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A secret power that Gays, lesbians and other minorities utilize!
As a gay man, the cover photo on this revised edition (by Chantel Regnault)
Admirable Effort
A L-I-T-T-L-E too academic for me! However, I admire the effort and would like to read more about queer families.

Families We Choose
I found Kath Westons book "Families We Choose:lesbians, gays, kinship" to be a very interesting and informative book.This book brought many issues to the table regarding the idea of a family.What is afamily?family is not solely limited to biology. This book explored theidea of kinship in lesbian and gay relationships and the family that isformed within this community.Also, the difference and the importance of"biological" family vs. chosen family and which becomes or ismore important based on acceptance.This book explores issues concerningthe lesbian and gay community in regards to raising children and creatingfamilies of their own in the nineties incorporating both biological andchosen families. In overview, The idea of kinship is culturally relativeand it is suseptible to change.The word kinship and the meaing of familyis constantly being challenged and changed to incorporate and include thosepreviously unseen. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Family Relationships    2. Gay Studies    3. Gender Studies    4. Homosexuality    5. Lesbian Studies    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Anthropology    9. Family & relationships    10. Gay & Lesbian studies    11. Literary Criticism & Collections / Gay & Lesbian    12. USA   

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Not Up to Rad's Usual Standard...
For only the second time, this reader is giving a 4-star rating to a Radclyffe book. In `Tomorrow's Promise,' Rad introduces Adrienne Pierce.Adrienne is a recent survivor of a breast cancer scare during which she had a single mastectomy.Her lover of several years became distant and her career was put on the back burner.Adrienne decides to spend the summer alone on Whitley Point, a secluded semi-private island off the coast of Maine. There, she meets the enigmatic Tanner Whitley - wild child and heir to the Whitley fortune.
Can't go wrong with a Radclyffe novel!
Since Tanner's father died on the open sea, she's been a rebellious, party animal.Not caring how much she drinks, how fast she drives or who she sleeps with.
Tomorrow's Promise
Excellent read. The characters are well developed, with an enjoyable plot that makes it impossible to put this one down. As uisual the romance is hot and passionate. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American Light Romantic Fiction    2. Fiction    3. Fiction - General    4. Fiction / Lesbian    5. Fiction / Romance / Contemporary    6. Lesbian    7. Romance - General    8. Literature of special Lesbian interest    9. Modern fiction    10. Romance - Contemporary   

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Could've been better
I had to read this book in a college upper level english course. The language is very simple, it is so simple that it is more suitable for high school. But because of so much cursing in the book, which gets old and boring, it is not suitable for high school kids lol. In her novel Brown completely undermines heterosexuality, marriage and family. Every married woman meets her doom once she gets married. Molly's first love Leota who used to be beautiful, looked 40 at 24as Brown described her. It seems that every woman's solvation from doom aka marriage is homosexuality. Just because Brown had an unfortunate encounter with men and didn't enjoy them, it doesn't mean that it applies to every woman. The book is very biased towards heterosexuality and marriage.

A fun summer read
I read this novel because it is referenced in the Educating Rita.The relevance of the main character saying that this book is her favorite escaped me until I read the novel for myself.
Pick It Up
I would of gave it a 5 but I didn't like the ending. This was comedy at it's best. The main character's life - [...] out of carolina - gets worst every chapter. Not much goes in her direction but she tries hard to succeed. She is looking for her true self and where she belongs. Everytime she finds someplace, something happens. She realizes that, that isn't her. Oddly enough she leaves her mark on so many people along the way.
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Untamed Montana
Radclyffe returns us to the mid-1860 to the Montana Territory where we rejoin ranch owner, Jesse Forbes and her partner, Kate Beecher.This is the sequel to "Innocent Hearts" and is truly a beautiful love story.
Back to Montana With a Wild Cast of Characters
For what I believe is the first time, I'm giving a Radclyffe book 4 stars instead of 5.`Promising Hearts' is a pseudo-continuation of her wonderful `Innocent Hearts,' but doesn't begin to meet her usual level of artistry.
Captured My Heart
Radclyffe has done it again!I loved this book! This book has everything a good book should have: plot, great characters, humor, romance, and as Radclyffe does best sex.Jessie and Kate are as great together in this book as in the first and I also loved Mae the first time around. I was glad to see that she finally got what was coming to her! The introduction to Vance was a wonderful addition. I hope that there is more story for these 4 amazing women...as I am sure you will see the possiblities for future books as I have! Radclyffe always leaves you hoping for more...
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Trust No One
I always look forward to reading books by first-time authors.Sometimes the books are borderline and immature, but the good ones are exceptionally fresh and exciting.Such is the case with `Anticipation.'
Thrilling!
I read Anticipation in one weekend...needless to say, I was hooked from the get go! Ms. Breneman does an amazing job of leading her reader on a suspenseful adventure full of colorful characters and plot twists. She obviously knows the ins and outs of the justice system and keeps you guessing up to the very end! The romantic storyline is equally enthralling. The main characters are brought to life by Ms. Breneman's nimble attention to the details in life that make us all human: love, excitement, hope, fear and, not least of all, anticipation. I am very much looking forward to her next work!

