Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms With the Suicide of Her Gay SonList price: $22.00 14 used & collectible available from $6.48. Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful ... |
The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant List price: $22.95 30 new, used & collectible available from $2.33. Dan Savage--America's most irreverent, taboo-busting, flat-out funny sex-advice columnist--shares his revelatory misadventures in adopting a babyWelcome to Dan Savage's world: He's gay, dispenses sex advice to "breeders"(straight people), and at age thirty-two, finds himself in a long-term relationship. He decides he wants a baby in the house, his boyfriend agrees, and so they set out to make a fa... |
The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception through Birth, 2nd Edition List price: $16.95 38 new & used available from $9.29. Written with humor and insight by a mom who herself rode the conception roller coaster, The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians will guide you every step of the way—from your first ovulation kit right up through the first weeks after your baby’s birth. Rachel Pepper’s lively, easy-to-read guide is the first place to go for up-to-date information and sage advice on everything you need... |
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book) List price: $28.95 71 new & used available from $9.00. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern ... |
The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy List price: $23.95 79 new, used & collectible available from $2.88. In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of Neiman’s, Daddy wrote that he was leaving us because Mother was crazy, and because she’d driven me crazy in a way that perfectly suited her own i... |
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals List price: $16.95 34 new & used available from $9.65. This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance from birth through college. What do you do when your toddler daughter’s first sentence is that sheâ€... |
The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth List price: $22.95 28 new & used available from $13.64. The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth has been thoroughly updated ensuring that this book remains the best source for women embarking on this most important step. Authors Stephanie Brill, the co-founder of the nationally renowned Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services, draws upon her years of expertise in working with lesbians, single women, and all the many faces ... |
Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together List price: $14.95 41 new, used & collectible available from $7.95. Straight Parents, Gay Children is Robert Bernstein’s moving account of how he came to terms with his daughter’s homosexuality and how the experience has enriched his life. Bernstein -- winner of the 1996 Award for Best Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance, awarded by the Gustaves Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America -- discusses the myths surrounding homosexual... |
Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents List price: $14.95 96 new, used & collectible available from $3.10. In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes this current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities.... |
Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition (Alyson Wonderland) List price: $14.95 57 new, used & collectible available from $5.53. Originally self-published in 1989, Heather Has Two Mommies became the first title in Alyson's newly formed Alyson Wonderland imprint in 1990. The simple and straightforward story of a little girl named Heather and her two lesbian mothers was created by Newman and illustrator Diana Souza because children's books that reflected a nontraditional family did not exist, but a firestorm of controversy ... |
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