Mike Curato’s Flamer is a brave and beautiful work towards understanding and acceptance of LGBTQ youth that continues the process of paving a safe path/5(). Flamer by Mike Curato is a fantastic story of a boy coming to terms with his sexuality as a Boy Scout back when society wasn’t as understanding or aware as it is now. It’s written honestly, with humor and compassion. I hope it’s widely read and helps people – teens especially – who are struggling with their own feelings and understanding themselves. Flamer by Mike Curato is a layered graphic novel set in about a teen who is struggling with the growing realization that he is gay. Aidan is a Filipino-American Boy Scout who is attending summer scout camp and struggles with the toxic masculinity that the other boys demonstrate/5().
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love.. I know I'm not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They're mean, and scary, and they're always destroying something or saying something dumb or both. And Flamer doesn't pull any punches. Flamer Mike Curato (writer, artist) Godwin Books, Macmillan September 1, Curato's protagonist Aiden Navarro is spending the summer at Boy Scouts camp. In general, Aidan likes scouting. He likes the rules and the camaraderie, and that he is good at a lot of it. Curato breaks up the largely black and white palette of the text with bursts of warm reds, yellows, and oranges. (Curato 19 and Images provided by Rob Bittner) Balancing such complex questions around identity with frankness and humour is to be admired. Flamer is a text that many teen readers will be able to identify with in some way.
Flamer, Mike Curato's first graphic novel, finds soon-to-be-high-schooler Aiden at Boy Scout camp, normally his safe place. It's a place of rules and regulations, predictability, peacefulness and. Flamer by Mike Curato is a fantastic story of a boy coming to terms with his sexuality as a Boy Scout back when society wasn’t as understanding or aware as it is now. It’s written honestly, with humor and compassion. Flamer written and illustrated by Mike Curato. Aiden Navarro, a half Filipino boy at a boy scout camp the summer before high school, navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with a boy he can't stop thinking about.
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