Queerspawn Speak Out: A Review of Let's Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth With LGBTQ Parents

Abstract

Let's Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth With LGBTQ Parents provides an engaging and accessible set of tools for youth from LGBTQ-headed families. The stories and resources shared encourage these youth to take pride in their families, value their diverse experiences, and work against homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of injustice. This review points out the variety of ways the book speaks back to silences that traditionally operate within and around youth with LGBTQ parents.

KEYWORDS:

• Activism
• book review
• challenging homophobia
• COLAGE
• family diversity
• LGBTQ families
• intersectional identities
• support
• youth with LGBTQ parents

Notes

1. COLAGE is a national movement of children, youth, and adults with one or more LGBTQ parent. See http://www.colage.org for more information on this organization.

2. For example, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFbJXEVRJH8.