A closeted young man's journey towards self-acceptance and finding true love. He manages to overcome all obstacles of his youth, rising above and beyond the pain of physical and emotional abuse, rape and attempted suicide to firmly realize his place as a gay man in today's world. OI know you are probably questioning who I am; I want you to know that you know me very well. You see me every day, as soon as you walk out the house. Sometimes I am the first guy you see when you get up in the morning. Do you know who I am now? I am your husband, your brother, your best friend, your roommate, your father, your doctor or even your lawyer. I am your cousin, your carpenter, the delivery boy and your pastor. I am the bank teller, your childOs teacher, and I am even your part time lover. Are you still questioning who I am? HavenOt you found it out yet? Okay, I will tell you, I AM GAY.O

Bullying can have enduring effects on boys, with a lasting impact of depressive and traumatic symptoms. Gay adolescent males are particularly susceptible to bullying, and may be targeted at a higher frequency than heterosexual boys. This heightens the experience of isolation and self-hatred that many gay adolescents report. However, not all individuals who are bullied develop depressive or traumatic symptoms. Those who received parental support during the bullying period, and who sustained a sense of self-efficacy related to the victimization were likely to be less negatively impacted by the bullying experience. The current study observed the combination of bullying and internalized homophobia, and how internalized homophobia contributed to the relationship between bullying and symptoms of depression and PTSD, as well as posttraumatic growth. The study also explored two resiliency factors hypothesized to moderate the impact of bullying on internalized homophobia: self-efficacy and parental support. The sample was comprised of approximately 100 young gay men, recruited through community sites.

'Do I practice safe sex? If you're talking about carrying around pepper spray for all the freaks I come across, yeah I'm looking into it.' Most people go to parties for free booze, good music and the chance of copping off with someone hot, but Rich Harrison got much more than he bargained for after meeting an eccentric young gigolo. Talked into trying his hand at becoming a male escort, Rich revels in the idea of raking in the money - after all, who wouldn't want to be paid for something they enjoyed? In between his tragic clients with bizarre fetishes, Rich still holds out hope to meet his Mr Right and fall in love, and after a chance meeting with a handsome stranger, perhaps he's met him...or has he? Follow Rich on his hilarious journey as he tries to balance his new job, a potential boyfriend, two alcoholic best friends and a mentor who has a passion for hot men and sushi.

Ever wanted to quit your job? Move away? Change your life? This coming-of-age novel is about a woman who does just that. She drops out of corporate America, moves to the north Georgia mountains, and falls in love unexpectedly. But then again, is love ever planned? Nothing in this book is predictable, and it is all alluring.

Sweet Son of Pan is a collection of erotic poems, born of crushes, love affairs, fantasies, dreams, and real experiences with men from around the world. These poems are written in a mood of devotion, a praise through language of the sweetest garden we enter as physical beings. They are a response to the sadness that is often a consequence of sex; the fear that so unnecessarily surrounds it; the disrespect that is visited upon it. They are wishes; elegies for our lost brothers-and for the parts of ourselves that our lost; parts we rediscover. They are a reaffirmation of sexual freedom and the wisdom that can be gained from the journey along that path-glimpses of paradise, our oneness and timelessness-and if we are lucky, of a small horned creature with cloven hooves who reminds us we came here only to share, and to share joyfully.

Eva said she was a woman. Psychiatry said she was a disturbed male instead! Eva wanted her body fixed. The system wanted her mind changed! Transsexuality: A physical disability or a mental illness? Who knows? Who is right? Follow Eva through a maze of ignorance and absurdity on a journey few people will ever venture on and experience what it means to be treated a transsexual by a society and a medical system whose views of transsexuality are about as far from reality as it gets! Then decide for yourself!

An anthology of two novellas and three short stories portraying the experiences of young, gay soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Do you remember your first time? When the Children get Together will take you down memory lane as you enter the world of Melvin James, from rural West Tennessee. The Tenth Anniversary Year of When the Children Get Together takes us all back to a time gone by yet oddly familiar.

After reviewing traditional Christology and the various liberation Christologies including black, Hispanic, Asian, white feminist, and women of colour, the author explores whether and how "queer" might be a social location for Christological study, concluding with the view of Christ's person and work from a queer perspective. "Christology from the Margins" not only articulates a queer Christology but also engages in a "queering" of biblical texts that have only ever been read through the lens of heterosexual perspectives in the past. With a strikingly engaging style, this author examines an area of study that will continue to attract students and scholars for the foreseeable future.

The Lezory Files is a story of tragedy, love, lust and lesbianism. This story focus's on the true story of two African American lesbians. As quoted by Safari Ann Jones "Our story is one that needed to be told because the story of the African American lesbian/choosbian tends to be overlooked and ignored as if we dont matter and we dont exist. I wanted to share my story to touch the hearts of many and let the world know that African American lesbians have a voice and a story that has been left untold." The story begins in childhood and trancends into the adulthood of Safari Ann Jones and Rose Sutra.

Paris Green is a story about love after death. It is a sort of prose poem dedicated to the triumph of the soul in its release from the clutches of grief. The time is the 1980s, the place is the North Side of Chicago. It is the love story of a disbelieving earthling and a hopeful fallen angel who find each other by chance of queer serendipity. The author, a native of Chicago, now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"Bonnie Kaye s Straight Talk" is a collection of the best of her monthly newsletters from 2001 2008. These are the newsletters that her support network members call their lifeline when unraveling the complexities of their marriages to their gay husbands.

