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Gay/Lesbian Youths Tell Their Stories
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Title: Testimonies: Lesbian Coming-Out Stories
Editors: Karen Barber & Sarah Holmes
Availability: Paperback
Title: Being Different: Lambda Youths Speak Out
Author: Larry Dane Brimner
Availability: School & Library Binding
Title: Passages of Pride
Author: Kurt Chandler
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing Up Gay
Author: Aaron Fricke
Availability: Paperback
Title: Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth
Editor: Ann Heron
Availability: Paperback
Title: Growing Up Gay: The Sorrows and Joys of Gay and Lesbian Adolescence
Author: Rita Reed
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Straight Parents Tell Their Stories
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Title: Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms With the Suicide of Her Gay Son
Author: Leroy Aarons
Availability: Paperback
Title: Straight Parents Gay Children: Keeping Families Together
Author: Robert A. Bernstein
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Homosexuality: The Secret a Child Dare Not Tell
Author: Mary Ann Cantwell
Availability: Paperback
Title: Cleaning Closets: A Mother's Story
Author: Beverly Cole
Availability: Paperback
Title: The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out
Author: Robb Forman Dew
Availability: Paperback
Title: Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children
Authors: Betty Fairchild & Nancy Hayward
Availability: Paperback
Title: Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk About Their Experiences
Authors: Carolyn Welch Griffin, Marian J. Wirth, Arthur G. Wirth, Brian McNaught
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Gay/Lesbian Youths
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Title: Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet
Authors: Gilbert Herdt & Andrew Boxer
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Gay and Lesbian Youth
Editor: Gilbert Herdt
Note: Collection of Articles
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
Author: Robert E. Owens
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Death by Denial: Studies of Suicide in Gay and Lesbian Teenagers
Editor: Gary Remafedi
Note: Collection of Articles
Availability: Paperback
Gay/Lesbian Parents
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Title: The Final Closet: The Gay Parents' Guide for Coming Out to Their Children
Author: Rip Corley
Availability: Paperback
Title: Asha's Mums
Authors: Rosamund Elwin & Michele Paulse
Availability: Paperback
Title: How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?
Authors: Ann Heron & Meredith Maran
Availability: Paperback
Title: One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads
Author: Johnny Valentine
Availability: Hardcover
Title: Anna Day and the O-Ring
Author: Elaine Wickens
Availability: Paperback
Title: Daddy's Roommate
Author: Michael Willhoite
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Gay/Lesbian Students/Teachers
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Title: Coming Out of the Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers, and Curricula
Editor: Karen M. Harbeck
Note: Collection of Articles
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth: The Invisible Minority
Editor: Mary B. Harris
Note: Collection of Articles
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: The Gay Teen: Educational Practice and Theory for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents
Editor: Gerald Unks
Note: Collection of Articles
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Helping Gay/Lesbian Youths
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Title: Helping Gay and Lesbian Youth: New Policies, New Programs, New Practice
Editor: Teresa Decrescenzo
Note: Collection of Articles
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Lesbian & Gay Youth: Care and Counseling
Authors: Caitlin Ryan & Donna Futterman
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Coming Out
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Title: Coming Out to Parents: A Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their Parents
Author: Mary V. Borhek
Availability: Paperback
Title: Coming Out Every Day: A Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning Man's Guide
Author: Bret K. Johnson
Availability: Paperback
Title: Outing Yourself: How to Come Out As Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends, and Coworkers
Author: Michelangelo Signorile
Availability: Paperback
Title: Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out Process of Contemporary Gay Men
Author: Marc E. Vargo
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Sexual Orientation & Development
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Title: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities Over the Lifespan: Psychological Perspectives
Editors: Anthony R. D'Augelli & Charlotte J. Patterson
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance
Author: Richard A. Isay
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development
Author: Richard A. Isay
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Gay and Lesbian Identity: A Sociological Analysis
Author: Richard R. Troiden
Availability: Paperback
Relationships
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Title: Love Between Men: Enhancing Intimacy and Keeping Your Relationship Alive
Author: Rik Isensee
Availability: Paperback
Title: Rainbow Family Values: Relationship Skills for Lesbian and Gay Couples
Author: Michael S. Piazza
Availability: Paperback
Homophobia
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Title: Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price
Editor: Warren Blumenfeld
Availability: Paperback
Title: Stigma and Sexual Orientation: Understanding Prejudice Against Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals
Editor: Gregory M. Herek
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Author: Suzanne Pharr
Availability: Paperback
Title: Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work
Editors: James T. Sears & Walter L. Williams
Availability: Paperback Hardcover
Title: The Adventures of Priscilla--Queen of the Desert
Rated R
Availability: VHS DVD
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
A surprise hit in America, this 1994 Australian comedy is anchored by Terence Stamp as a transsexual who, in the company of two drag queens, travels to a remote desert location to put on a lip- synch performance--to the amazement of the locals. Getting there on a pink bus named Priscilla, the trio stop and play for people all over the Outback, getting the same homophobic, bewildered responses...The most fun comes whenever the three are performing; fans of Abba will be particularly pleased. The DVD release has optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, cast and crew bios, optional French and Spanish subtitles.
