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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in AmericaPublication Date: 2003Survey of more than 400 years of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States, presented through over 500 alphabetically arranged entries. Coverage includes people, public policy, economics, social issues, identities, and culture, among many others.
Encylopedia of Sex & Gender in the World's CulturesCall Number: eBook ONLINEThe central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality.eBook. Click image to access.
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Inseparable: desire between women in literature by Call Number: 809.9335 DONOGHUEPublication Date: 2010Explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontèˆ, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories.
Thou Shalt Not Love: What Evangelicals Really Say to Gays. by Call Number: 261.8357 CHAPMANPublication Date: 2008The failure of reparative therapy attended by the author lead him to investigate both the scientific and biblical views of homosexuality. It illuminates many issues faced by gays, their families, counselors and ministers including the debate about same-sex marriage.
- Inseparable : desire between women in literature809.9335 DONOGHUE
Explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontèˆ, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. - When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same Sex Marriage.346.0168 Badgett (economics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) examines key debates over same-sex marriage through the lens of the Dutch experience with the recognition of same-sex relationships. Looking at quantitative and qualitative data, she makes an argument friendly to same-sex marriage and marriage more generally, that the institution of marriage is less transformed by including same-sex couples than gay identity is changed by the availability of marriage....Choice
- A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay CouplesNow more than ever, it's important that you take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don't, you run the risk of being shut out of each other's lives -- and the lives of children you co-parent -- in times of medical, financial or personal crisis. This practical, plain-English guide shows lesbian and gay couples how to make practical decisions about living together....From the publisher
- Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between WomenRupp's intellectually ambitious monograph attempts to present and trace the diverse threads of lesbian history in a worldwide and comparative framework. Choice
Kicked Out by Call Number: 306.766 KICKEDPublication Date: 2010In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer(LGBTQ). Kicked Out brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some of our nations most vulnerable citizens.
Nina Here nor There by Call Number: 306.768 KRIEGERPublication Date: 2011"Daughter of proper East Coast parents, seriously lesbian travel writer Nina Krieger moves to San Francisco's Castro district and a new take on life. At a ta-tas fund-raising party for Kerry-now-Greg's top surgery, she questions her assumptions." Booklist
Not in This Family by Call Number: 306.7662 MURRAYISBN: 9780812242683Publication Date: 2010"Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Family challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties have been an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of the twentieth century." Publisher
Ties That Bind by Call Number: 306.766 SCHULMANPublication Date: 2009Schulman, a playwright and social critic explores the family, the first place where all people, straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. This book uncovers the hidden crime of "familial homophobia" and moves it into the open for social and political scrutiny. The author illustrates how societal homophobia is rooted in the family but reaches into all levels of social interaction, including how gay people treat each other. She probes the complex issues involved and prescribes third party interventions on the part of both individuals and institutions of authority so that we can all live a better life together on truly equal terms.
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Eminent Outlaws by Call Number: 810.992 BRAMISBN: 9780446563130Publication Date: 2012"...Bram's needed, spirited survey of post-WWII gay literature in America begins with this compelling line, The gay revolution began as a literary revolution. In his view, many prominent gay novelists, playwrights, and poets as their novels, plays, and poems rose in critical and public acceptance from outlaw to pioneer status led the way for a social change that swept the country, by which gay life in general gained in increasing acceptance....." Brad Hooper, Booklist
God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for EqualityCall Number: 261.8357 MICHAEL"Core values of Judaism and Christianity alike oblige believers to support gay rights, [author] Michaelson says. Bear that in mind, he asks, throughout the three parts of his literate, broadly informed argument. In the first part, he explains how and why gay equality is the positive outcome of upholding and practicing love, compassion, honesty, integrity, and justice. In the second, he takes on the seven notorious Bible verses used to bash gays and, drawing on historical, linguistic, and archaeological research as well as biblical context, contends that they either don't refer to homosexuality (the Sodom and Gomorrah story) or warn against the practices of non-Jewish, non-Christian religions. In the last part, he argues that gay inclusion will enrich families, congregations, and larger religious communities and further the growth of religious values." Ray Olson Booklist
How to Be Gay by Call Number: 306.7662 HALPERI 2012ISBN: 9780674066793Publication Date: 2012David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream.
