As expected, the definition was far from comforting. Nancy Garden begins the book by describing her experience as a 16-year-old in the early 1950s, when she turned to Collier’s Encyclopedia to look up the word homosexuality. Hear Us Out! also includes essays to illustrate and explain what was happening at each moment in history. Hear Us Out! Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present by Nancy Garden (Farrar, Straus Giroux)įrom the author of the classic young adult novel Annie on My Mind comes this collection of stories thatdepict life for gay and lesbian teenagers over the last six decades. The following collections, however, are filled with complex stories that are moving, engaging and absolutely transporting: Hear Us Out! Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present by Nancy Garden The Best Short Stories of Lesléa Newman by Lesléa Newman Come to Me by Amy Bloom. I read to be transported to a different world, and I find that escape is often easier with a novel. For some reason I have always struggled with short stories.
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