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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide
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Call Number: eBookThis set has an ambitious scope with the goal of offering the most up-to-date international overview of key issues in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. -
LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field
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Call Number: GV708.8 .C76 2017Together, athletes, families, educators, allies, and fans are pushing for competitive equity so that every athlete, regardless of identity, can have the opportunity to play at their very best. -
Queer Questions, Clear Answers
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Call Number: HQ23 .S457 2010This provocative book examines the important issues in contemporary debates on sexual orientation--from our various religious beliefs to our stereotypes about homosexuals, from questions about the origin of sexual orientation to the lessons we can learn from history. -
Be Gay, Do Comics
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Call Number: HQ73 .B44 2020Brimming with resilience, inspiration, and humor, an incredible lineup of top indie cartoonists takes you from the American Revolution through Stonewall to today's fights for equality and representation. Featuring more than 30 cartoonists including Hazel Newlevant, Joey Alison Sayers, Maia Kobabe, Matt Lubchansky, Breena Nuñez, Sasha Velour, Shing Yin Khor, Levi Hastings, Mady G, Bianca Xunise, Kazimir Lee, and many, many more! -
After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights
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Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 A38 2016Now that nationwide marriage equality is a reality, everyone who cares about LGBT rights must grapple with how best to promote the interests of sexual and gender identity minorities in a society that permits same-sex couples to marry. This book brings together 12 original essays by leading scholars of law, politics, and society to address the most important question facing the LGBT movement today: What does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights? -
Real Queer America
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Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 A44 2019A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. -
Yes Gawd! how faith shapes LGBT identity and politics in the United States
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Call Number: HQ73.73.U6 C73 2024Yes Gawd! explores the effects of religious belief and practice on political behavior among the LGBT community, a population long persecuted by religious institutions and generally considered to be non-religious. -
You Can Tell Just by Looking
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Call Number: HQ75.5 .B7596 2013Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives -
Out in Time
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Call Number: HQ76.2.U5 H334 2019Out in Time explores the life experiences of three generations of gay men --the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations - arguing that while there are generational differences in the lived experiences of young gay men, each one confronts its own unique historical events, realities, and socio-political conditions, there are consistencies across time that define and unify the identity formation of gay men. -
What's Wrong with Homosexuality?
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Call Number: HQ76.25 .C673 2013Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the Bible condemn it? Are people born gay (and should it matter either way)? Corvino approaches such questions with precision, sensitivity, and good humor. In the process, he makes a fresh case for moral engagement, forcefully rejecting the idea that morality is a "private matter." -
Homosexuality
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Call Number: HQ76.25 .H67375 2009Presents a collection of essays offering different views on homosexuality in the United States, discussing such topics as military service, gay marriage, and what schools should teach about sexuality. -
Queer
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Call Number: HQ76.27.Y68 B45 2011Written especially for LGBT teens, Queer takes you on an awesome and enlightening journey through the sometimes scary, sometimes silly, and always fabulous world that is queer life. -
LGBT Youth Issues Today
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Call Number: HQ76.27.Y68 N498 2014The increasing numbers of LGBT teenagers who choose to live their lives as "out" youth face unique issues within their schools, families, and communities. This book provides information that will help LGBT youth overcome their challenges and give non-LGBT youth a better understanding of sexual identities different from their own. -
Black and Queer on Campus
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Call Number: LC212.92 .J44 2023Black and Queer on Campus is a ground-breaking account of queer Black experiences on college campuses, based on 65 interviews with Black LGTBQ students -
A Guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusion on Campus, Post-PULSE
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Call Number: LC2574.6 .G85 2017The research in A Guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusion on Campus, Post-PULSE is premised on the notion that, because we cannot choose our sexual, racial, ethnic, cultural, political, geographic, economic, and chronological origins, with greater advantage comes greater responsibility to redistribute life's resources in favor of those whose human rights are compromised and who lack the fundamental necessities of life. -
Safe Is Not Enough
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Call Number: LC2575 .S23 2016Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. -
Art & Queer Culture
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Call Number: N8217.H67 L67 2019Art & Queer Culture is an unprecedented survey of visual art and alternative sexualities from the late nineteenth century to the present. -
The GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health
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Call Number: RA564.9.H65 S346 2019 v.1-2A comprehensive guide that addresses the unique healthcare needs and challenges faced by the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community.
