
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian
A Literary Anthology
Bennett L. Singer(Editor)
The New Press
Published on 14. July 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-56584-103-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 gay and lesbian experience. The anthology includes selections by James Baldwin, Rita Mae Brown, David Leavitt, Jeanette Winterson, Audre Lorde, and others.
A free teaching guide is available.
A free teaching guide is available.
Reviews / Votes
"A remarkable resource filled with poignant, eye-opening, and very funny pieces that will inspire and affirm without ever preaching or becoming heavy-handed." -Dr. Virginia Uribe, founder, Project 10More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 15 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56584-103-1 (9781565841031)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Bennett L. Singer is the editor of Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian, Gay & Lesbian Stats, and 42 Up all from The New Press. He has served as producer/director or associate producer of a number of acclaimed documentary series, including the Emmy-, Peabody-, and duPont-Columbia-winning Eyes On The Prize II, With God on Our Side, The Question of Equality, Brother Outsider, and Electoral Dysfunction. He served for eight years as executive editor of Time's education program. He lives in New York City.
Content
Self-discovery; friendships/relationships; family; facing the world.