be difficult connecting with the literature that reflects their personal understanding of themselves and their place in the community. The value of this resource for LGBTQI identifying teens is that it encourages users to engage with the tool as a guide in the selection of interesting titles that reflect personal needs and interests.
Goodreads is a resource that LGBTQI teens can use in conjunction with a traditional library database. It encourages users to apply selection criteria practices and evaluation principles when choosing a title or genre to engage. The resource helps users sharpen their information literacy skills sand contributes to positive literary practices in LGBTQI identifying teens and guides them in engaging with quality LGBTQI themed literature.
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Database Resource
The Internet Movie Database [IMDb]
http://www.imdb.com/
The Internet Movie Database (abbreviated IMDb) is an online resource which is also available as a mobile app. IMDb is a database that provides information on films, television programs and video games. It is an authoritative literary resource that supplies users with knowledge about titles, genres, filmmakers, actors and various productions. Users can also engage with the resource to access biographies, plot summaries, movie trailers, trivia and reviews.
IMDb provides LGBTQI identifying teens with a great opportunity to engage with other teens that share their passion for cinema, television and video games. Users can become involved in discussions, create and publish their favorite movie list, find and recommend similar films, and keep up with entertainment news that reflect their interests.
Summary: Films, television, and video games play a major role in LGBTQI identifying teens establishing a positive self-image. IMDb is a resource of value to LGBTQI identifying teens as it encourages users to discover and learn about the films and television programs that reflect their needs and interests. It gives users the opportunity to employ their selection criteria and evaluation skills by encouraging users to evaluate, discuss, and share their thoughts on these works. IMDb is also a great way to keep current your information literacy skills, and use them in other areas of interest.
The library has a vast collection of films, television and video games that deal with LGBTQI themes. If you can’t find something suitable in our library database, give IMDb a try. Feel free to ask a librarian about any title that appeals to you and how it can be borrowed or accessed.
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