Lesbians
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Uncovered
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Call Number: BM729.H65 L39 2015Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and hasidic motherhood as, all the while, creative, sexual, and spiritual longings tremble beneath the surface. -
Amigas y Amantes
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Call Number: eBookAmigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creation and maintenance of families. It is based on forty-two in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer (LBQ). -
The Apparitional Lesbian
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Call Number: PN56.L45 C37 1993In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries. -
Girls Will Be Boys
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Call Number: PN1995.9.I43 H67 2016Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the cinematic cross-dressing they performed onscreen. What few modern viewers realize, however, is that these seemingly daring performances of the 1930s actually came at the tail end of a long wave of gender-bending films that included more than 400 movies featuring women dressed as men. -
The Rules Do Not Apply
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Call Number: PN4874.L3777 A3 2017This is a searing story, written with humor, brilliance, and insight, that is at once personal and universal--a story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. In telling her own story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in values, women and gender in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained
Gay Men
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Gay Men Pursuing Parenthood Through Surrogacy
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Call Number: eBookDean Murphy analyses how relatedness is enacted in the context of gay men pursuing parenthood and a 'child of one's own' through both domestic and transnational surrogacy arrangements. -
Shortest Way Home
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Call Number: F534.S7 B87 2019Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortest Way Home narrates the heroic transformation of a "dying city" (Newsweek) into nothing less than a shining model of urban reinvention. -
Mama's Boy
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Call Number: HQ75.8.B53 A3 2019This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today's great divides--and how our stories hold the power to heal. -
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
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Call Number: HQ75.8.C456 A3 2023A heartfelt and witty memoir that takes readers into the vibrant world of Detroit's Chinatown in the 1980s. Growing up in his family's Chinese restaurant, Curtis navigates the complexities of identity, race, and sexuality. -
Boy Erased
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Call Number: HQ75.8.C665 A3 2016A poignant account by a survivor of a church-supported sexual orientation conversion therapy facility that claimed to "cure" homosexuality describes its intense Bible study program and the daily threats of his abandonment by family, friends and God, an experience that transformed the author's relationships and self-understandings. -
Out in Time
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Call Number: HQ76.2.U5 H334 2019Out in Time explores the life experiences of three generations of gay men --the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations - arguing that while there are generational differences in the lived experiences of young gay men, each one confronts its own unique historical events, realities, and socio-political conditions, there are consistencies across time that define and unify the identity formation of gay men.
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Eminent Outlaws
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Call Number: PS153.G38 B73 2012In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Chronicling over fifty years of momentous change-from civil rights to Stonewall to AIDS and beyond. Eminent Outlaws is an inspiring, illuminating tale: one that reveals how the lives of these men are crucial to understanding the social and cultural history of the American twentieth century. -
Fighting Proud
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Call Number: UB419.G7 B68 2017In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort.
Bisexual
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Bi the Way
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Call Number: HQ74 .S54 2021An essential guide for anyone who is bisexual, and those looking for more information about bisexuality. With first-hand accounts and advice on coming out, dating, sex, activism, gender identity, and biphobia, this empowering book is a manifesto for bisexual people everywhere. -
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
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Call Number: HQ74 .S539 2022Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality is a provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from internationally bestselling pop-psychologist Julia Shaw. -
Bi America
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Call Number: HQ74.2.U5 B87 2005Gain an in-depth understanding of the unique struggles of the bisexual community! -
Claiming the B in LGBT
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Call Number: HQ74.2.U55 H37 2018Claiming the B in LGBT strives to give bisexuals a seat at the table. This guidebook to the history and future of the bisexual movement fuses a chronology of bisexual organizing with essays, poems, and articles detailing the lived experiences of bisexual activities struggling against a dominant culture driven by norms of monosexual attraction, compulsory monogamy, and inflexible notions of gender expression and identity.
