Adolescence is generally a difficult time, but when the young person is gay or lesbian, it is even more challenging. Family members reject them, classmates tease and the teenager is left lonely, insecure and confused.

Class Queers focuses on three young people who have come out and acknowledged their homosexuality. Adina, 16, is a rabbi’s daughter. Her father has difficulty accepting that his daughter is a lesbian and has asked her not to attend services in the synagogue.

Adam is 17 and so lonely that he makes reckless dates with strangers on the internet. He has been ridiculed by his friends and even his teacher for his effeminate ways and the school issued a formal apology. The family has decided he should change schools.

Richard, also 17, is leaving school and taken a job in a hairdressing salon. He is moving out of his home where he lives with an unsympathetic mother and stepfather and plans to move in with his older boyfriend, We watch him nervously introduce his friend to his belligerent parents. With the consent of the school board, teens like these are given a refuge in a church with a special counseling program. Here they feel accepted and can share their problems. One constructive step they have taken is to organize a city wide high school prom, restricted only to gays and lesbians. They dance and celebrate as enthusiastically as high school students everywhere.

"Highly Recommended...succeed in documenting the reality of coming out in today's society. They provide us with insight into the struggle of coming to grips with 'who am I,' overcoming the pain and moving forward in life with a mre positive self-identity." Warren Hawkes, Library, NY Nurses Association for Educational Media Reviews Online