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| Becoming Visible: A Reader in
Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College
Students, edited by Kevin Jennings, $13.95. Covers 2000 years of history and a diverse range of cultures. Suitable for classroom use or general reading.  |
The Gay Lesbian and Bisexual
Students' Guide to Colleges, Universities, and Graduate
Schools (1994 edition), Jan-Mitchell Sherrill and
Craig Hardesty, $25.50. Contains information on the services provided for lesbian, gay and bisexual students at more than 200 colleges. Also, includes information about atmospheres and attitudes at these schools. |
| Gay Parents/Straight Schools:
Building Communication and Trust, Virginia Casper,
$19.95The authors openly
address the specific educational realities and needs of
lesbian- and gay-headed families. The book features wise
insights from children, teachers, administrators, and
parents, and useful strategies to ensure the best
education for children. |
The
Gay Teen: Educational Practice and Theory for Lesbian,
Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents, Edited by Gerald Unks,
$23.99. A book by and for gay and straight educators. |
| Helping Gay and Lesbian Youth:
New Policies, New Programs, New Practice, Edited by
Teresa De Crescenzo, $19.95. Especially for teachers,
social workers, counselors and others concerned about the
well-being of today's youth. |
The Last Closet: The Real Lives
of Lesbian and Gay Teachers, Rita M. Kissen, $15.95.These stories come
from over a hundred lesbian, gay, and bisexual women and
men who are, or have been, teachers, counselors,
librarians, and administrators across the country. The
Last Closet describes the struggles of educators
caught between their desire for authenticity and their
need for safety - a need that forces most of them to hide
a significant part of their identity. |
| Lesbian Teachers: An Invisible
Presence, Madiha Didi Khayatt, SUNY, 1992, $27.00. Explores the ways
in which lesbian teachers inevitably contradict the
traditionally held expectations of who teachers are and
what it is they teach. |
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Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their
Stories, edited by Kevin Jennings, Alyson, 1994,
$11.95.This book compiles
stories of the struggles and victories for gay and
lesbian educators as they fight for visibility, equality,
and acceptance. |
| Overcoming Heterosexism and
Homophobia: Strategies That Work, James T. Sears,
$26.00
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Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay
Academics Confronting Homophobia, Toni A.H. McNaron,
Temple Univ., 1997, $21.95. Gay and lesbian
academics all over the country are still subjected to
homophobic personal slights, harassment, and
discrimination. How do they cope, and what kinds of
actions can promote positive change? |
| Queering Elementary Education:
Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling,
William Letts & James Sears, editors, $24.95. Explores the ways
in which children's lives are hurt by homophobia and ways
in which educators can address these issues in the
classroom and school. |
 Telling Tales
Out of School: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual People Remember
Their School Years, Kevin Jennings, $13.95In more than 30 essays, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals look back at their school days to find that they are still trying to unlearn a basic lesson imparted by the educational system to homosexuals: "Hate yourself". |
| Understanding Homosexuality,
Changing Schools, Arthur Lipkin, $39.00 Scholarship on homosexuality, gay and lesbian identities, history, and culture came to universities too late for most elementary and secondary school educators, leaving them unprepared to deal with these subjects. Veteran teacher and university instructor Arthur Lipkin provides a foundation and models for school reform in these areas. |
 Working Parts, Lucy
Jane Bledsoe, $12.00.Lori Taylor is a top-notch bicycle mechanic and a smart woman with well-oiled charisma. And, she cannot read. Her best fried Mickey is long on literacy but comes up short in matters of love. The two friends enter into a pact that leads to dangerous emotional territory. But as they negotiate the rough ride of personal growth, the mutual dream that drives them begins to unravel... Working Parts is an exceptional novel that taps the essence of friendship and the potential unleashed when we face our most intense fears. |
 Coming Out of
the Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers
and Curricula, edited by Karen Harbeck, $19.95.For educators, includes several chapters on working with youth. |
 Beyond
Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk About Their
Experiences, Carolyn Griffin, et.al., $12.95.Provides parents the comfort and knowledge they need to accept their gay children and build stronger family relationships. |
 Bi Any Other
Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, edited by Loraine
Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu, $12.95.Collection of writings on the experiences of bisexual people.
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| Bisexual Resource Guide 2001, Robyn
Ochs & Bisexual Resource Center, $13.95 |
 Coming Out of
Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives, Gershen
Kaufman & Lev Raphael, $12.95.The authors break the silence surrounding gay and lesbian experience so that individuals can "come out" of shame and begin a path toward personal growth and acceptance. |
| Does Your Mama Know?, Lisa
Moore, $19.95. African American women tell their coming out stories.
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 Gay &
Lesbian Online: Revised & Expanded: Travel guide to
Queerdom on the World Wide Web, Jeff Dawson, $17.95.This updated edition of Dawson's bestselling guide charts the entire spectrum of gay and lesbian interests found in the ever-growing digital world of the Internet. |
 The Last Time I Wore a Dress,
Daphne Scholinski, $13.00.A moving memoir of a 15-year old girl placed in a mental hospital for what her psychiatrist called "failure to identity as a sexual female."
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 Loving Someone
Gay (Revised and Updated), Don Clark, $14.95.A gay therapist offers sensitive, intelligent guidance to gays and those who care about them. |
My Gender Workbook, Kate Bornstein, $19.95. A transgendered writer provides a workbook for individuals who want to know more about their gender identity. |
 Now That You Know: What Every
Parent Should Know about Homosexuality, edited by
Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward, $13.00.A classic in the field--contains important and useful information.
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 Stone Butch
Blues, Leslie Feinberg, $13.95.Powerful, provocative, and deeply moving account of a he- she coming to terms with the complexities of a transgenderecl existence. |
 TransLiberation: Beyond Pink or
Blue, Leslie Feinberg, $14.00.This is a collection of Feinberg's speeches on the liberation of transpeople and all peoples.
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 Transgender Warriors: Making
History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, Leslie
Feinberg, $20.00.The first and only fully illustrated transgender history. |
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