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Region 6 Booklist
You can browse the books below, or
contact the Region
6 Library if you would like a recommendation for materials on a
specific topic (we are working on a search engine...thanks for being
patient!).
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Honey, Honey, Miss
Thang : Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets
by Leon
E. Pettiway
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Using the first person accounts of five African American, drug-using,
street-walking, cross-dressing gay hustlers, Pettiway, a professor of
criminal justice at Indiana University, breaks free of some criminologists'
tendency to view the marginalized as monolithically deviant, negative or
hopeless. Borrow it!
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Prostitution: On Whores,
Hustlers, and Johns
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Edited by James E. Elias, PhD, Vern L.
Bullough, RN PhD,
Veronica Elias, PhD, Gwen Brewer, PhD
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How did whoring and hustling begin? Can one enjoy the
work? Why do people pay for sex? What is prostitution like in other
countries? What is the future of prostitution? This collection breaks new
ground on a sensitive topic by bringing scholars, therapists, and sex workers
together to study not only the profession but those who seek such
services. Borrow
it!
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My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story
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By Abraham Verghese
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Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the
town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working in
Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in
infectious diseases who became, by necessity, the local AIDS expert. Out of
his experience comes a startling, ultimately uplifting portrait of the
American heartland. Borrow it!
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Outing Yourself:
How to come out as lesbian or gay to your family, friends, and
coworkers
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By Michelangelo Signorile
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No matter how much you prepare, coming out as gay or lesbian is a
difficult, emotional process -- a process that will continue long after the
words are spoken and the secret is out. There's no magic formula, but Outing
Yourself by Michelangelo Signorile offers structure, guidance, and
straightforward advice. Signorile's 14-step program -- complete with
exercises, meditation notes, and anger checks, as well as the accounts of the
coming-out experiences of other lesbians and gay men -- shows how you can
successfully handle this life-changing, life-renewing process. A guide for
the coming-out journey, Outing Yourself will convince all who read it
that, in the words of the author, "The stress of coming out will never
be as hard on you as the stress of staying in was." Borrow
it!
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Sex Changes: The politics of
Transgenderism
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By Pat Califia
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Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism is Califia's
meticulously researched book based on an astute reading of the available
literature and in-depth interviews with gender transgressors who "opened
their lives, minds, hearts, and bedrooms to the gaze of strangers." Writing
about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines
the lives of early transgender pioneers like Christine Jorgenson, Jan Morris,
Renee Richards and Mark Rees, contemporary transgender activists like Leslie
Feinberg and Kate Bornstein, and partners of transgendered people like Minnie
Bruce Pratt. Califia scrutinizes feminist resistance to transsexuals
occupying women's space, the Christian Right's backlash against transsexuals,
and the appropriation of the berdache and other differently-gendered by gay
historians to prove the universal existance of homosexuality. Finally, Sex
Changes explores the future of gender. Borrow
it!
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Shots in the Dark:
The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine
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By Jon Cohen
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As HIV continues its death march around the globe, now
infecting 40 million people, an AIDS vaccine still remains an elusive goal.
When scientists first proved in 1984 that HIV causes AIDS, a vaccine race
quickly spun into action with high hopes that the world would soon have a
means to stop this modern plague. But today the race to develop an AIDS
vaccine more closely resembles a crawl. Jon Cohen, a leading AIDS reporter,
tells how the forces inside and outside the world of science have hindered
the AIDS vaccine search. He reveals the complicated obstacles that stymie
researchers, the uncertain marketplace that confronts pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies, the haphazard political response, and the ethical
dilemmas that give pause to everyone involved. He goes behind the scenes at
academic labs, companies, government agencies, scientific meetings, and
investment houses to document how promising leads go nowhere as scientists
jump from one fashionable idea to the next. Beyond a critique of the current
methods and strategies, this book also offers specific recommendations for
accelerating AIDS vaccine research. Borrow
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The Guide to Living with HIV Infection
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By John G. Bartlett, MD, and Ann K. Finkbeiner
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This thoroughly revised and updated edition explains how
HIV is transmitted, evaluates available treatment and prevention, provides
counsel on coping with the emotional effects of the infection, and addresses
financial and legal concerns. New to this edition are detailed discussions of
new drugs, special considerations for women, recent data on CF4 cell counts
and viral load, and much more. Borrow
it!
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It’s The Little Things:
Everyday Interactions that Get under the Skin of Blacks and Whites
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By Lena Williams
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Despite the progress our country has made since the civil rights movement,
we live in separate worlds. Although people of different races work together,
go to school together, live in integrated neighborhoods, and have developed
long and lasting friendships, we're still undeniably divided. Why? Ignorance.In this fast, funny, smart, and forthright book, New York Times
reporter Lena Williams tells it like it is. Writing from her own experiences
and from what she has learned through conducting focus groups of blacks and
whites all over the country, Williams opens our eyes to the annoying things
we do and explains what they mean and how to avoid them. Borrow
it!
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Altered state:
The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
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By Matthew Collin with contributions by John Godfrey
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Although it probably over-emphasizes the London scene,
this book provides a well-written introduction to the history of house music
as well as to 20th-century dance music in general. Citing the Stonewall Riots
as a cultural turning point, Matthew Collin shows how the emerging gay rights
movements created innovative clubs that demanded a newer, more vibrant music.
Finding other pieces of this hidden history in Jamaican dub, mainstream
disco, rap, European electronic music, and New York club mixes, Collin
develops an interesting and previously undocumented narrative of contemporary
hip sounds. Borrow it!
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Encyclopedia of AIDS:
A social Political, cultural, and scientific record of the HIV
epidemic
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Edited by Raymond A. Smith
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Since it was first diagnosed in the early 1980s, AIDS has
changed the landscape of society. Yet we still lack a necessary basic
understanding of its power and impact. The Encyclopedia of AIDS provides a comprehensive look at AIDS and its
effects on society, politics, law, and humans and contains information to
help increase awareness and preparedness where the disease is concerned. Borrow
it!
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The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families
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By Amity Pierce Buxton, PhD
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Based on five years of research, Buxton candidly looks at
coming-out problems for the two million straight men and women who were or
are married to a gay, lesbian, or bisexual mate. Borrow
it!
