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Quick response research report volume 152
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[2002]
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This research examines the impacts of a large-scale disaster on a marginalized community. Specifically, both practical and more abstract effects of the attacks of September 11, 2001, on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in New York City are examined.
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[2020]
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This book celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQ community. Whether you are Asian, black, Hispanic, white, disabled, or any other religious or ethnic identity, there is a place for everyone to be queer and be themselves. Double Challenge: Being LGBTQ and a Minority provides answers that LGBTQ teens need, putting to bed myths and stereotypes about what it means to be queer or questioning. Inside, you'll find advice for LGBTQ young people of color on...
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This book, an overview of gay life in the U.S., puts to rest the stereotype that homosexual communities thrive only in large cities. In coast-to-coast travels, the author, former editor of Boston's Gay Community News, met vast numbers of gays and lesbians in a variety of geographic, ethnic, social and cultural settings. The author unexpectedly found that aside from some intolerant communities, small towns accept gays and lesbians--gay farmer couples,...
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[1992]
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In A Member of the Family the most talented gay writers of our time turn their hearts and psyches inside out to show us the families who gave birth to them, raised them, rejected them, exiled them, and loved them. There are no stereotypes here. Each essay, commissioned specifically for this collection, describes a family that is unique and so idiosyncratic that it can belong only to the author - and so familiar and universal that it reminds us startlingly...
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[1992]
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In his award-winning In Search of Gay America, Neil Miller dispelled stereotypes with his evocative portraits of gays and lesbians in small cities and rural towns across the country. Now, in Out in the World, he takes us on a fascinating and unique tour through even less-charted territory: the current state of gay and lesbian life in twelve countries around the globe. "This is a volume of reportage," Miller writes, "an examination of lives of gays...
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[1993]
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For thousands of gay men and lesbians in America, Cherry Grove - the oldest continuously inhabited resort on Fire Island - has meant freedom. Not simply the leisure-time freedoms from work and noise and pollution, but the far rarer freedom to socialize in public without risking a beating, to stroll arm in arm without hesitation, to leave the curtains open without fear - in short, to live the American dream that was denied to gay men and lesbians on...
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[2023]
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Femme, gay teen podcaster Riley Weaver has made it to junior year, which means he can finally apply for membership into the Gaybutante Society, the LGBTQ+ organization which has launched dozens of queer teens' careers in pop culture, arts, and activism. The process to get into the Society is a marathon of charity events, parties, and general gay chaos, culminating in the annual Gaybutante Ball. The one requirement for the Ball? A date. Then Riley...
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