The Gay Kids: A Novel by Andrew Heath
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Overview: How Does a Gay Teenager Reconcile His Faith in God?
Preston was a high school student who had everything. He was a star athlete, a good student, and popular with the other kids in his rural, highly conservative school. But there was just one problem. Preston was one of the gay kids. Even though he tried his best to hide it, gay kids these days are often forced out of the closet long before they’re ready, and the drama goes on.
Preston just wanted to enjoy life – perhaps the best years of his life – without worrying about gay love, gay rights, or bullying in schools. Yet Preston’s homosexuality forces him to respond to each of these issues.
Genre: YA General Fiction (MM)
Preston’s Problems
Preston’s problems begin when he falls in love with a high school buddy who is also gay. Eventually the whole student body finds out, and the Christians in the school are furious. To add to these problems, the former high school football star, a straight senior name Jake, seeks revenge on Preston for taking his place as the captain of the football team.
With all of Preston’s problems, he is finally forced to think about gay people and their rights. Life forces him to choose between being true to himself and living the lie that he is straight. Fate forces Preston to choose between love for his friend and possibly saving his own life. Yet Preston is powerless to stop the bullying that the boy he has a crush on is getting at school at the hands of sadistic students that hate gay people and especially hate gay love.
Preston’s Compassion
Even as Preston deals with his own problems, his friend Jenny, who is also the girlfriend of the football star that seeks to crush Preston, must deal with an abusive straight relationship. This former football star Jake makes fun of her weight, the way she behaves, and even brings school bullying into their straight, romantic relationship. Preston believes it is his job to save her from a fate from this abusive boyfriend, as well.
Gay Kids Have Problems Too
Probably more than most people. And Preston’s most challenging problem of all is that he has a strong faith in God and the church, but his own homosexuality torments him and leaves him thinking that God must surely hate him.
How will Preston resolve his love for Eric? How will he show the students that bullying him and the lover of his teenage years is not the answer? How will Preston prove that others must judge him for who he is, not his sexuality? How will he put down the former football star’s attempts to destroy him? And how will he stop the crazy people that long to kill his lover – and him – before they succeed in doing so?
Bullying Stories
The Gay Kids is more than just another bullying story. It’s a story of love, courage, and the internal quest to understand what love and religion have to do with each other? Even as Preston struggles with his many problems, he and several other characters in the story fight to understand what it was that Jesus really wanted 2,000 years ago?
Would Jesus be okay with homosexuality and gay love if he were standing before us now? Would he condemn Preston and Eric as their classmates do? Would Jesus feel compassion for gay rights and same sex marriage at a time when the state of Tennessee was fighting its own battles to put an amendment on its Constitution to ban same sex marriage? Would he laugh and mock the gay kids as their classmates did?
What is Jesus’ Opinion of Gay People?
The church has debated issue of gay rights, gay love, and same sex marriage for years
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