When I was a 13, during the month of January 1968, I wrote a paper for my 8th grade English class on why Dr. Martin Luther King was my hero.  No big deal one would think except I was a white kid in an all white school.  As any one who reads my blog with any regularity will tell you my grammar is awful and so it was no surprise I got an A for content but a D for grammar.  With that paper my life became complicated.  I was now known as a n***** lover.  There was no end to the jokes and nasty notes left at my locker or in my schoolbooks.

Charis Books & More hosts Sassafrass Lowery, editor of “Kicked Out,” an anthology “that brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some our nation’s most vulnerable citizens.”

Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, writes the introduction to the anthology.
Recently, queer youth have been targeted by anti-gay bullying leading some to kill themselves.

Read our coverage of what’s being done in Georgia and elsewhere to combat the anti-gay bullying here.

Kicked Out: Stories of Current and Former Homeless LGBTQ Youth with Sassafrass Lowrey
7:30-9 p.m.
Charis
1189 Euclid Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30307