Books For Gay and Lesbian Youth
Teen Non-Fiction (with covers)
Parent Non-Fiction (with covers)
Staff Non-Fiction (with covers)
Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender College Students
Kim Howard, Annie Stevens
From California to Vermont, countless college
students are grappling not only with grades, jobs, and student
loans but with their very identity. For gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgendered students, college can be a disorienting and
lonely experience. In spite of tremendous progress over the past
20 years, the presence of GLBT clubs, and queer studies curricula,
an overwhelmingly large number of them not only feel isolated, but
are too afraid to do anything about it. In Out & About Campus,
the first book of its kind, the courageous voices of 28 remarkable
individuals, shatter this unbearable silence to provide comfort,
inspiration, insight and hope. A young man prevails as the first
student to create a gay and lesbian studies major at the
University of Wisconsin. A self-described "queer woman of
color" helps to form gay Chicano/a solidarity at Stanford. A
basketball player battles homophobia on the Harvey Mudd women's
team. A brave man attends the University of Texas in drag.
Students in North Carolina, California, Utah, and North Dakota
reconcile their sexuality with their religious beliefs, often in
the face of derision and interrogation.
All of them faced
down their peers, their teachers, their parents, their
administration, and their self-doubts to carve out a place of
honesty and integrity for themselves. By bravely sharing their
stories, they will help others to follow in their footsteps and
help to provide a truly equal opportunity for all on campuses from
coast to coast.
Published by Alyson Publications.