I love it.
I loved this book. It was well written,and fun to read. I could not put it down. You want them to get together from the first time they meet. I loved Anticipation by Terri Breneman. I really look forward to her next book.
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Subjects:  1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction    2. Fiction    3. Fiction - General    4. Lesbian    5. Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths    6. Modern fiction   

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Refreshing fun read
Very hot read with tasteful photos.I look forward to a second addition? ... Read more

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A must buy for someone who dislike's their Homosexuality
Im 27 years old and a patient in therapy for almost 1 year now. I found this book useful and encouraging because it supports my thoughts that ( I never accepted nor will i accept being Gay).
This book should be burned
The people who write this sort of gay-bashing stuff under the guise of clinical therapy should lose thier credentials.This is damaging.Go buy last season's DVD of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and tell your mom you'll be her fashion consultant forever.Don't buy this book.

Reparative Therapy is harmful, I've been there
I was heavily involved in reparative therapy for many years.I was their perfect candidate (virgin, "straight-acting", etc).No one wanted to change more than me, and no one worked harder than me.
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Subjects:  1. Fathers and sons    2. Gay Studies    3. Gay men    4. Gender identity disorders    5. Homosexuality    6. Homosexuality, Male    7. Mental Illness    8. Mental health    9. Psychology    10. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    11. Psychotherapy    12. Psychotherapy - General    13. Sociology    14. Gay studies (Gay men)    15. Social Science / Gay Studies   

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Thoughts on sister outsider
If you are looking for some consiousness raising, inspiring, and honest words - then this is the book that will bring that to you.I highly recommend it.

Still Saving Lives
"I have come to work on you like a drug or a chisel" wrote the late Audre Lorde. Her passing created a hollow space in my soul that is now full again, thanks to Audre Lorde. Despite the fact that 'Sister Outsider' is assigned in virtually every women's studies and gender studies 101, do not think it is dry, ultimately a mere 'academic' book. Audre Lorde lived in and for a radical poetics and a radical pedagogy. If you have not discovered her work yet, please get a hold of a copy. It might save your life the way it saved mine, and I am white, male and straight, with a fierce hatred of white supremacy, patriarchy, and homophobia. But never mind my repeating a mantra you have heard, simply read this book as soon as possible.

Incredible essays
No poems this time around, folks: prose that gets under your skin and into your head.The late, great Audre Lorde, known primarily for her poetry over the years, wrote what is one of the most compelling books on sociology, sexuality, racism and the nature of human character and existence in the last 20 years.Her charges are damning, but dashed with more than a spoonful of hope when appropriate, and it is impossible to walk away from this book unchanged.Read more

Subjects:  1. African American women    2. Black women    3. Essays    4. Feminism    5. Feminism & Feminist Theory    6. Lesbian Studies    7. Lesbianism    8. Nonfiction    9. Poetry    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Women's studies   

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Lacanian response
When I first read this book, I was pleased to see that Butler was returning to the problem of "gender performativity" she raised in *Gender Trouble.*I do believe that she was misunderstood as having claimed in *Gender Trouble* that the performativity constitutive of gender implies an infinite "plasticity" or freedom from the constraints of gender. Yet after reading *Bodies,* I felt that she evaded the question with which she opened the book:in what way can the "materiality" of anatomical sex be construed as a "discursive limit" to ideological constructions of gender without being understood as existing outside of discourse?I believe that Butler is ultimately indecisive about the status of the materiality of sex as either a pre- or extra-discursive "hard kernel of the Real" or (just like gender) another aspect of discourse.This is what leads to her very wrong-headed "critique" of the concept of "objet petit a" in the work of Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan, very complex work which she oversimplifies and accuses of "reifying" or "essentializing" sex.Any serious student of Lacan knows that the a-object of fantasy is anything but "essential."It phantasmatically "dresses up" (to use Lacan's words in Seminar 14) a primordial psychic "hole," an *absence* or pure negativity where a "grounding" for discourse ought to be but is *lacking.* It's a shame that a book such as this which begins with a rigorous intellectual question degenerates into a sort of psychoanalytic dilettantism.

