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EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

PFLAG Tucson maintains a reserve of literature produced by PFLAG National that we make available free to the public.  This list of publications is below.  You can pick these up at our support meetings and at our information tables that we have at GLBT gatherings such as Outoberfest.  If you would like to receive any publication(s) by mail, please contact our Education Chair at education@pflagtucson.orgPFLAG National also has several of these publications available on-line as pdf files (these require Acrobat Reader to view).  Direct links to these are provided below.

25: A Quarter Century . . .
Be Yourself
Bisexuality Resource Packet
Faith in Our Families
From Our House to the School House
General Information Packet
Is Homosexuality a Sin?
Love Takes Action video
Nuestras hijas y nuestros hijos
(Our Daughters and Sons translation)
Opening the Straight Spouse’s Closet
Our Daughters and Sons
Our Trans Children
Public Referral Directory
Read This Before Coming Out . . .
Respect All Youth #1: Who Is Killing Whom?
Respect All Youth #2: You Can Help
Why Ask Why?:  Addressing the Research on Homosexuality

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LIBRARY

PFLAG Tucson has a good library of books and other publications on a broad spectrum of GLBT issues that are available for loan, and we list these below.  These are available at our support meetings.  The titles below are linked to Amazon.com's book descriptions (or to another appropriate web page) to give readers more information on what these books cover.

    | Children | Gay Rights | General | Parents | Religion | Spouses | Transgender | Youth | Videos/CDs |
Children
Daddy’s Roommate Willhoite, Michael
Daddy’s Wedding Willhoite, Michael
Heather Has Two Mommies Newman, Leslea

How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?

Heron and Maran

Spot Todd, Tuttle

Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit

Willhoite, Michael

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Gay Rights

  
Claiming Our Civil/Spiritual Rights White, Mel
Created Equal:  Why Gay Rights Matter to America Nava and Dawidoff
Gays and the Military Wolinsky and Sherrill, Editors
Gays/Justice Mohr, Richard D.
Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, The Adam, Barry D.
Sexual Orientation and the Law Editors of the Harvard Law Review
Violence and Social Injustice Against LGBT People Sloan and Gustavson, Editors
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General

  
After the Ball Kirk and Madsen

Am I Blue?  Coming Out From the Silence (fiction)

Bauer

Are You Still My Mother? Are you Still My Family? Back, Gloria G.

Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk About Their Experiences

Griffin and Wirth

Breaking the Surface Louganis, Greg

Cleaning Closets:  A Mother's Story

Cole

Closet, The de Maria, Gary
Coming Home to America:  A Road Map to Lesbian and Gay Empowerment Oborn, Torie

Coming Out Of The Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers, and Curricula (Journal of Sexuality Series)

Harbeck, K. M.

Coming Out Right:  A Guide for the Gay Male Muchmore and Hanson
Construction of Homosexuality, The Greenberg, David

Different Daughters:  A Book by Mothers of Lesbians

Rafkim

Domestic Violence in the GLBT Community Wingspan (Tucson LGBT Center)

Free Your Mind

Bass, Kaufma

Gay And Lesbian Stats:  A Pocket Guide of Facts and Figures

Singer and Deschamp

Hidden From History: Reclaiming The Gay And Lesbian Past

Duberman, Vicinus and Chauncey

Homophobia:  How We All Pay the Price Blumenfeld, Warren J.

Homophobia: A Weapon Of Sexism

Pharr, Suzanne

Homosexuality:  A Practical Guide to Counseling Lesbians, Gay Men, and Their Families

McDonald and Steinhorn

How Homophobia Hurts Children:  Nurturing Diversity iat Homes, at School, and in Our Community Baker, Jean

Is It A Choice?  Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay and Lesbian People

Marcus, Eric

Joining The Tribe:  Growing up Gay and Lesbian in the '90s

Due, Linnea

Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships Sutton, Linda
Now That You Are Out of the Closet:  What About the Rest of the Family Handel, Linda

One Teacher In 10:  Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories

Jennings, Kevin

Out for Office:  Campaigning in the Gay 90's Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
Out of the Twilight:  Fathers of Gay Men Speak Gottlieb, Andrew R.

Outing Yourself:  How to Come out as a Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends, and Coworkers

Signorile, M.

Passages of Pride:  Gay and Lesbian Youth Come of Age

Nugent, R.

Pretzel Logic:  A Novel

Rogak, Lisa

Richard Through the Years (A Biography of Richard Holmes)

Meader, Norman

And Say Hi To Joyce: America's First Gay Column Comes Out

Price and Murdoch

Straight Person’s Guide To Gay People’s Anguish

Castiglione, J

The Stranger Next Door:  The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Faith, Sex, and Civil Rights

Arlene Stein

Ten Ways To Fight Hate

So. Poverty Law Center

The Well Of Loneliness, A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction

Hall, Raddyffe

What You Can Do To Avoid AIDS

Ervin Magic Johnson

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Parents

Accepting Your Gay Or Lesbian Child

PFLAG

Families in Crisis Video

Family Heart, The

Dew, Robb F.