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The Gay Teen: Educational Practice and Theory for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
Adolescents
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Edited by Gerald Unks
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Written by and for gay and straight educators, The Gay
Teen explores gay student adolescence from discursive, practical and
theoretical perspectives. The volume introduces and sensitizes educators to
the complexities of gay identity and sets forth some of the issues facing gay
youth in high schools. Contributors survey ``gay-friendly'' curricula in a
number of subject areas, including literature, sex education, sports and
social studies. Vital teaching strategies, intervention techniques and staff
training recommendations form an integral part of the analyses and are
designed to help teachers and counselors better address the academic and
psychological needs of gay students and redress homophobia in the school
setting. The Gay Teen also showcases the pioneering safe spaces that
educators have created for students--gay as well as straight--who are
struggling to forge sexual identities during the tough years of adolescence. Borrow
it!
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Now that I’m Out,
What do I do?: Thoughts on Living
Deliberately
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By Brian McNaught
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For many gay men and lesbian women, the first step in a long journey is
acknowledging and accepting their sexuality. But what happens to those men
and women after they have come to terms with this aspect of their lives? For
many it means a complete reevaluation of very basic issues: family,
relationships, community, and love. In this series of essays, McNaught explores these various aspects of life
that may now be called into question for these men and women, and he sets out
to educate and help guide them through the challenges they may encounter. Borrow
it!
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Black Gay Man Essays
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By Robert F. Reid-Pharr Borrow
it!
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AIDS and HIV in Perspective: A guide to understanding the virus and its consequences
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By Barry D. Schoub
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AIDS is a modern epidemic of explosive proportions often not
fully understood by non-specialists. This authoritative introduction offers
an accessible up-to-date account of HIV infection and AIDS for a wide
audience, that also explores the complex social, legal, and ethical issues
surrounding the disease. Borrow
it!
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Sex on Campus:
The naked truth about the real sex lives of college students
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By Leland Elliot and Cynthia Brantley
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After laboriously researching 30 years of college sex
studies, authors Leland Elliott and Cynthia Brantley designed their own
survey to provide new data on long-standing, important issues and to explore
the kinkier aspects of college sexuality -- an area never before examined on
a large scale. Sex On Campus mixes serious research and awareness of sexual health
issues with a sense of humor (sex is fun, after all). It also serves as a
how-to guide. That is right, how-to. In striving to make the book a college
student's Kama Sutra, Mr. Elliott and Ms. Brantley provide straightforward,
candid advice on how to be ... well ... good in bed. Really good in bed.
Anyone who reads this book may consider him/herself as coming away with a
B.A. in sex. Borrow it!
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Loosening the Grip:
A Handbook of Alcohol Information
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By Kinney and Leaton
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This text offers a through approach to understanding
alcohol and its physical and psychological affects on an individual. It is
the only comprehensive, self-contained book intended to cover the range of
psychological factors, physical complications, treatment options, and family
concerns. The text is easy to read and covers a broad range of situations
making it suitable for academics, students, or families of alcoholics. Borrow
it!
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Alcohol
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By Brent Q. Hafen with Molly J.
Brog Borrow it!
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Teaching about Sexuality and HIV: Principles and Methods for Effective
Education
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By Evonne Hedgepeth and Joan Helmich
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I wish I could provide this book to everyone who teaches about sexuality
and HIV, as well as those who make policy, funding, administrative, and other
decisions about sexuality and/or HIV education. This is the single best
resource on this topic in existence for new educators and veterans.
It's all here: theoretical foundations for educational programs;
descriptions, definitions and samples of a wide range of teaching/training
methods (enough lectures, already!); how-to-choose which methods, when, why,
and for whom; and a historical and current context for sexuality education.
This comprehensive content is presented in a variety of ways, including real
stories, some funny, some sad, all well chosen to illustrate and enrich the
valuable teachings. Borrow it!
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Talking with Kids about AIDS: A Program for Parents and Other Adults who Care
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By Jennifer Tiffany, Donald Tobias, Arzeymah
Raquib,
Jerome Ziegler Borrow it!
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Women and HIV/AIDS:
An International Resource Book
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By Marge Berer with Sunanda Ray
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This is an exceptional book: comprehensive, easily
understood, and a must read for everyone concerned that women have become the
the fastest growing segment of the population of people with HIV/AIDS. A
balanced and fascinating mix of personal accounts by HIV positive women,
straightforward articles explaining HIV/AIDS, prototype leaflets and posters,
descriptions of model programs, and an outstanding compilation of
international resources, this book is the best place to begin a search for
information about HIV/AIDS and women. Enlivened by contributions from
filmmaker Ellen Spiro and sexpert Susie Bright, as well as many of the founders
of women's AIDS activism worldwide, this book is remarkable for its breadth
of vision. Borrow it!
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Does AIDS Hurt?
Educating Young Children about AIDS
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By Marcia Quackenbush, MS, MFCC and Sylvia Villarreal, MD
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HIV Health and your Community: A Guide for Action
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By Reuben Granich, MD, MPH and Jonathon
Mermin, MD, MPH
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Easy-to-understand guide for health workers in areas with
few medical resources, such as rural Africa or Thailand. Designed as a manual
for those confronting the HIV epidemic in their communities and without
medical or technical knowledge or prior training in the prevention of HIV. Borrow
it!
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Women, Sex, and Addiction: A Search for Love and Power
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By Charlotte Davis Kasl, PhD
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In our society, sex can easily become the price many women
pay for love and the illusion of security. A woman who seeks a sense of
personal power and an escape from pain may use sex and romance as a way to
feel in control, just as an alcoholic uses alcohol; but sex never satisfies
her longing for love and self-worth. In this wise and compassionate book,
Charlotte Kasl shows women how they can learn to experience their sexuality
as a source for love and positive power and sex as an expression that honors
the soul as well as the body. Borrow
it!
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AIDS: The Literary Response
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By Emmanuel S. Nelson Borrow
it!
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Social Welfare: Politics and
Public Policy
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By Diana M. DiNitto
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This is the leading book in social welfare policy in
departments of social work, political science, administration and government.
