OutSpoken: Role Models from the Lesbian and Gay Community

By Michael Thomas Ford

Young people need role models, perhaps none more so than gay and lesbian youths. In this insightful collection of interviews, a doctor, a TV personality, a religious leader, a police officer, a writer, a teacher, and others talk about their lives, their professions, and their place within and beyond the gay community. Their inspiring stories will help gay teens realize that they, too, can be anything they want.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688148964
• ISBN13: 9780688148966
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

The Gay and Lesbian esential read for youth. (Coming out stories of the famous)

This book is chock full of lesser known Gay and Lesbian celebrities (including Dan Brown of "Frasier" amongst others. They give advice for the younger people who are "Coming out" and have questions like, "Am I the only Gay or Lesbian?" and "Is this natural?" Among other advice, they talk about how growing up we are inudated with straightness like "Straight commercials and straight cartoons and straight fairy tales" this is why when you get feelings for the samme sex, it feels wrong, but this book stresses "Be yourself" and "It's okay to be you, to be gay or lesbian."