Books
Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People And Their Families
This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views...
The Invention of Heterosexuality
“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has...
Queer Theory: An Introduction
The reclamation of the term queer over the last several decades marked a shift in the study of sexuality from a focus on supposedly essential categories such as gay and lesbian, to more fluid notions of sexual identity. On the cutting-edge of this significant shift...
All Whom God Has Joined: Resources for Clergy and Same-Gender Loving Couples
With a foreword by the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, All Whom God Has Joined: Resources for Clergy and Same-Gender Loving Couples provides a unique collection of liturgical and ceremonial resources, as well as pastoral care tools and insights, on same-sex covenanting...
Coming Out through Fire: Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia
Coming Out through Fire is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons who seek to move through the trauma of homophobia with the passion and power of transformation. It is also for pastors, therapists, and other helping professionals who seek to confront...
Pastoral Care of Gays, Lesbians, and their Families
This book, written by a pastoral theologian with years of experience in counseling gay and lesbian individuals and their families, assist both pastoral caregivers and congregations in examining and enhancing their pastoral care of homosexuals and their families. This...
Counseling Lesbian Partners
This resource for counselors who work with lesbian couples gives a clear assessment of the issues faced in working through their relationship within the context of their sexuality and society's oppression of lesbians. The purpose of the Counseling and Pastoral...
Sex In The Parish
Karen Lebacqz and Ronald Barton examine the gift of sexuality in relation to the parish and the dynamics of sexual desire and temptation. Included in this book are the expreiences of a pastor who did not set appropriate limits; explainations of how the pastoral role...
Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk: LGBT Pastoral Care
This practical pastoral care handbook, written by two self-described queer people of faith, covers the basic skills that religious caregivers and ministry students need in order to be effective, enlightened, and supportive pastoral care providers to LGBTQ persons in...
Discovering Images of God: Narratives of Care Among Lesbians and Gays
In a prejudiced society, the experiences of lesbians and gays can provide powerful resources for all people to help shape their images of God. Larry Graham has interviewed lesbians and gays across the country and has discovered a new sense of God at work through all...