Originally written with Thomas Dye, subsequent editions by Diana DiNitto have
been acknowledged as the most comprehensive orientation to social welfare
available. DiNitto's approach is politically neutral; she describes the major
welfare programs, including welfare, social security, disability, health
insurance, and more. This new edition includes new and updated information on
welfare (TANF), food stamps, managed care, disability, aging, the change from
a budget deficit to a budget surplus, the latest figures on poverty, and the
latest information on job training and employment. Borrow
it!
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Research and Evaluation in the
Human Services
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By John R. Schuerman Borrow
it!
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Health Education:
Learner-Centered Instructional Strategies
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By Jerrold S. Greenberg
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Moving beyond traditional texts, this new edition focuses
on the needs of learners in many different health education settings. It
encourages the use of instructional strategies that free learners to make
their own decisions, rather than strategies that force them to carry out
mandated decisions. Borrow it!
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Living Well: The Gay Man’s
Essential Health Guide
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By Peter Shalit, MD, PhD
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This informative, step-by-step guide provides the reader a
personal consultation with a gay-friendly physician focusing on issues and
health concerns of gay men. Humorous, educational, concise but inclusive of
the most important topics, Living Well is a helpful manual for every gay man. Borrow
it!
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Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism Borrow
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Safety in Numbers: Safer Sex and
Gay Men
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By Edward King
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Gay men remain the group primarily affected by the AIDS epidemic in most
industrialized countries. Although governments and AIDS organizations
increasingly stress the dangers of a heterosexual HIV epidemic, it is gay men
who are still bearing the brunt of the crisis. Safety in Numbers provides a comprehensive overview of safer sex education
for gay men. Edward King offers a critical analysis of the systematic
downplaying of the involvement of gay men in the HIV epidemic and
demonstrates conclusively how those at greatest risk form HIV have become the
most neglected. By looking back over the successes of groups such as Gay
Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP Safety in Numbers provides an accessible and
essential guide to meeting current and future needs in the fight against
AIDS. Borrow it!
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Tangled up in Blue: A novel
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By Larry Duplechan Borrow
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Living to Tell about It: Young Black Men in America Speak Their Piece
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By Darrell Dawsey
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Looks beyond the statistics and perceptions surrounding
young African-American men in a study that examines firsthand their
childhoods, relationships, sexuality, self-respect, spirituality, and
ambitions. Borrow it!
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Understanding Drugs of Abuse: The Processes of Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery
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By Mim J. Landry
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The author draws on his eight years with the Haight
Ashbury Free Medical Clinics in San Francisco and other professional
experience developing protocols for the treatment of substance use and
psychiatric disorders. His explanations are for concerned lay readers. Borrow
it!
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The Destroying Angel:
Sex, Fitness and Food in the Legacy of Degeneracy Theory, Graham
Crackers, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and American Health History
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By John Money
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I enjoyed this book a great deal because of the historical
focus on a time of our history of unbridled prudishness. Some of this is very
funny. My family had in its possession records from a mental hospital from
around the turn of the century and more than half of the patients were
admitted for consequences of masturbation! Borrow
it!
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Death by Denial:
Studies of Suicide in Gay and Lesbian Teenagers
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Edited by Gary Remafedi, MD, MPH
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This anthology of studies seeks to expand readers' understanding about the
inordinate risk of suicide facing homosexual and bisexual youth. Borrow
it!
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Gay Questions:
Quizzical Queries into How You Think, Feel, Love, and Live
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By Jerry Holderman
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Gay Questions mixes the feel and fun of a Trivial
Pursuit game with the gravity of serious issues facing the gay community,
prompting discussion on a broad range of topics--morality, privacy,
relationships, and attitudes--affecting the life of the gay reader. Among the
more than 200 questions: Have you ever intentionally given another man a
wrong phone number? Why? Borrow
it!
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First Person Sexual:
Women and Men Write about Self-pleasuring
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Edited by Joani Blank
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Forty-five anecdotes and vignettes of self-pleasuring will
amuse, provoke, startle, amuse, and arouse you. First Person Sexual is
playful, permission giving, reassuring and inspiring -- and the ultimate in
safe sex! "A delightful romp
through the playground of solo sex, both male and female, indoors and out,
using techniques and props almost beyond imagining. Informative, liberating,
and downright lusty." Dr. Harold Litten, Author, Joy of Solo Sex Borrow
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Creating a Positive Approach: A Manual to Assist People Facing AIDS and other
Life-threatening Illnesses
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By Louise L. Hay Borrow
it!
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The Hidden Injuries of Class
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By Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
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This superb book puts a human face on those living and
working at or near the economic bottom of our society. It describes in detail
the emotional and personal ramifications of working in jobs that are looked
down upon and stereotyped, as well as how family relationships are
complicated by a parent's subordinate position and their desire and
sacrifices for a child's success. It is easy-to-read and carries a profound
message. Borrow it!
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Family Values: Two Moms and their
Son
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By Phyllis Burke
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A lesbian recounts her fight to legally adopt and
co-parent her lover's child, describing her journey into the worlds of
adoption courts and the militant activist group, Queer Nation. Borrow
it!
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AIDS as an Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America
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By Susan Palmer Borrow
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Between the Sheets:
Sexual Diaries and Gay Men’s Sex in the Era of AIDS
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By Anthony P. M. Coxon
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This compelling book portrays the reality of gay sex, and
aims to understand it in relation to the transmission of HIV. Information on
gay sexual practice is essential in assessing how and why risk behavior is
increasing, and the use of sexual diaries has facilitated the participation
of hitherto invisibilized and marginalized groups such as SM practitioners,
married men, under-age men, men in the armed forces and men who have casual
sex. The detail in the diaries makes it possible to analyze the impact of
complex questions relating to sexual behavior including the incidence of
passive sex, drug use and the use of condoms in oral sex. Borrow
it!
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The Boys on the Rock: A Novel
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By John Fox
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Set in the Bronx during the 1960s, Boys on the Rock is a
wonderful slice-of-life, coming of age story. John Fox's conversational style
makes for a very engaging read. He captures the rhythms of speech common
among teenagers beautifully. The book is plotted nicely and does an excellent
job of depicting the angst and uncertainty of adolescence. The author does a
wonderful job of creating a sense of the atmosphere and tension in the Bronx
during the 1960s with amazing accuracy. This is a classic of gay literature
for good reason. Borrow it!
