Telling Tales Out of School

Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals Revisit Their School Days

Plot

In more than 30 essays, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals look back at their school days to find that they are still trying to unlearn a basic lesson imparted by the educational system to homosexuals: "Hate yourself".

Contants:
Occasional angels / Sally Miller Gearhart
The gay kids and the Johns Committee : 1956 / Merrill Mushroom
From farm to fulfillment / Grant F. Peterson
Miss O'Grady! Old Shep! Where are you now? / Patricia P. Chv̀ez
Gay students graduate, but our memories don't / John R. Selig
My sex education / John Di Carlo
Half-breed / Kevin Jennings
Coons and corpses : a lesson unlearned / Ed Brock
From Batman and Robin to same-sex marriage : a tale of two generations / Loraine Hutchins
Sarah W. / Jaron Kanegson
Preacher man / Michael Koz
Singin' the high school sissy blues / Larry Duplechan
Something brief / Ken Rus Schmoll
Barbie doll dropout / Donna E. Arzt
Esto Vir / Matt Rottnek
Reading, writing, and ridicule / Kerry Lindemann-Schaefer
Waiting for spring / Marcelo F. Pinto
Boys in the band / Jon Barrett
Some vignettes in awkwardness : the puberty years / Kathryn Hamm
Draining the gender status quo / Warren J. Blumenfeld
Bad influences / Carter Wilson
Miss Ellingson / Susan Gorrell
Sixth grade / Peter Dell
Walking past the playing fields : my sexual landscape before puberty / Randy Clark
Toughskins / Michael Mitchell
Down the hall from my mother's English classroom / Janet Stambolian
If I could / Jane Ellen Miles
Clutch as clutch can / Gillian Hanscombe
An April shower : "tracking" a path of self-discovery through poetry and prose / Townsand Price-Spratlen
The incomplete reunion / Spike Katz
Standing up for Mr. Peters / David Garnes
Home / Michael Floeck
Confrontation / Robert Brown
The diary of "Anne Moore" : why I was a prepubescent punching bag / Michele Spring-Moore
Hearing voices / David Ortmann
Ready to try / Scott A. Giordano
Unexpected allies in Alabama / Randy Fair