The Poles Did Not Invent Pole Dancing - FFA Post #304
(it was the Canadians)
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And of course I posted that just before I noticed you said TV or movies! Sorry!
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Also YA, and delightfully goofy, is Steve Kluger's My Most Excellent Year. It's sort of an epistolary novel about a group of friends in high school, one of whom is an athlete and musical theater fan who comes out and starts dating one of his teammates. It's much less serious and more gentle romcom than a lot of coming of age novels, and the book as a whole is more about different kinds of love and acceptance than a serious coming of age story.
I like both Kluger's and Levithan because the tend to include a diverse cast of characters without necessarily writing A Story About Diversity.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (m/m)
Sister Mischief by Laura Goode (f/f)
Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff (unspecified)
Genre fiction recs that fit:
The Shattering by Karen Healey (one narrator of the three is a lesbian teen; no romance, is p focused on plot)
Hero by Perry Moore (m/m)
Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman (m/m)
I really like Malindo Lo's Ash (f/f, Cinderella retelling) and Alex London's Proxy (one narrator of the two is a gay teen; no romance, dystopia) as well, but they're not quite 'gay coming of age', more focused on plot/the story. But if they sound like your thing, you can go ahead check them out. :D
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I don't know if you meant gay to encompass lesbians as well, but if you did, I also liked Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters.
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For more recent fiction... well, I read a lot of gay coming-of-age YA novels when I was a teenager, because it was, er, relevant to what I was going through at the time, but take these recs with a grain of salt because I haven't read any of these books in years.
I remember liking Geography Club by Brent Hartinger, but then a few years later I tried to read one of the sequels and couldn't get into it at all. ... Probably anyone who was remotely interested in gay coming-of-age novels in the earlyish 2000s has already read it anyway.
I also liked Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, but although coming to terms with his sexuality is ( ... )
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Off this list I've read 18, 15, 7, & 1, but they all pretty much fit
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https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2509429/1/Out-of-Orbit
It's about feeling trapped in a tiny Middle America town and eventually escaping. The plot and the love story really aren't all that, but the sense of place and the wonderful narrative voice makes up for it. Nate is one of my favorite teenage protagonists ever; he could be really obnoxious, but it's a lot more out of innocent carelessness than real malice. You end up wanting to hug him.
(Disregard the fictionpress summary, which is inexplicably terrible and doesn't describe the story at all.)
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