A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation helps individuals and families to bridge the divide between gay and straight, to heal wounds that often accompany individuals and families' negative feelings about lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. Consisting of thirty stories by individuals who have come to accept and embrace their own sexuality, twelve of the stories are by heterosexuals who, in addition to talking about their own sexuality, speak of the homosexuality of a loved one. The book also includes five personal...

This volume aims to help individuals and families bridge the divide between gay and straight, and heal the wounds that often accompany negative feelings about lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. The 30 stories, focusing on each individuals life history, offer insights into the family dynamics relating to the homosexuality of a family member, and show families can work together to achieve a place of compassion and acceptance.

For the first time ever, managers will have a tool that will enable them to effectively grapple with the controversial, and sometimes explosive issues surrounding sexual orientation. Cultivated from Bob Power's 25 years business experience with some of the world's finest organizations, A Manager's Guide to Sexual Orientation in the Workplace provides managers with the knowledge, skills and resources to foster higher productivity and performance through an all-inclusive work environment.

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This powerful reference tool is the most comprehensive, reliable guide to Internet resources for the LBGTQ community. More than just a guide to useful Web sites, it also evaluates LGBTQ mailing lists, message boards, search engines, and portals.

The Harvey Milk Institute Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Internet Research provides background information as well as useful URLs. It covers the history and objectives of major sites. The in-depth interviews with leaders of the queer Internet...

This powerful reference tool is the most comprehensive, reliable guide to Internet resources for the LBGTQ community. More than just a guide to useful Web sites, it also evaluates LGBTQ mailing lists, message boards, search engines, and portals. The guide includes resources for a variety of academic disciplines, including the humanities, the social sciences, law, labor studies, media studies, transgender and intersex studies, and other areas of interest. The in-depth interviews with leaders of the queer Internet provide fascinating background information on the history and objectives of major...

Rather than a scholarly analysis of the mid-life issues of gay men, this volume offers 16 diverse personal perspectives on this developmental juncture. Ellis (Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco State U.) introduces the theme of confronting stereotypes of aging gay men. Bay area psychotherapist-columnist Tom Moon writes of his spiritual growth wit

Sexual Identity on the Job provides academics and practitioners with a solid resource for addressing sexual identity concerns and issues in the workplace. It offers corporate trainers, managers, and policymakers suggestions for creating a positive psychological environment of inclusion for all workers through policies of nondiscrimination, the availability of domestic partner benefits, and solid efforts to eliminate on-the-job discrimination toward lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender individuals. It educates social service providers about company actions of which they need to know in...