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Direct linkWalling, Donovan R. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2003
Writers across time have valued the use of fiction as a means of truth-telling. Fiction that portrays sexual minorities can lay claim to a place in the school curriculum for many of the same reasons that people include Shakespeare or Twain: they speak to the human experience in all its variety. But for those same reasons, fiction that speaks to…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Novels, Story Telling, Adolescent Literature
