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By Michael Cart,Christine A. Jenkins

Society doesn't make it effortless for kids, despite their sexual orientation, to discover actual, nonjudgmental information regarding homosexuality. It makes it much more tough for younger homosexuals to discover confident function types in fiction both written or released expressly for them or—if released for adults—relevant to them and their lives.

The center Has Its Reasons examines those concerns and seriously evaluates the physique of literature released for teens that provides gay subject matters and characters. Cart and Jenkins chart the evolution of the sphere of YA literature having GLBTQ (gay/lesbian/bisexual, transgendered, and/or queer/questioning) content material. They establish titles which are outstanding both for his or her excellence or mess ups, noting the stereotypic, wrongheaded, and outmoded books in addition to the exact, considerate, and tactful titles. beneficial standards for comparing books with GLBTQ content material are supplied. Books and assets of all kinds are reviewed in response to a version that makes use of the class descriptors of gay Visibility, homosexual Assimilation, and Queer Consciousness/Community. An annotated bibliography and a couple of author-title lists of books mentioned within the textual content prepared by means of topic around out this priceless reference for academics, librarians, mom and dad, and younger adults.

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