Part 1: Steeling life in the face of adversity -- InterText 1. Mara: Learning to own gay -- InterText 2. Vincent: I'm passing -- 1. Making it better now for sexual and gender minority youth -- InterText 3 Sean: I'm a man, yes I am -- 2. Gender Beautiful: Living in the fullness of one's affirmed gender identity and true gender self -- InterText 4. Larissa: My heritage is a big thing -- Camp fYrefly: fostering, youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah! -- InterText 5. Mark: Being the boy I am -- InterText 6. Paul: Bringing people out of silence -- 4. Policies to protect sexual and gender minority youth in schooling and health care -- Pt. 2. From At Risk to At Promise. The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education -- Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High-School Students -- The Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth -- Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation of Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Canadian Schools.