Free Your Mind is the definitive practical guide for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth -- and their families, teachers, counselors and friends. For too long, gay youth have wanted to be themselves and to feel good about it, but most have been isolated, afraid, harassed, or worse. Their very existence has been ignored, whispered about, or swept under the rug. 
 But each day more and more lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are standing up, speaking out, breaking down stereotypes, demanding rights and recognition -- shining. In this book, young people share their joy and their pain, their hopes and fears, the formidable obstacles they have faced and overcome, and the exciting opportunities they have discovered. 
 Free Your Mind speaks to the basic aspects of the lives of gay, lesbian and bisexual youth: Self-Discovery; Friends and Lovers; Family; School; Spirituality; Community. Alive with the voices of more than fifty young people, rich in accurate information and positive practical advice, Free Your Mind talks about how to come out, deal with problems, make healthy choices about relationships and sex, connect with other gay youth and supportive adults, and take pride and participate in the gay and lesbian community. Free Your Mind also presents detailed guidance for adults who want to make the world safer for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth.

Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies

Ellen Bass

Kate Kaufman

Children's Books

Harper-perennial

The best-selling guide to coping with childhood sexual abuse--now expanded to include a revised Resource Guide with six hundred entries--weaves personal experience with professional knowledge to guide adult survivors of abuse. $25,000 ad/promo.

The Courage To Heal : A Guide For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Laura Davis

Women's Health

HarperCollins, Publishers

Beginning to Heal: A First Guide for Female Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Random House Children's Books (A Division of Random House Group)

Whether found between the crumbling pages of a forgotten family album or shoved into a dusty cardboard box at a garage sale, we've all come under the mystical influence of unlabeled and anonymous photographs. In the presence of these fossil-like representations of unnamed ancestors, we ponder the nature of family and anonymity, love and loss. It is this phenomenon that prompted editors Joell Hallowell and Meg Withers to invite responses from 34 poets to an eclectic collection of black and white photographs of women from the late 1800s to the 1940s. The resulting book is a collection of vibrant, thought-provoking poems by contemporary writers delving into the nature of memory and evidence-speculating about the never know, those who never made it into family legacy or lore. Shadowed is a book of wondering and inventing. It is a tribute to the unknown and to the often unheard.

Shadowed - Unheard Voices

Aurora Brackett

Joell Hallowell

Marisol Baca

Rita Flores Bogaert

Megan Bohigian

Gina Maria Caruso

Maxine Chernoff

Chella Courington

Rachelle Escamilla

Rae Freudenberger

Corrinne Clegg Hales

Gabriela Jauregui

Diana Aehegma

The Press at California State University, Fresno

Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth--and Their Allies

LGBTQ+ Books

Two authorities in the field of childhood sexual abuse explain how insight and the development of new healthy attitudes and behaviors can help victims change their lives, discussing self-esteem, sex, parenting, and other topics. Read by the authors.

The Courage to Heal, Part 2: Changing Patterns

Medical Books

HarperAudio

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