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The first two books to read followed by many others in no particular order some with library call numbers.

 

* Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward - Now that You Know

* Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufmann – Free Your Mind

 

* Armistead Maupin – fiction - the entire Tales of the City series - 6 books - they are in 3 book anthologies

 Armistead Maupin   Maybe the Moon 

Robb Forman Dew - Family Heart 306.874

Ann Muller – Parents Matter

John Preston - Member of the Family 306.874

Evan Wolfson – Why Marriage Matters - America, Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Marry

Philip Gambone

Philip Sherman - Uncommon Heros

Carolyn Welch Griffin – Beyond Acceptance

Robb Forman Dew – The Family Heart   A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out

Moshe Shokeid- A gay Synagogue in NY

Joan M Drury - Lesbian mysteries

Philip Gambone

Leroy Aarons - Prayers for Bobby

* Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch - And Say Hi to Joyce

Felice Picano - Like People in History

Blumenfeld - Homophobia - How We All Pay the Price

W. Blumenfeld and D Raymond - Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life

Susan and Daniel Cohen - When Someone You Know is Gay

Aaron Fricke - Reflections of a Rock Lobster               

Michael Nava, Robert Davidoff - Created Equal:Why Gay Rights Matter to America 305.9066N

Randy Shilts - Conduct Unbecoming - History of Gays and Lesbians in the military

Ed Lowe and Stan Siegel - Unchartered Lives

Joan Nestle and John Preston - Sister and Brother - Lesbians and Gay Men write about their lives together 305.9066S

Paul Monette - Becoming a Man         

Paul Monette - Afterlife          

Paul Monette - Borrowed Time         

Paul Monette - Halfway Home - 

Roger Sutton - Hearing Us Out

Gloria Guss Back - Are you Still My Mother?

Martin Duberman - Stonewall 306.9066

* Bruce Bawer - A Place at the Table 305.3896B

* Robert Bernstein - Straight Parents/Gay Children  Keeping Families Together

Don Clark - Loving Someone Gay

Ann Muller - Parents Matter

* Carolyn Welch Griffin, et. al. - Beyond Acceptance

Mary V.Borhek - My Son Eric                

 Mary V.Borhek -Coming Out to Parents

* Rob Eichberg - Coming Out: An Act of Love

* Dan Woog – School’s Out

Rose Balka - Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay and Jewish

Louise Rafkin - Different Daughters; A book by mothers of lesbians

Rod Jackson-Paris - Straight from the Heart - A Love Story 

Bennett Singer - Growing up Gay

Eric Marcus - Making History

Eric Marcus - The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights

Eric Marcus - Is it a Choice?

Eric Marcus - Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Gays and Lesbians

Eric Marcus - Expect the Worst, You Won’t be Disappointed

Betty Berzon - Permanent Partners

Betty Berzon - Positively Gay

Margaret Cruikshank - Lesbian Path

Karen Barber and Sarah Holmes - Testimonies - a collection of Lesbian Coming Out Stories

Harry Kondoleon - Diary of a Lost Boy

John Reid (Andrew Tobias) - Best Little Boy in the World

Andrew Tobias – The Best Little Boy in the World Grows up

Michaelangelo Signorele - Outing Yourself

* Michaelangelo Signorele Queer in America

Ann Heron (editor) - One in Ten – Testimony by Gay & Lesbian Youth

Ann Heron (editor) - Two Teenagers in Twenty – Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth

Vito Ruso - The Celluloid Closet

Annette Friskopp and Sharon Silverstein - Straight Jobs, Gay Lives

Andrew Sullivan - Virtually Normal

Leslie Feinberg – Stone Butch Blues

Leslie Feinberg - Transgender Warriors

Lindsy Van Gelder & Pamela Robin Brandt – The Girls Next Door

The Violet Quill Reader – Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Michael Grumley, Robert Ferro,

               Christopher Cox, George Whitmore

Rita Kissen – The Last Closet

Arthur D Kahn – The Many Faces of Gay Activists Who are Changing the Nation

Brian McNaught – Now That I’m Out, What Do I Do?

Brian McNaught - Gay Issues in the Workplace

Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael - Coming out of Shame

Martin Duberman,, Martha Vicinus & George Chauncey - Hidden From History

Gay Rights – Judith C Galas

Anita Cornwell – Black Lesbians in White America

Ethan Mordden- How Long Has This Been Going On – novel

Marlene Fanta Shyer & Christopher Shyer – Not Like Other Boys – Growing up Gay – A Mother and Son Look

    Back

Christie Balka & Andy Rose – Twice Blessed – on being Lesbian and Gay and Jewish

Michael Nava & Robert Davidoff – Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Mater to America   305.9066N

Ed Lowe & Stan Siegel – Unchartered Lives

Joan Nestle & John Preston– Sister and Brother – Lesbian and Gay men write about their lives together

     305.9066S

Chris A Bohjalian - Trans Sister Radio

Moishe Shokeid – A Gay Synagogue in NY

Annette Fiskopp & Sharon Silverstein – Straight Jobs, Gay Lives

Judith C Galas – Gay Rights

Wm N Eskridge Jr – The Case for Same Sex Marriage

Leroy Aarons – Prayers for Bobby

* David Mixner – Stranger Among Friends

Don Clark – Loving Someone Gay

Kevin Jennings – Becoming Visible – A reader in Gay & Lesbian History for High School & College Students

Louise Rafkin – Different Daughters – A Book by Mothers of Lesbians

Martin Duberman – Stonewall  306.9066D

Bruce Bawer – A Place at the Table  305.3896B

Linda Garden – Annie on my Mind

Chris Bull (editor) Come out Fighting – a Century of Gay and Lesbian Literature

 

Spouses

 

Jean Scharr Gochros – When Husbands Come Out of the Closet

Fritz Klein – The Bisecual Option

Loraine Hutchins, Lani Kaahumanu, eds. – Bi Any Other Name

Catherine Whitney – Uncommon Lives – Gay Men & Straight Women

Amity Pierce Buxton – The Other Side of the Closet

Sue George – Women and Bisexuality

 

Children of Lesbians and Gays

 

Loralee Mac Pike – There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You

Robert Barret, Byran Robinson – Gay Fathers

Louise Rifkin, ed. – Different Mothers    Sons and Daughters of Lesbians Talk About Their Lives

April Martin – Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook    Creating and Raising Our Families

 

Books for Children

 

Michael Willhoite Uncle What Is It Is Coming to Visit– Alyson Wonderland Press

Harvey Fierstein - The Sissy Duckling

Tomie De Paola – Oliver Button is a Sissy

Leslea Newman & Diana Souza - Heather Has Two Mommies

Michael Willhoite Daddy’s Roommate

Ann Heron, Meredith Maran – How Would Your Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?

Leslea Newman – Gloria Goes to Gay Pride

 

 

 

 

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