"With contributions from David Marr, Fiona Wright, Nayuka Gorrie, Steve Dow, Holly Throsby, Sally Rugg, Tony Ayres, Christos Tsiolkas, Rebecca Shaw, Nic Holas and many more." --Page [4] of cover.

Introduction / Benjamin Law -- Freedom of Heart / Holly Throsby -- Shame and Forgiveness / David Marr -- How to be Both / Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen -- Rob, and Queer Family / Nayuka Gorrie -- Caritas / Jack Kirne -- St Louis / Oliver Reeson -- Boobs, Rags and Judy Blume / Phoebe Hart -- From Dreams to Living / Nadine Smit -- The Most Natural of Things / Justine Hyde -- Binary School / Roz Bellamy -- Why I've Stopped Coming Out to My Mum / Vivian Quynh Pham -- Training to Be Me / Cindy Zhou -- The Watering Hole / Samuel Leighton-Dore -- Car Windows / Tim Sinclair -- Bent Man Running / Steve Dow -- The Bent Bits Are the Best Bits / Jax Jacki Brown -- Reunion / Kelly Parry -- You Can Take the Queer Out of the Country / M'ck McKeague -- The Risk / Thom Mitchell -- When Worlds Collide, Words Fail / Thinesh Thillainadarajah -- Radelaide/Sadelaide / Gemma Killen -- LGBTI-Q&A: William Yang -- LGBTI-Q&A: Georgie Stone -- LGBTI-Q&A: Tony Ayres -- LGBTQI-Q&A: Sally Rugg -- LGBTQI-Q&A: Kate McCartney -- LGBTQI-Q&A: Christos Tsiolkas -- Coming In / Joo-Inn Chew -- Androphobia / Heather Joan Day -- Living in a Fridge / Michael Farrell -- Wanting / Fiona Wright -- Coming Out, Coming Home / Adolfo Aranjuez -- The Wall of Shame / Natalie Macken -- Meinmasha / Atul Joshi -- Kissing Brad David / Scott McKinnon -- Something Special / Rebecca Shaw -- Floored / Nic Holas -- Not Special / Tim McGuire -- Jack and Jill and Me / Stephanie Convery -- To My Man of Seventeen Years / Henry von Doussa -- Angry Cleaning / Nathan Mills -- The Exchange / Alice Boyle -- Faggot / Beau Kondos -- So You Wanted Honesty . . . / Sue-Ann Post -- Sometimes I Call You Even Though I Know You Can't Answer. It's a Symbol, I Think . . . / Anthony Nocera -- How Not to Quench Your Thirst / Jean Velasco -- Silence and Words / Aron Koh Paul -- homosexual / Mike Mullins -- A Robust Game of Manball / Patrick Lenton -- The Equality of Love / Yamiko Marama -- A City Set Upon a Hill / Dang Nguyen -- Trust Me (Tips for My Teenage Self) / Thomas Wilson-White -- About the editor -- About the contributors.

I marked the day in my adolescent diary with a single blank page. The mantle of 'queer migrant' compelled me to keep going - to go further. I never 'came out' to my parents, I felt I owed them no explanation. I was thirty-eight and figured it was time to come out to her. Even now, I sometimes think that I don't know my own desire. Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, 'Growing Up Queer in Australia' assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity. Spanning diverse places, eras, genders, ethnicities and experiences, these are the stories of growing up queer in Australia.