Boy Meets Boy

i am incredibly glad that this book was chosen to read.
on thanksgiving, i realized that i left my copy at school, and started to freak out. i thought it would be pretty impossible to find this book around my house, much less on black friday while i was out shopping. i was quite excited to find that there were TWO copies of it at the FIRST book store i went to. i thought it was really nice that this book, for me at least, was easy to find while at home. it gave me hope.
while reading this book, i felt like i was reading a book similar to the perks of being a wallflower, which was (and still is) my favorite book. I felt like it was written in similar style, and had an overarching similar theme. the town seemed similar, specifically when the I SCREAM was mentioned.
This was one of the few books that i really enjoyed. I felt like it was relatable, and it really gave me a lot of hope that this is what communities will be like one day: accepting, tolerant, non-judgemental about sexual orientation. i struggle with understanding people who are "against" the GLBTQ community, who think it is "wrong". i don't think it is OK for anyone to assume someone is less of a person just because they do not live up to what one person deems as "normal". perhaps this is because of the way my parents chose to raise me in an evironment in which people from all walks of life were present.
it fit reading this book this weekend for me because my parents 25th wedding anniversary is next saturday, and we were doing seating. we, as a family, were laughing because we thought it would be fun (for all parties) to do a completely random seating arrangement (prompted by one of my mom's friends who was joking about 'freaking people out'). and while reading this book, all i coudl think was, wow, i wish our community was like this now.
my focus during my QTT paper was on parental influence, and i think that this was an important topic. all i can hope is that our generation, as parents, are as accepting as we can be to all walks of life (like my parents, my mom especially, were). i think that is the only way that we all will be able to live in a community in which everyone feels safe.