The Rainbow Trilogy
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The Rainbow Trilogy by Alex Sanchez follows three queer boys through their senior year of high school and the summer after. The books include Rainbow Boys (2001), Rainbow High (2003), and Rainbow Road (2005). Not to be confused with the other Rainbow Road.
Tropes used in The Rainbow Trilogy include:
- Author Tract: The books are loaded with Gay Aesop.
- Bi the Way: Jason claims to be bi, even though he dumped his girlfriend for Kyle after fantasizing about him while making out with his girlfriend
- Camp Gay: Nelson
- Cast Full of Gay: Most noticeable in the third book of the trilogy
- Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Nelson gets a boyfriend in the last book - some guy he just met in California, who just happened to dye his hair the same shade of pink.
- Coming Out Story: Jason and Kyle in the first book, various others in later books.
- Freudian Trio
- Freudian Trio: Nelson is the Id, Jason is the Ego, Kyle is the Superego
- Gay Aesop
- Gaydar Nelson has mastered this.
- Invisible to Gaydar: Kyle
- Prom Is for Straight Kids: In the second book.
- Token Minority: Jason is Hispanic
- Transsexualism The hitchhiker in the third book