Transgender, Transsexual & Gender Queer
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The Making of a Man
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Call Number: eBookFebruari contemplates the many questions that sexual transitions entail: the clinical effects of testosterone, the alteration of sexual organs, and its effects on sexual intimacy; how transsexuality figures in the law; and how it challenges the way we talk about sex and gender. -
Trans/Portraits
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Call Number: eBook & HQ77.9 .S55 2015Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture, they rarely have the opportunity to add their own voices to the conversation. In this remarkable book, the author records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender. (Also in eBook) -
First Year Out
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Call Number: GRAPHIC NOVEL SYMINGTON, S. / FIRST YEAR OUTBased on the author's own personal experiences and those of her friends, this intimate and striking graphic novel follows transgender woman Lily, as she transitions to her true self. Depicting her experiences from coming out right through to gender reassignment surgery, Lily's story provides vital advice on the social, emotional and medical aspects of transitioning and will empower anyone questioning their gender. -
Fair Play
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Call Number: GV709 .B28 2023A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women's sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist. -
Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders
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Call Number: HQ73 .G47 2017This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female. -
Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Call Number: HQ76.27.Y68 K63 2020Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. -
In Transit
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Call Number: HQ77.9 .A554 2022Explores the experiences and challenges of living as a non-binary person in a society structured around binary gender norms. Through personal narratives, insightful reflections, and critical analysis, this book delves into the complexities of identity, acceptance, and the journey toward self-understanding. -
Whipping Girl
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Call Number: HQ77.9 .S47 2016In the updated second edition of Whipping Girl, Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist, shares her powerful experiences and observations,both pre- and post-transition,to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole. -
The Transgender Studies Reader 2
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Call Number: HQ77.9 .T72 2013Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge's The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that has expanded the boundaries of inquiry in many directions. -
Introduction to Transgender Studies
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Call Number: HQ77.9 .T496 2019This is the first introductory textbook intended for transgender/trans studies at the undergraduate level. The book can also be used for related courses in LGBTQ, queer, and gender/feminist studies. -
How to They/Them
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Call Number: HQ1075 .G48 2020Ever wondered what nonbinary and gender nonconforming really mean? Or if it's grammatically correct to use they as a singular pronoun? In this charming and disarming guide, a real-life they-using genderqueer writer unpacks all your burning questions in a fun, visual way. -
A Guide to Transgender Health
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Call Number: RA564.9.T73 H43 2019Provides the most up-to-date information on transgender science and its applications, for gender-diverse people, their supporters, and the professionals who assist them to lead healthy, happy, and successful lives.
Intersex
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Born Both
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Call Number: HQ77.98.V55 A3 2017From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.
