To celebrate the US Supreme Court decision that makes gay marriage a right , book club decided to choose LGBTQ as our genre for July! I wanted to read a transgender biography, but ended up settling on a fiction novel about a man who secretly, but not openly, wants to be a woman. July 2015: LGBTQ For Today I Am A Boy By Kim Fu 2014 256 pages Peter is a young boy growing up in small town Ontario. He has 3 sisters, and strict Chinese parents. Once in elementary school, the teacher asked the class to draw what they want to be when they grow up, and Peter draws a mommy. And then he keeps his desires to be a girl/woman hidden, buried, for decades. We follow Peter through elementary school, high school, through his teenage years, and finally to Montreal where he works as a cook. We meet people along the way who suspect, like his sisters, and those who don't, like his father (well maybe he knows), school friends, and colleagues. We meet two women who he has strange and stunted "relati...