Wednesday, June 18, 2008
This is what courage looks like
The latest article posted on the Safe Schools blog -- http://safeschoolscoalition.blogspot.com/ -- is called This is what courage looks like. It is an article that should be read by anyone who has a glbtq loved one or most especially anyone who works with youth, such as teachers, school administrators, etc.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
PFLAG Protests Ex-Gay Love Won Out Conference
PFLAG speaks out against Love Won Out conference and other harmful ex-gay, reparative therapy programs in Orlando, Florida, on June 7, 2008.
Includes Ryan Skipper's stepdad and Sean Kennedy's mom.
Learn more about Ryan Skipper and Sean Kennedy on Wikipedia. Both were gay men murdered in hate crimes.
Includes Ryan Skipper's stepdad and Sean Kennedy's mom.
Learn more about Ryan Skipper and Sean Kennedy on Wikipedia. Both were gay men murdered in hate crimes.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
PFLAG Book List
This book list is for everyone who wants to read GLBTQ material. There's an assortment of coming out stories, non-fiction, fiction, research, etc, novels in this selection. Enjoy! :)
1. Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias
2. His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias
3. Gay Conservatives by Kenneth W. Cimino
4. Loving Ourselves by Kimeron Hardin
5. Side by Side by Andrew R. Gottlieb
6. Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families by Sean Robert Cahill, Sean Cahill, and Sarah Tobias
7. Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress by Steve Endean
8. Activism and LGBT Psychology by Glassgold & Drescher
9. Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark
10. Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor
11. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage by Nancy D. Polikoff
12. Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students by Michael J. Bayly
13. LGBT Studies and Queer Theory by Karen Lovaas
14. Kinflicks by Lisa Alther
15. Regeneration by Pat Barker
16. Bastard Out of Carolina by Allison Dorothy
17. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett
18. By Night in Chile by Robert Bolano
19. Surprising Myself by Christopher Bram
20. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
21. Earthly Powera by Anthony Burgess
22. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinburg
23. The Family of Max Desir by Robert Ferro
24. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
25. Curious Wine by Katherine Forrest
26. Boys on the Rock by John Fox
27. The Ladies by Doris Grumbach
28. Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
29. The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
30. The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley
31. Halfway Home by Paul Monette
32. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neil
33. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
34. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
35. The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
36. Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick
37. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
38. Funny Boy by Shylam Selvadurai
39. Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
40. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon by tom Spanbauer
41. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
42. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
43. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
44. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
45. The Cut Sleeve by Ameng of Wu
46. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
47. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
48. The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore Balzac
49. Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon
50. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
51. Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
52. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Auer Bowles
53. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
54. In Transit by Brigid Brophy
55. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
56. O Bom-Crioulo by Adolfo Caminha
57. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
58. Wapshort Chronicle by John Cheever
59. Claudine by Colette
60. More Women Than Men by Compton-Burnett
61. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
62. Howards End by Gustave Flaubert
63. Maurice by E.M. Forster
64. Bertram Cope's Years by Blake Henry Fuller
65. The Well of Lineliness by Juan Goytisolo
66. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
67. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
68. Berlin Stories by Christopher Ishwood
69. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
70. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
71. Better Angel by Ralph Meeker
72. The Bell by Irish Murdoch
73. The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
74. Ernesto by Umberto Saba
75. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
76. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
78. Alf by Bruno Vogel
79. The Scorpion by Anna Weirauch
80. Portrait of Mr. W.H. by Oscar Wilde
81. Torchlight in Valhalla by Gale Wilhelm
82. Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know About Their Legal Rights by Lisa Keen
83. Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations by Jane Ward
84. One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America by Keith Boykin
85. Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality by John Shelby Spong
86. An underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck, Frank Heibert and Allison Brown
87. Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Prenazi Germany: The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement, and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise: Original Transcript by Harry Oosterhuis
88. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuality by Richard Plant
89. The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-1945 by Gunter Grau
90. The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser
91. Gay Men and Sexual history of the Political Left by Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis and James Steakley
92. Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating An inclusive, Productive Environment For Everyone In Your Organization by Liz Winfield
93. Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area by Susan Stryker, Jim Van Buskirk, and Armistead Maupin
94. The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuality in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger, Klaus ller, and David Fernbach
95. Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama by John M. Clum
96. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University by John D'Emilio
97. Gay and Lesbian Studies by Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jan Willem Duyvendak. and Jeffrey Weeks
98. Is It A Choice? by Eric Marcus
99. Always My Child: A Parent's Guide To Understand Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter by Kevin Jennings and Pat Shapiro
1. Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias
2. His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias
3. Gay Conservatives by Kenneth W. Cimino
4. Loving Ourselves by Kimeron Hardin
5. Side by Side by Andrew R. Gottlieb
6. Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families by Sean Robert Cahill, Sean Cahill, and Sarah Tobias
7. Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress by Steve Endean
8. Activism and LGBT Psychology by Glassgold & Drescher
9. Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark
10. Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor
11. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage by Nancy D. Polikoff
12. Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students by Michael J. Bayly
13. LGBT Studies and Queer Theory by Karen Lovaas
14. Kinflicks by Lisa Alther
15. Regeneration by Pat Barker
16. Bastard Out of Carolina by Allison Dorothy
17. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett
18. By Night in Chile by Robert Bolano
19. Surprising Myself by Christopher Bram
20. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
21. Earthly Powera by Anthony Burgess
22. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinburg
23. The Family of Max Desir by Robert Ferro
24. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
25. Curious Wine by Katherine Forrest
26. Boys on the Rock by John Fox
27. The Ladies by Doris Grumbach
28. Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
29. The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
30. The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley
31. Halfway Home by Paul Monette
32. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neil
33. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
34. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
35. The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
36. Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick
37. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
38. Funny Boy by Shylam Selvadurai
39. Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
40. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon by tom Spanbauer
41. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
42. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
43. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
44. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
45. The Cut Sleeve by Ameng of Wu
46. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
47. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
48. The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore Balzac
49. Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon
50. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
51. Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
52. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Auer Bowles
53. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
54. In Transit by Brigid Brophy
55. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
56. O Bom-Crioulo by Adolfo Caminha
57. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
58. Wapshort Chronicle by John Cheever
59. Claudine by Colette
60. More Women Than Men by Compton-Burnett
61. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
62. Howards End by Gustave Flaubert
63. Maurice by E.M. Forster
64. Bertram Cope's Years by Blake Henry Fuller
65. The Well of Lineliness by Juan Goytisolo
66. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
67. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
68. Berlin Stories by Christopher Ishwood
69. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
70. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
71. Better Angel by Ralph Meeker
72. The Bell by Irish Murdoch
73. The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
74. Ernesto by Umberto Saba
75. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
76. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
78. Alf by Bruno Vogel
79. The Scorpion by Anna Weirauch
80. Portrait of Mr. W.H. by Oscar Wilde
81. Torchlight in Valhalla by Gale Wilhelm
82. Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know About Their Legal Rights by Lisa Keen
83. Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations by Jane Ward
84. One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America by Keith Boykin
85. Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality by John Shelby Spong
86. An underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck, Frank Heibert and Allison Brown
87. Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Prenazi Germany: The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement, and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise: Original Transcript by Harry Oosterhuis
88. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuality by Richard Plant
89. The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-1945 by Gunter Grau
90. The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser
91. Gay Men and Sexual history of the Political Left by Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis and James Steakley
92. Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating An inclusive, Productive Environment For Everyone In Your Organization by Liz Winfield
93. Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area by Susan Stryker, Jim Van Buskirk, and Armistead Maupin
94. The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuality in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger, Klaus ller, and David Fernbach
95. Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama by John M. Clum
96. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University by John D'Emilio
97. Gay and Lesbian Studies by Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jan Willem Duyvendak. and Jeffrey Weeks
98. Is It A Choice? by Eric Marcus
99. Always My Child: A Parent's Guide To Understand Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter by Kevin Jennings and Pat Shapiro
Friday, June 6, 2008
Congratulations to The Safe Schools Coalition!
The Coalition is proud to announce that The Seattle Out and Proud Board of Directors has chosen us to serve as a Grand Marshal of the (June 29) 2008 Seattle Pride Parade!!Check it out ...
Safe Schools Coalition & Seattle Pride Parade 2008!
and Seattle Pride 2008
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