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Cinderelliot : a scrumptious fairytale / by Ceilley, Mark.; Smoka-Richardson, Rachel.; Laberis, Steph.;
In this retelling of Cinderella, Cinderelliot enters a royal baking competition, hoping to win the heart of the prince.Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Cinderella (Tale); Gay youth; Baking; Stepfamilies;
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Unconditional : a guide to loving and supporting your LGBTQ child / by Eriksen, Telaina,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Coming out (Sexual orientation); Gay teenagers.; Gay youth.; Parents of gays.; Parents of sexual minority youth.; Parents of transgender children.; Sexual minority youth.;
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A history of my brief body : a memoir / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A profound meditation on queerness and indigeneity from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Billy-Ray Belcourt begins A History of My Brief Body with a letter to his nohkom, his grandmother. "In the world-to-come," he writes, "everyone is loved by an NDN woman like you whose soft voice reminds us that we can stop running now." What follows is a charting of the distance between the world he was born into and the world he wants--a book as beautiful as it is devastating. Reflecting on his personal history, Belcourt maps his "un-Canadian and otherworldly" desire to love at all costs. We're taken to his birthplace in Joussard, in northern Alberta, where he and his twin brother come to exemplify opposites: hard and soft, masculine and feminine. To his high school graduation, where a hug from his father teaches him how to hold and be held. To a hotel room in Edmonton, where destroying the photographic evidence of his adolescence is an act of self-abolition and of making himself anew. Blending memoir and essay, and with a poet's delight in language, A History of My Brief Body is both a grappling with a legacy of trauma and a record of the joy that flourishes in spite of it."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray; Gay men; Sexual minorities; Indigenous peoples; Poets, Canadian (English);
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Rez runaway / by Florence, Melanie,author.;
GAY CHARACTERS. A novel that reflects the complex realities faced by young LGBTQ and aboriginal youth, 'Rez Runaway' features seventeen-year-old Joe Littlechief, who was raised on a reserve in northern Ontario and knows he's different. While Joe finds himself thinking about killing himself, he instead runs away to Toronto where he comes to terms with who he is. Melanie Florence isof Plains Cree and Scottish decent. She lives in Toronto, ON. (NOTEWORTHY: THE MISSING/RIGHTING CANADA'S WRONGS: RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS)
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Gay teenagers; Indigenous youth;
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All out : a father and son confront the hard truths that made them better men / by Newman, Kevin,1959-author.; Newman, Alex,1986-author.;
Subjects: Newman, Alex, 1986-; Newman, Kevin, 1959-; Coming out (Sexual orientation); Fathers and sons.; Gay youth; Parents of gays; Television news anchors; Television news anchors;
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Canto contigo : a novel / by Garza Villa, Jonny,author.;
When Mariachi star Rafael Alvarez moves to a new school, he anticipates claiming the lead vocalist role, but instead faces a rival with a familiar face as he navigates family issues, competition, and complicated feelings for his rival.013-018.
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Novels.; Queer fiction.; School fiction.; Transgender fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Gay people; Gay teenagers; High schools; Interpersonal relations in adolescence; Interpersonal relations; Mariachi; Mexican American teenage boys; Mexican Americans; Schools; Transgender people; Transgender youth; Gay people; Gay teenagers; High schools; Interpersonal relations in adolescence; Interpersonal relations; Mariachi; Mexican American teenage boys; Mexican Americans; Schools; Transgender people; Transgender youth;
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The Pants Project / by Clarke, Cat.;
Eleven-year-old Liv fights to change the middle school dress code requiring girls to wear a skirt and, along the way, finds the courage to tell his moms he is meant to be a boy.Ages 9 and up.
Subjects: Transgender youth; Middle schools; Schools; Uniforms; Families; Lesbian mothers; Gay parents;
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I felt the end before it came : memoirs of a queer ex-Jehovah's Witness / by Cox, Daniel Allen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.""I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah's Witness--it's one or the other." Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him. But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation's presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between "in" and "out" isn't always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group's cultish tactics--from gaslighting to shunning--and their resulting harms--from simmering anger to substance abuse--all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a room full of books? With great candour and disarming self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New York City, where he's swept up in a scene of photographers and hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a complicated past, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany of Armageddons."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Creative nonfiction.; Cox, Daniel Allen; Cox, Daniel Allen.; Ex-church members; Ex-church members; Gay men; Authors, Canadian (English);
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Pride & persistence : stories of queer activism / by Breen, Mary Fairhurst,1963-;
Every day, people face discrimination because of their sexuality and gender identity. The people between these pages have stood up for the queer community, whether on their own behalf or in support of people they love. Some made a difference by confronting injustice; others dared to be fully themselves. Susan Ursel fought all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada for the right to have books with queer characters in schools. Sparkle Wilson runs an internship program for LGBTQ+ youth in San Francisco that helps them build skills and grow their confidence. Itzayana Gutiérrez Arillo discovered the joy and global community of queer tango. Their stories prove that we can all make the world a little safer, kinder, and more inclusive.
Subjects: Biographies.; Political activists; Sexual minorities; Sexual minorities; Gay activists; Lesbian activists; Gay rights;
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All the rage : a partial memoir in two acts and a prologue / by Fraser, Brad,1959-author.;
"A Canadian playwright's rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era. Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his teenage parents in motel rooms and shacks on the side of the highway in Alberta and Northern British Columbia. He grew to be one of the most celebrated, and controversial, Canadian playwrights, his work produced to acclaim all over the world. All the Rage chronicles Brad Fraser's rise as he breaks with his past and enrolls as a performing arts student. He is pulled into the newly developing Canadian theatre scene, where he shows great promise. But his early career is one of challenge after challenge, some of which result from his upbringing and prejudice against his queerness. But just as many challenges arise from his combative personality and willingness to challenge the establishment. Few Canadian artists have been as abrasive, notorious and polarizing as Fraser was in his youth. Woven through this tale of artistic development is his journey as a queer man coming into himself during the most exhilarating period in the Gay Liberation Movement, and the dawn of a global health crisis. What should have been a triumphant time in a young, successful playwright's life was blighted with the terrifying emergence of AIDS, and the sickness and death of comrades and lovers. This is both the story of an artist's evolution and an important work of gay history that has rarely been recounted from a Canadian perspective. Written with Fraser's trademark wit and candour, All the Rage is unsparing, sometimes shocking and always enthralling."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Fraser, Brad, 1959-; Gay dramatists; Gay liberation movement; Gays; Gays; Dramatists, Canadian (English);
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