Query: LGBT non-fiction novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Maurice (novel)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Spinning (comics)
Honor Girl
Saving Alex
Evidence from documents: Maurice (novel): LGBT non-fiction novels: '''''Maurice''''' is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond.
non-fiction: Forster was an admirer of the poet, philosopher, socialist and early gay activist Edward Carpenter, and following a visit to Carpenter's home at Millthorpe, Derbyshire in 1913, was inspired to write ''Maurice''. The cross-class relationship between Carpenter and his working-class partner, George Merrill, presented a real-life model for that of Maurice and Alec Scudder.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post: '''''The Miseducation of Cameron Post''''' is a coming-of-age teen novel by Emily M. Danforth published in 2012. The novel's protagonist is Cameron Post, a 12-year-old Montana girl who is discovering her own homosexuality. After her parents die in a car crash, she lives with her conservative aunt and her grandmother. When the romantic relationship she develops with her best friend is discovered she is sent to a conversion camp.
Spinning (comics): non-fiction novels: The memoir chronicles Walden's years coming-of-age as a competitive figure skater, as she navigates romance, bullying and various traumas.
LGBT: Having known she was gay since she was five, Walden also struggles with the alienation and pressure she faces as she embarks on her first romance with another girl.
Honor Girl: non-fiction novels: '''''Honor Girl''''' is a graphic novel memoir written and illustrated by Maggie Thrash.
LGBT: ''Honor Girl'' is the story of writer's Maggie Thrash's first crush at an all-girls summer camp in Kentucky in 2000.
Saving Alex: '''''Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began''''' is a 2016 memoir by Alex Cooper with Joanna Brooks.
Alex Cooper, a Mormon 16-year old, came out as a lesbian to her parents where she is in love with a girl named Yvette. They throw her out of the house. After Alex stayed with a sympathetic neighbor for a while, she was then taken by her parents to a conversion therapy program in Utah run by Johnny and Tiana Siale (who are good friends with Alex's grandparents whom Alex's parents stated that she was going to be staying with) where she was held for eight months against her will.