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Eighty-Sixed: A Novel
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By David B. Feinberg
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In pre-AIDS 1980, B.J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find
himself a boyfriend. But in post-AIDS 1986, his life has been permeated by
the deadly virus. Friends have been stricken with the disease, making B.J.
paranoid. Humor becomes his weapon of survival. Borrow
it!
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Assessment of Addictive Behaviors
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Edited by Dennis M. Donovan and G. Alan Marlatt
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Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the
Destiny of Gay Men
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By Gabriel Rotello
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Intensively researched, passionately argued, and
intellectually rigorous, Sexual Ecology sounds a clarion call for the
controversial revision of the gay male community's beliefs about and
approaches to AIDS. It is widely agreed that Sexual Ecology is the first book
since And the Band Played On to fundamentally challenge social
perceptions of this virulent modern plague. Gabriel Rotello argues that a
series of accepted views, such as "there are no such things as risk
groups, only risky behaviors," the product of well-intentioned attempts to
combat social stigma are fallacies that have hampered our attempts to study
the disease. From the false security of condoms to the seeming magic bullet
of protease inhibitors, simplistic ways of looking at AIDS have allowed
thousands of gay men to become infected each year. Weaving together the
intertwining threads of sexual politics, science, and survival, Sexual
Ecology constructs an incisive, even-handed discussion that has been debated
by activists and affirmed by scientists and epidemiologists, and that is
relevant to all our lives. Borrow
it!
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For Yourself: The Fulfillment of
Female Sexuality
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By Lonnie Barbach, PhD
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An excellent, reassuring book for women and their
partners. It carries the woman along step-by-step in the rediscovery of her
own sexuality and the pleasure it will bring her. Liberated or not, single or
married, young or old, all women will find this book accessible and
supportive. Borrow it!
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Understanding Homosexuality, Changing Schools: A Text for Teachers, Counselors, and
Administrators
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By Arthur Lipkin
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"This excellent, scholarly and practical book tackles one of the most
contested contexts in which debates about sexual orientation are taking
place. Lipkin's compassionate and intelligent arguments should enlighten all
professionals engaged in teaching and school administration. With lucid
writing and a deep understanding of the intersections of race, gender,
sexuality and economics, Lipkin makes a brilliant contribution to the
movement to make America's schools smarter and stronger." -Urvashi Vaid,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Borrow
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The Adonis Complex:
The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession
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By Harrison G. Pope, JR, MD, Katharine A. Phillips, MD,
Roberto Olivardia, PhD
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More than ever, men are struggling with the same enormous pressure to
achieve physical perfection that women have dealt with for centuries. From
compulsive weightlifting to steroid use, from hair plugs to cosmetic surgery,
growing numbers of men are taking the quest for perfect muscles, skin, and
hair too far, crossing the line from normal interest to pathological
obsession. This new obsession with appearance, known as the Adonis Complex,
afflicts boys and men of all ages and from all walks of life. In its more
severe forms, the Adonis Complex poses a health threat that is as insidious
and deadly as eating disorders are for women and girls. But this
groundbreaking book offers hope and help for the men caught in the oppressive
cycle of body obsession. Borrow
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
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By Siorbhan B. Somerville
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Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings
of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in
the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range
of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American
literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of
homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color
line," the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This
book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as
unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically
been central to the cultural production of homosexuality. Borrow
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AIDS: A Self-care Manual
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Edited by BettyClare Moffatt, MA, Judith Spiegel, MPH,
Steve Parrish, Michael Helquist Borrow
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Intimacy is for Everyone: A Sex Educator’s Guide to Teaching Intimacy Skills
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By Bob McDermott and Barbara Petrich
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American Social
Welfare Policy: A Pluralistic
Approach
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By Howard Jacob Karger and David Stoesz
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Living Proof: Courage in the Face
of AIDS
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By Carolyn Jones
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Photojournalist Carolyn Jones's vivid and life-affirming
portraits capture people from all backgrounds, children and grandmothers, men
and women of every race living with HIV and AIDS. These compelling pictures
illustrate the self-confidence and wisdom of ordinary people living life to
the fullest. Borrow it!
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Managing Stress:
Principles and Strategies for Health and Wellbeing
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By Brian Luke Seaward
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Highly acclaimed as the authoritative text, Managing
Stress represents the most comprehensive and contemporary resource available
on the topics of stress management and health psychology. By offering a
holistic approach to the problem of stress, Seaward gently guides the reader
to achieve a greater level of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well
being by emphasizing the ageless wisdom of mind-body-spirit unity. Managing
Stress is beautifully illustrated extremely well researched, and full of
thought provoking stories and exercises to fully engage the reader. Several
new features have been added to this edition which incorporate the newest
stress management techniques and strategies. Among them are: the most current
information on stress and disease, including an update on ulcers and various
components of the human energy field based on the work of Carolyn Nyss and
Christiane Northrup, new perspectives on spiritual wellbeing from the mystic
Hildegard Von Bingen and Deepak Chopra, and time management techniques,
including insights from Time Shifting by Stephen Rechtschaffen. Borrow
it!
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The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: Tips and Techniques from America’s
Favorite Sex Toy Store
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By Cathy Winks and Anne Semans
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This updated edition of the best selling sex manual offers
advice, anecdotes, and validation for a variety of sexual interests and
activities. A compendium of in-depth answers to the top questions about toys
and techniques asked by customers at Good Vibrations, America's favorite
sex-toy store, this is a sex book for all readers. Borrow
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Men Like Us: The
GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men’s Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-being
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By Daniel Wolfe
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For nearly two decades, Gay Men's Health Crisis
(GMHC),
the world's largest and most respected not-for-profit AIDS service
organization, has provided vital support, education, and health information
to gay men in the New York City area. Now, with Men Like Us, their
guidance--and the insights of hundreds of gay men across America--can help
you. Practical, down-to-earth, and accessible. Borrow
it!
