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GLBT Issues
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All the Ways Home: Parenting in the Lesbian and Gay Community - A Collection of Short Fiction Fiction (Lita)
by Cindy Rizzo, Jo Schneiderman, Lisa Schweig, Judith Stein, Jan Shafer Fiction. |
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Conversaciones: Relatos por padres y madres de hijas lesbianas y hijos gay
by Mariana Romo-Carmona Book in Spanish. The first Spanish-language coming out book for families of lesbians and gays. "Conversaciones, es un manifiesto util y valiente, excrito con la voz inquebrantable de amor que solo un padre o madre puede sentir por sus hijos" -Cristina Saralegui |
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Families : A Celebration of Diversity, Commitment, and Love
by Aylette Jenness Seventeen multiethnic young people describe their families, including their strengths and weaknesses. The "traditional" family appears along with a variety of other family structures. |
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Families of Value: Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children Speak Out
by Jane Drucker Drawing upon stories by and about nearly two dozen families in which gay fathers and lesbian mothers are raising children in a wide variety of settings and styles. |
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Friends & Family : True Stories of Gay America's Straight Allies
by Dan Woog Dan Woog's inspiring and in some cases astonishing stories of heterosexual activists will banish for a few hours those images of homophobes closing in with pitchforks that television coverage of gay issues so often conjures. |
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Gay Parents/Straight Schools: Building Communication and Trust
by Virginia Casper and Steven B. Schultz "A tenderly written and empathetic work about a subject educators seldom speak of but which classroom teachers, caught up in contemporary culture wars, are now obliged to face and to address with wisdom and compassionate discernment..." -Jonathan Kozol |
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Gender Outlaw : On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
by Kate Bornstein Bornstein considers herself a gender outlaw because she breaks the laws of nature. A former heterosexual male and now a lesbian woman, Bay Area Reporter writer, and actor who has appeared on talk shows, she has completed the transsexual process, including surgery. |
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GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens
by Kelly Huegel In 11 candid, fact-filled, nonjudgmental chapters, Huegel covers every aspect of being GLBTQ-- from coming out to homophobia, from religion and culture to sex and sexuality. She devotes an entire chapter to transgender teens, a group that is often ignored or misunderstood. |
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Growing Up in a Lesbian Family: Effects on Child Development
by Fiona L. Tasker and Susan Golombok "Tasker and Golombok have made a significant body of literature much more accessible. This book would be especially useful to mental health professionals, activists, lawyers, and judges--anyone who might be involved in making decisions about the custody of children of lesbian parents....An important book about an important subject." -Lesbian Review of Books |
| Hatred In The Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools
by Human Rights Watch Based on in-depth interviews with 140 youth and 130 teachers, administrators, counselors, parents, and youth service providers in seven states, this report offers the first comprehensive look at the human rights abuses suffered by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students at the hands of their peers. Read report online, or order at: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/uslgbt/ |
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Heather Has Two Mommies
by Leslea Newman The story of Heather, a preschooler with two moms who discovers that some of her friends have very different sorts of families. |
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Helping the Stork : The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination
by Carol Frost Vercollone, Heidi Moss, Robert Moss Childless couples and single women are in greater need than ever of an informative, complete, and supportive book on the subject of donor insemination. This book provides the information they need when considering this option. |
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In a Family Way
by Rochelle Hollander Schwab Fiction. In this contemporary novel, the death of a baby girl's biological mother leads to a 3-way custody fight between lesbian co-mother, sperm donor and grandparents bent on rescuing their grandchild from a "homosexual lifestyle." |
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King & King
by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland A queen, tired of ruling, decides it's time for her son to marry and assume the throne. The prince reluctantly agrees, "I must say, though, I've never cared much for princesses." The queen arranges for a parade of princesses to meet her son, but the prince doesn't feel any sparks until the final candidate shows up with her brother. The two princes fall in love, marry, and rule the kingdom together. |
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Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary Yet Ordinary
by Stephen Hicks, Janet McDermott, Editors n/a |
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Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook : Creating and Raising Our Families
by April Martin A much needed book that addresses the many questions and important issues associated with lesbian and gay parenting, by a well-known psychotherapist and lesbian parent. |
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Lesbian Family Relationships in American Society
by Maureen A. Asten This book explores intimate relationships in lesbian families living in American society. From an insider's point of view, it examines how relationships within these families form and develop, what special concerns and problems result, what personal gains the family members derive from these types of families, and how motherhood and parenthood evolve. |
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Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies)
by Janet M. Wright Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian stepfamilies' definitions of the stepparent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. |
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Lesbians Raising Sons: An Anthology
by Jess Wells Wells, who has a son, has gathered a wide range of personal essays by lesbian moms including Jenifer Levin, Robin Morgan, Lillian Faderman, and Merril Mushroom that describe the rewards and problems of being a lesbian mom. |
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Lessons from the Intersexed
by Suzanne J. Kessler As Kessler argues, the way the medical and psychological professions manage intersexuality - the condition of having physical gender markers (genitals, gonads, or chromosomes) that are neither clearly female or male - is guided by our culture's beliefs about gender and genitals rather than by the needs of the child. |
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Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families
by Gigi Kaeser, Photographs and Peggy Gillespie, Editor This collection of informal family portraits and interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents and their children grew out of a photo exhibit created by photographer Kaeser. |
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Men Like Us : The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-Being