Major work from a major thinker that doesn't quite convince
The best thing about Judith Butler is that she is always willing to think through the consequences of her earlier writings. This book was a response to the criticism that emerged out of the groundbreaking conclusion to GENDER TROUBLE that argued for an understanding of gender as performative. Critics took Butler to task for arguing that gender is something that is simply an act of performative volition - one can "be" whatever one wants to be - irrespective of the materiality of the body. Here, Butler turns the tables (in a neat deconstructive move) by showing how this criticism presupposes the a priori existence of "bodies" and "matter" separate from discourse. Yet, after a brilliant introduction, the book becomes weighted down by its own psychoanalytic presuppositions and its tediously dense prose style. There is often no reason for Butler's writing to be as incomprehensible as it is, especially given the giant claims she's making about the nature of gender (other than to "perform" her writing's own indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis and Althusserian critique). colossal hybris
This book drove me almost entirely insane.The essay if you can call it that on the film Paris is Burning is simply incendiary to any person with a trace element of logic in their scalp.This essay argues that Venus Extravaganza was murdered for having been a transvestite.In the film itself it says she/he is killed -- but what the NYPD cannot solve Butler solves in the twinkling of a phrase -- she claims he/she is erased for playing with the sexual line.Not for burning a customer, or for simply being in a dangerous business.Whores are wiped out all day and night for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.Ever hear of the Green River Killer?Still Butler knows the motive.She just invents anything she wants, and calls it truth.She actually infers that anybody has the right to invent their own reality, and everybody else has to honor this reality.Only an extremely stupid person who has never had to work for a living could keep such a dumb idea down without puking.Do you mean if I think I'm a millionaire and walk into a bank, they will give me a million dollars?Do you mean if I have cellulite all over my legs and breasts that I can be a top model, I just have to really believe it?Do you mean that if I think I'm a genius, then others will agree?Feminist academics who've never worked, but who love to dramatize their own victimization, will love this book.Everybody else will simply puke from laughing so hard. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Feminist theory    2. Gender Studies    3. General    4. Philosophy    5. Sex differences (Psychology)    6. Sex role    7. Sexual orientation    8. Sociology    9. Feminism    10. Gay & Lesbian studies   

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Love comes whenleast expected
In the village of East Quay, Rhode Island, where everyone knows your name and your history, it is difficult to keep secrets.
Wonderfully romantic and lyrical
This author's first novel 'Course of Action' is a favorite so I began reading this novel with admittedly high expectations.By the last page I (along with the 4 women in the novel) were completely satisfied.
Another Winner
Award winning author Gun Brooke has given us another delightful romance with Coffee Sonata. I was so totally immersed in this story that I read it in one sitting.
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Well Put!
This book was the first book I've ever read on threesomes. Being a Threesome Expert Myself I have to admit that this book is a good "beginners book".

A Woman's Guide to Bisexuality and Bi-Curiosity
I had read this book years ago. But I recently revisited it to see if my perspectives on it had changed.And you know what?They had!
Eye opener and well worth the advice
My girlfriend and I read this book and found if very informative.Well worth the advice.Read it with a friend and have some fun!!!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Love & Romance    2. Love & Romance    3. Group sex    4. Bisexual women    5. Family & Relationships    6. Sexuality    7. United States    8. Sex in marriage    9. Sexual behavior   

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Book 4 in the series
Again, as with the first 3 books in the series, I could not put it down.

