{"id":1121,"date":"2012-07-15T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:42:09","slug":"youth-in-crisis-what-everyone-should-know-about-growing-up-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/youth-in-crisis-what-everyone-should-know-about-growing-up-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth in Crisis: What Everyone Should Know About Growing Up Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1119\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"Cover of Youth in Crisis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture16.png\" width=\"120\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/711052337\">Youth in Crisis: What Everyone Should Know About Growing Up Gay.\u00a0Ed. by Mitchell Gold with Mindy Drucker.\u00a0Magnus Books, 2011. Paperback. 369p. $17.95. 978-1936833139.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This paperback edition of the 2008 book entitled Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America (Greenleaf Book Group Press) presents the personal accounts of forty young gay Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Organized into seven parts, the stories cover religious discrimination, family and community rejection, school and social discrimination, bigotry in the workplace, and losing a child.<\/p>\n<p>The final parts cover the sin question and the silent epidemic of depression, isolation, and fear suffered by gay youth.<\/p>\n<p>The editors include two lists of resources\u2014organizations to call, organizations not to call\u2014and a discussion of reparative therapy.\u00a0 Each of the stories begins with an introduction and overview from the editor describing the essay\u2019s author and explaining how their experience helps in the understanding of the issues faced by others in similar situations.<\/p>\n<p>Although this book is a reissue of the 2008 hardcover and thus might be considered dated, the topics and narratives will hit home with many readers and\u00a0 raise sensitivity and awareness of the silent pain others endure.<\/p>\n<p>This book belongs in public and academic libraries as well as other collections where people can benefit from learning about issues faced by others who are gay or questioning their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: s.n.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth in Crisis: What Everyone Should Know About Growing Up Gay.\u00a0Ed. by Mitchell Gold with Mindy Drucker.\u00a0Magnus Books, 2011. Paperback. 369p. $17.95. 978-1936833139. This paperback edition of the 2008 book entitled Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America (Greenleaf Book Group Press) presents the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}