num_pages: 380
description: Packed to the hilt with living narratives, scholarly research, and problem-solution scenarios, Queer The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth examines the unique challenges faced by today’s homosexual young adults. You’ll learn what modern-day queer kids do to cope, survive, and find understanding in a world riddled with homophobic intolerance. Queer Kids is a lens of clarity that will help the average straight adult--and maybe even the average gay adult--see things from a kid’s point of view. Its detail-oriented, well-wrought chapters will provide you with literally hundreds of stories of young people who are trying to define themselves sexually and emotionally in a society of criss-crossing judgment, stereotyping, anger, and expectation. Aimed at three target groups--counselors, parents, and youth--this book introduces you to a variety of interesting kids, offers you a look at the process of coming out, and helps you grasp the experience of queer identification. Specifically, you’ll read 
language: English
title: Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
titlecomplete: Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
genres: LGBT
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Routledge