While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.

Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.

Follows three gay high school seniors as they struggle with
issues of coming out, safe sex, homophobia, being in love, and
college choices.

Thirteen-year-old Xio, a Mexican American girl, and Frederick, who has just moved to California from Wisconsin, quickly become close friends, but when Xio starts thinking of Frederick as her
boyfriend, he must confront his feelings of confusion and face the fear that he might be gay.

The girls in David’s small New Zealand town have him in their radar. At 15, he’s handsome, smart, and really nice. But it’s the new guy, Theo, who gets David’s attention in this forthright story about same-sex attraction.

As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing. A story of first loves. (Gina Macaluso)

In graphic art format, describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show "Real World," one of whom died of AIDS.

John thinks he’s immune to emotional attachment until he meets bright, brittle Marisol. But Marisol is gay and just wants to be friends. Funny, reflective, and poignant.ship involves three simple concepts: “Stay Present,” “Be Honest,” and “Act Out of Love, Not Fear.” (Gina Macaluso)

A lyrical novel about a boy's coming to terms with his mother's homosexuality.

Named after Emmylou Harris because her mother used to "do it" to the Profile album, the protagonist doesn’t know who her father might be, and feels like a nobody in her Hawaiian town: "I'm not smart enough to be a nerd. I'm not stink enough to be a turd. I fall somewhere right below the band geeks and right above the zeroes." A mixture of splendid and musical Hawaiian Creole English. This is a page turner novel that explores sexuality, racism, and the troubled waters of establishing one's own identity.