LGBTQ+ Familie & Kindererziehung

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What do you get when you mix a father with severe PTSD after barely surviving the Vietnam War, a self-proclaimed clairvoyant mother with anger issues and no filter whatsoever, rivers of booze, an awkward but academically gifted son, and a daughter with a hidden disability and a mile-wide rebellious streak? This is going to get messy. Then throw in a generous helping of domestic violence, some good old-fashioned small-town Southern homophobia, and the kind of dark family secret that makes headlines. You've got all the makings of a complete, blazing disaster. Literally: Marshall Moore got into the groundbreaking North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, the nation's first residential STEM-focused magnet school, as a means of escaping a hometown and a childhood he otherwise might not have survived. He then set it on fire. And then the story gets really complicated. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing is a memoir about a family cosplaying normalcy in Southern suburbia in the seventies and eighties: shocking, hilarious, appalling, bizarre, and... actually true.<BR>Marshall Moore is the author of four novels (Inhospitable, Bitter Orange, An Ideal for Living, and The Concrete Sky) and three short-fiction collections (A Garden Fed by Lightning, The Infernal Republic, and Black Shapes in a Darkened Room). His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Litro, Storgy, Passengers Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Asia Literary Review, The Barcelona Review, and many other journals and anthologies. He is also the co-editor of three academic books on the pedagogy of creative writing and publishing. He holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University. A native of eastern North Carolina, he lives in Cornwall, England, and teaches creative writing and publishing at Falmouth University.

Dave Whyte (or White - he could never decide), a lover, a sculptor, a dancer, a ham, a petulant brat, a lost waif, a genius, a saint, an icon, a shard of my heart, a blade in my side, a memory, a mountain to climb, a revelation, an aspiration, the love of my life, a random calamity ...<BR>1986 to 1987 was our moment. I can't recall the breakup; I don't know when he died. Falling was instant: it was a sparsely attended pop-up disco event. He was dancing on the bar. His pants were loose - too loose - they dropped to his ankles, and with one unbroken movement he swooped them back up into place. <BR>But it was one second too late for my heart - I was slain.<BR>

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Infidelity, Women's Liberation, Homomosexuality, PTSDA young Wife is shattered to find her husband has been unfaithful and is leaving her for a Pupil at the school where he teaches. The Pupil's father is desperate to restore peace in his home and put an end to what he believes is an illicit relationship. He seeks legal advice from a mate, whose own family has been torn apart when his son reveals his homosexuality. Mutual friends of these two men watch helplessly as their own son returns from the Vietnam War and suffers severe PTSD. He is a good friend of the Teacher and has secretively loved the now deserted Wife. Second time around, he is determined not to let her slip through his fingers. The Wife however, has other plans. Liberated from a loveless marriage, she chooses a future that surprises even her closest friend. An unexpected and tragic death devastates the estranged family members. It causes them to reasses their beliefs and reconcile their differences.

Jane B Lee's first novel, allows the reader to follow Lisa as she makes the change from male to female. Go with her on her travels to Asia, and experience her failures and successes as a business owner until the day Lisa takes a spontaneous trip to Hawaii to discover herself.Hawaii brings much more than she expects when the charismatic Dana suddenly walks into her life. But can Dana truly accept Lisa as she is? Will Dana suddenly disappear when the truth comes out? And...is Dana male or female?That is entirely up to you!

Read this book if you'd like to improve your relationship and communicate better with your boyfriend, lover, or even your next date! You'll learn how to resolve conflicts instead of escalating or retaliating, enhancing the sense of intimacy and love that brought you together in the first place."LOVE BETWEEN MEN is a treasure...Isensee condenses years of clinical expertise of working with gay couples and translates this into a volume that is chock-full of enormously helpful and practical ways for men to look at, understand, and improve their relationships. It is bound to become a classic." -Michael Shernoff, ACSW"...a valid guide to establishing closer, more enduring partnerships...fills a gap in the resources available to couples." -K. Orton Williams, San Francisco Sentinel"...there is meat on these bones; material that any person in a relationship, or considering/fearing one, can learn from.... Isensee's insights are solid and his chapter on abusive relationships is the sort of material rarely discussed within the gay community. And his summation chapters, which include the awful thought of 'What If It Doesn't Work Out?,' are astute." -Dale Reynolds, Lambda Book Report"This is a practical, down-to-earth manual for men who live in intimate relationships and want to improve them.... This book does more than help couples solve complicated interpersonal problems-it helps them to avoid them." -Harvey L. Gochros, D.S.W., professor, School of Social Work, University of Hawaii"lsensee explores gay male relationships by examining the difficulty of maintaining successful male-male bondings in a hostile, homophobic society. He discusses problems unique to homosexual relationships.... A helpful book." -Library Journal"A welcome addition to practical gay literature." -Booklist

Gay parenting is a productive and positive decision, but author and lesbian mother Arlene Lev admits it isn't always an easy one. With practical wisdom and advice, and personal real-life stories, Lev prepares gay parents for this endeavor with everything they need to know and everything they can expect while making their own significant and challenging mark on family life in the 21st century.