#4--Still great!
This is the fourth in the Honor Series and is just as exceptional as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd novels.
Another Winner in the Honor Series
Whether you read Radclyffe's series books, like the Justice series or the Honor series or the Provincetown series, or you read one of her stand-alone romances, you can not go wrong.
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a great memoir...
I share many reviewer's sentiments that this book was primarily a fun, witty, hilarious tale.I would not, however, just check it off as a good beach book with little depth.
Clever, witty, and bizarre
I'm typically hesitant to pick up a gay novel or memoir. The others I've read tend to exist for no other reason than their few explicit sex and drug scenes. I find that the words in between are just filler -- poorly crafted filler at that.
Captivating
I thougt this book was great! I keep passing it around my circle of friends and they all love it too. It was well written and very funny. He did a great job of letting you into a place most of us will never know. I was a little upset with the ending (don't read on if you haven't read the book) because I felt as if he still loves Jack and it says he is in a new relationship. Maybe he does. However, I would recommend it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1969-    2. Alternative Sexual Behavior    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography And Autobiography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. General    9. Kilmer-Purcell, Josh,    10. New York    11. New York (State)    12. Personal Memoirs    13. Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies    14. Transvestites    15. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Excellent and original story--great Yaoi
This has to be one of the best Yaoi titles available in English.I completely agree with the other reviewer.The story is so much more than the description suggests, and the artistry is beautiful.Even without Gerard's profile, he has more depth than most Seme characters.And, Jacques isn't the typical underdog uke (though he is naive).He is spoiled and has no appreciation for how "commoners" live.
Highly Recommended Outstanding Yaoi!
This Yaoi surpasses my expectation. The summary does not do it justice as the story is so much more. Labelled "Mature", the theme in G&J is compatible to Target in the Finder, even heavier than Embracing Love and Kizuna. No bondage sex but rape, M/M, M/F and M/M/F sex. The plot took place just before the French Revolution in Paris which was plagued by class distinction between the common folk and the aristocrats.
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For Once, the Movie is Better Than the Book
Gabriel Noone is a 53 year old gay man with his own radio show which comes on at 11 PM. He's upset because his lover of 10 years has left because he needed space. Into his life comes a book written by 13 year old Pete Lomax (although it took him 2 years to write the book and he began it when he was 12 - so he should be at least 14) about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents and the pedophiles they sold him to. Pete has been listening to Gabriel's show and admires him very much.
MAUPIN'S PROSE IS ENTHRALLING - HIS VOICE ARRESTING

Intriguing Story but lacks any unexpected turns
The overall story and concept of this book was very interesting butas a whole lacked some depth and real character as a whole.The characters were loosey based on real people in the author's life, but I just feel like he didn't mold them into anything that was all the interesting.IN short, the book has turned me off to the idea of watching the movie, but I don't regret the time I spent going through it.Accept for the graphic gay love scenes...I'm not against people living their lives the way they please, but just with I had some warning for some of the descriptions of what went on. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Abused children    2. Adopted children    3. Father figures    4. Fiction    5. Fiction - General    6. Gay    7. General    8. Radio broadcasters    9. Fiction / General   

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Amazing resource for anyone involved in higher education.
I am lucky enough to go to a school which made the Top 100 and am quoted in the synopsis of my school. As co-president of our Undergraduate Gay-Straight Alliance, I plan to use this book to bring to the administration's attention areas in which the school is lacking and work to improve those areas. The book also has a lotof information for High School students selecting a college, administrators at colleges looking to better support LGBT students, and student leaders looking for help in planning events. If you are at all involved in higher education and want to make your school better for LGBT students, buy this book, read it, and loan it to everyone you know.

The future is now!
This books time had come years ago, and I am SO glad to see that it is finally here. Alas, it's too late for me as a college graduate, but I like to know that future college students will know what to look for when picking a colle or university. This is a must for any HS guidance councelor or therapist or doctor or...well...anyone! It's a great tool and easyto use and understand!

Important research tool for students and administration
This book is great for those looking at their university of choice and administraitions to see what they need to do for their LGBT students. As someone stated before, I wish this information was available years ago. However, it will help me as I research the university I plan to work in as an administrator or academic. ... Read more

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Always a good read
So many good reviews fo this book already, I will only jump in to say that this book would be awesome for any collection, you can put it ddown for weeks, months, and read it whenever you like.

Super book
A well rounded book that should be on your shelf. The author has done made a beautiful compilation of material related to the topic. This is a ground breaking work and strongly recommended.

A monumental achievement
This collection was the first of its kind when it came out in 1993. The three editors, all longtime advocates of queer scholarship, put together the Reader as an attempt to encourage new classes in queer studies. It was a resounding success, winning both a Lambda Literary award and notably being banned by Canadian customs.Read more

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Gay and lesbian studies    3. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    4. Gender Studies    5. Homosexuality    6. Lesbian Studies    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Sociology - General    10. Gay & Lesbian studies &n