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Self-assessment and Behavior Change Manual
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By Peggy Blake, Robert Frye, and Michael Pejsach
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Community HIV Prevention: The Long Beach AIDS Community Demonstration Project
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Edited by Nancy H. Corby and Richard J. Wolitski
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Strategies for
Survival: A Gay Men’s Health Manual
for the Age of AIDS
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By Martin Delaney and Peter
Goldblum, PhD, MPH Borrow it!
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Filling the Gaps:
Hard to Teach Topics in Sexuality Education
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By SIECUS Borrow
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Preventing AIDS:
A Guide to Effective Education for the Prevention of HIV Infection
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By Nicholas Freudenberg DrPH Borrow
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Changing Bodies, Changing Lives
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By Ruth Bell
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Changing Bodies, Changing Lives has helped hundreds
of thousands of teenagers make informed decisions about their lives, from
questions about sex, love, friendship, and how your body works to dealing
with problems at school and home and figuring out who you are. It's packed
with illustrations, checklists, and resources for the answers you really
need. Best of all, it's filled with the voices, poems, and cartoons from
hundreds of other teenagers, who tell you what makes them feel worried,
angry, confused, sexy, happy, and, yes, even excited and hopeful about their
lives. Borrow it!
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The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women
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By The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
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Three decades ago, information about women's health was
hoarded by physicians and doled out sparingly to their female patients. Our
Bodies, Ourselves, first published in 1969, helped change that situation.
The latest edition runs 752 pages and covers a stunning range of territory
about women's physical beings: fitness (this section includes a reminder that
overweight women have a right to not exercise), reproductive health, aging,
sexuality, and childbirth. It also includes thick chapters on relationships
and information about mental-health issues, including psychotherapy. The New
Our Bodies, Ourselves is the straightest-talking, most comprehensive book
about women's health on the market. Borrow
it!
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Daddy and Me: A
Photo Story of Arthur Ashe and His Daughter Camera
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By Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
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The special relationship between Arthur Ashe and his
daughter, Camera, is presented by Ashe's wife, who uses black-and-white
photographs and a simple, first-person text, written in Camera's voice, to
show the child supporting her father, who suffered from the AIDS virus. The
text is life affirming and will have value for children dealing with the
long-term illness of an adult. Borrow
it!
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The Woman’s Guide to Sex on the Web
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By Anne Semans and Cathy Winks
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The duo clearly spent long hours separating the wheat from
the chaff to come up with roughly 200 stellar Web sex sites. Their
forthright, diverting Net surfers' handbook seems to offer something for
everyone of any sexual persuasion. A
chapter on steamy bulletin boards, chat rooms, conferences, and dating sites
tells readers how to mind their manners and warns them to keep their heads
about them. Before you shell out a dime on the numerous sex-for-pay sites,
Semans and Winks suggest a look at the "Hall of Shame" posted on Jane's
Net Sex Guide, an opinionated escort through the highs and lows of cybersex.
The coauthors don't pull punches, either. While they tout the "exquisite
images" on one art-erotica site, they complain quite sharply about the
"pedestrian" and "annoying" text that accompanies it.
Interviews with various Webmistresses and reviews of zines and sites for sex
toys, books, and other resources also pepper these pages. Borrow
it!
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Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?: Another Christian View
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By Letha Scanzoni and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
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A classic work of gay spirituality--newly revised to
reflect today's issues, including gays in the military, the AIDS crisis, and
genetic research on homosexuality. Borrow
it!
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New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay
and Bisexual Men
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Edited by Michael T. Wright,
LICSW, MS, B.R. Simon Rosser,
PhD, MPH, Onno de Zwart, MA Borrow
it!
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Reclaiming Your Life:
The Gay Man’s Guide to Love, Self-Acceptance, and Trust
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By Rik Isensee
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Rik Isensee strikes a long-forgotten chord with his
self-help book, "Reclaiming Your Life," which gives strong
psychological advice to gay men who have been through just about every situation
imaginable. There are scenarios presented that will ring true for some
readers, and Isensee offers his unique and insightful advice on each of them,
giving the reader options to overcome overbearing feelings and/or situations
that would cause others to commit drastic actions. This is an excellent book
in the field of self-help, and once finished, provides an uplifting light at
the end of the tunnel. Borrow
it!
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School’s OUT:
The Impact of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America’s Schools
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By Dan Woog
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Evaluating the weight of gay and lesbian issues on
contemporary education, a study based on interviews with three hundred gay
and straight educators, students, and parents details their positive and
negative experiences. Borrow
it!
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The Women’s HIV Sourcebook: A Guide to Better Health and Well-Being
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By Patricia Kloser, MD, FACP, and Jane MacLean Craig, MS
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More than 10 years into the AIDS epidemic, women are the group with the
fastest-growing rate of HIV infection. In part this is because, as the
receptive partner, they are biologically more vulnerable to the virus. And
yet, ``women are still largely regarded as vectors of transmission,'' Kloser
and Craig note. They believe that throughout the pandemic, ``more concern
[has been] directed to women as mothers, as caregivers, as sexual partners,
than as individuals with distinct needs.'' They note that by the year 2000,
more than 13 million women will have been infected by HIV and about four
million will have died. Their book maps out the basic information women need
to know in order to deal with HIV, from executing a living will and coping
with discrimination to managing stress and home care. The authors use
first-person accounts from women of all backgrounds to make the point that
this is an equal-opportunity infection, and recommend testing as ``the first
step toward ensuring the highest possible quality and quantity of life.''
Also included are appendices with a directory of support services and a quick
reference chart of HIV-related gynecologic conditions. Testing is the first
step for women; this book, with its compassionate and practical information,
is the second. Borrow it!
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Untold Millions:
Secret Truths about Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers
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By Grant Lukenbill Borrow
it!
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Sex for One: The Joy of
Self-Loving
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By Betty Dobson, PhD
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In an honest, witty, and reassuring guide, noted sex
authority and feminist Betty Dodson reveals her innovative techniques for
helping men and women accept masturbation as a joyful and essential
expression of their sexuality. Borrow
it!
