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Pride Month Reading from Beacon Press
In celebration of Pride Month, a collection of LGBT books by Beacon Press.
A Queer History of the United States, Excerpt
Read an excerpt from Michael Bronski's "A Queer History of the United States" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4439), the first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bi...
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Reader's Guide for A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
A Reader's Guide for A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski--the first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the...
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Nina Here Nor There, an excerpt
Read the beginning of Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0092). Ambitious, sporty, feminine "capital-L lesbians" ...
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Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, e...
Read chapter 3, "The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex" from Queer (In)justice (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=5116). In March 2003-three decades after Sto...
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An excerpt from She Looks Just Like You
NOW IN PAPERBACK, read a section from She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood by Amie Klempnauer Miller. Part love story, part comedy, part quest, this is ...
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An excerpt of From the Closet to the Courtoom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That...
NOW IN PAPERBACK, read two sections from Chapter 2 of From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation by Carlos A. Ball (http://www.beacon.org/pro...
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Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, excerpt
In Love the Sin, Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini make a solid case for loving the sinner and the sin. Rejecting both religious conservatives' arguments for sexual regulation and libe...
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Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, excerpt
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage shouldn't bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and ...
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Sex and the Eighteenth Century Man, excerpt
With few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Moreover, it is rarely associated specifically with early American men...
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Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, excerpt
Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his elemen...
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The Tricky Part, excerpt
Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with an older man, a counselor he'd met at a Catholic boys' camp. Almost thirty years later, at the age of f...
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Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights, excerpt
The enormous advances of the civil rights movement have made it easier for LGBT youth to be "out," yet their increased visibility has led to myriad legal issues involving such critical ma...
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Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World
Come Out and Win will educate, engage, and agitate LGBT and straight activists to become involved in the political movement to win full equality under the law and sexual/gender freedom. S...
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Taking a Chance on God excerpt
Read chapter 1, "Developing a Mature Faith Life," from Taking a Chance on God, by John McNeill (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?sku=7945). The second book in John McNeill's pathb...
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