Gay coming of age books
Gay Coming-Of-Age Love Stories: Jeremy and Me / Noah and Me / Simon and Me
Maxwell Carlsen
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Publish US, 11 jan 2019 - 91 pagina's
Jeremy and Me: High school is almost out for winter break. Fifteen-year-old Robbie has the hots for blue-eyed Jeremy, the handsome boy with endearing dimples, whom he doesn't know very well. How will Robbie find cherish and have his first gay experience?Noah and Me: Sixteen-year-old, bisexual Todd falls madly in adoration with Noah, the cute boy in Free Enterprise class whom he doesn't know very adequately. What happens when Noah invites Todd to his home for the afternoon? Does Todd discover love?Simon and Me: Fifteen-year-old Jayden knows for certain that he's gay. Ever since moving to upstate New York, he has had a major romantic interest on Simon, a handsome, dark-haired, blue-eyed boy who lives right next door. What happens when Jayden hosts a sleepover in his secluded backyard vegetation house?About the Author: Maxwell Carlsen is an author of gay coming-of-age passion stories. To detect out more about the author, see www.maxwellcarlsen.com.
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Though one could build the case that same-sex attracted literature dates back to centuries B.C.—the moment Homer wrote of Achilles and Patroclus and the “union of their thighs”—you’d be hard-pressed to find a book about a teen who identifies as an LGBT individual. Until now.
Over the last few decades, there has been an uptick in coming-of-age stories starring homosexual protagonists, both on the page and on the screen. Finally, these stories are existence given a voice and their much-deserved due.
And surmise what! You don’t include to be gay to enjoy gay literature! Whether you're simply wanting to look beyond your have experience, or you're an LGBT youth seeking a character like yourself, the following classic and contemporary coming-of-age LGBT novels chronicle the road to first loves, acceptance, and self-discovery. And that’s something everyone can relate to.
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By Stacey Donovan
Teenager Virginia “V” Dunn is down on her luck. Her beloved mutt, Lucky, was hit by a car; her optimal friend is avoiding her; her mother’s drinking obstacle is escalating; and her father is afflicted with a rare illness.
I don’t believe in the idea of guilty pleasures. I even used to run a pop culture blog centered around the evidence that they shouldn’t be a thing—we should never hold to feel culpable about something that brings us pleasure. Growing up gay, it can be really easy to be made to feel guilty about what you might secretly love, because it might not fit the rigid yet contradictory gender norms you never really adhered to. Therefore, it can also take a long time for you to experience comfortable enjoying what you enjoy without shame or ridicule—from other people or from yourself. Internalized homophobia at its finest!
As a teenager, I rarely felt comfortable reading YA books, permit alone gay YA books, because I felt so disconnected and rejected by my age group—having never really mutual the same interests or ideals of people my retain age, and often being bullied for it—that I did anything I could to subtly and quietly set myself apart from kids my age. Adults called me an old soul, which I was, but I also didn’t feel free to live my control life, and I faced the consequences of acting more grown up than I actually was when I reached early adulthood.
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