Asexuality
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Ace Notes: Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World
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Call Number: eBookAs an ace or questioning person in an oh-so-allo world, you're probably in desperate need of a cheat sheet. Allow us to introduce your new asexual best friend, an essential resource serving up the life hacks you need to fully embrace the ace. Expect interviews with remarkable aces across the spectrum, advice on navigating different communities , and low-key ways to flaunt your ace identity. -
A Quick and Easy Guide to Asexuality
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Call Number: HQ18.5 .M85 2022Asexuality is often called The Invisible Orientation. You don’t learn about it in school, you don’t hear “ace” on television. So, it’s kinda hard to be ace in a society so steeped in sex that no one knows you exist. Too many young people grow up believing that their lack of sexual desire means they are broken – so writer Molly Muldoon and cartoonist Will Hernandez, both in the ace community, are here to shed light on society’s misconceptions of asexuality and what being ace is really like. -
Ace
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Call Number: HQ21 .C456 2020An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. -
I Am Ace
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Call Number: HQ21 .D35 2023A guide for young asexual or questioning folks to get to grips with asexuality as an identity, as well as the confidence and courage to embrace their authentic selves and live their best ace life. -
Ace Voices: What It Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace
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Call Number: HQ23 .Y686 2023How do we experience attraction? What does love mean to us? When did you realise you were ace? This is the ace community in their own words. Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life. -
How to Be Ace
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Call Number: HQ73.85.G7 B87 2020Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality. -
Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Call Number: HQ76.27.Y68 K63 2020Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Coming out
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Unashamed
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Call Number: eBookUnashamed serves as a guide for Christians considering coming out, tackling tough subject matters such as demolishing internalized homophobia, finding an affirming faith community, reestablishing your worth as a child of God, navigating difficult family conversations (especially in cases where family is involved in church leadership/ministry), and healing from the pain of rejection. -
Coming Out: The New Dynamics
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Call Number: eBookThe shifting contexts of coming out -- The meaning(s) of coming out -- The use of bisexuality as a transitional identity -- Sexual affinities and progressive identities -- Gender (non)conformity -- Not a process, but a career -- The future of coming out. -
Surviving the Closet: Learning to Live After Coming Out Later in Life
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Call Number: eBookAs a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Jo came out much later in life, and her experiences inform much of the ideas in this unique volume of writing. One part memoir, one part social discussion, and every part honest, Jo’s voice is unique–and her experiences inform much of the conversations she has about coming out. -
"Mom, Dad - I'm Gay"
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Call Number: HQ76.25 .S39 2001Drawing from over 150 interviews with teens, psychologist Ritch Savin-Williams seeks to separate fact from fiction in this survey of coming-out experiences. -
It Gets Better
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Call Number: HQ76.27.Y68 I74 2011It Gets Better is a collection of expanded essays and new material from celebrities, everyday people and teens who have posted videos of encouragement, as well as new contributors who have yet to post videos to the site. While many of these teens couldn't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the levels of happiness, potential and positivity their lives will reach if they can just get through their teen years. By sharing these stories, It Gets Better reminds teenagers in the LGBT community that they are not alone - and it WILL get better.
Family Issues
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Always My Child
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Call Number: HQ76.25 .J37 2003The first book to focus on the day-to-day experiences of adolescents dealing with sexual identity issues, Always My Child provides the insights and practical strategies parents need to support their kids and cope themselves. -
This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids
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Call Number: HQ76.25 .O987 2014This is the essential resource for parents looking for practical and supportive advice about their gay child. Written in an engaging and browsable question-and-answer format, the book guides parents on the many questions they're sure to have, from the deeply personal to practical day-to-day topics. -
"Mom, Dad - I'm Gay"
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Call Number: HQ76.25 .S39 2001Drawing from over 150 interviews with teens, psychologist Ritch Savin-Williams seeks to separate fact from fiction in this survey of coming-out experiences. He illustrates the range of family reactions and the factors that determine how parents come to terms with the disclosure over time.
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Straight Parents, Gay Children
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Call Number: HQ759.9145 .B47 2003Straight Parents, Gay Children is Robert Bernstein's moving account of how he came to terms with his daughter's homosexuality and how the experience has enriched his life. -
Free to Be: Understanding Kids and Gender Identity
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Call Number: eBookAn authoritative guide to understanding and navigating gender identity from an acclaimed expert on the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth.
