 | Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism on College Campuses
Cramer, Elizabeth P. (ed.)
This book presents an integrated approach toward changing attitudes about LGBT students, faculty, and staff on contemporary college campuses. Teaches specific classroom techniques for handling homophobia and heterosexism in the classroom. This book tackles a wide variety of subjects including academic freedom, diversity training, nontraditional families, and religion, each of w (more...) |
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 | Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay myth
Besen, Wayne R.
Conclusion of a four year study into the ex-gay movement. Presents an historical perspective, profiles various groups Exodus Internation Homosexuals Anon, major figures and interviews with ex ex-gay people. (more...) |
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 | Coming Out Through Fire: Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia
Tigert, Leanne McCall
A coming out book for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people who wish to take a spiritual path to healing. It is also aimed at therapists and religious professionals.
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| Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians & Gay Men
Pardie, Lynn & Luchetta, Tracy
Analyses the acceptance of heterosexism in the US and suggests ways of combating it. Various areas of homophobia are questioned: internalized, within the academic world, and its connection to HIV/AIDS. (more...) |
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 | Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience
Tin, Louis-Georges (ed.) translated by Marek Redburn
Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various cultural responses to it, in all regions of the world: a masterful, engaged, and wholly relevant study that traces the political and social emancipation of a culture.
The book, is the first Englis (more...) |
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 | Eighth Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving AntiGay Violence
Brenner, Glaudia with Ashley, Hannah
A horrific antigay attack in May 1988 in Pennsylvania left one women, Rebecca Wight dead and her partner, Claudia Brenner seriously wounded. In this highly personal account of the murder and its aftermath Brenner shows the courage it has taken to overcome not only the physical but the emotional scars making her able to live a full life again. (more...) |
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 | Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study & its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, & Culture
Drescher, Jack (ed.)
In 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented his study on sexual conversion therapy with its controversial findings that some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation. The resulting media sensation and political firestorm enraged the study’s critics and emboldened its supporters. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics (more...) |
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| Gay Men, Straight Jobs
Woog, Dan
Interviews with men working in areas which are thought of as not traditionally gay jobs. These range from Christian Bookstore worker, car salesman to apple grower and firefighter. (more...) |
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 | God Hates Fags:The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
Cobb, Michael
At the funeral of Matthew Shepard--the young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gay--the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like "Matt Shepard rots in Hell," "Fags Die God Laughs," and "God Hates Fags." In counter-protest, activists launched an "angel action," dressing in angel costumes, with seven-foot high wings, and creat (more...) |
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 | Homophobia: A History
Fone, Byrne
In an age when racial and ethnic bigotry is viewed with distaste, hatred of homosexuals remains rife. In this tour de force of historical and literary research Byrne Fone chronicles the history of homophobia through the centuries. Accessible, bold lively and enlightening. (more...) |
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 | Homophobia: An Australian History
Robinson, Shirleene
Homophobia is a prejudice with effects that extend far beyond the gay and lesbian community. While its physical, emotional and social effects have been charted to some extent, the development of homophobia in Australia has yet to be fully explored.
Homophobia: An Australian History is the first book to consider homophobia in a distinctively Australian context. In thi (more...) |
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 | Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price
Blumenfeld, Warren J. (ed.)
The hatred of lesbians, gay males, and bisexuals remains an 'acceptable' prejudice in our society despite the widespread damage it causes in all our lives. Inviting sexual minorities and heterosexual men and women to become allies in the fight against homophobia, the contributors to this anthology explore how homophobia colludes with sexism by forcing people into rigid gender r (more...) |
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 | How Homophobia Hurts Children: Nurturing Diversity at Home, At School & In the Community
Baker, Jean M.
This book illustrates the ways that children growing up to be gay are harmed by homophobia before anyone, including themselves, even knows they are gay. This compelling and sympathetic volume describes many simple ways that these children can be helped to understand that they can grow up to lead normal lives, with hopes and dreams for their futures. How Homophobia Hurts Chil (more...) |
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 | Laramie Project
Kaufman, Moises
Ten years after the brutal death of Matthew Shepard, Moisés Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie, Wyoming, and reinterviewed many of those who lent their voices to the dramatically powerful Laramie Project, adding an essential coda to what has become a classic of our time.
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound (more...) |
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| Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
Loffreda, Beth
Beth Loffreda interviewed a wide range of residents of Laramie Wyoming to craft an account of the event, the community in which it took place and the consequences. Avoiding assumptions Loffreda analyses the murder from a class, race and sexuality perspectives. (more...) |
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 | Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
Shepard, Judy
The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist.
Today, the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but before his grisly murder in 1998, Matthew was simply Judy Shepard's son. For the first time in book form, Judy Shepard speaks about her loss, sharing memories of Matthew, (more...) |
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 | One of the Boys: Masculinity, Homophobia and Modern Manhood
Plummer, David
Through interviews with young men, this book reveals that homophobia serves to define the ideas of self, difference, and otherness during the process of forming adult male identities. Very useful for academic, psycho-social settings, or for self-help process. (more...) |
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 | Setting Them Straight: You Can Do Something About Bigotry and Homophobia in Your Life
Berson, Betty
Strategies for standing up to bigotry whether from strangers or family. Gives explanations on why people hate and the origins of prejudice. Also how to deal with homophobic situations. (more...) |
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 | Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives
Shidlo, Schroeder & Drescher
In their fervor to “fix” homosexuals, practitioners of sexual conversion therapies have often overlooked or completely dismissed the possible psychological and social side effects of such treatments. Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical, and Research Perspectives works to counterbalance the clinical and ethical omissions of overzealous therapists who have focused (more...) |
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 | Sissyphobia: Gay Men & Effeminate Behavior
Bergling, Tim
Here is a revealing look into male effeminacy: why some gay men are swishy, why other gay men are more masculine, and why effeminate men arouse anger, disgust, and disdain in both gay and straight men. Sissyphobia explores those negative feelings that are aimed at people termed fairies, faggots, flamers and queens; men who, as the author puts it, “run more toward what we could (more...) |
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 | Speaking Out: Stopping Homophobic and Transphobic Abuse in Queensland
Berman, Alan & Robinson, Shirleene
Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book gives voice to the many victims who have suffered in the state once recognised as Australia’s most homophobic. It tells of the barriers people face in dealing with the legal system, the reasons why some do not report (more...) |
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| Strong Women, Deep Closests: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport
Griffin, Pat
The topic of lesbians in sport is usually avoided by both straight and gay commentators. Griffin , a former athlete and coach argues that issues surrounding lesbians and sport must be addressed before homophobia and heterosexism can be eradicated. Begining with personal experiences of lesbians, Griffin then looks at ways of overcoming discrimination in sport. (more...) |
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 | Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences
Schulman, Sarah
In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people—straight, gay, and bisexual—learn homophobia. For it is within the family that homophobia begins to control people’s lives, whether as perpetrators or recipients.
Written in the tradition of Susan Brownmiller’s revolutionary Against Our Will: Men (more...) |
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| Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People
Sloan, Lacey M. & Gustavsson, Nora S.
Violence towards sexual minorities is not only the overt violence but daily acts of agression. Homophobic acts in schools, within the church and other institutions are often ignored by those in charge. Essays from diverse experts in the field. (more...) |
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