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A collection of essays and testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people, stresses to gay and lesbian youth that they can lead fulfilling lives free of bullying, and that their adult years will get better.
5) Out Late
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Out Late is an inspirational and moving documentary about five individuals who made the courageous and life-altering decision to come out as lesbian, gay, or transgender, after the age of 55. Why did they wait until their 50’s, 60’s, or 70’s to come out? And what was the turning point that caused each of them to openly declare their sexuality? From Canada to Florida to Kansas, we explore what ultimately led these dynamic individuals to make...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Coming Out Polish Style" offers a rare look into the lives of gays and lesbians in contemporary Poland. The film explores the issue of gay and lesbian rights in a conservative society, which is undergoing a very dynamic transformation, allowing for more and more successful liberal changes. The documentary focuses on the diverse and complex identity struggles involved in the process of 'coming out'. It profiles both celebrities who are openly gay...
7) Sublime
Publisher
Cinephobia Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Sublime is a thoughtful and tender handling of a teen's emerging sexuality. Shy sixteen-year-old Manuel comes alive when he, his best friend Felipe, and other buddies form a garage rock band. The two boys, friends since childhood, have a close, easy relationship made even more intense with the band and their music making. Strains develop for Manuel when his best mate starts dating a girl. Manuel also begins to date a female classmate, yet all the...
9) Talk
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Publisher
Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008, c2005
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships. Told from two points of view.
10) Whatever
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Junior year is going to be the best ever for slacker Mike until he loses his girlfriend, gets roped into school activities, and becomes totally confused about his sexual orientation after sharing a drunken kiss with a guy.
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After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
13) C.R.A.Z.Y
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
Français
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The story of a special little boy who grows into young manhood and ends up even denying his inner self to attract his father's attention. The film paints a portrait of a family that depicts the often extraordinary lives of ordinary people in search of happiness.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Friends Raul, Eduardo and Santiago have led a happy and masculine life since childhood, until, one day, Santiago confesses that he is gay. Impacted, Raul, the alpha male and more homophobic of the three, will try to convince his friend that his is nothing more than a simple sexual confusion, until, when the situation becomes untenable, Eduardo and Raul will put aside their prejudices and decide to help Santiago to venture into his new gay life.
16) Out late
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Five individuals make the courageous and life-altering decision to come out as a lesbian, gay, or transgender, after the age of 55. Why did they wait so long to come out? And what was the turning point that caused each of them to openly declare their sexuality?
Publisher
IronZeal Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Connected by having a son or daughter who is gay, parents across the country discuss their experiences ... Individuals from such diverse or[i]gins as Japanese, Bolivian, and Cherokee; as well as religions such as Mormon, Catholic, Hindus and others share intimate accounts of how their children revealed that they're homosexual and discuss their responses. The parents also talk about struggling with the pain their sons and daughters have dealt with,...
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Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Deena starts receiving letters from her older sister Mandy, whom everyone thinks is dead, claiming that their family's blighted history is actually a curse and leading Deena on a cross-country hunt to find her sister and heal their family's rotten past--or rip it apart forever"--
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English
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For readers of Fun Home, Educated, and Devotion, a striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of them embracing their queer identities Jessi Hempel was raised in a picture-perfect, middle-class American family. But the truth was far from perfect. Her lawyer-father was constantly away from home, traveling for work, while her stay-at-home mother became increasingly lonely and erratic. Growing up, Jessi...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man in a culture of machismo, Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: his uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at twelve years old to become a man. The story then moves through the queer spaces where he learned the joy of being gay and Latinx, including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor's office where...
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