Recommended Books & Media About Coming Out
Families of Value: Personal Profiles of Pioneering Lesbian and Gay Parents
Robert A. Bernstein, Marlowe and Company, 2005
A collection of real-life stories of gay parents' struggles to raise their children in a hostile society. From a gay Protestant minister to two lesbian police officers hoping to extend death benefits to each other, these narratives offer insight into what motivates same-sex parents in their fight for legitimacy and acceptance-namely, the wellbeing of their children.
Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity
Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox, Eds., Jossey-Bass, 2003
A collection of real-life stories told by a wide-range of sex and gender diverse people. This book encourages us to embrace diversity, to never fear our differences, and to remain always in awe of our amazing possibilities.
Southern Comfort
Kate Davis, 2001
A feature-length documentary about the life of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female to male transsexual who lived in the back hills of Georgia. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, then turned away by more than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a transgendered patient might harm their practice. Southern Comfort follows the final year of his life.
Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together
Robert A. Bernstein, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999
Bernstein, father of a lesbian daughter, writes of parents' pain and confusion when they learn their children are gay. He addresses the experiences of growing up gay in a straight world, the movement toward gay rights, and the fight by accepting parents for tolerance for their children. Second edition.
Crossing
Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Chicago Press, 1999
A memoir that chronicles Deirdre McCloskey's transformation from Donald McCloskey, an economist at the University of Iowa and married father of two, into the woman he finally accepted he had always wanted to be.
School's Out: The Impact of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America's Schools
Dan Woog, Alyson Publications, 1995
The true stories of dozens of gay and lesbian educators and students, and their straight allies. Nearly 300 people are interviewed in this exploration of the current impact of gay and lesbian issues and people on the U.S. educational system.
Becoming Visible
Kevin Jennings (Ed.), Alyson Publications, 1994
Covering a wide range of cultures over two thousand years, this history reader brings gay men and lesbians out of hiding and into the classroom.