Open AccessBook Review: Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens
Author(s) -
Melanie Wachsmann
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n1.70
Subject(s) - queer , reading (process) , consciousness , visibility , meaning (existential) , media studies , visual arts , world wide web , computer science , sociology , psychology , psychoanalysis , art , linguistics , philosophy , physics , neuroscience , optics , psychotherapist
This book should be required reading for anyone working with teens. Cart and Jenkins have compiled a list of LGBTQ-themed books comprising fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and professional resources. Both the fiction and graphic novel sections include codes to indicate whether the book’s themes include “homosexual visibility,” “gay assimilation,” and/or “queer consciousness.” Additional information about the meaning and use of these codes is presented in the appendix.