It Gets Better by Call Number: 306.766 ITPublication Date: 2012I wish I could have told you things get better. The words that became a call to action were born in the comments section on a blog post written by Savage about 15-year-old Billy Lucas. Savage...together with his partner, Miller, launched the It Gets Better project on YouTube as a reaction to Lucas' and two other suicides precipitated by gay bullying during the summer of 2010....It Gets Better the book expands on a selection of those videos, capturing stories from people of every background, including a startling collection of famous writers, entertainers, and politicians. Particularly noteworthy are essays from President Obama and David Sedaris and a bilingual entry from a Mexican student now living in Canada.
Queer Media Images by Call Number: 306.766 QUEER 2013ISBN: 9780739180280Publication Date: 2013Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to a dialogue about civil rights for this marginalized community.
Right to Be Parents by Call Number: 346.7301 BALL 2012ISBN: 9780814739303Publication Date: 2012Ball's The Right to Be Parents is the first book to examine how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents have turned to the courts for protection of their relationships with their children. In seeking legal reform, which Ball fully supports, they have fundamentally changed the law of parenthood in the US "in ways that make it significantly more cognizant of the diversity and complexities of American families than it was just a generation ago." The book consists of six chapters organized around stories or case studies of these efforts. The first two explore ways courts have determined whether parents who are open about their sexual orientation were capable of promoting and protecting their children's well-being. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 involve children of lesbian or gay couples who intended from the beginning to have children and raise this question: "Who is eligible or qualified to be parents to begin with." Chapter 6 raises the question of whether the gender identities of transsexual parents affect their ability to be good parents. A clearly written, sympathetic, scholarly account of these developments. P. J. Galie emeritus, Canisius College
Sapphistries : A Global History of Love Between Women by Call Number: 306.7663 RUPPPublication Date: 2009Rupp enfolds imaginary scenes plus cuttings from fiction within factual findings. Sappho, lover of women and icon...is the root term chosen not for the women, but for their histories (snip) Rupp uses literary texts ...to help us imagine answers to questions that cannot be addressed with existing evidence....Rupp's discussion embraces...twelfth-century monasteries and Mideastern harems to twenty-first-century transnational concepts of lesbian identities. Booklist
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality by Call Number: 306.764 BLANKISBN: 9780807044438Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture. The idea of "the heterosexual" was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, "heterosexual" had become a byword for "normal," enshrined in law, medicine, psychiatry, and the media as a new gold standard for human experience. In this surprising chronicle, historian Hanne Blank digs deep into the past of sexual orientation, while simultaneously exploring its contemporary psyche. Illuminating the hidden patterns in centuries of events and trends, Blank shows how culture creates and manipulates the ways we think about and experience desire, love, and relationships....- Thou Shalt Not Love by Call Number: 261.8357 CHAPMANISBN: 9780971468627Publication Date: 2008The failure of reparative therapy attended by the author lead him to investigate both the scientific and biblical views of homosexuality. It illuminates many issues faced by gays, their families, counselors and ministers including the debate about same-sex marriage.
What's Wrong with Homosexuality? by Call Number: 176.4 CORVINO 2013ISBN: 9780199856312Publication Date: 2013Philosophy professor Corvino, who's gay and in a long-term relationship, answers the question of his book's title with, essentially, Nothing, if you think about it. For this entry in the Philosophy in Action series, he scrutinizes six different arguments about homosexuality, from We Shouldn't Even Be Having This Discussion (i.e., homosexuality is a private matter) to the dehumanizing Man on Man, Man on Dog, or Whatever the Case May Be, aka the slippery-slope-to-the-moral-sewer line about what gay marriage leads to. Corvino also dissects the Bible-tells-me-so, lifestyle, natural-law, and born-this-way arguments (the last drives a nature-nurture squabble). He writes in plain language leavened with wit, sentiment, and personality a manner that reflects the book's origins in Corvino's half of a debate over gay marriage that he and Focus on the Family speaker Glenn Stanton have presented on college campuses throughout North America. In the last chapter, Corvino discusses his friendly relations with Stanton and other debating opponents and why friendship, much less tolerance, isn't enough. Rather, civil equality with heterosexuals is what's needed.