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Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and
Counseling
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By Caitlin Ryan and Donna Futterman
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This is the first hands-on guide for providing health and
mental health care to lesbian and gay youth and young adults. Although it
focuses on adolescents, the information is relevant for any age group. In
addition to specific guidelines for care and for approaching such sensitive
topics as sexual behavior, substance abuse, and suicide, the book includes a
comprehensive review of the literature and the most up-to-date information
for providers, researchers, educators, and general readers alike. This book
also includes the first guidelines (clinical care protocols) on primary care,
mental health care, HIV medical and psychosocial care for lesbian and gay youth,
and HIV counseling and testing for adolescents. There is extensive discussion
of the social and health effects of stigmatized identity in the context of
adolescent development. Borrow
it!
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The Journey Out:
A Guide for and About Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Teens
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By Rachel Pollack and Cheryl Schwartz
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With chapters on sexual orientation (including a
controversial chapter noting "a probably genetic basis for
homosexuality"), gay history, stereotypes, and love, the book is a good
lead-in to Sutton's. The un-crowded format makes it look approachable, and
the tone is never strident, even when the authors are at their most
serious--for example, in their refutation of biblical literalists, in their
consideration of coming out to parents, and in their discussion of
"surviving in a homophobic world." There are some unusual features
to balance things out, among them, an attempt to acknowledge some of the
special concerns of bisexuals and a chapter devoted to terms. Perhaps the
greatest contribution the book makes, however, is its identification of a
varied gay community that offers support as well as opportunities to become
active in fighting harassment and securing basic human rights for all. Borrow
it!
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Taking a Chance on God:
Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and their Lovers, Families,
and Friends
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By John J. McNeill
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Featuring a new preface, a guidebook draws on the principles
of the gay and lesbian liberation movement and the author's counseling
experience with homosexuals to show gays and lesbians how to maintain their
identity within the Christian church. Borrow
it!
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Women, Drug Use, and HIV Infection
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Edited by Sally Stevens, PhD, Stephanie
Tortu, PhD, and
Susan Coyle, Phd
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Compiles findings from a multi-site program of research on
HIV infection among out-of-treatment drug users sponsored by the National
Institute on Drug Abuse. The 13 contributions examine a number of factors related
to HIV infection among women who inject drugs and/or smoke crack cocaine, or
who are sex partners of individuals who use these drugs. Prevention
strategies and the effects of domestic violence and prostitution are also
covered. Borrow it!
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Straight?: True
Stories of Unexpected Sexual Encounters Between Men
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By Jack Hart
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Beneath its jovial, insouciant, sexy attitude, Jack Hart's
Straight, a collection of frisky first-person tales in which
straight-identified men end up having sex with other men, embodies a curious
political and cultural collision. One of the mandates of the gay liberation
movement, which emerged after the Stonewall riots of June, 1969, was that
every gay person had the responsibility to "come out" and be openly
gay. Yet postmodern theory informs us that the very categories of
"gay" and "straight" may be, well, easily constructed
identities that conceal far more complicated realities. Borrow
it!
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In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV Negative in the Age of AIDS
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By Walt Odets
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Being HIV-negative is not much discussed in the gay
community. On the surface it seems incredible that people would need support
services for being "well." But that is only if one does not fully
comprehend the identification of AIDS with the gay male community and the
issues both AIDS and gayness pose for society in general. Odets, a clinical
psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, goes beyond the surface and
digs deep into notions of survivor guilt, group identification, isolation,
positive/negative relationships, "The Politics and Humanity of Gay
Sex," and survival. One may not agree with some of his conclusions, but
he will make one think. Borrow
it!
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Women and AIDS:
Negotiating Safer Sex Practices, Care, and Representation
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Edited by Nancy L. Roth, PhD and Linda K. Fuller, PhD
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Family Secrets: Gay Sons, A
Mother’s Story
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By Jean M. Baker
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I have written this book to memorialize my younger gay son
and also to bring to attention the devastation which homophobia perpetrates
upon its most vulnerable victims,
that is gay children and adolescents. The “pathologizing” of
homosexuality, even though usually directed toward adult homosexuals,
inevitably shapes the minds and souls of children who are growing up to be
gay or lesbian. I hope that my story, as the mother of gay sons and as a
clinical psychologist, will play some small role in helping to change the
anti-gay attitudes and practices which pervade our society, and which cause
such trauma for gay youths. Just as gays and lesbians have emerged from the
closet, I encourage parents to "come out" publicly about their
child's sexual orientation. By showing pride and love toward their gay child
parents can help diminish anti-gay prejudice and the damage it inflicts upon
those whose only "crime" or "sin" is that when they fall
in love it is with someone of the same gender as themselves. The same process
of openness is true about AIDS. A parent of someone with HIV/AIDS speaking
honestly about his or her loved one puts an individual face on the epidemic,
makes it less easy for others to be indifferent, and helps overcome the
stigma. Borrow it!
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HIV Disease:
Lesbians, Gays and the Social Services
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Edited by Gary A. Lloyd, PhD,
ACSW, BCD and Mary Ann Kuszelewicz, MSW, ACSW
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Enhances readers' understanding of the pivotal roles
played by gays and lesbians in response to HIV infection and AIDS,
highlighting the strengths and tensions in the gay and lesbian community.
Themes include the impact of homophobia on service for people with HIV and
AIDS, social services and bereavement in the gay and lesbian community, HIV
disease among populations such as lesbians and gays of color, and telephone
group counseling in reducing risk behavior. Borrow
it!
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Tell Them Who I Am:
The Lives of Homeless Women
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By Elliot Liebow
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In 1984 Elliot
Liebow, an urban anthropologist and author
of Tally's Corner, an earlier work on Black street corner life, left
his job at the National Institute of Mental Health and began volunteering at
The Refuge, an emergency shelter for homeless women. Elliot became
increasingly drawn to these women, spending more and more time in it and
other shelters, making notes and getting to know the inhabitants. This book is
the result. Unveiling the problems inherent in the current system of
providing for the homeless is only part of the dynamic at work here. Tell
Them Who I Am gives real voice to these women and their stories. They are
clearly human beings, and Elliot does nothing to strip them of their dignity
or humanity. If any criticism could be made I suppose it might be to suggest
that Elliot is too close to his subjects. Perhaps this is an apt counter to
most of the distancing, impartial-observer accounts of the homeless common to
social science texts. There is no feeling of these women as bugs under a
microscope. We see their world, as we should, through their eyes. Borrow
it!
