"""A Library is a Place You Can Lose Your Innocence Without Losing Your Virginity"": LGBTQAI+ Young Adults, Young Adult Literature, & Sexuality Health Information Needs"
Escobar, Kristie
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Title
"""A Library is a Place You Can Lose Your Innocence Without Losing Your Virginity"": LGBTQAI+ Young Adults, Young Adult Literature, & Sexuality Health Information Needs"
Author(s)
Escobar, Kristie
Issue Date
2020-10-13
Keyword(s)
LGBTQ
Young adults
Reading
Literature
Equity
Intersectionality
Sexuality health
Abstract
Although sexual education programs are staples in the middle and high school curricula,
many of these courses are abstinence-based which do not serve the needs of the teen
demographic, let alone those who are LGBTQAI+. LGBTQAI+-focused literature can help fill
the gaps in sexuality/sexual health information not addressed in public school curricula. Content
analysis, both quantitative and qualitative divulges sexuality and sexual health issues examined
in LGBTQAI+ marketed young adult literature. Individual interviews of LGTQAI+ young
adults add insight into whether the positive and negative aspects of the young adult literature,
discovered through content analysis, affect them in their enjoyment of or willingness to read the
book, whether the issues in the book are authentic and pertinent to their everyday life, and if the
books fulfill an information need they have about sexuality or sexual health. The mixed methods
complement each other as the content analysis explores what is contained in the texts while the
interviews with LGBTQAI+ teens will determine the significance of those findings.
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