Appendix C: Further Reading

( * denotes adult language that may be difficult for some ) 

Personal Note: This bibliography represents a diverse group of writers and authors.  I share it to provide more background for those interested, but I do not necessarily endorse all of the material in these publications. 

Homosexuality in Scripture: 

1.  What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality.  Daniel A Helminiak, Ph.D.San Francisco:  Alamo Square Press.  1994.  ISBN 0-9624751-9-X.

2.  The Church and the Homosexual.  John J McNeill.  Boston:  Beacon Press.  1976.ISBN 0-8070-7931-6

3.  Taking a Chance on God.  John J McNeill.  Boston:  Beacon Press.  1988.  ISBN 0-8070-7945-6

4.  Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?  Letah Scanzoni and Virginia Mollenkott.  New York:  HarperCollins Publishers.  1994.  ISBN 0-06-067078-9.

5.  The Good Book.  Peter J Gomes.  New York:  William Morrow and Company.  1996.  ISBN 0-688-13447-5.

6.  Pastor, I Am Gay.  Howard H Bess.  Palmer, Alaska:  Palmer Publishing Company.  1995.  ISBN 0-9644123-0-6.

7.  The New Testament and Homosexuality.  Robin Scroggs.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press.  1983.  ISBN 0-8006-1854-8.

8.  Why Christianity Must Change or Die.  John Shelby Spong.  San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.  1998.  ISBN 0-06-067532-2.

9.  The Letters of Paul.  John Shelby Spong.  New York: Riverhead Books.  1998.ISBN 1-57322-683-1.

10.  The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology.  Mark D Jordan.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.  1997.  ISBN 0-226-41040-4.

11.  The Abundant Life Bible Amplifier:  Romans.  John C Brunt.  Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press Publishing Association.  1996.  ISBN 0-8163-1296-6.

12.  The Children Are Free:  Re-examining the Biblical Evidence on Same-sex Relationships.  Jeff Miner and John Connoley.  Indianapolis, Indiana:  Jesus Metropolitan Community Church.  2002.  ISBN 0-9719296-0-2.  

Gay Issues and Christian Churches: 

1.  Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate.  Jeffrey S. Siker, editor.  Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.  1994.  ISBN 0-664-25545-0.

2.  Congregations Talking About Homosexuality: Dialogue on a Difficult Issue.  Beth Anne Gaede, editor.   Alban Institute Publication.  1998.  ISBN 1-56699-198-6.

3. *  Reclaiming the Spirit: Gay Men and Lesbians Come to Terms with Religion.  David Shallenberger.  New Brunswick, New Jersey:  Rutgers University Press.  1998.  ISBN 0-8135-2488-1.

4.  The Homophobic Healer.  Sandra St. John.  Denver: Tiderwick Publications.  1994.  ISBN 1-885-084-33-1.

5.  Religion Is A Queer Thing.  Elizabeth Stuart.  Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press.  1997.  ISBN 0-8298-1269-5.

6.  101 Questions Adventists Ask.  B B Beach and John Graz.  Nampa, Idaho: Pacific Press Publishing Association.  2000.  ISBN 0-8163-1790-9.

7.  What Christians Think About Homosexuality: Six Representative Viewpoints. L R Holben.  North Richland Hills, Texas: Bibal Press.  1999.  ISBN 0-941037-83-5. 

Gay Historical Background: 

1.  Out in All Directions.  Editors:  Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, Eric Marcus.  New York:  Warner Books.  1995.  ISBN 0-446-51822-0.

2.  Homosexuality in History.  Colin Spencer.  New York:  Harcourt Brace and Company.  1995.  ISBN 0-15-100223-1

3.  Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe.  John Boswell.  New York:  Villard Books.  1994.  ISBN 0-679-43228-0.