--Tom Keogh
Title: As Good As It Gets
Rated PG-13
Availability: VHS DVD
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
For all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon (Jack Nicholson) who improves his personality at the urging of his gay neighbor (Greg Kinnear) and a waitress (Helen Hunt) who inspires his best behavior, this is one of the sharpest Hollywood comedies of the 1990s. Nicholson['s] mischievous persona is...necessary to give heart to his seemingly heartless character, who is of all things a successful romance novelist. As a single mom with a chronically asthmatic young son, Hunt gives the film its conscience and integrity (along with plenty of wry humor), and she also won an Oscar for her wonderful performance. Greg Kinnear had to settle for an Oscar nomination (while cowriter-director James L. Brooks was inexplicably snubbed by Oscar that year), but his work was also singled out in the film's near-unanimous chorus of critical praise. It's questionable whether a romance between Hunt and the much older Nicholson is entirely believable, but this movie's smart enough--and charmingly funny enough--to make it seem endearingly possible.
--Jeff Shannon
Title: The Birdcage
Rated R
Availability: VHS DVD
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
...Mike Nichols and Elaine May reunite to (respectively) direct and write this update of the French comedy La Cage Aux Folles. Robin Williams stars as a gay Miami nightclub owner who is forced to play it straight and ask his drag-queen partner (Nathan Lane) to hide out when Williams's son invites his prospective--and highly conservative--in-laws and fiancée to a meet-and-greet dinner party. Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest play the straight-laced senator and his wife, and Calista Flockhart (from television's Ally McBeal) plays their daughter in a culture-clash with outrageous consequences. May's witty screenplay incorporates some pointed observations about the political landscape of the 1990s and takes a sensitive approach to the comedy's underlying drama. Topping off the action is Hank Azaria in a scene-stealing role as Williams's and Lane's flamboyant housekeeper, "Agador Spartacus."
--Jeff Shannon
Title: Boys Life
Rated NR
Availability: VHS
"Boys Life" consists of three shorts about coming out. In...'Pool Days,' a teenager who works as a lifeguard finds himself attracted to and frightened of a beautiful man paying extra attention to him. In...'A Friend of Dorothy,' a college freshman passionately falls in love with his straight roommate...'The Disco Years' explores how peer pressure can lead someone to homophobic behavior -- even if he may be gay himself."
--Amazon.com
Title: Boys on the Side
Rated R
Availability: VHS DVD
"Three disparate women [Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, and Drew Barrymore]...travel cross-country and become involved in each other's lives. Any film incorporating physical abuse, premarital pregnancy, AIDS, and lesbianism has got its work cut out for it; three strong, appealing performances make up for story contrivances (and credibility gaps)".
--Leonard Maltin
Title: Gay Youth
Rated NR
Availability: VHS
Title: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian
Rated NR
Availability: VHS
Title: In & Out
Rated PG-13
Availability: VHS DVD
Amazon.com Video Description Excerpt
While accepting his first Academy Award, for his portrayal of a gay soldier, a Hollywood wunderkind salutes his erstwhile drama teacher, Howard Brackett of Greenleaf, Indiana, who is gay. The trouble is that as far as Howard and his...fiancee of three years know, Howard isn't gay--and convincing the school principal, his parents, and a platoon of media personnel otherwise proves to be difficult. Inspired by Tom Hanks' "outing" of his retired drama teacher in his acceptance speech for "Philadelphia." Penned in breezily comic, palatable style by Paul Rudnick, known to readers of "Premiere" magazine as columnist Libby Gelman-Waxner. Academy Award Nomination: Best Supporting Actress--Joan Cusack.
