Essays discuss the gay civil rights movement, the price of admitting one's homosexuality, gay suicide, the problems of growing up gay, college life, family relationships, holidays, and AIDS

On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love

Politics & Social Sciences

McNaught, Brian

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

Brian McNaught has a special knack for enabling people to understand what it means to be gay. He has done so as a writer and lecturer since 1974, explaining, encouraging, and often healing his audiences. McNaught provides a look-- sometimes humorous, always insightful-- at such concerns as whether or not to "come out," maintaining ties with one's family, building love relationships that last, developing an honest relationship with God, dealing with AIDS, and accepting oneself as decent and worthy of respect.

On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love (Stonewall Inn Editions)

St. Martin's: Griffin

Explains how anti-gay bias in the workplace affects all employees, and offers practical advice on making gay employees feel safe, educating workers about gay issues, and responding to the concerns of religiously conservative employees

Gay Issues in the Workplace

What gay people want and need
The cost of anti-gay behavior
How to respond to people who quote the Bible
Making allies of heterosexual coworkers

Gay Issues in the Workplace (Stonewall Inn Editions)

Business & Money

Economics

A prominent gay writer helps those who have recently come out of the closet re-examine some of the basic issues of human existence, such as sex, family, love, family, and community.

Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?: Thoughts on Living Deliberately

St.Martin's Press

For many gay men and lesbian women, the first step in a long journey is acknowledging and accepting their sexuality. But what happens to those men and women after they have come to terms with this aspect of their lives? For many it may mean a complete reevaluation of very basic issues: family, relationships, community, and love. 
In this series of essays, McNaught explores these various aspects of life that may now be called into question for these men and women, and he sets out to educate and help guide them through the challenges they may encounter.
Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do? solidifies McNaught's place as one of the best-known speakers on the issues that face gays and lesbians.

Now That I'm Out What Do I Do?

Stonewall Inn Editions

A collection of essays and reflections explores the feelings of homosexuals who have overcome the struggle of declaring their sexuality and now face new questions with regard to the way they will live the rest of their lives. Reprint.

Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?

History

Americas

There are important life lessons here, shared with wit and wisdom, by one of the country's most respected and loved pioneering gay authors, speakers, and mentors. Brian and Ray have been in love for 43 years. That love has endured some of the most challenging issues in life. Each time, with open communication, good humor, and loving kindness, their relationship grew deeper. Brian McNaught, is an award-winning author of several books, including "On Being Gay," "Gay Issues in the Workplace," and "Sex Camp." In response to his book, "Are You Guys Brothers?" Congressman Barney Frank said, "No one has done a better job chronicling what it is like to be gay in America." Says McNaught, "We're a very happy gay make couple, privileged to have created family with great friends, and a series of amazing dogs. Jeremy, the Irish Setter, Brit, the yellow Lab, and now, Lincoln, the smart and affectionate Labradoodle service dog. Our famiky is not unlike your's, perhaps, but only if your family has been held together and molded with kindness, love, and laughter." Find here a series of short columns, first appearing in "South Florida Gay News," that tell some of the lessons Brian and Ray learned in 43 years of doing their best to be extraordinary husbands and dads. They were young men when they came together in Boston in 1976. Brian was a fairly well-known gay activist at the time, and came from Detroit with Great Aunt Helen's chest of drawers, a twin bed, and Jeremy, upon whom he depended for a sense of belonging. He was Brian's family, and they both welcomed Ray, a money market banker, into it. He got into their car and the journey never ended. That began the love story known and celebrated by hundreds of thousands people..The guys are in their senior years now and Brian has funny, moving, thought-provoking stories to tell. Lincoln has his own books, "The Lincoln Chronicles, Puppy Wisdom for Happy Living," and "A Young Dog's Take on Life." This book is Brian's 11th, Said McNaught, "I like the assembled writings in this collection. It speaks from my heart without pretense of how grateful I am to be gay and spiritual, and to have spent the majority of my life with a kind, thoughtful, generous man, and separately with three dogs. A grateful heart wants for nothing. I have no bucket list. I've done everything I want to do. Now, I write to give back all of the loving support I've received for my work across the globe on LGBTQ+ issues.

Two Guys and a Dog Make a Family

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

"Sex Camp"

"In his book 'SEX CAMP,' Brian McNaught ventures into places where most people fear to tread. His searing honesty combines with an overt ability to pose issues about human sexuality that desperately need to be faced, lest we continue to violate those who do not fit our security boxes. I commend his work but only to those among us who are courageous and radically open."Bishop John Shelby Spong:AuthorHere I Stand! My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love and Equality Thirty-two strangers arrive at a Church-owned retreat facility on Saturday to work with some of the best trainers in the field of sexuality. They're told that by the end of the week, they'll know more about sex than ninety percent of the population. What they go home with on the following Saturday is a lot more than they anticipated or were promised.Besides laughing, crying, swearing, and cheering through films and intimate discussions about sexual values, body image, "self-pleasuring," gender identity, sexual orientation, seduction, abuse, theology, and "turn ons," they faced off with each other around an altar in the woods, under blankets and star-filled skies, bareassed in the water, and with hands joined singing in a circle.Most everyone goes home forever changed. That is, if they make it through the week.The Annual Workshop on Sexuality at Thornfield was called "the world's best kept secret." Now you're in on it. "Oh honey, you should have been there. We had two transsexuals and one cross dresser, and a nun, and two football coaches, and an 'ex-gay' guy, and lots of homosexuals, and we watched films of men and women masturbating and making love, and men and men, and women and women ... and I talked about how you were non-orgasmic, and it was really cool!"- "Sex Camp"

Health, Fitness & Dieting

AuthorHouse

In his book "SEX CAMP," Brian McNaught ventures into places where most people fear to tread. His searing honesty combines with an overt ability to pose issues about human sexuality that desperately need to be faced, lest we continue to violate those who do not fit our security boxes. I commend his work but only to those among us who are courageous and radically open." Bishop John Shelby Spong Author Here I Stand! My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love and Equality Thirty-two strangers arrive at a Church-owned retreat facility on Saturday to work with some of the best trainers in the field of sexuality. They're told that by the end of the week, they'll know more about sex than ninety percent of the population. What they go home with on the following Saturday is a lot more than they anticipated or were promised. Besides laughing, crying, swearing, and cheering through films and intimate discussions about sexual values, body image, "self-pleasuring," gender identity, sexual orientation, seduction, abuse, theology, and "turn ons," they faced off with each other around an altar in the woods, under blankets and star-filled skies, bareassed in the water, and with hands joined singing in a circle. Most everyone goes home forever changed. That is, if they make it through the week. The Annual Workshop on Sexuality at Thornfield was called "the world's best kept secret." Now you're in on it. "Oh honey, you should have been there. We had two transsexuals and one cross dresser, and a nun, and two football coaches, and an 'ex-gay' guy, and lots of homosexuals, and we watched films of men and women masturbating and making love, and men and men, and women and women . and I talked about how you were non-orgasmic, and it was really cool!"

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On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love

On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love (Stonewall Inn Editions)

Gay Issues in the Workplace

Gay Issues in the Workplace (Stonewall Inn Editions)

Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?: Thoughts on Living Deliberately

Now That I'm Out What Do I Do?

Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?

Two Guys and a Dog Make a Family

"Sex Camp"

"Sex Camp"