Literature: Gay Youth
A Death on the Wolf - G. M. Frazier - (2011)
"The summer I turned sixteen I shot a man." With that simple declaration, Nelson Gody begins his story of the summer of 1969 and the events that would change his life forever.
At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neil - (2001)
Set against the backdrop of Dublin in 1915, two young boys meet at the local swimming hole.
The Beginning of Calamities - Tom House - (2003)
Set in a blue-collar Long Island suburb in the 1970's. It is an elegantly written, moving story of the awkwardness and agony of childhood.
Blue Lawn - William Taylor - (1999)
A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate.
Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan - (2003)
When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for.
The Boys on the Rock - John Fox - (1984)
A classic coming of age novel about a teenager coming to terms with his sexuality in the political and cultural milieu of the 1960s.
Carnivorous Lamb - Agustin Gomez-Arcos - (1975)
Dramatizes life in Franco's Spain through the experiences of a family, Carlos, Matilde, and their sons Antonio and Ignacio, who become lovers.
The Custard Boys - John Rae - (1960)
The Custard Boys is a 1961 British novel focusing on the lives of children in a small village in World War II Norfolk dealing with an influx of war refugees.
Dream Boy - Jim Grimsley - (1995)
Two adolescent boys fall in love, painfully acknowledging their homosexuality and, at the same time, trying to sustain each other as their families fall apart around them.
Embrace - Mark Behr - (2000)
The story of the awakening of Karl De Man, a thirteen-year-old student at the Berg.
Fire From Heaven - Mary Renault - (1969)
A novel of Alexander the Great...his beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth.
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys - Forrest Reid - Full Read - (1906)
A novel that beautifully explores the themes of childhood innocence, friendship, and the passage of time. Set in the lush gardens of a quaint English countryside, the story revolves around two boys.
Glove Puppet - Neal Drinnan - (1998)
Vaslav is a boy with a sordid past and tenuous future. Born Johnny to a drug-addicted prostitute.
Gone From Daylight - Comicality - (2003)
Vampire story involving two boys who fall in love, and choose to spend eternity together.
It's Only Me from Across the Sea
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Lord, dismiss us - Michael Campbell - (1967)
The headmaster of an English public school makes life difficult for his students when he embarks on a crusade to improve their morality.
The Music of Your Life - John Rowell - (2003)
The chilling story of the abduction of two teenagers, their escape, and the dark secrets that, years later, bring them back to the scene of the crime.
The Other Sleep - Julian Green - (1931)
Standing on the parapet of a bridge, in the heart of Paris, a little boy is terrified; his cousin Claude is holding him by the ankles above the murky waters of the Seine.
Pixiesticks - Jonathan Sexton - (2002)
Explore the complicated twists and turns of a unique boy who in the end not only learns the values of friendship, but also what happens when love attempts to transcend laws.
Recent History - Anthony Giardina - (1968)
In 1962, twelve-year-old Luca Carcera’s father suddenly moves out of the house under mysterious circumstances and surfaces across town in a run-down rooming house, living with another man.
Secret Friendships - Roger Peyrefitte - (1943)
Story of friendship of two boys in a Catholic school in the 1930's.
The Secret Life Of Billy Chase - Comicality - (2012)
Billy Chase is starting high school, and just trying to figure his way through the many trials and difficulties that come with being a teenager in the closet.
The Year of Ice - Brian Malloy - (2002)
It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and--unbeknownst to anyone else--a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude.