![]() ![]() Bill Konigsberg, quote from Openly Straight. You start from nothing and learn as you go. To read more about this book, or to buy a copy, click the handy-dandy Amazon link below. You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn’t feel good. It is not graphic, necessarily, but there are some male-male romantic scenes, so if you’re squicky about that, be warned. ![]() It is an interesting book, chock full of what my kids call “the feels,” and it makes you think about our assumptions about people and labels, and whether we should turn a blind eye to our differences or celebrate them out in the open. Its a story of salvation. He likes this feeling of inclusion so much that Praise for OPENLY STRAIGHT 'Konigsbergs lovely novel invites us to walk with Rafe through his season of assumed identity and his costly emergence into honesty. He convinces his parents to send him to a boarding school in New England where he can start fresh and no one has to know him as anything in particular.Īt his new school, he simply doesn’t talk about his sexuality, and people make assumptions that this good looking kid who can play soccer well and immediately fits in with the popular crowd is straight. He’s athletic and reasonably smart, and just wants to be one of the guys. He doesn’t get much flak from his schoolmates for it, but he is known as “the gay kid” and this has repercussions socially. ![]() In Openly Straight, a young adult book by Bill Konigsberg, Rafe, a Colorado teen, has been out of the closet since eighth grade. ![]()
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