Ebook {Epub PDF} Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L. Singer

Bennett L. Singer is the editor of Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian and 42 Up, the co-editor (with David Deschamps) of Gay Lesbian Stats, and the co-author (with David Deschamps) of LGBTQ Stats (all published by The New Press).Estimated Reading Time: 40 secs. Product Information. Growing up Gay, Growing up Lesbian is the first literary anthology geared specifically to gay and lesbian youth. It includes more than fifty coming-of-age stories by established writers and teenagers and has been hailed by writers, educators, activists, booksellers, and the press as an essential resource for young people--and not-so-young people--seeking to understand the. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at .

Bennett L. Singer (ed.) Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology: Non-fiction Dorothy Allison: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature: Winner Philip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein: Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans: George Chauncey. Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L. Singer (5 times) A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White (5 times) The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities by David Levithan (4 times). 6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Author: Edit Team J. Anthologies. WINNER: Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin (Routledge); Growing Up Gay edited by Bennett L. Singer (New); Lesbian Culture by Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe (Crossing); Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers by Arlene Stein (Plume); Eyes of Desire by Raymond Luczak (Alyson).

Diversity is the central theme of this eclectic anthology, which takes a giant step forward in addressing lesbian and gay teens, a group often overlooked in YA literature. Presented in sections on self-discovery, friends, family and "facing the world," this empowering collection of stories, poems, interviews, essays and excerpts from novels takes a healthy overview of gay writing. Bennett L. Singer is the editor of Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian and 42 Up, the co-editor (with David Deschamps) of Gay Lesbian Stats, and the co-author (with David Deschamps) of LGBTQ Stats (all published by The New Press). The first literary anthology geared specifically to lesbian and gay youth, Growing Up Gay is a much-needed resource for young people who are often isolated, shunned by their peers, and treated by schools and the media as though they do not exist.