Pollyanna Gay

August Applegate is sixteen years old, and he's known he's gay for eleven of them. But in 1963, life in a small Appalachian hamlet doesn't offer many opportunities to learn what that truly means.

That is, not until August spends one magical-if tumultuous-summer at Buck's County Theatre Camp. There, he steps behind the curtains that shield the gay world from view and enters a bewildering universe of heated flings, dramatic breakups, and unspoken rules that leave his head spinning. Or perhaps ...