In Kaye s own words, This is the best survival guide for women who suspect or find out that their husbands are homosexual. These newsletters were written from my heart about my own life experiences as well as those of some of my support network members. I clearly explain how and why your husbands are gay, as well as provide good advice on how to handle those difficult situations such as rebuilding your sexual and self-esteem. After reading this book, you will understand how to make the only rational choice to survive emotionally after this happens to you. It will help you identify with the millions of other women in this situation who can identify and feel every raw emotion you are going through now, and understand the challenges you face in the years ahead of healing and starting over.

Kaye, who has counseled over 35,000 women since 1984, is considered the national expert on Straight/Gay marriages by the media. She is a consultant and guest for the major talk shows and news shows throughout the country. Kaye has written four other books to address this topic, but she believes that this collection of her newsletters is, The best of my best

About the Author:
Bonnie Kaye is recognized as an international expert in the field. She acts as a consultant for major news networks and television shows including Oprah, Montel Williams and Tyra Banks. Her websites can be viewed at: www.Gayhusbands.com and www.Straightwives.com

Kaye s other books include: "The Gay Husband Checklist for Women Who Wonder"; "Doomed Grooms: Gay Husbands of Straight Wives"; "ManReaders: A Woman s Guide to Dysfunctional Men"; "Straight Wives: Shattered Lives"; and "How I Made My Husband Gay: Myths About Straight Wives."

The book details how and when cigars where first noted in history all the way to today and how they have changed. It includes what one needs to smoke cigars and cigar play i.e., humidors, lighters and such with all the different types talked about. The majority of the book is on how to play with a submissive using smoke, ash, and embers doing everything from simple smoke play kiss to burning a nipple. It also covers things like play with gas masks using smoke. It has first aid and safety information to consider when you play with smoke. The final chapter is on how to clean your leathers when they have the smell of cigar smoke embedded into the leathers. A well rounded book for anyone who smokes cigars and is into the BDSM lifestyle This book is for everyone with an interest in Cigar Play from the beginner to the most experienced.

Noted biblical scholar John McNeill (The Church and the Homosexual) offers further insight into the role of sex in the Bible and how the original viewpoints by Church Fathers has been twisted by the Catholic Church over the years. This book also offers a festschrift by current scholars in honor of McNeill. John McNeill was co-founder of the New York City chapter of Dignity, a group for Catholic gays and lesbians. For over twenty-five years, he has been active in a ministry to gay Christians through retreats, workshops, lectures, publications, etc. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Lifetime Achievement Award.

As a gay youth, author Holland Cedric Peyton sought role models for long-term relationships, but found that contemporary society offered only heterosexual examples. As an adult, Peyton embarked on an ambitious research project to locate and interview long-time homosexual partners. In this book, he presents their stories, ideas, and advice regarding love and maintaining a positive, long-term relationship.

Peyton interviewed ten male couples who have been together for a minimum of thirty to more than forty years. In each section, you'll get to know the couples, how they met, and how they achieved longevity in their relationships. Perhaps most importantly, each couple provides insight by answering an extensive series of questions, covering topics from self-perception, family, love, religion, and friendships, to tolerance, celebrations, and children.

These couples' extraordinarily candid interviews are a terrific way to honor their personal relationships and help young gays learn how to live a long, married life with someone they love. Together, Peyton and these couples, who opened their hearts and their lives, take on a large, important task: to provide personal, tangible, relatable relationship role models for gay youth.

Follow the life of a Gay male, first as a little boy in a small Texas town during the War years, then experience his quirky adventures on a U.S. Naval warship, his trial and false imprisonment in California, his twenty years in the record business, and finally his work for a phone-sex company in Las Vegas. Share his controversial views on life and read about his current pursuits in Palm Springs, California

Busy Wheeler, a spirited tomboy who's adopted and best friends with a mentally handicapped boy named Billy, is suddenly having strange feelings for the new girl at school and fighting an overwhelming sensation that she's growing up too fast. After getting into trouble too many times at school, she is sent away to live for the entire summer with an aunt she's never met. As the summer unfolds, so does a deep-seated family secret, and Busy comes face to face with her birth mother. With the help of a new friend, Busy must learn to swallow her pride and make amends with a mother she's never known while laughter, unexpected kisses and a continuous trail of mischief lead her on an endless journey of adolescent discoveries.

Movies as tools for to understand that humanity is not just male and female, but also trassexual male and transsexual female, and that sexual orientation is a different matter. After all love is in the air.

A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place. Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women's desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other. Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men's prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present.

Silk Electric is a moving collection of poems exploring the conflict between spiritual, sexual and sacred spaces, while also juxtaposing the life of Diana Ross with black gay culture. Here is a new southern poet from Mississippi who exposes his soul through a candid, vulnerable account of his same gender loving self. Silk Electric searches for love in its most ideal form, but also reflects on love lessons from the past. Darius simultaneously takes you to church, the bedroom, the club, the bathhouse and the street corner all in one collection. Finally, Silk Electric is a celebration of the music of Diana Ross, a salute to civil rights activists including Medgar Evers, Beah Richards and Ossie Davis as well as a tribute to biological mamas, spiritual mamas and infamous drag-queens.

The sequel to "When the Children Get Together," "Let It Be Real" answers many of the questions from the previous book. Filled with surprises, adventure is still present.