Title: Kiss Me Guido
Rated R
Availability: VHS
This movie is an "earnest comedy about a heterosexual Pacino/De Niro wannabe (Scotti) from the Bronx who moves to Manhattan and unknowingly takes a gay roommate. Occasionally funny, even though the set-up is artificial and the characters are stereotypes."
--Leonard Maltin
Title: Losing Chase
Rated R
Availability: VHS
This movie is a "well-acted character-driven drama, set on Martha's Vineyard, about a psychologically troubled woman (Mirren) and her complex relationship with the new mother's helper (Sedgwick) hired to look after her children." This is Kevin Bacon's feature directing debut. Sedgwick (Bacon's wife) is the executive producer.
--Leonard Maltin
Title: Love! Valour! Compassion!
Rated R
Availability: VHS
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
...Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning hit about a cluster of gay male friends who gather several times one summer at a Victorian house on the bank of a rural lake never quite measures up (at least on film) as anything particularly profound. The story traces a history of infighting and changing relationships within the group, with the shock of AIDS slowly pushing everyone toward greater closeness and honesty. But instead of making an impact, so much of the film is trivial: dinner conversations are banal, tantrums are tedious, genitals are a little too overexposed. The two best and most familiar actors in the piece, Jason Alexander and John Glover, ironically play the most cliché-ridden characters. Still, Glover--who portrays British twin brothers who could not be more different from one another--is a very good reason to see this film.
--Tom Keogh .
Title: Maurice
Rated R
Availability: VHS
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
The second of the Merchant/Ivory films (A Room with a View, Howard's End), Maurice deals with a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It's not just a gay coming-of-age story... The hero wrestles with British class society as much as his personal and sexual identity...
The film opens on a stormy, windswept beach, as an older man awkwardly instructs young, fatherless Maurice Hall (James Wilby) in the "sacred mysteries" of sex. The same turbulent, wordless struggle with passion lasts throughout this slowly evolving, beautifully filmed story. Novelist E.M. Forster's brainy, British melodrama hinges on choice and compulsion, as the pensive hero falls for two completely different men. First comes frail, suppressed Clive (Hugh Grant), who wants nothing more than classical Platonic harmony... and a straight lifestyle. (Grant's performance is so convincing, one wonders how he ever became a heterosexual sex symbol.) After Clive's wedding, Maurice turns to hypnosis to cure his unspeakable longings. Unfortunately, his "cure" is interrupted by Clive's lustful, brooding, barely literate gamekeeper Scudder (Rupert Graves)... Maurice's love for a "social inferior" forces him to confront his illicit desire and his ingrained class snobbery.
--Grant Balfour
Title: My Best Friend's Wedding
Rated PG-13
Availability: VHS DVD
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the age of 28, they'd marry each other. Just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and marry the man she now realizes she's loved all along. With potential heartbreak waiting in the wings, she'll either get what she wants or pay the price for her selfish behavior, and Ronald Bass's cleverly constructed screenplay keeps us guessing to the very end. Rupert Everett scored rave reviews for his scene-stealing performance as Robert's gay friend who goes along with her scheming (but only so far), and even as she makes her character's needy desperation disarmingly appealing, Roberts wisely allows Diaz to capitalize on her charming time in the spotlight. As the romantic outcome remains uncertain, the viewer is held in a state of giddy suspense, and director P.J. Hogan pulls off some hilarious scenes (like a restaurant full of people singing the Dionne Warwick hit "I Say a Little Prayer") that could easily have fallen flat in the hands of a less talented filmmaker...
--Jeff Shannon.
Title: My Own Private Idaho
Rated R
Availability: VHS
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
Gus Van Sant's often-beautiful 1991 film stars River Phoenix as a narcoleptic, Seattle male prostitute and Keanu Reeves as the rich friend who agrees to help him find his mother. After a solid hour or so of the two traveling on this quest through Idaho and Italy, Van Sant throws a wrench into the works by conjuring a gay version of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, with Reeves's character as Prince Hal and filmmaker William Richert ...as a variation on Falstaff. The experiment is interesting to watch, but you can't help wondering what on earth happened to the movie. Still, the film has a cult status one can't argue with, and Phoenix gives a tragic performance that stays in the memory.
--Tom Keogh .