A Family Matter:  A Parent's Guide to Homosexuality

Silverstein, Charles

Family Outing:  A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families

Bono, Chastity

Family Secrets:  Gay Sons - A Mother's Story

Baker, Jean M.

Friends & Family:  True Stories of Gay America's Straight Allies

Dan Woog

Honor Thy Children:  One Family's Journey to Wholeness

Fumia, Molly

Is Your Family Like Mine?

Abramchik, Lois

Now That You Know:  A Parent's Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children Fairchild and Haywood

Papá, Mamá, Soy Gay

Riesenfeld, Rinna

Parents Of The Homosexual:  Christian Care Books 11

Switzer, David K.

Prayers For Bobby:  A Mother's Coming to Terms With the Suicide of Her Gay Son

Aarons, Leroy

Straight from the Heart:  A Love Story

Jackson-Paris, R. and B.

Straight Parents, Gay Children:  Keeping Families Together

Bernstein, Robert. A.

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Religious Issues

AIDS, The Spiritual Dilemma

Fortunato, John E.

And God Loves Each One

Cook, Ann T.

Blessed Bi Spirit:  Bisexual People of Faith Kolodny, Debra, Editor
Can Homophobia be Cured? Wrestling With Questions That Challenge the Church Hilton, Bruce

A Catholic Mother Looks At The Gay Children

Davis, Jesse

Church Studies on Homosexuality

United Methodist Church Study Guide

Claiming Our Civil/Spiritual Rights White, Mel
Contending for the Faith Ferguson, K. A.

Discovering Images of God:  Narratives of Care Among Gay and Lesbian Americans

Graham, Larry K.

Embracing The Exile

Fortunato, John E.

Finishing The Journey

Northhaven United Methodist Church

Gay and Lesbian Youth in Your Parish:  Are They Welcome? Integrity Tucson

Lenten Lectures (Tapes)

Spong, Bishop John S.

The Good Book:  Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart Gomes, Peter J.
Living the Spirit Compilation by Gay American Indians

Maybe We Are Talking About A Different God:  Homosexuality And The Church

Video

The New Testament and Homosexuality:  Contextual Background for Contemporary Debate

Scroggs, Robin

Prayer Journey For Persons With AIDS

Nugent, R.

Preacher’s Son, The

Adams, Marc

Stranger at the Gate:  To be Gay and Christian in America

White, Mel

Taking a Chance on God:  Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Lovers, Families, and Friends McNeil, John J.

We Were Baptized Too:  Claiming God's Grace for Lesbians and Gays

Marilyn Alexander, James Preston

What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality Helminiak, Daniel A.

Why The Religious Right Is Wrong:  About Separation of Church & State

Boston, R.

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Spouses

From Wedded Wife To Lesbian Life:  Stories of Transformation

Abbott and Farmer

Is He Straight?  A Checklist for Women Who Wonder

Kaye, Bonnie

My Husband is Gay:  A Woman's Survival Guide

Grever, Carol

The Other Side Of The Closet:  The Coming Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families

Buxton, A. P.

When Husbands Come Out of the Closet

Gochros, Jean Schaar

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Transgender

Trans Forming Families:  Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones

Boenke, Mary (Ed.)

Trans-Sister Radio

Chris Bohjalian

The Woman I Was Not Born to Be:  A Transsexual Journey Brevard, A.
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Youth

Bridges of Respect

Am. Friends Service Comm.

Death By Denial:  Studies of Suicide in Gay and Lesbian Teenagers

Remafedi, Gary (Ed.)

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian:  A Literary Anthology

Singer, B. L.

Lesbian And Gay Youth (Care and Counseling)

Ryan and Futterman

Not Like Other Boys:  Growing up Gay, A Mother and Son Look Back

Shyer, Chris and Marlene

One Teenager In 10:  Writings by Lesbian and Gay Youth

Heron, Ann

Telling Tales Out of School

Jennings, Kevin (Ed.)

Voices of GLBT Youth GLSEN Tucson (video)
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Videos/CDs

Eve’s Daughter

Video

Families In Crisis

Video

Legacy by Desert Voices

CD

Rhetoric of Intolerance

Video

Setting The Record Straight

Video

Stonewall 25

Video

Straight From The Heart

Video

Transfamily

Video

Truth About Jane, The

Video

Your Mom’s A Lesbian, Here’s Your Lunch, Have A Nice Day At School

Video

Voices of GLBT Youth GLSEN Tucson Video
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