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Looking Queer:
Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender
Communities
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Edited by Dawn Atkins
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Looking Queer contains research, first-hand
accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline
the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and
appearance obsession. More than 60 contributors provide their knowledge and
personal experiences in dealing with body image issues exclusive to gay and
transgender communities. Written by both men and women, the topics and
research in Looking Queer offer insight into the lives of people you
can relate to, enabling you to learn from their experiences so you, too, can
find joy and happiness in accepting your body. Borrow
it!
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Sex in History
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By Reay Tannahill
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The author pinpoints the many historical and sociological
reasons for our modern sexual behavior (i.e. sexual identity, clothing,
dating, etc). She does it in a breezy, informative, and humorous style that
is never ponderous or academic. Borrow
it!
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Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th
Century
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By Jeffrey Moran
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Sex education, since its advent at the dawn of the
twentieth century, has provoked the hopes and fears of generations of
parents, educators, politicians, and reformers. On its success or failure
seems to hinge the moral fate of the nation and its future citizens. But
whether we argue over condom distribution to teenagers or the use of an
anti-abortion curriculum in high schools, we rarely question the basic
premise--that adolescents need to be educated about sex. Jeffrey Moran takes
us on a fascinating ride through America's sexual mores: from a time when
young men were warned about the crippling effects of masturbation, to the
belief that schools could and should train adolescents in proper courtship
and parenting techniques, to the reemergence of sexual abstention brought by
the AIDS crisis. We see how the political and moral anxieties of each era
found their way into sex education curricula, reflecting the priorities of the
elders more than the concerns of the young. Borrow
it!
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The Male Couple’s Guide to Living Together
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By Eric Marcus Borrow
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Thinking AIDS:
The Social Response to the Biological Threat
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By Mary Catherine Bateson and Richard Goldsby
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Changing HIV Risk Behaviors:
Practical Strategies
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By Jeffrey A. Kelly
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Changing HIV Risk Behavior: Practical Strategies
opens with a thorough overview of the practical epidemiology of HIV infection
and the conceptual underpinnings of Dr. Jeffrey Kelly's prevention approach.
Delineating the major risk behaviors for contracting HIV infection, Kelly
outlines the principles of successful intervention. Throughout, he stresses
the importance of tailoring interventions to cultural, risk factor, social,
relationship, and lifestyle variables, as well as to individual needs.
Changing HIV Risk Behavior reviews a range of settings (including inner-city
women's health clinics and gay bars) where HIV prevention programs can be
conducted, and discusses how HIV prevention can be integrated into the
services of community programs. Changing
HIV Risk Behavior also describes how to teach technical skills such as
condom use and needle-cleaning procedures; interpersonal skills, including
sexual assertiveness and safer sex negotiation; and cognitive skills for
improving self-confidence about avoiding risk. Borrow
it!
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Reports from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist
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By Larry Kramer
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Collects most of the gay activist's previously published
political writing, and adds a new essay of almost a hundred
pages--"Report from the holocaust"--that brings together all his
thinking about the AIDS epidemic and gay people in the US today. Borrow
it!
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Counseling in a Dynamic Society: Opportunities and Challenges
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By Edwin Herr Borrow
it!
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HIV-Negative:
How the Uninfected are Affected by AIDS
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By William I. Johnston
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Explores the social and psychological issues confronting
gay men who are not infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Interviews with
about 50 men demonstrate that many such survivors feel disbelief, guilt, and
fatalism, and that the concept of "HIV status" has profoundly
altered gay culture. Useful as a resource for counselors, therapists, social
workers, and community activists, and for those considering HIV testing or
who have already tested negative. Borrow
it!
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Experiencing HIV:
Personal, Family, and Work Relationships
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By Barry D. Adam and Alan Sears
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Sex is not a Four-Letter Word: Talking Sex with your Children Made Easier
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By Patricia Martens Miller
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Sex educator and religion instructor Miller succeeds at
the daunting task of providing parents with a solidly scientific,
psychologically empathic, and spiritually focused guide to children's
sexuality from birth through young adulthood. She urges an authoritative,
interactive approach to one's children's sexuality that is based in both
thorough knowledge of psychosexual development and understanding of the
current teachings of established religions including Catholicism,
Lutheranism, and Judaism. Specific topics she addresses include the
importance of self-esteem in sexual identity, psychosexual development
patterns and milestones, loving and supporting a gay or lesbian child,
preventing date rape, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases,
dispelling myths and fantasies regarding sex, and preventing sexual abuse.
She also advises parents on becoming comfortable with their sexuality,
effectively modeling sexual attitudes and behavior, and, most important,
encouraging the development of sexual morality. A powerful amalgam of
practical advice, scholarly research, and religious training forthrightly and
caringly presented, Miller's handbook will bolster parents' self-confidence
as they face the challenges of their children's sexual and moral education. Borrow
it!
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Sexual Dysfunction:
A Guide for Assessment and Treatment
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By John P. Wincze and Michael P. Carey
Borrow it!
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Questions and Answers on AIDS
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By Lyn R. Frumkin, MD, PhD, and John M. Leonard, MD
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Written in an accessible question-and-answer format, an
updated and comprehensive guide offers clear and reliable information about
HIV and AIDS, and shows how to determine one's risk of infection and how to
protect oneself. Borrow it!
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The Queer Press Guide: 2000
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Edited by Paul Harris
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The book contains listings of the Queer Press from every
continent apart from Antarctica; the most comprehensive listing of the Queer
Press in the United States and Canada ever to appear in print; the names of
the key personnel at each publication; details of phone and fax numbers, and
e-mail and website addresses; circulation figures (together with whether they
are audited or not); minimum pay scales to writers and photographers;
hands-on advice from Publishers and Editors about what they are looking for;
and advice on how to Self-Syndicate your work. Borrow
it!
