List of good books for people just coming out Title Author ----- ------ _On Being Gay_ Brian McNaught _Coming Out: An Act of Love_ Rob Eichberg _Growing Up Gay in a Dysfunctional Family_ Rik Isensee _The Boys on the Rock_ John Fox _Act Well Your Part_ Don Sakers _Second Chances_ Alice Adams _The Spartan_ Don Harrison _A_Boy's_Own_Story_ Edmund White _Better_Angel_ Richard Meeker/ Forman Brown _City_of_Night_ John Rechy _Jonathan Loved David: Homosexuality in Biblical Times_ Tom Horner _Sexual Life in Ancient Greece_ Paul Brandt _Sexual Variance in Society and History_ Vern Bullough _The Sprit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture_ Walter L. Williams _The New Loving Someone Gay_ Don Clark (previously called _Loving Someone Gay_) _Beyond Acceptance_ Carolyn Welch Griffin _Rubyfruit Jungle_ Rita Mae Brown Also, Alyson books is a good source of gay/lesbian literature. Their address is: Alyson Publications Deptartment B-79 40 Plympton St. Boston, MA 02118 +1 617 542 5679 If you write, they will send you a catalog. Disclaimer: I make no claims about the quality of any of these books. I included every title that I received. -- Matt Hartfield hartfiel@cis.ohio-state.edu Character Density, n.: The number of very weird people in the office.