OMGQueer
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Publication Year
2012
ISBN
9781602826823
Pages
227 pages
Genre
realism
Format
short stories
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
This anthology of short stories gives voice to the rising generation as they define what it means to grow up queer in the twenty-first century. What is it like to grow up in a society that embraces you in certain ways but discriminates against you in others? How do you choose a label from the alphabet soup, and should you even have to? By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, comical and caustic, these stories, imagined and told by youth across America, provide a snapshot of queerness at the dawn of the new millennium.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Gay/Lesbian; Bisexuality; Transgender; Androgyny; gay teenager; lesbian teenager; bisexual teenager; transgender teenager; gender fluid
Main Character
boys and girls
Race/Ethnicities
not identified
Family Formation
multiple
LGBTQ+
male/male; female/female
Awards
Moonbeam Children's Book Award, 2013, Bronze, Young Adult Fiction (Mature Issues)
Rainbow List, 2013 Middle Early Young Adult Nonfiction
Keywords
stories of queer youth; growing up queer; anthology
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
., Radclyffe and Lynch, Katherine E., "OMGQueer" (2012). Diverse Families. 1363.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1363