| Gay Men | ||||
 Men Together |
Author Anderson Jones and Photographer David Fields have put together a handsome book that tells the real life stories of several healthy gay male relationships. A perfect coffee table book. | |||
 The Male Couple's Guide |
By Eric Marcus. Provides a comprehensive guide to the social, legal, financial, emotional, familial, and professional issues of being part of a male couple, offering advice on dating, commitment, sharing a home, children, health, and more. | |||
Intimacy between Men : How to Find and Keep Gay Love Relationships |
by John H. Driggs and Stephen E. Finn. Reads as a very clear "how-to". The practical advice, experiences and real life examples from the authors' own lives, professional and personal is inspiring. Each chapter is logically organized and wide ranging. You'll look forward to working on that significant other in your life. For those without partners, the authors' understanding, trust and humor leaves you with renewed hope and self confidence. Their candidness on the issues may surprise you. | |||
 Reclaiming Your Life : The Gay Man's Guide to Love, Self-Acceptance, and Trust |
By Rik Isensee. This book is an excellent way for the gay male to let go of the baggage in his life that is the basis for self-destructive behavior. Gay males all too often fail to live up to their potential because we carry baggage of growing up in repressive families, schools, and communities. Isensee identifies the possible sources of this baggage and then invites his readers to work it through for themselves with a series of questions at the end of each chapter. Hence, this is a book to be worked through and the process can be liberating or as the title states "reclaiming". Worth the read and the reflection. | |||
 Love Between Men : Enhancing Intimacy and Keeping Your Relationship Alive |
By Rik Isensee. David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison, authors of The Male Couple, say it's "must reading for all male couples", while Michael Shernoff of the National Lesbian/Gay Health Foundation, says it's "bound to become a classic". | |||
 The Day We Met : The Very First Day of Long-Term Relationships |
By Jack Hart. The Day We Met is a touching book that shows how men can share their lives, long-term, with love and understanding. Broken hearts happen and they could be healed. Search more optimistically. A good book for those who believe in love. | |||
| Miscellaneous Books | ||||
 Outstanding Lives : Profiles of Lesbians and Gay Men |
By Michael Bronski. Outstanding Lives is a book of photographic portraits and short essays about 70 contemporary gay men and lesbians. Ranging from political figures such as Roberta Achtenberg , the first openly gay person to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate (she was Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity) to Rudolf Nureyev , one of the world's greatest ballet dancers, the people highlighted in this book attest to the tremendous variety of contributions gay and lesbian people are making to the world today. | |||
 Romantic Jealousy |
Although written for heterosexuals, the book contains helpful information and offers real life quizzes and questionnaires to assess your predisposition to jealousy and appropriate strategies to help you control and understand your jealous urges. | |||
 Billy's Boy |
by Patricia Nell Warren, Jay Fraley (Illustrator). The powerful story of a teenage boy's odyssey, "Billy's Boy" has already been a #1 bestseller on the "Lambda" and "Advocate" lists in hardcover, and has garnered rave reviews from "Library Journal, Lambda Book Report", and "The Washington Blade". The book stands on it's own without reference to the previous two sequels however if you have read the previous two, it is poignant, heart rending, happy and sad. | |||
 Safe As Houses |
Alex Jeffers fictitious story which is part novel and part poetry. | |||
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| Parenting and Adoption | ||||
 Loving Journeys Guide to Adoption |
Elaine Walker's Loving Journeys Guide to Adoption is a great book for information on adoption. It includes a directory of places to go to adopt a child. | |||
 The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories |
by Susan Wadia-Ells. These personal essays and stories are informed by the contemporary adoption movement and raise timely issues that illustrate its complexity, among them: open and closed adoption, cross-cultural adoption, the birth record debate, the experience of bi-racial adoptees, adoption by lesbian couples, and the search for identity. Featuring the work of well-known writers and activists, The Adoption Reader is a helpful, hopeful and vital collection about growth and self-understanding and a must-read book for anyone who has been touched by the adoption experience. | |||
| By Cindy Rizzo | ||||
 Beyond Blood: Writings on the Lesbian and Gay Family |
by Louise Wakeling (Editor), Margaret Bradstock (Editor). Alternative parenting, with the focus on lesbian and gay experience. These autobiographical, theoretical, analytical, practical and creative contributions offer a valuable and unique perspective on the subject of the alternative family. | |||
