During the Second Civil War, a new U.S. political party called the Family Protection Movement established The Divide, which separates Normal people from those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Seventeen-year old Serenity Blackwater lives in the normal Midwestern town of Mapleville, but she is not normal. She hacks into an illegal gay chat room and meets Dawn, a lesbian who lives in a gay community less than a mile away. Serenity discovers normal people can bribe their way inside the walls and decides to go, both to meet Dawn and check out what may be her future home. Dawn is even more beautiful than Serenity hoped, and the two soon become a couple. But Serenity only has a few months before she must take the Normal Verification Test, and then she’ll be separated from her family forever. So she joins the Human Equality Organization, an underground group working to end The Divide. Dawn thinks the rebellion is too dangerous, and since Dawn’s ex-girlfriend Malaki is also a member, Serenity doesn’t tell Dawn about her involvement. Serenity reveals to the HEO that her parents are leading a campaign to organize attacks on all Gay Communities. With her help, the HEO creates Project Jericho, in which all Gay Communities walls will implode at once. But after too many delays, and when Dawn discovers Serenity has been spending more time with Malaki than her, Serenity knows she has to start the revolution herself. She heads to D.C. to contact a group of senators secretly against The Divide ... or straight into a trap set by the Family Protection Movement.

Uprising

“I know it’s not the exact same thing, but still, maybe someday everyone will think it’s weird that anyone ever made us live in gay communities.”


“Face it, I’m going to end up here sooner or later.”


“It wouldn’t be the worst thing that could happen to you,” she said.


“I’m going to keep track of the differences between what we learn here and in the normal college,” Adam said. “ I think it will help if I can figure out what we’re up against.”


Dawn glared at him. “You’ll get killed!”


“Are you a member of HEO, Adam?” I asked.


“No, but if things don’t get better at this college by my junior year, I’m going to transfer back home and join.”


“You’ll get arrested like Uncle Chandon,” Dawn said hoarsely.


Several guys and a couple girls, all looking about Adam’s age, stood at the edge of the yard now. Adam jogged over to them and opened the gate, and they trooped inside the house.


Chapter 18