4.  Being Homosexual.  Richard A Isay.  New York:  Farrar-Straus-Giroux, Inc.  1989.  ISBN 0-374-11012-3.

5.  Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World.  Thomas Cowan.  Boston:  Alyson Publications.  1992.  ISBN 1-55583-147-8.

6.  Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality.  John Boswell.  Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press.  1980.  ISBN 0-226-06711-4.

7.  The New Civil War.  Diane Silver.  New York: Franklin Watts.  1997.  ISBN 0-531-11290-X.

8.  Homosexuality.  Robert Dunbar.  Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, Inc.  1995.  ISBN 0-89490-665-8.

9. *  A Certain Terror:  Heterosexism, Militarism, Violence, & Change.  Richard Cleaver and Patricia Myers, editors.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: American Friends Service Committee.  1993.  ISBN 0-9635516-0-4.

10. *  The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America Since World War Two.  Charles Kaiser.  New York: Harcourt Brace and Company.  1997. ISBN 0-15-600617-0.

11.  Created Equal:  Why Gay Rights Matter To America.  Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff.  New York:  St. Martin's Press.  1994.  ISBN 0-312-10443-X.

12.  Strangers To The Law: Gay People on Trial.  Lisa Keen and Suzanne Goldberg.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.  2000.  ISBN 0-472-08645-6. 

Self Acceptance of a Gay Identity:  "Coming Out" 

1.  On Being Gay.  Brian McNaught.  New York:  St. Martin's Press.  1988. ISBN 0-312-02959-4.

2.  Coming Out Within:  Stages of Spiritual Awakening.  Craig O'Neill and Kathleen Ritter.  New York:  HarperCollins Publishers.  1992.  ISBN 0-06-250706-0.

3.  Becoming a Man:  Half A Life Story.  Paul Monette.  New York:  HarperCollins Publishers.  1992.  ISBN 0-06-250724-9.  (National Book Award)

4.  Coming Out:  An Act Of Love.  Rob Eichberg, Ph.D.  New York:  Plume/ Penguin Books.  1990.   ISBN 0-452-26685-8.

5. *  The Male Couple's Guide.  Eric Marcus.  New York:  HarperCollins Publishers.  1992.  ISBN 0-06-096936-9.

6. *  Outing Yourself.  Michelangelo Signorile.  New York: Random House, Inc.  1994.  ISBN 0-679-43838-6.

7. *  Family Outing.  Chastity Bono.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Company.  1998.  ISBN   0-316-10233-4.

8.  Letters from the Closet.  Tony Ferrante & Paulette Jacobsen.  Sacramento, California:  Tzedakah Publications.  1994.  ISBN 0-929999-03-7.

9.  Coming Out As Sacrament.  Chris Glaser.  Louisville, Kentucky:  Westminster John Knox Press.  1998.  ISBN 0-664-25748-8.

10.  Passages of Pride.  Kurt Chandler.  Los Angeles:  Alyson Books.  1995.  ISBN  1-55583-417-5.

11.  Lesbian and Gay Youth:  Care and Counseling.  Catitlin Ryan and Donna Futterman.  New York:  Columbia University Press.  1998.  ISBN 0-231-11191-6.

12. *  Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human.  Robert Minor, Ph.D.  St. Louis, Missouri: Humanity Works.  2001.  ISBN 0-9709581-0-2.

13.  Acts of Faith, Acts of Love.  Dugan McGinley.  New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.  2004.  ISBN 0-8264-1545-8. 

Books for Parents of Gay Children: 

1.  Is It A Choice.  Eric Marcus.  New York:  HarperCollins Publishers.  1993. ISBN 0-06-250664-1.

2.  Now That You Know.  Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward.  New York:  Harcourt  Brace and Company.  1989.  ISBN 0-15-667601-X.

3.  My Son, Beloved Stranger.  Kate McLaughlin.  Boise, Idaho:  Pacific Press Publishing Association.  1995.  ISBN 0-8163-1257.

