From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:54:26 -0700

I want to make the point that not all the protagonists in these titles are LGBTQ. The books were chosen because the protagonists don't conform in significant ways to gender role stereotypes and expectations. In most of the books it remains unclear whether or not the character(s) will grow up to be heterosexual. In the books by L.A. Meyer, Jacky Faber is definitely heterosexual, and in My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier, there is the hint of a heterosexual romantic relationship, but neither of the protagonists will live life as a woman all the time, or ever. The Princess Knight may very well get married, but only on her own terms.

 

The point of, and need for this bibliography is to reach families and readers who are facing growing up with gender variance concerns. Some of them will grow up to be straight, some gay, but definitely a good number of them will grow up to be transgender.

 

Nancy Silverrod, Librarian

San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin St.

San Francisco, CA 94102-4733

415-557-4417

nsilverrod at sfpl.org <mailto: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
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