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The purpose of this page is to provide some reference for any of you younger fellas out there that may be questioning or knowing of your sexuality and are looking for something to read on the subject. This page is not meant to be a smut page, but a page where you can find some real legitament reading on gay issues for guys. All of them can be located at amazon.com, which as a clerk for an indepenent bookseller goes against my better nature to recomment, but I know that sometimes going to your local bookstore to order something "gay" may not be an option for a lot of you all.

Of course the first book listing on my site would be one that involved rodeo. This book by Jean Ferris has gotten high stars and praise, but in my opinion it isn't a very good book for gay and questioning youth.
It's first problem is that Ms. Ferris is a woman and as I told my manager when I read the galley, it sounds like a woman trying to write as a man. I hate it when women try and wrtie as men. They neither have a clear concept of how men feel, think or act, just a man would have no idea what a period feels like. However, yet many women try their hand at it only to fail and in this type of arena Ms. Ferris fails whole heartedly.
The anxiety that the boy feels in the story is minimal and at times I wasn't even sure if the main character in the story was questioning his own sexuality or not. There are scenes that allude to this, but as soon as the come up they are drop immeadetely from the story line and are never really explored. What could have been a really great story fall short of it's goal. The only reason that I even give it a place on the web site is that it is a story where the main character of the story is the one with in which the issue of gay or not centers around where most other Young Adult authors seem afraid to explore this type of character and thus veil there attempts at "tackling" the issues through a friend, brother, father, uncle, etc.

This story by A. M. Jenkins does a good job with the subject. In this story it is the older brother who is gay, and the story focuses around the younger brother and his abiltiy to deal with tentively making new friends and their reactions to his brother.
The brothers in the story are "on their own" as the mother has died a prior to the begining of the story and the dad is gone as well, though that part of the story is not really explored.
What is explored are a lot of good issues dealing with the main characters acceptance of himself. He's a bit of a ruffian and doesn't have any friends, but through strange circumstance happens to make friends with this other boy from school who has his own family problems-stepford style.
This story does a good job with dealing with a gay story that is actually a side-plot without making it feel as such. Also, the reaction of the boys in the story to the sexuality of the brother, is very real. A good read and a recomendation to anyone who may have a gay sibling.

This book is the whole reason that I even created this page. Finally, a author who isn't afraid to tackle the real meat and patatoes of the gay youth. Mr. Sanchez brings it all out, first dates, sex, acceptance through peers, acceptance through parents, HIV, Gay Straight groups, bashers; everthing but Divine herself is thrown into this story. And I applaude him for it. The story centers around three boys in High School. One who is totally out, one who is not out and one who is questioning. What is most engrosing about this story is that it's no fear approach to the attraction that the boys feel and that the characters in the story are "for real". We all know a Nelson in our life. And the characters just aren't gay, but act on it as well. Hurrah for making a story where the characters, don't just know that they are gay or attracted and in love with a same sex person magicly without really exploring it. The physical scenes in this story are just as real as the emotional ones without becoming something smutty.
My only problem with the story was that I felt that almost too much tried to be tackled in one book. I did find the bulemia part of the story to be a little too much. Mainly because I feel that it is a real issue that is in the gay community and something that would need more exploration than this book provided.
Also, although none of the endings are pat, I did find that sometimes I felt like I was reading the fantasies from Mr. Sanchez's youth played out on the pages before me. The "what he hoped would have happened with the jock he had the crush on in High School."
Still the upfrontness of really exploring the issues that we all know gay youth goes though more than makes up for some of the novels contriveties. And again, bravo for having an ending that wasn't a fairy tale. This is defiantely a recomendation that I would give to anyone. A five starer for me.

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The purpose of this page is to provide some reference for any of you younger fellas out there that may be questioning or knowing of your sexuality and are looking for something to read on the subject. This page is not meant to be a smut page, but a page where you can find some real legitament reading on gay issues for guys. All of them can be located at amazon.com, which as a clerk for an indepenent bookseller goes against my better nature to recomment, but I know that sometimes going to your local bookstore to order something "gay" may not be an option for a lot of you all.

	Of course the first book listing on my site would be one that involved rodeo. This book by Jean Ferris has gotten high stars and praise, but in my opinion it isn't a very good book for gay and questioning youth. It's first problem is that Ms. Ferris is a woman and as I told my manager when I read the galley, it sounds like a woman trying to write as a man. I hate it when women try and wrtie as men. They neither have a clear concept of how men feel, think or act, just a man would have no idea what a period feels like. However, yet many women try their hand at it only to fail and in this type of arena Ms. Ferris fails whole heartedly. The anxiety that the boy feels in the story is minimal and at times I wasn't even sure if the main character in the story was questioning his own sexuality or not. There are scenes that allude to this, but as soon as the come up they are drop immeadetely from the story line and are never really explored. What could have been a really great story fall short of it's goal. The only reason that I even give it a place on the web site is that it is a story where the main character of the story is the one with in which the issue of gay or not centers around where most other Young Adult authors seem afraid to explore this type of character and thus veil there attempts at "tackling" the issues through a friend, brother, father, uncle, etc.

	This story by A. M. Jenkins does a good job with the subject. In this story it is the older brother who is gay, and the story focuses around the younger brother and his abiltiy to deal with tentively making new friends and their reactions to his brother. The brothers in the story are "on their own" as the mother has died a prior to the begining of the story and the dad is gone as well, though that part of the story is not really explored. What is explored are a lot of good issues dealing with the main characters acceptance of himself. He's a bit of a ruffian and doesn't have any friends, but through strange circumstance happens to make friends with this other boy from school who has his own family problems-stepford style. This story does a good job with dealing with a gay story that is actually a side-plot without making it feel as such. Also, the reaction of the boys in the story to the sexuality of the brother, is very real. A good read and a recomendation to anyone who may have a gay sibling.

	This book is the whole reason that I even created this page. Finally, a author who isn't afraid to tackle the real meat and patatoes of the gay youth. Mr. Sanchez brings it all out, first dates, sex, acceptance through peers, acceptance through parents, HIV, Gay Straight groups, bashers; everthing but Divine herself is thrown into this story. And I applaude him for it. The story centers around three boys in High School. One who is totally out, one who is not out and one who is questioning. What is most engrosing about this story is that it's no fear approach to the attraction that the boys feel and that the characters in the story are "for real". We all know a Nelson in our life. And the characters just aren't gay, but act on it as well. Hurrah for making a story where the characters, don't just know that they are gay or attracted and in love with a same sex person magicly without really exploring it. The physical scenes in this story are just as real as the emotional ones without becoming something smutty. My only problem with the story was that I felt that almost too much tried to be tackled in one book. I did find the bulemia part of the story to be a little too much. Mainly because I feel that it is a real issue that is in the gay community and something that would need more exploration than this book provided. Also, although none of the endings are pat, I did find that sometimes I felt like I was reading the fantasies from Mr. Sanchez's youth played out on the pages before me. The "what he hoped would have happened with the jock he had the crush on in High School." Still the upfrontness of really exploring the issues that we all know gay youth goes though more than makes up for some of the novels contriveties. And again, bravo for having an ending that wasn't a fairy tale. This is defiantely a recomendation that I would give to anyone. A five starer for me.