4.  The Family Heart.  Robb Forman Dew.  Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.  1994.  ISBN 0-201-62450-8.

5.  Christians and Homosexuality:  Dancing Toward the Light.  Dee Dee Risher & Douglas Davidson, editors.  The Other Side.  Special Issue: 1994.  (300 West Apsley Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144).

6.  From Wounded Heart:  Faith Stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People and Those Who Love Them.  Roberta Showalter Kreider.  Gaithersburg, Maryland:  Chi Rho Press, Inc.  1998.  ISBN 1-888493-15-1.

7.  Coming Out As Parents.  David K Switzer.  Louisville, Kentucky:  Westminster John Knox Press.  1996.  ISBN 0-664-25636-8.

8.  Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbian and Gays Talk About Their Experiences.  Griffin, Wirth and Wirth.  New York:  St. Martin’s Griffen.  1996.  ISBN 0-312-16781-4 

Gay Experience with HIV and AIDS: 

1. *  Borrowed Time:  An AIDS Memoir.  Paul Monette.  New York:  Avon Books.  1988.  ISBN 0-380-70779-9.

2. *  Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb:  Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS.  Charles Garfield.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass Publishers.  1995. ISBN 0-7879-0105-9.

3. *  Sexual Ecology:  AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men.  Gabriel Rotello.  Dutton/ Penguin Books.  1997.  ISBN 0-525-94164-9.

4. *  Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog.  Paul Monette.  New York: St. Martin's Press.  1988.  ISBN 0-312-02602-1.

5. *  Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS.  John Preston, editor.  New York: St. Martin's Press.  1988.  ISBN 0-312-03412-1. 

6. *  And the Band Played On:  Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic.  Randy Shilts.  New York:  St. Martin's Press.  1987.  ISBN 0-14011-369-X. 

Being Gay in the United States: 

1. *  House and Home.  Steve Gunderson and Rob Morris.  New York:  Dutton/ Penguin Books.  1996.  ISBN 0-525-94197-5.

2. *  Wrestling with the Angel:  Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men.  Editor:  Brian Bouldrey.  New York:  Riverhead Books.  1995.  ISBN 1-57322-003-5.

3. *  Getting Simon:  Two Gay Doctors' Journey to Fatherhood.  Kenneth B Morgan.  New York:  Bramble Books.  1995.  ISBN 1-883647-04-5.

4.  Gay Issues in the Workplace.  Brian McNaught.  New York:  St Martin's Press.  1993.  ISBN 0-312-09808-1.

5.  Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?  Brian McNaught.  New York:  St. Martin's Press.  1997.  ISBN 0-312-15616-2.

6. *  Coming Out to God.  Chris Glaser.  Louisville, Kentucky:  Westminster John Knox Press.  1991.  ISBN 0-664-25176-5.

7.  Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair.  John McNeill.  Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.  1998.  ISBN 0-664-25808-5.

8.  Rainbow Family Values: Relationship Skills for Lesbian and Gay Couples.  Michael Piazza.  Dallas: Sources of Hope Publishing.  1995.  ISBN 1-887129-02-2.

9. *  Ex-Gays: There Are None!  Sylvia Pennington.  Hawthorne, California: Lambda Christian Fellowship.  1989.  ISBN 0-9616853-2-8.

10. *  Gay Men at the Millennium: Sex, Spirit and Community.  Michael Lowenthal, editor.  New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam.  1997.  ISBN 0-87477-892-1.

11. *  Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together.  Joan Nestle and John Preston, editors.  San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.  1994.  ISBN 0-06-251055-X.

12. *  Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture & Sex.  Michael Bronski, editor.  New York: Masquerade Books.  1996.  ISBN 1-56333-456-9.

13. *  Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military.  Randy Shilts.  New York: St. Martin's Press.  1993.  ISBN 0-312-09261-X.

