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On being gay : thoughts on family, faith, and love / Brian McNaught.
LIBRA HQ76.25 .M375 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNaught, Brian.
- Series:
- Stonewall Inn editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--Psychology.
- Gay people.
- Social isolation.
- Religion.
- Homosexuality--psychology.
- Family Relations.
- Social Isolation.
- religion (discipline).
- Medical Subjects:
- Homosexuality--psychology.
- Family Relations.
- Social Isolation.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 176 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1988.
- Summary:
- Brian McNaught has a special knack for enabling people to understand what it means to be gay. He has done so as a writer and lecturer since 1974, explaining, encouraging, and often healing his audiences. McNaught provides a look-- sometimes humorous, always insightful-- at such concerns as whether or not to "come out," maintaining ties with one's family, building love relationships that last, developing an honest relationship with God, dealing with AIDS, and accepting oneself as decent and worthy of respect.
- Contents:
- On being yourself
- Dear Anita: late night thoughts of an Irish Catholic homosexual
- Coming out
- the price
- the payoff
- Oppressing ourselves
- More pluses
- The next step
- Living for yourself
- A celebration of self
- Growing up gay
- High school horrors
- The prom
- Courage on campus
- Class reunion
- The march
- My family
- A trip to the gym
- Reclaiming the holidays
- Proud growls and courageous roars
- I like it
- Friends and lovers
- Defining community
- Understanding sexism
- Making allies of married gays
- Sick of hearing about AIDS
- Meeting new people
- How to find a lover
- Making it last
- Monogamy
- Open relationships
- Life's real meaning
- The letter in the desk
- Despite it all, we love
- The journey forward
- The sad dilemma of the gay Catholic
- But do you love the church?
- Duplicity
- Forgiveness
- Listening to the voice within
- Serenity versus security
- Celebration
- Proud about what?
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0312018002
- 9780312018009
- 0312029594
- 9780312029593
- OCLC:
- 17413272
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