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Perhaps the most important part of PFLAG's mission is to educate the public about gay-related
issues that affect our families. PFLAG publishes a number of pamphlets and recommends many books to further your education.
The Grand Rapids chapter also has an extensive lending library that includes many of the books recommended below.
PFLAG Publications
available through GR PFLAG
- Be Yourself, Questions and Answers for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth
- Is Homosexuality a Sin?
- Our Daughters and Sons: Questions and Answers for Parents of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People.
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Respect All Youth: Issue Papers by Ann Thompson Cook
#1 Who is Killing Whom?
#2 You Can Help
#3 Youth and Homosexuality-
The Family AIDS Support Packet - Straight Spouse Support Packet
Opening the Straight Spouses Closet- PFLAGpole,
PFLAG's quarterly newsletter
- PFLAG Public Referral Directory
- How To Win: A Practical Guide to Defeating the Radical Right in Your Community
by the Radical Task Force - Why Ask Why: Addressing the
Research on Homosexuality and Biology
- The Next Step: Coming Out and Speaking Out as Parents, Family Members and Friends of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People
Recommended videos
available through GR PFLAG
- Always My Kid: A family guide to Understanding Homosexuality
- Straight From the Heart: Stories of Parents Journeys To a New Understanding of Their Lesbian and Gay Children
- Queer Son: Family Journeys to Understanding and Love
Recommended Reading
check your local library or bookseller
- And Say Hi to Joyce: America's First Gay Columnist Comes Out
Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch. Doubleday, 1995 - Are You Still My Mother?
Gloria Guss Back. Warner Books, 1985. - Beyond Acceptance
Carolyn Griffith and Marian & Arthur Wirth. Prentice Hall, 1986.
- Bridges of Respect: Creating Support for Lesbian and Gay Youth
Katharine Whitlock. American Friends Service Committee, 1989. - Different Daughters: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians
Louise Rafkin. Cleis Press, 1987 - Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America.
Nancy Andrews. Harper San Francisco, 1994
- The Family Heart: A Memoir of When our Son Came Out
Robb Forman Dew. Addison Wesley, 1994 - Hearing Us Out: Voices from the Gay and Lesbian Community
Roger Sutton. Little, Brown & Co., 1994 - Homosexuality: The Secret a Child Dare Not Tell
Mary Ann Cantwell. Rafael Press, 1996
- Loving Someone Gay: Revised and Updated
Don Clark, Ph.D. Signet Brooks, 1987 - My Son Eric
Mary V. Borhek. The Pilgrim Press, 1979 - Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality
Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989
- Parents Matter
Ann Muller. Naiad Press, 1987 - Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms With the Suicide of Her Gay Son
Leroy Aarons. Harper San Francisco, 1995 - Straight Parent, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together
Robert A. Bernstein. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1995
Recommended Readings on Religion and Homosexuality
- And God Love Each One: A Resource for Dialogue About the Church and Homosexuality
Ann Thompson Cook for the Task Force on Reconciliation
Dumbarton United Methodist Church, 1990
Call PFLAG's national office at (202)638-4200 to find out how to order.
- Can Homophobia Be Cured? Wrestling with Questions that Challenge the Church
Bruce Hilton. Abington Press, 1992 - Homosexuality and Religion
Richard Hasbany, editor. Haworth Press, 1990 - Is The Homosexual My Neighbor? A Positive Christian Response
Letha Scanozni and Virginia R. Mollenkott. Harper San Francisco, 1994
- Pastor, I Am Gay
Reverend Howard H. Bess. Palmer Publishing Company, 1995 - The New Testament and Homosexuality
Robin Scroggs. Augsburg Fortress, 1984
PFLAG helps people grow through education.
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