My Child Is Gay: How Parents React When They Hear the News
by Bryce McDougall

Written by parents who have a gay or lesbian child, this compilation of letters can help parents deal with feelings of confusion, embarrassment, guilt, or anger, while showing how ordinary families have found love, happiness, and normalcy again. Updated with new stories and experiences, this edition acknowledges that while a brave child often takes time to come to terms with his sexuality before sharing his feelings, parents are often shocked and overwhelmed with little time to react. Together these letters reaffirm the healing power of support and allow those with first-hand knowledge to outline the steps toward understanding and the importance of helping their children share the truth.  From Amazon.com.

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Where Is God When It Hurts?
by Philip Yancey

This perennial bestseller now includes a discussion guide. The book and study materials focus on the role of pain in God's plan for life and how we can respond to it.

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Becoming a Visible Man
by Jamison Green

When the premier trans-activist of a generation decides to write a memoir, we should be grateful.  Becoming a Visible Man is not only the story of Green's own personal becoming, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the story of the structures, institutions, and other forces that circumscribe, shape, and color all our becomings.  His writing is balanced and aware of its biases, always mindful of questioning the existing structures of power, and responsible to those with whom he sees himself in community and alliance

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The Twelve Steps for Christians
by Friends in Recovery

This revised edition is a powerful resource for merging the practical wisdom of the Twelve Steps with the spiritual truths of the Bible.

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Discovering Images of God: Narratives of Care Among Lesbians and Gays
by Larry Kent Graham

Larry Graham has interviewed lesbians and gays across the country and has discovered a new sense of God at work through all people.

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Harold S. Kushner

 Rarely does a book come along that tackles a perennially difficult human issue with such clarity and intelligence. Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to millions of readers across all religious creeds. Remarkable for its intensely relevant real-life examples and its fluid prose, this book cannot go unread by anyone who has ever been troubled by the question, "Why me?"  From Amazon.com

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Crossing over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
by Vanessa Sheridan

If you or a loved one is transgendered and you have felt in conflict with your Christian faith, help and enlightenment are finally here. Being transgendered and a Christian do not have to be in conflict.  Crossing over:  Liberating the Transgendered Christian provides biblically based information to educate those who are transgendered and those who are open to the truth.

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Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse
by Dr. Rembert Truluck

From the author:
This book is a response to the abusive use of religion. My book is a response to the abusive use of the Bible against Gays and lesbians and all others oppressed and alienated by religion. The book is the product of almost 50 years of work as a Southern Baptist pastor and university Bible professor, research and teaching, leadership of small group spiritual recovery groups in Metropolitan Community Churches, and almost 10 years in actually writing and revising the book. 

The book includes extensive resources and bibliography along with references to web site material. The aim of the book is to provide information and incentive for spiritual recovery and growth.

During Rev. Dr. Rembert S. "Buddy" Truluck’s time in ministry with Metropolitan Community Churches, he served as pastor of MCC churches in Nashville, Atlanta, and San Francisco from 1988-1996.

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Hermaphrodeities
by Raven Brangwyn Kaldera

A powerful text on a much-overlooked topic in mythology: the bi-gendered gods and heroes throughout time.  Raven's book uncovers and reveals a deeper and often darker truth of a time and place where transgenderedness was a blessing and an indication of a spiritual vocation.

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Coming Out of Shame : Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives
by Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael

Self-affirming and inspirational, Coming Out of Shame guides the transformation of gay shame into gay pride and empowers gay men and lesbians.

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Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans With HIV and AIDS
by Roslyn Banish

By allowing HIV-positive people to speak openly and movingly about their lives, Focus on Living, seeks to remove the curtain of invisibility that still cloaks the disease and to reduce the stigma that contributes to silence

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Troubling The Angels: Women Living With Hiv/aids
by Patricia A Lather

Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the women in these groups share the common bond of living with HIV/AIDS, and they describe how it affects their lives in terms full of practical reality and moving poignancy, as they fight the disease, accept, reflect, live, and die with and in it.

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I'M STILL DANCING!:  A Gay Man's Health Experience
by the Rev. A. Stephen Pieters

A powerful book by a long-term survivor of AIDS: articles, sermons and journal entries chronicle life with AIDS. Sick since 1982 and diagnosed with AIDS in 1984, Steve's cancers have gone into complete remission and he remains well to this day. He served for many years as Field Director of the UFMCC's AIDS Ministry.

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