Families like mine : children of gay parents tell it like it is /
Author Garner was five years old when her mother and father divorced and her dad came out as gay. Growing up immersed in gay culture, she now calls herself a "culturally queer" heterosexual woman. As a child, she often found herself in the middle of the political and moral debates surround...
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New York :
HarperCollins,
2004.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Some of my best parents are gay
- Children of LGBT parents : growing up under scrutiny
- Coming out : a family process
- Family change : supporting children through divorces and same-sex breakups
- Out into the world : children of LGBT parents in school and beyond
- Family-defining moments : respecting queer families, from grandma's house to the White House
- Silent panic : the impact of HIV/AIDS on children of gay parents
- Second generation : queer kids of LGBT parents
- Tourists at home : Straight kids in queer culture
- Epilogue: In celebration of community
- Appendix A. Queer cultural brainstorm
- Appendix B. LGBT family resources.