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The history of gay people in Alcoholics Anonymous : from the beginning / Audrey Borden.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borden, Audrey.
- Series:
- Haworth series in family and consumer issues in health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcoholics Anonymous.
- Gay people--Alcohol use--United States--History.
- Gay people.
- Gay people--Alcohol use.
- History.
- Recovering alcoholics.
- United States.
- Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--United States.
- Alcoholics.
- Alcoholics--Rehabilitation.
- Recovering alcoholics--United States.
- Alcoholics Anonymous--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 286 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Haworth Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Alcoholics Anonymous for gay people meets over 1,900 times a year in over 60 cities across the United States. The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents the compelling history, recovery, and wisdom of lesbians and gay men with long-term sobriety in AA. These compelling first-person accounts recall the important work of many AA members, both gay and straight, that led to the key events in AA's history. The book reviews the steps and traditions of AA and how to become an ally to LGBT people on the road to recovery.
- Contents:
- The recovering gay community
- Barry L. and the gay origins of AA's third tradition
- Alcoholism and homosexuality : a brief history of treatment
- Five views of sober gay life in the 1950s and 1960s
- Finding AA : groups, directories, and the first gay AA meeting
- Printer's ink : a conversation with Nancy T.
- Special purpose groups and the debate over meetings for gay alcoholics in AA
- Washington DC
- New York
- New Jersey
- We never looked back : a conversation with NALGAP cofounders Drs. Dana Finnegan and Emily McNally
- San Francisco
- AA's pamphlet for lesbian and gay alcoholics
- The home front
- On our way : a conversation with Lillene Fifield
- Pass it on
- Side by side in southern California : alcoholics together
- A few conclusions (and mysteries solved).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780789030382
- 0789030381
- 9780789030399
- 078903039X
- OCLC:
- 76183385
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