How Schools Can Foster Safe Environments For Students Who Are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered




Changes that can be implemented in a school that would require little time, effort, and money:

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General Background

  • Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life by Warren Blumenfeld and Diane Raymond
  • Is it a Choice?: Answers to Three hundred of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay Men and Lesbians by Eric Marcus
  • The New Loving Someone Gay by Don Clark

    Schools

  • The Education Committee Report of the Mass. Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth
  • Breaking the Silence: Addressing Gay Issues in Independent Schools by Bob Riddle
  • One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories edited by Kevin Jennings
  • School’s Out: The Impact of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America’s Schools by D. Woog
  • The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students’ Guide to Colleges, Universities, and Graduate Schools by Jan Mitchell Sherill

    Young Children

  • “Alyson Wonderland” series, Heather has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman and Uncle What-Is-It? Is Coming to Visit by Michael Wilhoite

    Middle School Students

  • The Chelsea House “Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians”
  • Am I Blue?: Coming Out From Silence edited by Marian Bauer
  • Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
  • The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Better Green

    Adolescents

  • Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Your Friends, and Your Co-Workers by Michelangelo Signorile
  • Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth edited by Ann Heron
  • Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens by Tony Grima
  • Growing Up Gay, Growing Up Lesbian: a Literary Anthology edited by Bennett Singer

    Family Issues

  • Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gay Talk About Their Experiences by Carolyn Griffin
  • Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together by Robert Bernstein
  • The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out by Robb Forman Dew
  • There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You by Loralee MacPike
  • The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook by April Merten
  • All the Ways Home: Parenting and Children in Lesbian and Gay Communities edited by Cindy Rizzo

    Literature and History

  • The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories edited by Margaret Reynolds
  • The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction edited by Edmund White
  • The Penguin Book of homosexual Verse edited by Stephen Coote
  • Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1867 to the Present by Neil Miller
  • Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students by Kevin Jennings
  • Gay American History and The Lesbian and Gay Almanac edited by Jonathan Ned Katz

    Collection Addressing Diversity

  • Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish by Christine Balka
  • In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology edited by Joseph Beam
  • Brother to Brother” New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill
  • Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Color Anthology edited by Makeda Silvera
  • Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian edited by Will Roscoe
  • A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience edited by Rakesh Ratti
  • Companeras: Latina Lesbians by Juanita Ramos
  • Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay and Lesbian Reader edited by Raymond Luczak

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