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"This book explores the dynamics of LGBTQ+ families, including the different kinds of LGBTQ+ families, the ways they form, the challenges they can face, and strategies for working through those challenges. Includes "Many Identities" and "Did You Know?" special features"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Queens' English is a comprehensive guide to modern gay slang, queer theory terms, and playful colloquialisms that define and celebrate LGBTQIA+ culture. This modern dictionary provides an in-depth look at queer language, from terms influenced by celebrated lesbian poet Sappho and from New York's underground queer ball culture in the 1980s to today's celebration of RuPaul's Drag Race. The glossary of terms is supported by full-color illustrations...

By the time Jessi Hempel reached adulthood, everyone in her family had come out, starting a chain reaction of revelations that made them all question their place in the world in new and liberating ways.

What happens in a family when one member comes out? What does Christian love require and make possible for families moving forward together? Hays and Chiasson asked their LGBTQ+ friends from church to help them understand how they navigate relationships with their affirming, non-affirming, and affirming-ish families of origin, even as they also find belonging in other families of choice. The resulting essays are as varied as the colors of the rainbow....

"A young gay man in a perfect marriage strives to keep a dangerous indiscretion from his loving husband"-- Provided by publisher. Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting...

Both thought-provoking and eye-opening, this radical new history of seven queer lives, including Josephine Baker in Paris and E.M. Forster in Cambridge, illuminates the connections to where they lived, who they loved and the art they created, and celebrates freedom, survival and the hidden places of the imagination.

"And Then the Gray Heaven centers on Jules, whose partner B has recently died in a freak accident. Confronting the red tape of the hospital, the dissociation and cruelty of B's family, and the unimaginable void now at the center of their lives, Jules and new friend Theo embark on a road trip to bury two-thirds of B's ashes in the places they most belong. Along the way, Katz delves into their relationship and their life stories--Jules' rise from abandoned...

"Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the United States"-- Page 4 of cover. In 2013, Rae Garringer embarked on the Country Queers oral history project with a borrowed audio recorder, a flip phone, and a paper atlas. They were motivated by an intense frustration with the lack of rural queer stories and the isolation that comes...

"A modern, class-conscious Mrs. Dalloway, this unsettling novel dissects common narratives of family and community, showing the fragile ties that hold us together. A spring day in an average gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died. The local residents go about their daily routines: Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her daughter and her taciturn, loner son locked in...