Mental Health
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Psychology
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Call Number: eBookThis exciting and engaging textbook introduces students to the psychology of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer lives and experiences. -
Casebook for Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons and Their Families
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Call Number: eBookThis captivating book contains 31 case studies that focus on what is said and done in actual counseling sessions with LGBTQQI clients, including diagnosis; interventions, treatment goals, and outcomes; transference and countertransference issues; other multicultural considerations; and recommendations for further counseling or training. -
The Queer Mental Health Workbook
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Call Number: eBookUsing a range of therapeutic approaches, this comprehensive, down-to-earth self-help workbook is designed to be your personal mental health resource. It is filled with techniques and activities you can read, tailor and 'pick and mix' to improve your wellbeing as a queer person, at your pace. -
Children and Gender: ethical issues in clinical management of transgender and gender diverse youth, from early years to late adolescence
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Call Number: eBookSimona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. -
The GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health
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Call Number: RA564.9.H65 S346 2019This comprehensive review is the first handbook on LGBT physical and mental health created by the world's oldest and largest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health care professionals.
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
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Call Number: RC451.4.G39 H43 2019Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, mental illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness.
History
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LGBTQ+ (1923-2017)
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Call Number: eBook & KF4754.5 .S53 2018As gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals have continued their fight for basic rights and equal treatment under the law, various court cases and challenges to those cases have continued to refine the debate. This new resource provides important analyses of over 80 documents significant to LGBTQ rights -
Gay Lives
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Call Number: HQ75.2 .A53 2012In this book, Robert Aldrich presents a fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout history that reveals the full diversity of gay lives as lived in their times. -
Out in Time
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Call Number: HQ76.2.U5 H334 2019Out in Time explores the life experiences of three generations of gay men --the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations - arguing that while there are generational differences in the lived experiences of young gay men, each one confronts its own unique historical events, realities, and socio-political conditions, there are consistencies across time that define and unify the identity formation of gay men.
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A Queer History of the United States
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Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 B696 2011Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present. -
A Little Gay History
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Call Number: HQ76.25 .P376 2013Consulting ancient Egyptian papyri, the Roman Warren Cup's erotic figures, David Hockney's vivid prints, and dozens of other artifacts, R. B. Parkinson draws attention to a diverse range of same-sex experiences and situates them within specific historical and cultural contexts. -
The Bars Are Ours
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Call Number: HQ76.965.B395 H553 2023In The Bars Are Ours Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars, showing how they served as the medium for queer communities, politics, and cultures. -
Glitter and Concrete
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Call Number: HQ77.2.U6 G66 2023Goodman unearths the dramatic, provocative untold story of drag in New York City in all its glistening glory.
Law & Legislation
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Feminist and Queer Legal Theory
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Call Number: eBookFeminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations is a groundbreaking collection that brings together leading scholars in contemporary legal theory. -
The Fight for Marriage: Church Conflicts and Courtroom Contests
Call Number: eBookHarbison and Cramer show why states care about marriage, why the church got involved in marriage more than a thousand years after Jesus's earthly ministry, and how the church and the state function in partnership to foster the purposes and social benefits of marriage. -
LGBTQ+ (1923-2017)
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Call Number: eBook & KF4754.5 .S53 2018As gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals have continued their fight for basic rights and equal treatment under the law, various court cases and challenges to those cases have continued to refine the debate. This new resource provides important analyses of over 80 documents significant to LGBTQ rights
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Fair Play
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Call Number: GV709 .B28 2023A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women's sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist.
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The Deviant's War
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Call Number: HQ75.8.K35 C47 2020a gripping historical account of Dr. Franklin Kameny's fight against the U.S. government after being fired for his homosexuality. This compelling narrative chronicles Kameny's pioneering activism in the 1960s, which laid the groundwork for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. -
Awakening
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Call Number: HQ1034.U5 F73 2017The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates. -
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans
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Call Number: KF224.L39 C37 2012A real-life detective story that reveals the drama behind the scenes of a great Supreme Court victory for human rights. -
Love Wins
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Call Number: KF229.O24 C46 2016The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage. -
From the Closet to the Courtroom
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Call Number: KF4754.5.A53 B35 2010From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center-with the litigants and their lawyers-law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom, while deftly weaving in rich sociohistorical context and analyzing the lasting legal and political impact of each judicial outcome.
