Reading Resources

• Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out by Process of Contemporary Gay Men by Marc E. Vargo
• Are You Still My Mother? Are You Still My Family? by Gloria Guss Back
• Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk About Their Experience by Carolyn Griffin, Marian Wirth, Arthur Wirth
• Coming Out: An Act of Love by Rob Eichberg
• Coming Out As Parents: You and Your Homosexual Child by David Switzer
• Coming Out To Parents by Mary V. Borhek
• Different Daughters: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians by Louise Rafkin (ed.)
• A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation by Bob Powers
• Family Outing by Chastity Bono
• Family Secrets: Gay Sons--A Mother's Story by Jean M. Baker
• Homosexuality Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation by Marie Mohler
• Loving Someone Gay by Donald H. Clark
• A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families by John Preston (ed.)
• My Child is Gay: How Parents React When They Hear the News by Bryce McDougall
• Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children by B. Fairchild and N. Hayward
• The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses by Amity Pierce Buxton
• Out for Life by John D. Anderson
• Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as a Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends, and Co-Workers by Michaelangelo Signorile
• Parents Matter:Parents Relationship with Lesbian Daughters & Gay Sons by Ann Muller
• Prayers for Bobby: A Mothers Coming to Terms with the Suicide of her Gay Son by Leroy Aarons
• The Preacher's Son by Marc Adams
• Reflections of a Rock Lobster by Aaron Fricke
• Someone I Love Is Gay: How Family & Friends Can Respond by Anita Worthen
• Straight Parents Gay Children: Keeping Families Together by Robert A. Bernstein
• There Must Be 50 Ways to Tell Your Mother by Lynn Sutcliffe
• Wedding: A Family's Coming Out Story by Douglas Wythe
• When Husbands Come Out of the Closet by Jean L. Gochres
• The World Out There: Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community by Michael Thomas Ford

By, for and about Youth

• Hearing Us Out: Voices from the Gay and Lesbian Community by Roger Sutton
• Holly's Secret by Nancy Garden
• Homosexuality: The Secret a Child Dare Not Tell by Mary Ann Cantwell
• In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth by Mary L. Gray
• Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibiography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults by Frances Ann Day
• Lesbian and Gay Youth by Caitlin Ryan
• Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities and Youth: Phychological Perspectives by Charlotte J. Patterson
• Mama Eat Ant, Yuck! by Barbara Lynn Edmonds
• Letters to Our Children: Lesbian and Gay Adults Speak to the New Generation by Larry Dane Brimner
• Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents by Noelle Howey
• Passages of Pride: Lesbian and Gay Youth Come of Age by Kurt Chandler
• Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth by Robert E. Owens
• Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue About Sexualities and Schooling by William J. Letts
• School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth: The Invisible Minority by Mary B. Harris
• Sissies And Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood by Matthew Rottnek
• Telling Tales Out of School by Kevin Jennings
• Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth by Ann Heron
• What If Someone I Know Is Gay: Answers to Questions About Gay and Lesbian People by Eric Marcus
• When Grown-Ups Fall in Love by Barbara Lynn Edmonds

Religious :: Spiritual

• Building Bridges: Gay & Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church by Robert Nugent, et al.
• The Church and the Homosexual by John McNeill
• Come Home: Reclaiming Spirituality and Community As Gay Men and Lesbians by Chris Glaser
• Coming Out As Sacrament by Chris Glaser
• Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step by Christian De La Huerta
• Coming Out While Staying In: Struggles and Celebrations of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals in the Church by Leanne McCall Tigert
• From Wounded Hearts: Faith Stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People and Those Who Love Them by Roberta Showalter Kreider
• The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement: Campaigning for Justice, Truth and Love by Sean Gill
• Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Homosexuality by John Shelby Spong
• Married in the Sight of God: Theology, Ethics, and Church Debates over Homosexuality by Christian Batalden Scharen
• More Than Welcome: Learning to Embrace Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons in the Church by Maurine C. Waun
• Openly Gay, Openly Christian: How the Bible Really Is Gay Friendly by Rev. Samuel Kader
• Our Famalies, Our Vaalues: Snapshots of Queer Kinship by Roberrt Goss
• Queer Dharma: Voices if Gay Buddhists by Winston Leyland
• Spiritual Direction and the Gay Person by James L. Empereur
• Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America by Mel White
• What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak Ph.D
• Where the Spirit Leads: The Evolving of United Methodists on Homosexuality by James Rutland Wood
• With Listening Hearts: Gays and the Catholic Church by Peter J. Liuzzi

