Coming Out Section
By: Richard A. Isay
ISBN: 0805053158 |
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Richard Isay represents a therapist with an empathetic voice whose own struggle with sexuality extended over a period of many frustrating years. Fortunately, he understands that given the choice no man would have chosen to be gay. Therefore, there is no psychoanalytical cure. The only alternative is for men to find self-acceptance within their particular sets of circumstances. Isay wisely advises men not to make rash judgments about coming out. Instead, he argues that there are many reasons for the closet, particularly those constructed by heterosexually married gay men. This book is a must read for all therapists, both straight and gay. It is also a must read for anyone who wants to understand the problem of self-acceptance for gay men.
BearBook: #006 | ||
By: Richard A. Isay
ISBN: 0380710226 |
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A collection of papers on gay male psychodynamics.
BearBook: #007 | ||
By: Bret K. Johnson, Ph.D.
ISBN: 1572240644 |
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A practicing gay psychologist helps men struggling with their sexual orientation come to terms with themselves and with coming out. Johnson sensitively leads the questioning man through an admittedly challenging process of self-assessment, offering a wealth of suggestions for finding support, developing strategies for coming out to others, and building healthy new relationships with families, friends, lovers and partners.
BearBook: #008 | ||
By: Peter Cashorali, Robert H. Hopcke
ISBN: 0062513095 |
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Using the magical and mythic language of classic stories from around the world, Fairy Tales takes familiar myths and folktales and turns them into stories about men coming out, learning to trust themselves, looking for and finding love, facing AIDS, and helping those they love.
BearBook: #011 | ||
By: Brian McNaught
ISBN: 0312156162 |
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A prominent gay writer helps those who have recently come out of the closet re-examine some of the basic issues of human existence, such as sex, family, love, family, and community.
BearBook: #032 | ||
By: Betty Fairchild & Nancy Hayward
ISBN: 0156006057 |
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This pro-gay/pro-family book is meant to help parents come to grips with with child's non-heterosexuality. While I didn't agree with everything the book said, it's still says a lot that parents would need to hear. I doubt it would magically change the minds or feelings of homophobic parents, but the book provides a way for communication to start.
BearBook: #033 | ||
By: Michelangelo Signorile
ISBN: 0684826178 |
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An author and columnist offers a sensitive, no-nonsense, supportive, fourteen-step program for coming out, as well as exercises, meditation notes, and anger checks and accounts of the experiences of lesbians and gays from around the nation.
BearBook: #035 | ||
By: Mel White
ISBN: 0452273811 |
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Until Christmas Eve 1991, Mel White was regarded by the leaders of the religious right as one of their most talented and productive supporters. He penned speeches for Ollie North, was a ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell, worked with Jim Bakker. What they didn't know is that Mel White--evangelical minister, committed Christian, family man--is gay. In this book, White details his twenty-five years of being counseled, exorcised, electric-shocked, prayed for, and nearly driven to suicide because his church said homosexuality was wrong. His salvation--to be openly gay and Christian--is much more than a unique coming-out story.
BearBook: #040 | ||
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