From: Heather White <hwhite>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 12:49:03 -0500

The Geography Club by Bret Hartinger (sp?) is a good pick about a boy who thinks he is the lone homosexual at school and finds he is not alone.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen T. Horning" <horning at education.wisc.edu> Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:12 pm Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ Literature To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu>


> Nancy Silverrod has provided a great overview of where we are right
> now
> with GLBTQ lit, and were we could be going (and, wow! before she's
> even
> fully awake!)
>
> I'd love to see more done with your Point 6. I'm always amazed at the
>
> diversity of families and family structure within the LGBTQ community,
>
> with different ethnicities, different arrangements for co-parenting,
> recognition of biological parents, etc. Gay and lesbian families
> are,
> by necessity, intentional, and they require a lot of planning and
> cooperation. I'm not saying that traditional hetero families don't,
> too,
> but gay/lesbian families often go to extreme lengths in family
> planning,
> and they have to do all of this in the midst of a society that doesn't
>
> make it easy for them and sometimes doesn't even recognize them as a
> real family. Kids growing up in these different types of family
> structures would make a great photo-essay book.
>
> KT
>
> Kathleen T. Horning
> Director
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> 4290 Helen C. White Hall
> 600 N. Park St
> Madison, WI 53706
>
> Phone: 608-263-3721
> FAX: 608-262-4933
>
> horning at education.wisc.edu
> http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>
>
>
> Nancy Silverrod wrote:
> > I'll start with some brief comments. Overall, we are definitely
> seeing a
> > move toward the view that being lesbian or gay is an acceptable, even
> > positive, sexual identity. Many young adult books these days even have
> > minor characters who are gay. There are still very few books that take
> > on the subject of bisexuality--fewer than those dealing with transgender
> > characters. However, there are still very few lgbtq books for children
> > as opposed to the growing number of books for teens, and many of them
> > are being published by small presses, or are self-published, making
> them
> > difficult to find. A number of these latter books have the tendency
> to
> > be didactic, and libraries often have to balance that, and the sometimes
> > poor artwork, against the subject needs.
> >
> > There are a whole range of subject needs that are under-addressed, or
> > not met:
> > 1. More books about gay marriage, particularly more fiction, all
> > ages
> > 2. Books about bisexuality, fiction and non-fiction, all ages
> > 3. Books about having a transgender family member (there are a
> > few exceptions in young adult fiction) -- both fiction and
> > non-fiction, all ages
> > 4. Books about transgender parents (yes there are a number of
> > them) -- both fiction and non-fiction, all ages
> > 5. Books about gender-variant young children (even more of those
> > than transgender parents) -- both fiction and non-fiction
> > 6. Books about the various ways lgbtq people become parents
> > (adoption, pregnancy, surrogacy, etc)
> > 7. Books about young lgbtq people joining together to fight back
> > the homophobia and violence they face
> >
> > Subjects that have possibly(or hopefully) been beaten to death:
> > 1. Boo-hoo, my boyfriend's gay
> > 2. Oh no, I'm gay, my life is ruined, my parents will hate me
> > 3. Car wrecks, suicide attempts, gay-bashing
> >
> > More thoughts later, after I've woken up...
> >
> >
> > Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
> > San Francisco Public Library
> > 100 Larkin St.
> > San Francisco, CA 94102-4733
> > 415-557-4417
> > nsilverrod at sfpl.org
> >
> > Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another
> > mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
> >
> > A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese
> > Proverb
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> > [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Megan
> > Schliesman
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:20 AM
> > To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of
> > Subject: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ Literature
> >
> > Thank you for the posts on literature for children and teens about
> the
> > Middle East. While we'd like to spend more time on this topic to
> > encourage additional posts, but time being time, we need to turn our
>
> > attention to the topic for the second part of May: GLBTQliiterature.
> >
> > Even more than literature about the Middle East, this area of publishing
> >
> > for youth has grown tremendously in recent years.* *We have been struck
> >
> > by the fact that since first talking about this topic on CCBC-Net,
> in
> > June of 2004, publishing reflecting the experiences of lesbian,
> gay,
> > bixesxual, transgendered, and questioning youth has grown exponentially,
> >
> > and in that growth we are seeing more new voices and greater
> diversity
> > of experience. (Unfortunately, books for younger children reflecting
> the
> >
> > many families with gay or lesbian parents are still few and far
> > between.)
> >
> > We invite you to share what you've observed about GLBTQ literature
> in
> > recent years for the remainder of May.
> >
> > Megan
> >
> >
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