Growing Into Resilience

AndrÉ P. Grace is Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Studies and a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta.Kristopher Wells is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the Director of Programs and Services, Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services, University of Alberta.

• Preface: Remembering the Vriend DecisionPart I: Steeling Life in the Face of AdversityInterText I – Mara: Learning to Own GayInterText II – Vincent: I’m Passing1. Making It Better NOW for Sexual and Gender Minority YouthInterText III – Sean: I’m a Man, Yes I Am2. Gender Beautiful: Living in the Fullness of One’s Affirmed Gender Identity and True Gender SelfInterText IV – Larissa: My Heritage is a Big Thing3. Camp fYrefly: fostering, Youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah!InterText V – Mark: Being the Boy I AmInterText VI – Paul: Bringing People Out of Silence4. Making and Implementing Policies to Protect Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Schooling and HealthcarePart II: From At Risk to At Promise(Chapters with Kristopher Wells)InterText VII – John: Learning to Own Gay5. The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public EducationInterText VIII – Sam: It’s Like Piranhas, Man6. Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High-School StudentsInterText IX – Jon: Born to Be, Deserving to be Happy in My Own Skin7. The Mental and Sexual Health Nexus in the Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority YouthInterText X – David: Stealth, But Living Trans Fulltime8. Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation of Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Canadian SchoolsAppendix: Growing into Resilience: An Emergent Research Typology of a Dynamic Process from the 1980s into the Present Moment