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Youth Resources on the Web Youth Resources Youth Resources On the Web Youth Resources: www.youthresource.com Out Proud: www.outproud.org Books Bass, Ellen, and Kate Kaufman. Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth—and Their Allies. HarperCollins, 1996. Evans, Nancy J., and Vernon A. Wall, eds. Beyond Tolerance: Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals on Campus. American College Personnel Association, 1991. Gray, Mary L., ed. In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth. Haworth Press, 1999. Howard, Kim, and Annie Stevens, eds. Out and About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered College Students. Alyson, 2000. Sanlo, Ronni L., ed. Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators. Greenwood Press, 1998. Sherrill, Jan-Mitchell, and Craig A. Hardesty. The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students’ Guide to Colleges, Universities, and Graduate Schools. New York University Press, 1994. Wall, Vernon A., and Nancy J. Evans, eds. Toward Acceptance: Sexual Orientation Issues on Campus. University Press of America, 2000. Windmeyer, Shane L., and Pamela W. Freeman, eds. Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity. Alyson, 1998. Windmeyer, Shane L., and Pamela W. Freeman, eds. Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority. Alyson, 2000. Transgender and Intersex Resources On the Web Ambiguous Genitalia Support Network: www.jps.net/agsn American Boyz: www.amboyz.org FTM International: www.ftm-intl.org Gender Advocacy Internet News (GAIN): www.gender.org/gain GenderPAC: www.gpac.org/index.html Hermaphrodite Education and Listening Post (HELP): http://users.southeast.net/~help Intersex Society of North America (ISNA): www.isna.org Remembering Our Dead: www.gender.org/remember/index.html Survivor Project (intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence): www.survivorproject.org Transsexual, Transgender, and Intersex History: www.transhistory.org Books Blackwood, Evelyn, and Saskia E. Wieringa, eds. Same-Sex Relations and Female Desires: Transgender Practices across Cultures. Columbia University Press, 1999. Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. Routledge, 1994. ____. My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely. Routledge, 1998. Califia, Pat. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. Cleis Press, 1997. Cameron, Loren. Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. Cleis Press, 1996. Colapinto, John. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl. HarperCollins, 2000. Cromwell, Jason. Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities. University of Illinois Press, 1999. Dreger, Alice Domurat. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Harvard University Press, 1998. ____, ed. Intersex in the Age of Ethics. University Publishing Group, 1999. Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Human Sexuality. Basic Books, 2000. Feinberg, Leslie. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Beacon Press, 1998. ____. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul. Beacon Press, 1996. Kessler, Suzanne J. Lessons from the Intersexed. Rutgers University Press, 1998. Namaste, Viviane K. Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. University of Chicago Press, 2000. Volcano, Del LaGrace, and Judith “Jack” Halberstam. The Drag King Book. Serpent’s Tail, 1999. Wilchins, Riki Anne. Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Firebrand Books, 1997. Bisexual Resources On the Web Bi All Means (“the bisexual person’s guide to the internet”): www.biallmeans.org “Bi Women on the Web”: www.kells.net/women.html BiNet USA (national political organization): www.binetusa.org Bisexual.org: www.bisexual.org Bisexual Resource Center: www.biresource.org “Coming Out: Realizing Bisexuality in a Straight World”: www.lunamorena.net/pride Books Beemyn, Brett, and Erich Steinman, eds. Bisexual Men in Culture and Society. Harrington Park Press, 2001. ____, eds. Bisexuality in the Lives of Men: Facts and Fictions. Harrington Park Press, 2000. Bisexual Anthology Collective, eds. Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities. Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press, 1995. Firestein, Beth A., ed. Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority. Sage, 1996. Garber, Marjorie. Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. Simon and Schuster, 1995. Hutchins, Loraine, and Lani Kaahumanu, eds. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Alyson, 1991. Kolodny, Debra R., ed. Blessed Bi Spirit: Bisexual People of Faith. Continuum, 2000. Ochs, Robyn, ed. Bisexual Resource Guide, 4th Edition. Bisexual Resource Center, 2001. Rust, Paula C. Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution. New York University Press, 1995. ____, ed. Bisexuality in the United States: A Social Science Reader. Columbia University Press, 1999. Storr, Merl, ed. Bisexuality: A Critical Reader. Routledge, 1999. Tucker, Naomi, ed. Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions. Harrington Park Press, 1995. Weise, Elizabeth Reba, ed. Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism. Seal Press, 1992. Lesbian and Gay Resources On the Web Advocate: www.advocate.com Coming out stories: www.comingoutstories.com Curve Magazine: www.curvemagazine.com Gay Health: www.gayhealth.com Lesbian Herstory Archives: www.datalounge.net/network/pages/lha/welc.htm Mautner Project (lesbians with cancer): www.mautnerproject.org Planet Out: www.planetout.com Techno-Dyke: www.technodyke.com Washington Blade: www.washingtonblade.com Books Blumenfeld, Warren J., and Diane Raymond. Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life. Beacon Press, 1993. Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Basic Books, 1994. D’Augelli, Anthony R., and Charlotte J. Patterson, eds. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan: Psychological Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 1995. Esterberg, Kristin G. Lesbian and Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves. Temple University Press, 1997. Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth- Century America. Penguin, 1991. Garnets, Linda D., and Douglas C. Kimmel, eds. Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Male Experiences. Columbia University Press, 1993. Kleindienst, Kris, ed. This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century. Firebrand Books, 1999. Larkin, Joan, ed. A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. Harperperennial, 2000. Outland, Orland. Coming Out: A Handbook for Men. Alyson, 2000. Rothblum, Esther D., and Lynne A. Bond, eds. Preventing Heterosexism and Homophobia. Sage, 1996. Warland, Betsy, ed. Inversions: Writings by Dykes, Queers, and Lesbians. Press Gang, 1991. .
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