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Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, bisexual, and Transgendered Clients. (2000) 158.30866 ISSUES
Thou Shalt Not Love: What Evangelicals Really Say to Gays 261.8357 CHAPMAN)
Balancing on the Mechitza Transgender in Jewish Community 296.0866 BALANC
Passing : when people can't be who they are 302.1 KROEGER
Revolutionary voices: a multicultural queer youth anthology 305.235 REVOLUT
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America. 2004. Gale Virtual Reference Library. ONLINE
Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. (1995) 305.3 BORNSTEI
Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors. (1996) 305.3 FEINBERG
Aaron, Leroy. Prayers for Bobby. (1995) 305.3896 GRIFFITH AARONS
Bisexuality in the Lives of Men : Facts And Fictions. (2001) 305.3896 BISEXUAL
Surviving madness: A therapist’s own story. (2002) 305.4896 BERZON
Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories. (1999) 305.4896 BI LIVE
Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. (1992) 306.766 WILLIAMS
Califia, Pat. Sex Changes: the Politics of Transgenderism. (1997) 305.9066 CALIFIA
Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories. (1997) 305.9066 CREATING
Van Leer, David. The Queening of America : Gay Culture in Straight Society. (1995) 305.9066 VAN LEE
Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History 305.9066 WHO IS
Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. (1981) 306.766 BOSWELL
Queer America : a GLBT History of the 20th Century / Vicki L. Eaklor. 2008. Eaklor, Vicki Lynn. 306.7609 EAKLOR Also an e-book
Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities. (2001) 306.766 BOY-WIV
Travels in a Gay Nation Phillip Gambone (2010) 306.766 GAMBONE
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women. (2009) 306.7663 RUPP
Edsall, Nicholas. Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World. (2003) 306.766 EDSALL
Ekins, Richard The Transgender Phenomenon. (2006) ON ORDER 306.76
Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology: A Resource Manual. (2000) 306.766 EDUCATI
Atkins, Dawn. Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities. (1998) 306.766 LOOKING
Gallo, Marcia M. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughers of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Movement Rights (2006) 306.7663 GALLO
The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution 306.768 KENNEDY
Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-dressing and Sex-changing. (1996) 306.77 BLENDIN
Changing corporate America from inside out : lesbian and gay workplace rights 331.5309 RAEBURN
Eskridge, William N. Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet. (1999) 342.7308 ESKRIDGE
Faderman, Lillian. Scotch Verdict (1993) 345.411 FADERMAN
A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples 346.7301 CLIFFORD
Restricted Access:Lesbians on Disability. (1999) 362.4086 RESTRICT
Hatred in the Hallways : Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S Schools. (2001) 371.7809 HATRED
One Teacher in 10: LGBT Educators Share Their Stories. (2005) 371.1008 ONE
When the drama club is not enough: lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students (2001) 371.8266 PERROTTI
Baez, John The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College : A Comprehensive Source for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Students and Their Allies (2007) 378.1982 BAEZ
The double-edged helix: social implications of genetics in a diverse society. 599.935 DOUBLE
Woog, Dan. Jocks: True Stories of America’s Gay Male Athletes. [A] (1998) 796.0866 WOOG
Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present. (1998) 808.8035 COLUMBIA
Gay and lesbian poetry : an anthology from Sappho to Michaelangelo 808.8193 GAY AND
Love speaks its name : gay and lesbian love poems 808.8193 LOVE
Forbidden Acts: pioneering gay & lesbian plays of the twentieth century. 808.82 FORIDDE
Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women's Realities. (1995) 810.8035 PLURAL
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1995) 810.8092 CHOLE
Luczak, Raymond editor. Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay and Lesbian Reader. (1993) 810.8092 EYES OF
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. (1984) 814.54 LORDE
Hager, Heinz et al. Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life and Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps. (1994) 940.5472 HEGER
Bawer, Bruce A place at the table : the gay individual in American society. (1994) 305.389 BAWER