Are you a GLBTQ teen looking to read about other teens like yourself? The following books are a great place to start, and all are available locally at Obelisk Bookstore, in Hillcrest.

In this frank, sensitive book, Kelly Huegel offers practical advice, knowing encouragement, accessible resources and first-person comments from GLBTQ teens. Topics include coming out, facing prejudice and pressure, getting support, staying safe and healthy, surviving and thriving in high school, and more.

In this newly revised edition, Eric Marcus provides insightful, no-nonsense answers to hundreds of the most commonly asked questions about homosexuality. Offering frank insight on everything you’ve always wanted-and needed-to know about same-gender relationships, coming out, family roles, politics and much more.

From California to Vermont, countless college students are grappling not only with grades, jobs and student loans but also with their very identity. For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students, college can be a disorienting and lonely experience. In spite of tremendous progress over the past 20 years, the presence of GLBT clubs, and queer studies curricula, an overwhelmingly large number of them not only feel isolated, but also are too afraid to do anything about it. In Out & About Campus, the first book of its kind, the courageous voices of 28 remarkable individuals shatter this unbearable silence to provide comfort, inspiration, insight and hope.

Brent Hartinger’s debut novel is a fast-paced, funny and trenchant portrait of contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual geography in their latest school club, but who learn plenty about the treacherous social terrain of a typical American high school and the even more dangerous landscape of the human heart.

Skye wants what all teenagers want – to survive high school. As if this weren’t difficult enough, Skye falls in love with Jessica, a troubled gothic punk girl who cuts herself regularly with sharp objects. When she finds her boyfriend having sex with Jessica in a bathroom stall at a rave, her romantic illusions collapse and she has to face the fact that she’s been running away from her mother’s mental illness.