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Tag Archives: Lambda Literary
“It Gets Better”–the Book
The “It Gets Better” project–a nation-wide video project started in the wake of several gay teen suicides–is now a book entitled, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living. With 100 stories, culled from the over … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, gay, GLBTQ, It gets better, Lambda Literary, suicide
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Lambda Literary Award Finalists
The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards, given for books with high literary merit to self-identified LGBTQ authors writing on LGBTQ issues, can be found here. This years finalists in the Children’s/YA book category are: Christian, the Hugging Lion, by … Continue reading
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Tagged books, GLBTQ, Lambda Literary
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Where are all the gay books?
I can’t watch the “It Gets Better Campaign” videos without getting really emotional. I think because when I was 13 years old, I felt suicidal. I’m not sure how related to being gay this was. I had barely started considering the … Continue reading