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Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies
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Edited by Albert Bandura
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Efficacy issues infiltrate every domain in every person’s
life. This book is Banduras greatest work in his quest to pioneer the concept
he originated. Whether for personal interest or academic research all
individuals in the domain of efficacy must become familiar with Banduras
work--especially that contained within this work. Borrow
it!
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Hate Hurts: How
Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
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By Caryl Stern-LaRosa and Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann
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Noticing differences among people is biological. At six months, an infant
can distinguish skin color, hair texture, and facial features. But forming
attitudes about differences is social, say Caryl Stern La Rosa and Ellen
Hofheimer Bettman in this perceptive and practical book developed by the
Anti-Defamation League, Hate Hurts. The authors offer a clear and compelling
guide to understanding the way children learn and unlearn prejudice,
suggesting hundreds of strategies, role plays, and sample dialogues for
parents and teachers to shape the way children value the differences they
perceive. Borrow it!
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You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
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By Deborah Tannen, PhD
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Discover how men and women can interpret the same
conversation differently, even when there is no apparent misunderstanding.
Discover why sincere attempts to communicate are so often confounded, and how
we can prevent or relieve some of the frustration. This fascinating, helpful,
and controversial book explores, in depth the differing style men and women
articulate, and how to work through it and get to the heart of the matter. Borrow
it!
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Living in Sin: A Bishop Rethinks Sexuality
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By John Shelby
Spong
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Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage? Should the widowed be
allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying? Should the church
receive homosexuals into its community and support committed gay and lesbian
relationships? Should congregations publicly and liturgically witness and
affirm divorces? Should the church's moral standards continue to be set by
patriarchal males? Should women be consecrated bishops? Bishop Spong proposes
a pastoral response based on scripture and history to the changing realities
of the modern world. He calls for a moral vision to empower the church with
inclusive teaching about equal, loving, non-exploitative relationships. Borrow
it!
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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis
Experiment
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By James H. Jones
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An account of the experiment performed on unknowing black
sharecroppers describes how the U.S. Public Health Service allowed the
syphilis in the sharecroppers to take its course without treatment and
explains how such a tragedy occurred. Borrow
it!
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Risky Sex: Gay Men and HIV
Prevention
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By Dwayne C. Turner
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A 1997 Choice Outstanding Book of the Year In
candid, in-depth interviews, gay men discuss their experiences in the age of
AIDS, their attitudes toward sex, and their motives for engaging in behaviors
that are widely considered to be dangerous health risks. Revealing that such
factors as guilt for being HIV negative, alcohol and drug use, and low
self-esteem are possible causes of continuing dangerous sexual behavior,
Turner also recommends ways to promote safer sex while respecting the choices
and judgments of gay men. Borrow
it!
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Reviving the Tribe:
Regenerating Gay Men’s Sexuality and Culture in the Ongoing Epidemic
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By Eric Rofes
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Rofe, an activist and political strategist, offers an
autobiographical self-examination and a critique of current sexual politics
within the gay community. He argues that stepping out of the "state of
emergency" due to AIDS and returning to the interrupted agenda of gay
liberation may provide long-term motivation to keep gay men alive and
rejuvenate a new generation of gay culture. His plan for community
regeneration concentrates on mental health, sexuality, and mending the social
fabric of communal gay life. Borrow
it!
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Policing Public Sex
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Edited by Dangerous Bedfellows
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The AIDS epidemic has had a myriad of social and political
consequences, not the least of which has been a radical social rethinking
about sexuality. While AIDS has encouraged a more open discussion of sexual
activity, it has also brought a backlash. Policing Public Sex, a
collection of 25 essays by educators, activists, sociologists, and community
spokespersons, is enormously smart. This volume helps us consider and contend
with the political and social campaigns that seek to control or monitor
manifestations of sexuality considered "public"--from safe-sex
education to sex clubs. Well written, this book is on the cutting edge of
social change and AIDS education. Borrow
it!
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Life in the Gang: Family,
Friends, and Violence
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By Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle
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Based on three years of fieldwork, this study describes
all aspects of gang life. Told largely in the gang members' own words, it
depicts their organization and members' predominant activities--hanging out,
drinking, and using drugs--as well as involvement in major property crime and
drug traffic. Borrow it!
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Cooking for Life:
A Guide to Nutrition and Food Safety for the HIV Positive Community
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By Robert H. Lehmann
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Designed for people with HIV or AIDS, their friends,
families, and healthcare professionals, a guide to nutrition and food safety
shows how to use food as a preventive medicine and to promote healing of
common AIDS-related illnesses. Borrow
it!
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When Someone You Know Has AIDS: A Practical Guide
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By Leonard J. Martelli with Fran D.
Peltz, CRC and William
Messina,CSW
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As a loved one what can you do to confront the trauma of
an AIDS diagnosis? When Someone You Know Has AIDS has the answers.
With personal stories and the most up-to-date information about the disease's
symptoms and treatments, and practical advice on everything from health
insurance to social security disability benefits, it provides the facts you
need--as well as comfort and solace to help meet the ever-growing challenge
of AIDS and HIV. Borrow it!
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Sexual Health Concerns:
Interviewing and History Taking for Health Practitioners
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By Michael W. Ross, Lorna D.
Channon-Little, and B.R.
Simon Rosser
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Clinical guide of practical tips on asking basic screening
questions and completing detailed sexual histories. Designed to make the
interviewer more comfortable with this type of consultation. Includes new
information on counseling children and adolescents and on aging and
sexuality. Borrow it!
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Latino Gay Men and HIV:
Culture, Sexuality, and Risk Behavior
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By Rafael M. Diaz
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With research based on focus group and individual
interviews in the United States, as well as a thorough and integrative review
of the current literature, Latino Gay Men and HIV discusses the six main
sociocultural factors in Latino communities -- machismo, homophobia, family
cohesion, sexual silence, poverty and racism--which undermine safe sex
practices. In an attempt to explain the alarmingly high incidence of
unprotected intercourse in this population, this in-depth cultural and
psychological analysis shows how an apparent incongruence between knowledge
or intention and behavior can possess its own sociocultural logic and
meaning. Borrow it!
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The HIV
Negative Gay Man: Developing
Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being
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Edited by Steven
Ball, MA, MSW, ACSW
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