Title: On Being Gay
Rated NR
Availability: VHS
Title: Philadelphia
Rated PG-13
Availability: VHS DVD
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
Philadelphia...was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs) wasn't interested in preaching to the converted; he set out to make a film that would connect with a mainstream audience. And he succeeded. Philadelphia was not only a hit, it also won Oscars for Bruce Springsteen's haunting "The Streets of Philadelphia," and for Tom Hanks as the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he has AIDS. Denzel Washington is another lawyer (functioning as the mainstream-audience surrogate) who reluctantly takes Beckett's case and learns to overcome his misconceptions about the disease, about those who contract it, and about gay people in general. The combined warmth and humanism of Hanks and Demme were absolutely essential to making this picture a success. The cast also features Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas (as Beckett's lover), Joanne Woodward, and Robert Ridgely, and, of course, those Demme regulars Charles Napier, Tracey Walter, and Roger Corman.
--Jim Emerson
Title: Threesome
Rated R
Availability: VHS
Amazon.com Review
This underrated comedy-drama by Andrew Fleming may one day be seen as a reflection of the muddled sexual politics of the 1990s. Three dissimilar college students played by Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, and Josh Charles become unlikely best friends, forging a relationship so exclusive it actually troubles onlookers. From the inside, however, the trio are enjoying the safety of their own bond and exploring varying needs of love and sexual adventurousness. Erotic, bawdy, sensuous, mysterious, and nostalgic, the film can make a viewer envy the state of grace these characters have found with each other. All three actors have never been better.
--Tom Keogh
Title: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Rated PG-13
Availability: VHS
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
This clunky road movie about three drag queens (Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguziamo) who get stranded in a sleepy Nebraska town on their way to a beauty contest, is too uplifting for its own good. Released during drag's mid-'90s heyday when RuPaul and the Wigstock documentary were all the rage, To Wong Foo aimed straight for the mainstream with its inoffensive camp and "can't we all get along" moralism. While gay-activist groups howled about straights getting the lead roles in To Wong Foo, in the end the filmmakers really couldn't have done better than this trio of actors. John Leguziamo provides real sass and bite as a Latino...drag queen, and Wesley Snipes is surprisingly fierce as the imposing leader of the pack. Saddled with a cloying Southern accent and off-kilter wig, Patrick Swayze barely holds his own with his costars, though. To Wong Foo is best viewed as a cultural artifact of a time when it seemed as though drag could rule all tomorrow's parties.
--Ethan Brown
Title: Torch Song Trilogy
Rated R
Availability: VHS
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
...Fierstein's performance is fine, but likely a shadow of his live work, while Anne Bancroft is very strong in the role of his character's mother. Matthew Broderick went against the tide of fear shared by most Hollywood actors at the time about playing gay characters. The times have certainly changed since then.
--Tom Keogh
Title: Victor/Victoria
Rated PG
Availability: VHS
Amazon.com Review Excerpt
Blake Edwards's delightful Victor/Victoria may be one of the last of the great, old-style movie musical comedies--it is so good, it was turned into a hit Broadway stage musical years later. And both versions starred Edwards's wife Julie Andrews...in the title role--as Victor and Victoria. She's a down-and-out singer who hooks up with a flamboyantly gay theatrical veteran (Robert Preston), and together they become the toast of 1934 Paris by dreaming up a provocative nightclub act in which Victoria assumes the identity of a man in drag. So, in other words, Andrews plays a woman playing a man playing a woman ... and that's only the beginning of the sexual identity confusions that provide the fuel for this splendidly classy slapstick musical farce. (Yes, it's all those things.) James Garner, as a Chicago club owner, finds himself strangely besotted with this stylish, androgynous creature--even though he thinks Victor/Victoria is a man. Legendary Hollywood composer Henry Mancini (a longtime collaborator with Edwards) won his last Oscar for the score; Andrews, Preston, and Lesley Ann Warren, as Garner's cheeky girlfriend, were also nominated. Musical highlights include Victor/Victoria's sizzling "Le Jazz Hot" (in which Andrews shows off her incredible vocal range); another showstopper for Victor/Victoria, "The Shady Dame from Seville"; Preston's witty ode to "Gay Paree"; Warren's hilarious burlesque number, "King's Can-Can"; and a charmingly casual yet elegant side-by-side number, "You and Me," done in a small club by Preston and Andrews in tuxedos.
--Jim Emerson
Title: When a Kid is Gay
Rated NR
Availability: VHS
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