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If your child or teen recently told you they are transgender, non-binary or genderfluid, you're bound to have questions. You may wonder how best to support your child's transition and doubt whether you are making the right decisions. When her son came out as transgender, Tammy Plunkett had the same worries. In Beyond Pronouns, she shares her candid experiences learning to navigate her child's transition and provides clear and practical guidance to help you do the same.

Juno Roche was born into a working-class family in London in the '60s, who dabbled in minor criminality. For their father, violence and love lived together; for their mother, addiction was the only way to survive. School was a respite, but shortly after beginning their university course, Juno was diagnosed with HIV, then a death sentence. Juno is a survivor; they outlived their diagnosis, got a degree and became an artist. But however hard you try to take the kid out of the family, some scars go too deep.

Linda Gromko, MD, is a board-certified family physician who has worked with the transgender community for more than 20 years. She explains the basics of gender identity, sexual orientation, puberty, puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and gender-affirming surgeries. She shares years of her patients' wisdom and practical information on getting through every day in the best way possible - from coming out to parents, to school issues, to coping with depression, to love and sex.

My child is transgender. He was once a she. When He Was Anna: A Mom's Journey into the Transgender World is a mother's brutally honest story of the stress and confusion that consumed her family in the early years of her child's transition from female to male. When He Was Anna: A Mom's Journey into the Transgender World was written with the goal of helping all parents (not only those with transgender children) see that they aren't alone as they struggle to navigate the parenting journey and recover from mistakes made along the way.

No matter who we are or where we come from, we all play on the same playground. There are certain collective societal messages we hear growing up that we either consciously or subconsciously believe. As a result, we develop certain belief systems from which we operate our lives. Chris Tompkins’ Raising LGBTQ Allies sheds light on the deeper, multi-faceted layers of homophobia. It opens up a conversation with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child and shows how heteronormativity can be harmful if not addressed clearly and early.

Journeying through wildly different weddings, visits to wedding planners, interviews with the much-married, those who have questioned their decision to marry and those who would never consider matrimony, this is an incisive, witty and moving look at marriage - as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a practical solution. Tom Rasmussen examines what marriage means across the spectrum of sexuality and class, and what the future looks like for this most historic and universal of institutions.

On September 3rd, 1971, at the dawn of the modern gay movement, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. But the battle to get there - legal and emotional - was only the start of their incredible lives together. Jack enrolled in law school, keeping his promise to Michael that he would figure out a way to marry. He did, but the repercussions would echo not only through their lives, but through those of every gay person in the US who ever wanted what this one pioneering couple did: a happy family life.

You're a young man who feels love for other men? Do you long for valuable input to live your life the way you want to live it? Is your outing still imminent, and you wish for motivating thoughts that support you in this important project? Then, you've found the perfect audiobook! I wish you lots of fun listening to it and heartfelt success while implementing the ideas in my book. You're great the way you are.

Come e quando ci si scopre gay e lesbiche? Cosa vuol dire omosessualità nelle altre culture? E cosa accade nelle specie animali? Se nell'Ottocento l'omosessualità era ancora considerata una malattia, oggi viene definita una variante dello sviluppo, ed è diventata una condizione sempre più visibile nelle società moderne.

People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to believe that love is selective, somehow, that it can be boxed in and easily defined. This is a collection of 11 remarkable essays that widen the frame of reference: transgender romance; body image issues; race relations; disability; polyamory; class differences; queer love; long distance; caste; loneliness; the single life; the bad boy syndrome...and so much more.

People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to believe that love is selective, somehow, that it can be boxed in and easily defined. This is a collection of 11 remarkable essays that widen the frame of reference: transgender romance; body image issues; race relations; disability; polyamory; class differences; queer love; long distance; caste; loneliness; the single life; the bad boy syndrome...and so much more.

A practical and insightful consideration of what it means to be sexual as a trans, queer person.

What happens when two women commit to serving the Catholic Church as nuns taking vows of chastity, but fall passionately in love? They defy the Church's rules against same-sex relationships and blaze a bold trail for a joyous life together at a time when LGBTQ people could be killed for being gay and same-sex marriage was decades in the future.

Fui bastante liberal en la educación de mi hijo. A pesar de que no creo que la homosexualidad sea algo malo, se me dificulta aceptar que mi hijo es gay. ¿Qué sucede conmigo? ¿Tal vez en el fondo siempre fui conservadora y homofóbica?

How Coddling Kids Is Killing Kids' Confidence is about a boxing coach (Donté) who shares tips with parents to help them prepare their child(ren) for adulthood. What Donté has targeted in this book is that mental health concerns were happening WAY before the pandemic was a concern, and what he saw was how parenting was causing much of the mental health crisis. Instead of reacting to the variety of concerns parents were coming to him to help their kids with, he decided to be proactive and write a book to help parents at home to solve some of the root problems.

It's Not Transphobic to Say Your Daughter Is A Girl: The Wise Lesbian Guide for Progressives allows parents to see the current explosive growth in girls seeking "gender transition" through the lens of sociology, gay and lesbian history, and recent data on the long-term risk of childhood and adolescent medicalization in the pursuit of expressing trans identities.

After her parents' divorce in 1974, Lisa Lucca's idyllic Midwestern childhood is shattered when she learns her father is gay. Sworn to secrecy, she begins carrying the emotions of her family like a cracked bucket, making a mess as she embarks on a life of rebellious choices. Decades later, faced with the aftermath of her father’s death, Lisa revisits the complicated relationship she had with him, delving deeper into the stories she’s held about love, sexuality, and the family she comes from with a shimmering clarity that arises from her grief.

Every story needs a hero. Sanctuary tells a story where the Church is the hero. Using experiences from his own life, Harry Schenkel relates how the Church has been the safe place and guiding light through many of life’s darkest moments. From drug addicted parents, to family sexual abuse, through a broken marriage, and his first son’s struggle with sexual identity, the Church, built upon the love and grace of Jesus Christ, has been Harry’s sanctuary. By telling his story, he hopes that the Church will be your sanctuary also.

Madres del triángulo rosa es una mirada sincera hacia atrás, desde el momento en el que su hijo mayor, en su habitación de adolescente, le confesó que no le gustaban las mujeres. Ella, una mamá de esas que entrega todo por sus hijos, se dijo a sí misma que lo amaría por encima de todo, pero luego se dio cuenta de que era más fácil decirlo que hacerlo, que ella tenía aún el corazón lleno de prejuicios.

Hi, I’m Jenn! I am not your typical trans woman, or at least the ones that you usually hear about. I grew up in a Christian home and became a Christian myself, and I clung to my faith when I embraced my identity. I experienced tremendous support that—unfortunately—many in my LGBTQIA+ community do not experience. (And just in case you're wondering: No, this is not a Christian book, but I do my best to keep it fairly PG, so parents and kids can listen together.)