General :: Support :: Humorous

• 501 Great Things About Being Gay by Edward Taussig
• And Then I Was Gay: Young Men's Stories by Ritch C. Savin-Williams
• Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out by Loraine Hutchins, Lani Kaahumanu (eds.)
• Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
• Coming Out Through Fire: Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia by Leanne McCall Tigert
• A Couple of Friends: The Remarkable Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men by Robert Hopcke
• Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality by Martin S. Weinburg, Oxford
• Families of Value: Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children Speak Out by Jane Drucker
• Families We Choose by Kath Weston
• From This Day Forward: Commitment, Marriage, and Family in Lesbian and Gay Relationships by Gretchen A. Stiers
• Gay and After by Alan Sinfield
• Gay and Lesbian Professionals in the Closet: Who's In, Who's Out, and Why by Teresa Decrescenzo
• Gay Issues In The Workplace by Brian McNaught
• Gay Parents/Straight Schools: Building Comunication and Trust by Virginia Casper
• Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner by Michael Shernoff
• Hispanisms and Homosexualities by Sylvia Molloy
• Homophobia: A History by Byrne R. S. Fone
• Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price by Warren J. Blumenfeld
• Homosexual Oppression & Liberation by Dennis Altman
• Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About  Gays and Lesbians by Eric Marcus
• J. K. Lasser's Gay Finances in a Straight World: A Comprehensive Financial Planning Handbook by Peter M. Berkery
• Legal Affairs: Essential Advice for Same-Sex Couples by Frederick Hertz
• A Legal Guide for Lesbian And Gay Couples by Hayden Curry
• Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities in Families: Phychological Perspectives by Charlotte J. Patterson
• Loving Someone Gay by Don Clark
• Much More Than Sexuality: Listening to 70 Gay People Talk About Their Lives by Liz Sherblom
• Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men by Jammie Price
• No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men by Christopher Carrington
• Now That You're Out of the Closet, What About the Rest of the House? by Linda Handel
• On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith and Love by Brian McNaught
• Open Lives, Safe Schools by Donovan R. Walling
• Opposite Sex: Gay Men on Lesbians, Lesbians on Gay Men by Sara Miles
• Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance by Kitty Krupat
• Out Facts: Just About Everything You Need to Know About Gay And Lesbian Culture by Out Magazine
• Out Front by Patrick McCreery
• Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity by Shane L. Windmeyer
• Outspeak: Narrating Identities That Matter by Sean O'Connell
• The Politics of Gay Rights by Craig A. Rimmerman
• Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values by T. Richard Sullivan
• Rural Gays and Lesbians: Building on the Strengths of Communities by James Donald Smith
• Setting Them Straight: You Can Do Something About Bigotry and Homophobia in Your Life by Betty Berzon
• So You Want to Be a Lesbian?: A Guide for Amateures & Professionals by Liz Tracy
• Straight?: True Stories of Unexpected Sexual Encounters Between Men by Jack Hart
• Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace by Liz Winfeld
• Two Spirited People: American Indian Lesbian Women and Men by Lester B. Brown
• Uncommon Heroes by Phillip Sherman (ed.)
• Understanding Homosexuality, Changing Schools by Arthur Lipkin
• We Are Family: Testimonies of Lesbian and Gay Parents by Turan Ali
• Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day by Robert Aldrich
• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History by Robert Aldrich
• Wilma Loves Betty and Other Hilarious Gay & Lesbian Parodies by Scott Brassart