by Daniel Wolfe Daniel Wolfe's amazing, enlightening compendium on gay men's health can usher anyone through the major crises of life--grief, illness, bad hair--and offer sane advice on gay-specific issues, from coming out to harassment to spirituality within mainstream and alternative religions. |
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Mom, Dad, I'm Gay.: How Families Negotiate Coming Out
by Ritch C. Savin-Williams Drawing from over 150 original interviews with teens, psychologist Ritch Savin-Williams separates fact from fiction in this survey of coming out experiences. |
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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
by Kate Bornstein Kate Bornstein's 1994 book of autobiographical theory, Gender Outlaw, drew a line in the sand about the whole boy/girl In My Gender Workbook, Bornstein has assembled a collage of simple exercises, quizzes, puzzles, and essay questions that systematically break down our ingrained ideas about how women and men--and whoever is in between--should act. |
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My Two Uncles
by Judith Vigna Parents seeking to explain a homosexual couple's relationship may find this book useful. |
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Out of the Past : Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
by Neil Miller Miller applies his sturdy journalist's prose to the task of producing a popular history of gay men and lesbians since the coining of the word homosexuality in an anonymous German pamphlet in 1869. |
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Pomosexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel, Editors In PoMoSexuals you can read about heterosexual women who identify as gay men, the politics of placing a transgendered personal ad, and how trendy gay male ghetto culture is less about sexual liberation than brand-name accumulation. No matter what your sexual identity is, PoMoSexuals will startle and enlighten, provoke and entertain. |
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Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Family (Queer Politics, Queer Theories)
by Valerie Lehr The flaw in the fight for gay and lesbian marriage rights, argues Lehr in Queer Family Values, lies in its failure to call into question the forms of oppression—gender, racial, and economic—that lead society to privilege the nuclear family. |
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Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender
by Riki Anne Wilchins Lesbians, feminists, queer academics, activists, transpeople, the "queer-on-the-street", and the increasing audience of mainstream readers hungry for writing that pushes the absolute edge of the gender envelope - "Read My Lips" will change the way you think about bodies, sex and gender. Yours and everyone else's. |
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Revolutionary Voices
by Amy Sonnie, Editor This groundbreaking, multicultural collection of stories by the queer and young should be required reading for every jaded adult--teachers, parents, politicians--and anyone who fears for the future of our country. |
| n/a | Saturday Is Pattyday
by Leslea Newman Newman tells a story of how a child feels when his two mommies separate and break up the family. |
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School's Out: The Impact of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America's Schools
by Dan Woog Evaluating the weight of gay and lesbian issues on contemporary education, a study based on interviews with three hundred gay and straight educators, students, and parents details their positive and negative experiences. |
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She's Not There : A Life in Two Genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan She’s Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story. |
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The Harvey Milk Story
by Kari Krakow "On a rainy day in January, on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall, Harvey Milk was sworn into office, the first openly gay elected city official in the United States of America. Harvey Milk had made history." This children's book tells the story. |
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The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
by D. Merilee, Ph.D. Clunis, G. Dorsey, Ph.D. Green Written by two experienced lesbian therapists and parents, this second completely revised edition of The Lesbian Parenting Book has been updated to reflect the contemporary cultural and political landscape, as well as current trends in parenting. |
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The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories
by Margaret Reynolds, Editor Showing the full range of fictional expression, this adventurous anthology opens with Sarah Orne Jewett's 1897 story, "Martha's Lady," a delicate yet impassioned evocation of a furtive lesbian love and closes with Jeanette Winterson's lyrical, uninhibited "The Poetics of Sex" (1993). |
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The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: Tips and Techniques from Conception to Birth: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself
by Rachel Pepper The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians offers a holistic, lesbian-specific approach to pregnancy -- from an explanation of fertility cycles and how to select a sperm donor to a straightforward account of the stages of pregnancy and the body's responses. |
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The Velveteen Father : An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood
by Jesse Green At the age of thirty-seven, the journalist and novelist Jesse Green found his life dramatically changing when he met and fell in love with a man who had recently adopted a baby boy. The Velveteen Father is his candid, heartfelt, and often hilarious account of the formation and flourishing of a family. |
| Trans Forming Families: Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones
by Mary Boenke, Editor Available for sale from Planned Parenthood in Ithaca! Call 607.216.0021 ext. 135. This books is published especially for families, friends, and others interested in understanding and learning about transgendered persons. |
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Trans Liberation : Beyond Pink or Blue
by Leslie Feinberg In "Trans Liberation", Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. |
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Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
by Leslie Feinberg Leslie Feinberg has been a leader in the transgender rights movement as long as such a movement has existed. Feinberg examines perceptions of the body, the status of clothing, and the structures of societies that welcome or are threatened by gender variance. |
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Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
by Jason Cromwell "This book provides wonderful documentation of transmen's lives and voices as well as an excellent critique of a number of discourses that marginalize, pathologize, and otherwise make transmen invisible" -Evelyn Blackwood |
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XY Survival Guide
by Benjie Nycum At last there's a guide that addresses the real needs of gay youth. The XY Survival Guide gives you the information you've been needing in a clear, honest way. Never before has so much info on being young and gay, bisexual, or questioning been so accessible. |
| n/a | Zack's Story: Growing Up With Same-Sex Parents
by Keith Elliot Greenberg, Carol Halebian Eleven-year-old Zack talks about his life with his lesbian mother and his "second mother" in an attractively appointed photo-essay that is part of the Meeting the Challenge series. |