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Garden, who has won both the Lambda Book Award and the Margaret A. Edwards Award, offers an accessible narrative history of the changing rights and social status of gay and lesbian teens told through essays and short stories. Beginning with the 1950s, each essay describes a decade in broad political and social terms with references to specific events pertinent to GLBT adults and teens of the period. Each essay is followed by a pair of stories, written by Garden and set during the decade featured in the essay. Although the essays reflect the experiences of both men and women, the majority of the stories are about young, middle-class lesbians who live on the East Coast of the U.S. Still, the stories show how fiction can reveal truths more gracefully than nonfiction. The issues and questions will reach out to all teens, making it easier for contemporary youth, whether GLBT or straight, to imagine the past. Francisca Goldsmith
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Garden, who has won both the Lambda Book Award and the Margaret A. Edwards Award, offers an accessible narrative history of the changing rights and social status of gay and lesbian teens told through essays and short stories. Beginning with the 1950s, each essay describes a decade in broad political and social terms with references to specific events pertinent to GLBT adults and teens of the period. Each essay is followed by a pair of stories, written by Garden and set during the decade featured in the essay. Although the essays reflect the experiences of both men and women, the majority of the stories are about young, middle-class lesbians who live on the East Coast of the U.S. Still, the stories show how fiction can reveal truths more gracefully than nonfiction. The issues and questions will reach out to all teens, making it easier for contemporary youth, whether GLBT or straight, to imagine the past. Francisca Goldsmith
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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“Poignant and at times heartbreaking.” —VOYA
“An accessible narrative history . . . The issues and questions will reach out to all teens.” —Booklist
"Nancy Garden's Hear Us Out! is a unique combination of fiction and history. Garden does a superb job of summarizing the history of gay and lesbian experiences . . . . enhanced by the author's personal insights, since she has lived the events she describes, and her well-written stories further illuminate the difficult journey to acceptance." —English Journal, an NCTE Publication
“[Nancy Garden] is an icon in the field of gay and lesbian writing.”—Publishers Weekly
"GLBT teens will find themselves in this important collection."—Kirkus Reviews
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IF YOU'D BEEN A TEENAGER IN THE 1950S, AS I WAS, AND YOU'D LOOKED UP "Homosexuality" in the 1952 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia, as I did, you'd have found yourself directed to "Sexual Pathology." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, San Francisco, Oscar Wilde, United States, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Billy Jack, Boy Scouts, Stonewall Inn, Catholic Charities, Harvey Milk, Los Angeles, Port Tilden, Saint Mary, The Advocate, American Psychiatric Association, Board of Supervisors, Coach Larrimew, Dearest Angie, Doc Carver, Gay-Straight-Bisexual Alliance, Vietnam War New!
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IF YOU'D BEEN A TEENAGER IN THE 1950S, AS I WAS, AND YOU'D LOOKED UP "Homosexuality" in the 1952 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia, as I did, you'd have found yourself directed to "Sexual Pathology." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
straight kids, gay kids, gay marriage, civil unions, transgender people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, San Francisco, Oscar Wilde, United States, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Billy Jack, Boy Scouts, Stonewall Inn, Catholic Charities, Harvey Milk, Los Angeles, Port Tilden, Saint Mary, The Advocate, American Psychiatric Association, Board of Supervisors, Coach Larrimew, Dearest Angie, Doc Carver, Gay-Straight-Bisexual Alliance, Vietnam War New!
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