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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $6.01
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Manufacturer: Plume
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dan Savage
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Publisher: Plume
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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Publication Date: 2006-09-26
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Savage—outspoken author of the column “Savage Love”— makes it personal.
Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married, but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails. BACKCOVER: “Hilarious, heartfelt.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“As funny as David Sedaris’s essay collections, but bawdier and more thought-provoking.”
—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
“Most of all, a book about creating and appreciating family.”
—Seattle Times
“I think America would be a better place if everyone on every side of the gay marriage debate would read this book.”
—Ira Glass, host of the public radio show This American Life
“The strongest argument here, which [Savage] brilliantly plays down, is that family means everything to these people: married, not married, blended, gay, straight, whatever.”
—The Washington Post
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $8.18
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Manufacturer: Alamo Square Distributors
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Daniel A. Helminiak
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Publisher: Alamo Square Distributors
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Dewey Decimal Number: 241
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Publication Date: 2000-04
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Reading Level: 152
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.10
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Manufacturer: Seal Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: D.Merilee Clunis::G. Dorsey Green
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Publisher: Seal Press
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Edition: 4th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7663
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Publication Date: 2004-11-30
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Reading Level: 372
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Description: Surely there are couples who don't need books like this: blessed as they are with flawless unions, enduring passion, and equitable chore distributions, with never a sharp word, a demanding ex-lover, or a roving eye. The rest of us can consult Clunis and Green every 45 minutes. With sections on building intimacy, making decisions, communicating, and addressing issues of race and age difference, among other topics, Lesbian Couples at least touches on most of the conflicts that a lesbian couple will face (a list of resources at the back will help readers pursue specific interests). The chapter on conflict resolution is exceptional, but the chapter on sex seems brief and perfunctory by comparison, perhaps because it has been written about so extensively elsewhere. This major revision of a lesbian self-help classic may be illuminating not only for couples but also for single women hoping to build the qualities needed for successful relationships, especially in the wake of a break-up. --Regina Marler
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $5.49
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Manufacturer: Plume
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dan Savage
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Publisher: Plume
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Dewey Decimal Number: 809
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Publication Date: 2000-06-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Best known for his syndicated sexual advice column, "Savage Love," Dan Savage shares his own story in The Kid, a hilarious account of his efforts--along with his partner--to adopt a child. (Whoops, make that his boyfriend; Savage can't stand the "genderless" P-word: "Straight people and press organs that want to acknowledge gay relationships while at the same time pushing the two-penises stuff as far out of their minds as possible love 'partner.' I hated it.") Savage doesn't give an inch on the sexuality issue; it's hard to imagine that a homophobic reader would even pick up The Kid, but if it happened, Savage's unapologetic presentation of his life would quickly scare that reader off. Which isn't to say that he paints a rosy picture of homosexual cohabitation: the very first scene finds Dan's boyfriend, Terry, locking himself in the bathroom after a fight over the music on the car stereo. The misadventures continue through each step of the open-adoption process, in which Dan and Terry get to know their baby's birth mother, and the first few weeks of parenthood. The Kid is a wonderful, charming account of real "family values" that proves love knows no limits.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $2.98
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan Downs
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.76620973
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Publication Date: 2006-05-30
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexuality, and, encouragingly, unprecedented acceptability in society. Yet despite the progress of the recent past, gay men still find themselves asking, "Are we really better off?" The inevitable byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, a shame gay men may strive to obscure with a faade of beauty, creativity, or material success. Drawing on contemporary psychological research, the author's own journey to be free of anger and of shame, as well as the stories of many of his friends and clients, The Velvet Rage outlines the three distinct stages to emotional well-being for gay men. Offering profoundly beneficial strategies to stop the insidious cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior, The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that will influence the public discourse on gay culture, and positively change the lives of gay men who read it.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: Crossing Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Audre Lorde
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Publisher: Crossing Press
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Publication Date: 1983-12
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Lorde's self-named "biomythography"
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $5.96
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Manufacturer: Plume
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mel White
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Publisher: Plume
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.835766092
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Publication Date: 1995-04-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: White examines his own life as a devout Christian, husband, father, and preacher, and details the extreme and painful measures he took to deny his natural sexual desires. He provides a shocking firsthand account of the methods and tactics the religious right uses to wage a campaign of fear and hatred against homosexuals. National ad/media.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.11
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: E. J. Graff
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.81
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Publication Date: 2004-03-18
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Reading Level: 303
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Description: E.J. Graff had a very personal reason for asking the question in this book's title: she was married in 1991, but in a ceremony legitimized by neither church nor state. Graff and her dearly beloved, you see, are lesbians. But instead of being dominated by agenda, What Is Marriage For? is a playful and informative study of the institution of wedlock throughout history that will appeal to readers outside of its obvious constituency. Chapter by chapter, Graff looks at the legal, sociological, and anthropological assumptions about money, sex, procreation, tribal affiliation, and the pursuit of personal happiness that underlie the concept of matrimony in Western societies. Her eye for the odd historical footnote is especially striking: we learn, for example, that in ancient Rome, marriage vows were exchanged by the groom and his father-in-law, and that--the assertions of right-wing fundamentalists notwithstanding--families were actually far less stable in the premodern era (where as many as 50 percent of all French children lived with a stepparent) than they are today. Graff's conclusion? The rules of engagement have fluctuated so wildly over the centuries that the term "traditional marriage" is something of an oxymoron; same-sex unions are but one of the many ways in which marriage has evolved to meet the changing social dynamics of the 20th century. --Patrizia DiLucchio
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $7.53
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Manufacturer: Crossing Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Audre Lorde
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Publisher: Crossing Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
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Publication Date: 2007-08
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Reading Level: 190
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Description: SISTER OUTSIDER presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, offering a message of struggle but also of hope--one that still resonates with us after more than 20 years. This commemorative edition is, in Lorde's own words, a call to "never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. . . ."
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $4.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Boswell
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.76
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Publication Date: 2005-11-01
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Reading Level: 442
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Description: "Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition."—Michel Foucault
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
"What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content—fascinating though that is—but its revolutionary challenge to some of Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions."—Jean Strouse, Newsweek
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