Author : Susan Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
This is a book written for straight teenagers on the subject of homosexualitypresented in a sympathetic and straightforward way.
Author : Donald H. Clark
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781587612367
Still the most comprehensive profile of positive gay identity in print, Loving Someone Gay offers courageous support and compassionate guidance from an experienced gay therapist to gay men and lesbians to help them communicate effectively and successfully with their families, friends, colleagues, counselors and community leaders. The issues of gay marriage and domestic partnerships have not only been making headlines across the nation, they were a factor in the 2004 national election. The turbulent and divisive political climate in America today has refueled the historical controversy of being gay, and it cannot help but affect those who work with, live with, teach, counsel, lead and love people who are gay. Dr. Don Clark meets these formidable challenges with a freshly revised and thoroughly updated fourth edition that is more relevant and timely than ever. After nearly three decades, Loving Someone Gay is once again a standard-bearer in the struggle for equal respect, equal recognition and equal rights for all. Book jacket.
Author : Caleb Kaltenbach
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1601427379
Sometimes, grace gets messy. Caleb Kaltenbach was raised by LGBT parents, marched in gay pride parades as a youngster, and experienced firsthand the hatred and bitterness of some Christians toward his family. But then Caleb surprised everyone, including himself, by becoming a Christian…and a pastor. Very few issues in Christianity are as divisive as the acceptance of the LGBT community in the church. As a pastor and as a person with beloved family members living a gay lifestyle, Caleb had to face this issue with courage and grace. Messy Grace shows us that Jesus’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself” doesn’t have an exception clause for a gay “neighbor”—or for that matter, any other “neighbor” we might find it hard to relate to. Jesus was able to love these people and yet still hold on to his beliefs. So can you. Even when it’s messy. “Messy Grace is an important contribution to the conversation about sexual identity for churches and leaders. Caleb's story is surprising and unique, and he weaves it together compellingly. He states his views clearly, leaves room for disagreement, and champions love no matter where you are in this conversation.” —Jud Wilhite, Sr. Pastor, Central Christian Church
Author : Michael L. Brown
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 162136593X
How do we respond to gay people who tell us how much they love the Lord and experience God's power? What do we do with the argument that the Old Testament laws no longer apply? Brown provides solid biblical answers, clearly written and based on sound scholarship, in a compassionate way that causes the reader to wrestle with the issues and discover the biblical truth. He also provides practical guidelines for ministry, and shows readers how they can resist the gay agenda while reaching out to their gay friends and family.
Author : Bridget Collins
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062838113
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE Proclaimed as “truly spellbinding,” a “great fable” that “functions as transporting romance” by the Guardian, the runaway #1 international bestseller "A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of storytelling. Spellbinding.” — TRACY CHEVALIER Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder—a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born. Under the old woman’s watchful eye, Emmett learns to hand-craft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Within each one they will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want to forget, a binder can help. If there’s something you need to erase, they can assist. Within the pages of the books they create, secrets are concealed and the past is locked away. In a vault under his mentor’s workshop rows upon rows of books are meticulously stored. But while Seredith is an artisan, there are others of their kind, avaricious and amoral tradesman who use their talents for dark ends—and just as Emmett begins to settle into his new circumstances, he makes an astonishing discovery: one of the books has his name on it. Soon, everything he thought he understood about his life will be dramatically rewritten. An unforgettable novel of enchantment, mystery, memory, and forbidden love, The Binding is a beautiful homage to the allure and life-changing power of books—and a reminder to us all that knowledge can be its own kind of magic.
Author : David M. Halperin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674070860
No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is just a stereotype-ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream.
Author : Joseph Nicolosi
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1997-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0765701448
Albert - The Little Boy Within; Tom - The Married Man; Father John - The Double Life; Charlie - The Search for the Masculine Self; Dan - The Angriest Man; Steve - The Seeker of Male Symbols; Edward - Agony of a Youth; Roger - "Do I Really Want to Be Here?"; Men Together - How Group Therapy Heals; How Reparative Therapy Works.
Author : Donald H. Clark
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Gay men
ISBN : 1590210670
The author of the perennially popular and life-changing book, Loving Someone Gay, recounts his own life journey from shame, guilt and fear to pride, self-confidence and understanding of true feelings. Sharing how he made the transformation himself, Don Clark, Ph.D., the first officially openly gay psychologist in the U.S. and "father of gay-oriented psychotherapy," points the way for others to claim an identity and sense of pride and follow him on the path to happiness, meaning, love and success. Don Clark is a writer, teacher, and consultant and clinical psychologist who has specialized in group and individual work with gay people since 1968. His writing includes fiction, textbooks, and articles for both professional journals and popular magazines.
Author : Jackie Hill Perry
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1462751237
“I used to be a lesbian.” In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.
Author : Matthew Vines
Publisher : Convergent
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Christian gays
ISBN : 1601425163
Reinterpretations of key Bible texts related to sexual orientation, written by a Harvard student, present an accessible case for a modern Christian conservative acceptance of sexual diversity.
