The Sky Blues

Author: Robbie Couch
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534477853
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the entire school in this witty, heartfelt, and ultimately hopeful debut novel for fans of What if it’s Us? and I Wish You All the Best. Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school’s annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom—and he has thirty days to do it. What better way to start living loud and proud than by pulling off the gayest promposal Rock Ledge, Michigan, has ever seen? Then, Sky’s plans are leaked by an anonymous hacker in a deeply homophobic e-blast that quickly goes viral. He’s fully prepared to drop out and skip town altogether—until his classmates give him a reason to fight back by turning his thirty-day promposal countdown into a school-wide hunt to expose the e-blast perpetrator. But what happens at the end of the thirty days? Will Sky get to keep his hard-won visibility? Or will his small-town blues stop him from being his true self?

Sky High Scaffolders A Gay Romance Collection

Author: H J Perry
Publisher: H J Perry
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 803

Book Description
The complete Sky High Scaffolders collection: stories of British working class red hot gay romance in the macho construction world. 5 couples who fall in love. These stories include: * Friends to lovers * Opposites attract * Workplace romance * Secret forbidden romance * First gay love * Coming out * Bisexual men who start dating men for the first time * Low angst and high heat * Steamy feel-good gay romance Book 1 is Our Secret Wedding which contains a romantic proposal, elopement to Gretna Green for a secret wedding, and a whole lot of man-on-man love action. Impulsive and passionate risk-taker Connor makes a life-changing chance discovery about a member of his construction team. The man is gay, but no one at work knows. The macho scaffolding crew isn't known for gay-friendliness. Connor is set to take over the family business, Sky High Scaffolds, with his siblings. But he might be ruled out as possible CEO, because even though he's almost thirty, he's still single. When will he grow up? At twenty-nine years of age, hunky scaffolder Lee is looking for love and commitment. He's not about to hook up with any straight guy having a gay experimental phase—especially not his boss at work. Lee fears rejection if and when Connor wakes up and realizes he's not bisexual and not into guys. Connor fears losing the love of his life if he can't prove he's serious and win Lee's heart. All stories in the series take place at overlapping times.

Holding Up The Sky Together

Author: Ronald Bishop
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761870032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Even as kindness toward individuals with intellectual disabilities has increased, encountering an individual and his or her family whose lives revolve around the daily challenges that come with them is atypical, or is experienced and narrated as such, particularly by the media. Even when there is progress, making such a leap provides rhetorical cover, or at least a distraction, while intolerance regroups. And for some, it becomes less about showing love and compassion than about being able to pat oneself on the back when an interaction with a person like our son Neil is over. But it’s why they don’t know, or are curious but reluctant to engage, or just flat out lack empathy, that compelled us to write this book. Contributing to their misimpressions and misanthropy are portrayals of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the mass media, scant though they are. We should always be skeptical of those in my line of work who argue that the onslaught of information we take in from a widened array of sources can magically change our behavior – the so-called “hypodermic needle” theory of media effects. But these messages do help us craft our realities and develop and share our own narratives about folks with intellectual disabilities. Holding Up the Sky Together is admittedly a hybrid: part memoir, part academic analysis—a professor with more than 30 published articles and four books, all of which revolve around media analysis, looks inward. But our fervent hope is to inject a bit more realism into the national dialogue about intellectual disabilities. We are grateful for increased awareness and tolerance, for Special Olympics, and for shows like Born This Way. But there is so much more to be done.

Flamer

Author: Mike Curato
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250803942
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love. "This book will save lives." —Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of National Book Award Finalist Hey, Kiddo I know I’m not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They’re mean, and scary, and they’re always destroying something or saying something dumb or both. I hate that word. Gay. It makes me feel . . . unsafe. It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes—but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance. Godwin Books

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy

Author: Jude Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317130537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and multi-player online role-play games, novels and short stories, comics, manga and graphic novels, and board games. Engaging directly with an enormously successful popular genre which is often overlooked by literary and cultural criticism, contributors pay close attention to the ways in which the producers of fantasy texts, whether visual, game, cinematic, graphic or literary texts, are able to play with gender and sexuality, to challenge and disrupt received notions and to allow and encourage their audiences to imagine ways of being outside of the constitutive constraints of socialized gender and sexual identity. With rich case studies from the US, Australia, UK, Japan and Europe, all concentrating not on the critique of fantasy texts which duplicate or reinforce existing prejudices about gender and sexuality, but on examining the exploration of or attempt to make possible non-normative gendered and sexual identities, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, with interests in popular culture, fantasy, media studies and gender and sexualities.

Straight Girls and Queer Guys

Author: Christopher Pullen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748694854
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Examines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary media.

Into the Closet

Author: Victoria Flanagan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136777288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s narratives, raising a number of significant issues relating to the ideological construction of masculinity and femininity in books for younger readers. Many literary and cultural critics have studied the cultural significance of adult cross-dressing, yet although cross-dressing representations are plentiful in children’s literature and film, very little critical attention has been paid to this subject to date. Into the Closet fills this critical gap. Cross-dressing demonstrates how gender is symbolically constructed through various items of clothing and apparel. It also has the ability to deconstruct notions of problematizing the relationship between sex and gender. Into the Closet is an important book for academics, teachers, and parents because it demonstrates how cross-dressing, rather than being taboo, is frequently used in children’s literature and film as a strategy to educate (or enculturate) children about gender.

The GayBCs

Author: M. L. Webb
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1683691636
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
A Moms Demand Action Book Club Pick “The perfect way to teach your kiddos LGBTQ+ vocab while celebrating the beauty of embracing yourself and others.”—KIWI Magazine A joyful celebration of LGBTQ+ vocabulary for kids of all ages! A playdate extravaganza transforms into a joyful celebration of friendship, love, and identity as four young friends sashay out of all the closets, dress up in a wardrobe fit for kings and queens, and discover the wonders of their imagination. In The GayBCs, M. L. Webb’s playful illustrations and lively poems delight in the beauty of embracing one’s truest self—from A is for Aro and Ace to F is for Family to T is for Trans. The GayBCs is a heartwarming and accessible gift to show kids and adults alike that every person is worthy of being celebrated. A bonus glossary offers opportunities for further discussion of complete terms, communities, and inclusive identities.

Reality TV and Queer Identities

Author: Michael Lovelock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030142159
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
This book examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two decades of reality programming, from Big Brother to I Am Cait, American Idol to RuPaul’s Drag Race, arguing that the specific conventions of reality TV—its intimacy and emotion, its investments in celebrity and the ideal of authenticity—have inextricably shaped the ways in which queer people have become visible in reality shows. By challenging popular judgements on reality shows as damaging spaces of queer representation, this book argues that reality TV has pioneered a unique form of queer-inclusive broadcasting, where a desire for authenticity, rather than being heterosexual, is the norm. Across all chapters, this book investigates how reality TV’s celebration of ‘compulsory authenticity’ has circulated ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ ways of being queer, demonstrating how possibilities for queer visibility are shaped by broader anxieties and around selfhood, identity and the real in contemporary cultural life.

Pulling Down the Sky

Author: Lodro Zangpo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477172831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Pulling Down the Sky is a journey on roller blades. The Amazing Zephyr takes you on an extreme tour of San Francisco. It is weird romance. A voyage of the spirit. Zephyr’s remarkable trajectory is conjured with a poet’s eye. The wheels trigger his mind. He ventures beyond the compliance training of the herd. He is focused on a new horizon. Now he can see and think and feel for himself.