Metro DC
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Recommended Reading List
2005

ABOUT BEING GAY

Coming Out: An Act of Love by Rob Eichberg.
Written for both men and women, this is a comprehensive step-by-step guide for those attempting to understand their own homosexuality and others reactions to it. (1991)

Is It a Choice? Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay and Lesbian People by Eric Marcus.
Eric Marcus provides honest, no-nonsense answers to hundreds of the most common and simple questions about homosexuality, relationships, family roles, "coming out," politics, and more. (1999)

Loving Someone Gay by Donald H. Clark.
Thoroughly revised for the fourth time, this book offers courageous support and compassionate encouragement for gay men and women and the families and friends that love them, according to Library Journals. (1997)

Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends, and Coworkers by Michelangelo Signorile.
Signorile offers structure, guidance, and straightforward advice to anyone struggling with the overwhelming "coming out" process. (1996)

Positively Gay: New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life by Betty Berzon and Barney Frank.
This is a valuable anthology of useful information about how to live a positive and fulfilling gay life. Identity, success as a couple, coming out, and finance are just a few of the many topics covered in this book. (2001)

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories by Bob Guter.
Through the intimacy of one-on-one storytelling, gay men with mobility and neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury, deafness, blindness, and AIDS, fight isolation from society—find each other—to establish a public identity and a common culture. (2003)

A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories by Joan Larkin.
Personal accounts ranging from exhilarating to empowering to heart-wrenching and encompass extensiveness in experience and background. (2000)