Browse through our selection of Gay and Lesbian books. Click a flag to visit the Amazon bookstore and, if you wish, order online! |
| Bisexual Women
Friendship and Social Organization
M. Paz Galupo, PhD (Ed.) 
| How do heterosexism and biphobia affect a bisexual woman's friendships?
Prevailing attitudes toward
bisexuality affect every aspect of a bisexual woman's emotional and sexual life. Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization comprehensively explores the friendship relationships of bisexual women, and the ways that bisexuality shapes the friendship experience. This book fills a gap in the literature and research on bisexuality and friendship, presenting leading experts discussing the latest qualitative and quantitative studies on this rarely visited topic. This examination explains
how the friendships of bisexual and bi-curious women can be affected by sexism, heterosexism, biphobia, and racism, as well as providing an insightful review of how bisexual women are portrayed in film and literature.
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| Lesbian Widows: Invisible Grief
Vicky Whipple, EdD, LCPC
| Learn about the grief and difficulties felt from the death of a life partner—from the unique lesbian perspective
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death of a life partner poses unique challenges for lesbians. Lesbian Widows: Invisible Grief reveals the touching and very personal stories of twenty-five women, including the author, who were widowed at a young age and forced to create a new life without their life partners. The widows discuss their efforts to create funerals and memorial services, give their accounts of the overwhelming grief throughout the first two years, and explain the legal and financial discrimination they
encountered. The book provides an insightful look into the grieving and recovery process, offers practical advice about coping techniques, and ultimately inspires hope for anyone mourning their loss with the knowledge that others have survived this tragedy. |
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| Side by Side: On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling
Andrew R. Gottlieb
| A work of humanity and grace, this book gives a voice to the brothers and sisters of gay men and women, a group
whose unique perspective has seldom been explored in print. Written by siblings themselves, the text's essays reveal the complex-and very human-issues that so often emerge among family members having dissimilar sexual orientations.
The contributors to Side by Side come from varying religious and economic backgrounds. In plain language that is easily accessible to most adolescents and adults, they candidly relate the experience of what it was like to find out about their sibling’s
homosexuality and how that knowledge affected them over time. Some of their perspectives may surprise you. Many will move you. You’ll also find a list of suggested readings and a list of organizations offering support and information for siblings of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. |
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| Touchwood
Karin Kallmaker
| Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets a woman many years her
senior who offers a loving place in her life. This is an erotic exploration of love, and of that landscape of the mind known as age. |
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| Awakening the Virgin: True Tales of Seduction
Nicole Foster (Editor)
| Contains true stories of lesbians seducing a virgin, and sometimes being seduced by a virgin. |
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| Straight?: True Stories of Unlikely Sexual Encounters Between Men
Jack Hart (Editor)
| Jack Hart's Straight is a collection of frisky first-person tales in which straight-identified men end up having sex with other men. For the most part, sex play here is eagerly sought after and thoroughly enjoyed. Straight delivers on its softcore fantasy promise, but the underlying theme – that the words we use to classify ourselves are, at best, inexact and often misleading – is quite serious.
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| The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming Out Crisis
for Straight Spouses and Families
Amity Pierce Buxton
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Contains stories and tactics for straight spouses and their families to constructively cope with a mate or family member who declares his/her homosexuality. Analyses six key issues a straight spouse faces when a partner `comes out' including damaged sexuality, threatened marital relationships, conflicting spouse/parent roles, devalued self-concept, destroyed integrity and shattered belief systems. |
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| Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends, and Coworkers
Michelangelo Signorile
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you prepare, coming out as gay or lesbian is a difficult, emotional process – a process that will continue long after the words are spoken and the secret is out. There's no magic formula, but Outing Yourself by Michelangelo Signorile offers structure, guidance, and straightforward advice. Signorile's 14-step programme – complete with exercises, meditation notes, and anger checks, as well as the accounts of the coming-out experiences of other lesbians and gay men – shows how you can successfully handle this life-changing, life-renewing process. A guide for the coming-out journey, Outing Yourself will convince all who read it that, in the words of the author, "The stress of coming out will never be as hard on you as the stress of staying in was."
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| How to Be a Happy Homosexual
Terry Sanderson
| This book has all the information that a starting-out gay man could want, and best of all it is
reassuring and positive. It will help build the confidence of gay men who are unsure of their role and don't know how to make the best of their gay life. |
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| The Lesbian Parenting Book
D. Merilee Clunis, Dorsey Green
| Indispensable information on lesbian parenting drawn from the author's own parenting experiences covers such important areas as pregnancy, legalities of custody, working mothers, and more, encompassing all stages of parenthood and including insights from family specialists and other lesbian families. |
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| Tantra for Gay Men
Bruce Anderson
| Western cultures have often thought of the ancient practice of tantra as a form of super-sex.
However, as scholar and teacher Bruce Anderson makes clear, it is actually a rigorous practice that harnesses sexual energy as fuel for spiritual development. In eight empowering chapters, Anderson explores and explains the spiritual concepts that practitioners must fully integrate into their lives before experiencing the transformative effects of tantra. Readers will learn essential techniques, such as harnessing breathing and exercises designed to enhance body alignment and strength, as
well as more transcendent concepts, such as understanding the complexities and paradoxes of love and merging the spiritual with the more mundane aspects of life. Through these lessons, offered by way of an astute and unaffected approach, gay men will find themselves enhancing the power of their lovemaking and the strength of their orgasms to reach a state of cosmic bliss. |
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| Therapeutic Perspectives on Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
Clients
Dominic Davies (Editor), Charles Neal (Editor)
| Following the success of Pink Therapy (1996 Open University Press) as a practical guide for therapists, counsellors and others in related professions working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients in affirmative ways, this volume is the first to address how this can be approached from ten of the major therapeutic perspectives. Each approach is discussed with regard to its historical and theoretical relationship to these client groups and how the approach can be beneficial or negative. Guidelines for using the perspective supportively or practically are given, along with references for further study. The volume marks an important step in the dialogue between theoretical approaches and in the future development of, and debate about, these increasingly important fields in contemporary therapy.
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