14.  One Nation, After All.  Alan Wolfe.  New York: Viking/Penguin Putnam, Inc.  1998.  ISBN 0-670-8767711-1.

15. *  In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change.  Neil Miller.  New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press.  1989.  ISBN 0-87113-304-0.

16.  Stranger at the Gate.  Mel White.  New York:  Plume/Penguin Group USA, Inc.  1994.  ISBN  0-452-27381-1.

17.  Moving On.  Dann Hazel.  New York:  Kensington Books.  1999.  ISBN 1-57566-378-3.

18. *  Losing Matt Shepard.  Beth Loffreda.  New York: Columbia University Press.  2000.  ISBN 0-231-11859-7.

19. *  The Laramie Project.  Moises Kaufman.  New York: Vintage Books.  2001.  ISBN 0-375-72719-1. 

20. *  Left Out:  The Politics of Exclusion.  Martin Duberman.  New York: Basic Books.  1999.  ISBN 0-465-01744-4.   

Conservative Gay Contemporary Thought: 

1.  A Place At the Table.  Bruce Bawer.  New York:  Touchstone/ Simon and Schuster.  1993.  ISBN 0-671-89439-0.

2.  Beyond Queer:  Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy.  Editor:  Bruce Bawer.  New York:  Free Press/ Simon and Schuster.  1996.  ISBN 0-684-82766-2.

3.  Freedom, Glorious Freedom.  John J McNeill.  Boston:  Beacon Press.  1995.  ISBN 0-8070-7936-7.

4.  Stealing Jesus:  How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity.  New York:  Crown Publishers.  1997.  ISBN 0-517-70682-2.

5. *  Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival.  Andrew Sullivan.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.  1998.  ISBN 0-679-45119-6. 

Medical Science and Historical Reviews of Homosexuality: 

1.  Special Article:  Homosexuality.  Richard Friedman, MD and Jennifer Downey, MD.  The New England Journal of Medicine.  Volume 331, Number 14; 6 October 1994.

2.  Queer Science: The Use & Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality.  Simon Levay.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  The MIT Press.  1996.  ISBN 0-262-12199-9.

3.  The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior.  Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland.  New York: Touchstone Books.  1994.  ISBN 0-684-80446-8.

4.  A Biological Perspective on Sexual Orientation.  Richard Pillard and J. Michael Bailey.  The Psychiatric Clinics of North America.  Volume 18, Number 1; March 1995.

5.  Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research.  Timothy Murphy.  New York: Columbia University Press.  1997.  ISBN 0?231?10848?6.

6.  Responding to Sexual Orientation Issues.  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.  Volume 33, Number 3; (special issue) June 2002.

7. *  Gay and Lesbian Almanac.  Neil Schlager, editor.  Detroit, Michigan: St. James Press.  1998.  ISBN 1-55862-358-2.  

Suggested Support Organizations

(not necessarily supported or condoned by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists or their affiliates)  

Support Organization for Gay/Lesbian Adventists 

SDA Kinship International, Inc.  Robert Bouchard, President.
(Monthly electronic newsletter, annual gatherings) 
Address:  PO 69; Tillamook, OR  97141-0069 
website: http://www.sdakinship.org 

Support Organization for Parents of Gay/Lesbian Adventists 

Someone to Talk To...  Carrol Grady (aka Kate McLaughlin), Coordinator.
(Monthly newsletter)
Address: 13008 234th Street SE;  Snohomish, WA  98296
website: http://www.someone-to-talk-to.net 

Christian Organizations which include Gays and Lesbians  

Whosoever Ministries.   Candace Chellew, Chair
(Monthly electronic magazine)
Address:   PO Box 727; Camden, SC  29020
website: http://www.whosoever.org     

Support Organization for Gays/Lesbians, their Families and Friends 

Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG).
(Resource materials, newsletters) 
Address: 1726 M Street; Suite 400;  Washington, DC  20036 
Phone: 202-467-8180. website: http://www.pflag.org