Children of LGBTQ+ Parents
By: Abigail Garner
Drawing on a decade of community organizing, and interviews with more than fifty grown sons and daughters of LGBT parents, Author Abigail Garner addresses such topics as coming out to children, facing homophobia at school, co-parenting with ex-partners, the impact of AIDS, and the children's own sexuality.
By: Peggy Gillespie (Editor)
This volume combines interviews and photographs to document the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered parents and their children. It allows all of the family members to speak candidly about their lives, their relationships, and the ways in which they have dealt with the pressures of homophobia
By: Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels (Editors)
A collection of essays by the grown children of lesbian, gay, and transgender parents, which touch on some of the most important and complicated issues facing them: dealing with a parent's sexuality while developing an identity of one's own; overcoming homophobia at school and at family or social gatherings; and defining the modern family.
By: Judith E. Snow
This book gives voice to the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of children, adolescents, and young adults who have a gay or lesbian parent. In their own words, they talk openly and candidly about how and when they learned of their parent's sexual orientation and the effect it had on them and their families.
By: Frank Lowe (Editor)
In recent years, the world has been saturated by endless blogs, articles, and books devoted to the subject of LGBTQ+ parenting. On the flip side, finding stories written by the children of LGBTQ+ parents is akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. Frank Lowe has carefully edited an anthology that reflects on the upbringing of children in many different forms of LGBTQ+ families.
By: Tina Fakhrid-Deen (Author) and COLAGE (Contributor)
Let’s Get This Straight profiles forty-five diverse youth and young adults, all of whom voice their opinions and provide advice for other youth living in LGBTQ households. These accounts reach out to young people to provide them with the tools to combat homophobia, take pride in their alternative family structures, and speak out against injustice.
By: Zach Wahls
Growing up with two moms, Zach Wahls knows what it’s like to feel different and to fear being made fun of or worse. His story delivers a reassuring message to same-sex couples, their kids, and anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider: “You are not alone.”
By: Sadie Epstein-Fine (Editor) & Makeda Zook (Editor)
Spawning Generations is a collection of stories by queerspawn (people with LGBTQ+ parents) who break away from the pressures to be perfect, the demands to be well adjusted, and the need to prove that they turned out “all right.”
By: Judith Benjamin
One of her moms is pregnant! What will this mean for a child who will soon be an older sibling? Her mothers prepare her for the big change in their family, and finally the baby arrives. The girl feels confused and ambivalent, but she grows, at last, toward happy acceptance of the baby and of her new status in the family.