[aisle] [External] teaching LGBTQ+ texts in conservative school

[Rademacher, Kristen]

I am a high school librarian at a Chicago southside Catholic high school. These are fiction and non fic texts that our students use regularly and even teachers use in class:
Fiction:

  *   Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
  *   You Should See Me in a Crown buy Lean Johnson
  *   Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertelli
  *   What If Its Us by Becky Albertelli
  *   If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
  *   Juliet Takes a Breath by Gaby Rivera
  *   Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazimian
  *   Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorman
  *   We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
  *   October Mourning by Leslea Newman
  *   The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
  *   Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan


Nonfiction:

  *   Building a bridge : how the Catholic Church and the LGBT community can enter into a relationship of respect, compassion, and sensitivity by James Martin
  *   Beyond Magenta by
  *   Trans Generation by Ann Travers
  *   LGBTQ + Athletes Claim the Field by Kristin Cronn-Mills
  *   Queer by Kathy Belge
  *   Marriage Equality by Jason Porterfield
  *   Stonewall by Ann Bausum
  *   Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington
  *   It Gets Better by Dan Savage

This list could get mush longer if I had more time to fill it out. But that should arm you with some great titles that kids in a Catholic school truly use, love and share. The book Building a Bridge is used in all our Junior Social Justice classes as curriculum.

Kristen Rademacher
Librarian
1 Book 1 Marist Director
Marist High School<http://www.marist.net/academics/arclibrary/>
773.881.5356
@1Book1Marist
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Hi,

I have a meeting in an hour with a teacher who has asked for advice in LGBTQ+ themed texts in our Catholic school.

Do you have advice? And please don't be preachy or judgey- I know that some of our dear students identify within the LGBTQ+ community. I'd like to ask specifically to those who can relate and have experience. Your advice is appreciated.



Thank you!!

Lori

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Lori McGreal
Trinity High School librarian
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