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Dein Wegweiser durch eine queere Welt. Wer bin ich? Zu wem fühle ich mich hingezogen? Was hat es mit Coming-Outs auf sich? Wie funktioniert queerer Sex? Was ist die queere Community und wie kann ich mich für queere Rechte einsetzen? Vielleicht hast du dir genau solche Fragen schon einmal gestellt, oder du kennst jemanden, der sich mit ihnen beschäftigt. Dieses Hörbuch möchte dich auf dem Weg begleiten, deine eigenen Antworten zu finden, und dir dabei helfen, die großartige Vielfalt rund um Queerness und LGBTQIA+ kennen und verstehen zu lernen.

You can overcome self-sabotage and learn discipline and self-acceptance. You can create moments of satisfaction that, when multiplied, turn into a joyful life! You can be authentic and create a safe space where you belong — no matter what! Uncovering the deepening chasm between the lies she was raised with and the truth she grew to live from, Wendy Beth guides herself and others into a world of choice, safety, belonging, and unapologetic authenticity.

Part memoir and part relationship guide, The Way Love Goes is laugh-out-loud funny and filled with warmth and love—just like its authors. Told in Da Brat’s signature Chicago tone, and Judy’s distinctive New Orleans patois, they each take turns detailing common relationship challenges, from sharing successful and meaningful communication to creating balance to coping with jealousy—and how they conquered them.

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.

Love, Expanded is not a book about suffering, though the challenges queer people face are everywhere and real. Quietly radical, it is a guide for what non-traditional relationships can look like in all their myriad forms, and a source of advice from aromantic and asexual people on how to form them. It's about opening up opportunities for expanded love, for everyone. It's for the sake of single people struggling to own a home, for those who feel that friendship is less prominent in their lives than they would like; for people who want more social support for lives lived happily single.

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.

Wenn die 12-Jährige beim Abendessen erklärt, dass sie in ein Mädchen verliebt ist, oder das 16-jährige Kind sich als genderfluid outet – dann sind viele Eltern erst einmal ratlos, machen sich Sorgen und fragen sich, ob das nur eine Phase und ein Ausprobieren ist – oder mehr? Verena Carl, Mutter eines queeren Teenagers, und Christiane Kolb, Sexualwissenschaftlerin, stehen Eltern von queeren Kindern mit Wissen und Rat zur Seite – ob lesbisch, non-binär, trans* oder ganz ohne Label.

Don’t fit in? The Manifesto for Misfits will help you find your tribe and yourself. Join a brave and proud community of eccentrics, freaks, geeks, rebels and oddballs worldwide. Follow witty commandments, work through personal development exercises, take strength in stories of becoming, and learn to love who you really are.

Welcome to my World of Modern Romance. I want to take you on a journey around many kinds of love: self love, marriage, lust and sex, and everything in between. I live in a realm between a romance fantasy land and being a hopeless romantic. What can I say, I find bits of myself in all of them! It became blatantly apparent last year, in 2020. What an insane year! Turns out I have quite a vulnerable heart and I tend to give into these romantic tendencies that have been both a blessing and a curse.

Journey to Lavender is a heartfelt and insightful reflection for parents, caregivers, and allies seeking to understand and support gender-diverse children with compassion and acceptance. Written from a mother’s perspective, this book explores the complexities of gender identity while reflecting on her lived experiences and lessons learned. With empathy and openness, the author shares her evolving understanding of the gender spectrum, offering guidance on creating a nurturing, judgment-free environment that honors each child’s unique path.

"Pride & Prejudice: Healing Division in the Modern Family" is a heartfelt exploration into the intricate balance between celebrating one's identity ("pride") and confronting ingrained biases ("prejudice"). Dr. Matt R. Salmon shares his experience growing up queer in a family and religion that condemned it. Drawing upon professional expertise and unique life experiences, this book offers a fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities that arise in families with LGBTQ+ members.

In his debut memoir, Won’t Be Silent, Abe Gurko invites you to join him in celebrating a life that he calls “finally worth living.” It’s an honest, rollicking ride filled with joyous and life-affirming as well as challenging, daunting, and heartbreaking situations that he navigates with aplomb, though not always.

So often trans and nonbinary people’s stories are told only through the lens of their struggles and challenges, including their political battles for legal rights, but trans and nonbinary people live rich and fulfilling lives full of joy and community too. Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families is a sweeping compilation of life stories and portraits of trans and nonbinary people, as well as their partners, parents, children, siblings, and chosen family members.

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.

Picking up where he left off at the end of his widely praised debut memoir, One of These Things First, Gaines recounts his hilarious, sometimes poignant attempt to forge a writing career and a successful love life in the gay world of the 1970s. He has limited success until he falls in love with an older woman dying of cancer.

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...

In a world that is becoming increasingly inclusive and diverse, many parents find themselves on the path to self-discovery, embracing their true identities as LGBTQ+ individuals. Family Ties Unveiled is a compassionate and comprehensive guide designed to help parents navigate the complex and often emotional process of coming out to their children.