Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the '90s - Brossura

Due, Linnea

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385475004 ISBN 13: 9780385475006

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

Riassunto

Combining interviews and sociological analysis, the author constructs a portrait of gay and lesbian teenagers in America as embattled people who courageously face the abuse of their peers and their own isolation. Original.

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L'autore:

Linnea Due, born in Northern California, is both a writer and editor of fiction, nonfiction, articles, and short fiction pieces. Formerly the senior editor at East Bay Express, she is now the editor of Terrain magazine. Her novel High and Outside won an American Library Best Book award. Additionally, her popular nonfiction work Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the '90s was awarded the same honor.

Product Description:

As our country struggles to accept its gay and lesbian citizens, the debate for gay civil rights often focuses on the issue of choice, with the majority of Americans believing that to be gay is a choice, one that's embraced for its lifestyle. This belief ignores the presence and experience of one segment of the gay and lesbian population: its youth. In "Joining The Tribe," journalist Linnea Due travels America to create a portrait of gay and lesbian teenagers as an endangered and vulnerable community whose diversity, courage, and resiliency will inspire gay and straight readers alike. By vividly documenting the lives of gay and lesbian teenagers, Due shows that homosexuality is not about choice. It's about fights in the schoolyard, whispers in the locker room, cruel classmates, and oblivious or abusive parents. Most gay and lesbian youth endure severe humiliation and isolation for being gay, resulting in depression and low self-esteem for most, and suicide for some. Combining in-depth interviews with social analysis, Due reveals the realities gay and lesbian teenagers face, often without the support of family, peer groups, or adult gay and lesbian networks. With stories from across America, Due meets kids from a range of backgrounds and families, with some in the closet, some out, most somewhere-in-between, all struggling to grow into adulthood. By turns heartbreaking and infuriating, "Joining The Tribe" shows how against overwhelming odds, gay and lesbian teenagers continue to survive and bounce back, ready to join their brothers and sisters in gay America's fight for freedom and respect.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385475004
• ISBN 13: 9780385475006
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320