We selected seven books from our LGBTQ+ Library to feature this month about coming out in various situations and to different communities. Read these books for stories of self acceptance, interpersonal disclosure, trauma recovery, and more as we celebrate the burden and power of coming out. Stop by and check one out at any time.
Coming Out, Coming Home
Making Room for Gay Spirituality in Therapy by Kenneth A. Burr
This book provides the opportunity for readers to find a deeper connection with themselves and others as you savor the stories of sexual minorities who have sought meaningful connections between their spirituality and sexuality.
Coming Out and Disclosures
LGBT Persons Across the Life Span by Ski Hunter, PHD
Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span is a comprehensive guide to the coming out process for LGBT individuals of all ages. It offers practical advice and models for disclosure to family members, friends, and co-workers. This book also provides guidelines for practitioners working with LGBT clients.
Coming Out Spiritually
the next step by Christian de la Huerta
In these times of dramatic social change, when the highly charged issue of homosexuality is undeniably causing controversy in many arenas–religion, marriage, politics, education, the military–Christian de la Huerta, founder and director of Q-Spirit, offers a fresh outlook on gay spirituality and how to assert it.
Coming Out through Fire
Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia by Leanne McCall Tigert
Coming Out through Fire is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons who seek to move through the trauma of homophobia with the passion and power of transformation. It is also for pastors, therapists, and other helping professionals who seek to confront prejudice and fear and to further the process of healing and recovery in the church and wider community.
From Wedded Wife to Lesbian Life
by Deborah Abbott and Ellen Farmer
From Wedded Life to Lesbian Life presents personal stories of discovery and change by women who got married, defied tradition, and came out as lesbians. Drawing from a broad range of cultures and classes, this revealing collection of first-person essays, interviews, and poems offers a glimpse into the lives of such well-known lesbian authors as JoAnn Loulan, Margaret Randall, Margarethe Cammermeyer, Joanna Kadi, Ellen Bass, Joan Larkin, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as emerging writers.
Mosaic 1
Life stories from isolation to community by the Northwest lesbian and Gay History Museum Project
How did a cannon full of confetti launch Seattle’s first disco? When did Abstract Expressionism cause a stir at the Puyallup Fair? What U-District venue was a hotbed of radical feminism? Where could you compete in high heel races? Who blew the whistle on the police payoffs? Why was Seattle ripe for revolution? Check this book out for oral histories from the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project.
When the Stars Come Out
by Rob Byrnes
Guess Who’s Coming Out? Noah Abraham is back in New York tending to his ailing father while dealing with his writer’s block on a book about gay congressional staffers. What he needs is a break, and he gets it when he meets Bart Gustafson, the personal assistant to former film and television star Quinn Scott. The macho stud has been living in exile for years since running away with one of his ex-wife’s backup dancers . . . a male backup dancer. And just like that, Noah’s writing block is cured.
You must be logged in to post a comment.