Preface: Remembering the Vriend Decision
Part I: Steeling Life in the Face of Adversity
InterText I - Mara: Learning to Own Gay
InterText II - Vincent: I'm Passing
1. Making It Better NOW for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
InterText III - Sean: I'm a Man, Yes I Am
2. Gender Beautiful: Living in the Fullness of One's Affirmed Gender Identity and True Gender Self
InterText IV - Larissa: My Heritage is a Big Thing
3. Camp fYrefly: fostering, Youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah!
InterText V - Mark: Being the Boy I Am
InterText VI - Paul: Bringing People Out of Silence
4. Making and Implementing Policies to Protect Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Schooling and Healthcare
Part II: From At Risk to At Promise
(Chapters with Kristopher Wells)
InterText VII - John: Learning to Own Gay
5. The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education
InterText VIII - Sam: It's Like Piranhas, Man
6. Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High-School Students
InterText IX - Jon: Born to Be, Deserving to be Happy in My Own Skin
7. The Mental and Sexual Health Nexus in the Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
InterText X - David: Stealth, But Living Trans Fulltime
8. Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation of Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Canadian Schools
Appendix: Growing into Resilience: An Emergent Research Typology of a Dynamic Process from the 1980s into the Present Moment
