Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America. Ed. Mitchell Gold with Mindy Drucker. 2008. 369p. Greenleaf Book Group Press, $23.95. (978-1-929774-10-4). Gr. 11-12:
Coming-out stories from 40 Americans—many of them activists and politicians—show that attitude, not homosexuality, is not the problem in our society. The message is invaluable: no matter how much religion condemns homosexuality, gays can live a happy, productive, and if they wish, religious life. Reading this book can help young people survive the pernicious approach taken by some religions as they destroy kids’ self-esteem.–Nel Ward