Families & the Coming Out Process

Selected Resources Available at the

Resource Center of Dallas 2701 Reagan Street, Dallas, TX 214-540-4451 library@rcdallas.org 50 Ways to Support Lesbian and Gay Equality: The Complete Guide to Supporting Family, Friends, Neighbors-Or Yourself. By Meredith Maran. Always My Child: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, or Questioning Son or Daughter. By Kevin Jennings. Provides
practical strategies that parents need to support their kids and cope themselves.

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Coming Out as Parents: You and Your Homosexual Child. By David Switzer. For
parents of gay or lesbian children, written from an accepting Christian perspective.

Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child. By Michael LaSala. Dr. LaSala, Social Work faculty at SUNY, outlines effective, practicetested interventions for families in transition.

Coming Out, Coming In: Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society. By Linda Goldman. The process of "coming in" to a welcoming
and nurturing family, from both the teen's and the parents' perspective.

Coming Out to Parents: A Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their Parents. By Mary Borhek. Conversaciones: Relatos de Padres y Madres de Hijas Lesbianas e Hijos Gay. By Mariana Romo-Carmona. Libro en Espaol. 25 essays by parents of LGBT
children living primarily in the USA, with commentary from their sons and daughters.

Different Daughters: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians, 2nd edition. By Louise Rafkin.

25 mothers of lesbians share their complex feelings when they learned their daughters sexual orientation.

The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out. By Robb Forman Dew.
When their son comes out, a family moves from prejudice, to acceptance.

An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies. By Jerry Bigner. Chapters on family of origin

and siblings.

Just a Mom. By Betty DeGeneres. The mother of Ellen DeGeneres addresses issues and
questions that parents face when their children come out.

Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey. By Betty DeGeneres. The mother of Ellen

DeGeneres tells her reaction to her daughter's coming out.

My Child Is Gay: How Parents React when They Hear the News. Edited by Bryce McDougall. Letters written by parents who have a gay or lesbian child. My Son Eric. By Mary Borhek. A mothers personal story learning to accept her gay son. Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children. By Betty Fairchild. Award winning guide written by two mothers of gay
children, helps both children and parents understand the experience of the other.

The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families. By Amity Pierce Buxton.

Ready or Not...They're Gay: Stories from a Midwestern Family. By Paul Wagner. Midwestern parents of 2 gay sons share perspectives from their family and friends. Side by Side: On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling. Edited by Andrew Gottlieb. Something to Tell You: The Road Families Travel When a Child is Gay. By Gilbert Herdt. Straight Parents/Gay Children: Keeping Families Together, 2nd edition. By Robert Bernstein. A personal reflection of a father, his initial pain and confusion, moving to
acceptance, and finding support in PFLAG.

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Ties that Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. By Sarah Schulman Trans Forming Families: Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones. Edited by Mary Boenke. When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual. By Carol Grever. Resources Available Online

Always My Son. Family Video Series by the Family Acceptance Project. Available at:
http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/family-videos or on You Tube.

Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere. www.colage.org Holding Families Together. 4 part video series by PFLAG San Diego. Available on You Tube. PFLAG lots of great resources available for free downloading; links to local chapters

www.PFLAG.org
Resources for People with Transgender Family Members. Webpage with multiple resources from the Human Rights Campaign, http://www.hrc.org/issues/9608.htm A Straight Guide to GLBT Americans. By Human Rights Campaign and PFLAG. Free downloadable PDF
from: http://www.hrc.org/documents/A_straight_Guide.pdf

Supportive Families, Healthy Children. By the Family Acceptance Project. Free downloadable PDF from:
http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/publications

Films: No Dumb QuestionsUncle Bill Is Becoming a Woman. Three young sisters have questions when their Uncle Bill becomes their Aunt Barbara. PLFAG Denton will be showing this film at the Oct. 10, 2011, meeting. Anyone and Everyone. Iron Zeal Films. Documentary with diverse families of lesbians and gays from across the country including Japanese, Bolivian, and Cherokee, and from various religions such as Mormon, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Hindu, and Southern Baptist. This is a small sampling of books and resources in our library. Our Library is open to the public and our online catalog can be searched at: www.libraryworld.net/opac at the Sign-In page, enter: Phil Johnson Library as the Library Name. You do not need a password