Joining the Tribe Growing up Gay and Lesbian in The '90s

Name: Joining the Tribe Growing up Gay and Lesbian in The '90s
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ISBN: 9780385475006

ISBN-10: 0385475004

ISBN-13: 9780385475006

Edition: 1995

Authors: Linnea Due

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction: Damaged Goods Or Recruitable Innocents?


The Boys of Portland: A Tale of Three Cities (And One More)


High School Confidential: Double Trouble Times Four


A Lesbian at a Women's College


Of Bars, Sodomy, and Demon Doctors: Just Another Day in Cajun Country


Queer High and the House of Bazaar


Fear, Fame, and Fulfillment: From the Talk Shows to the Pulpit


Postscript: The Nature of Difference