Summary: An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen year old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life changing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOVSummary: "17-year-old Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid and works with her family in a street market. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. She gets engaged to Rafa. But one day she meets 16-year-old Lola, an uncommon gypsy girl who dreams...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARSummary: The infectiously fun and totally queer Aussie TV series from Lee Galea (Monster Pies) follows the tumultuous romantic love life of cute-as-a-button twink Adam as he is surrounded by helpful friends and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SINSummary: Season 2 of this thoroughly enjoyable TV series by Lee Galea ("Monter Pies") follows the tumultuous romantic life of Adam and his group of friends, lovers and elusive love interests. Season 2's storyline has Adam's relationship with Gabe progressing to the next level-but has he left something unresolved from the past? Adam explores his photography as it takes him into the world of adulthood and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SINSummary: Moroccan-Dutch Karim tells his parents that he is attracted to men. After years of keeping up appearances, the word is finally out. The difficult days that follow evoke beautiful and poignant memories. He realizes that he has to confront his family to finally break the silence. But to be accepted, he must come to terms with his feelings first.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBArlow, Jake Maia
Summary: "Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. With Dalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARLHarris, Duchess
Summary: "Growing Up LGBTQ explores what life is like for adolescents in the LGBTQ community, including topics like coming out, bullying and discrimination in school, and mental health. It also examines the creation of community and found family for LGBTQ people. Features include a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 306.76 HARHuegel, Kelly
Summary: Huegel Madrone provides realistic advice for teens who are LGBTQ, questioning whether they might be, or are just interested in knowing more about LGBTQ history and rights. Also included are practical suggestions on dealing with homophobia; dating; creating a more accepting school environment; and reconciling your sexual/gender identity with cultural and religious beliefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.7 HUEKamatani, Yuhki
Summary: "Tasuku is starting to feel at home at the drop-in center--just in time for him to help a younger student who also hangs out there. Misora Shuji likes to wear girls' clothing but is unsure about their gender identity. Will Tasuku's guidance offer Shuji some clarity or just make things harder?"--Provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2019