Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 12:31:40 -0700
From: jessea@nature.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: COMING OUT OF THE CLASSROOM CLOSET (a book)

COMING OUT OF THE CLASSROOM CLOSET, edited by Karen M. Harbeck, PhD, JD.
1992, Haworth Press.  259 pp. + index.  ISBN 1-56023-013-5. Categories: Gay
& Lesbian Studies, Education.
(Also appears as a monograph published simultaneously as the Journal of
Homosexuality, Vol.22, Nos. 3/4).

This book is intended to empower lesbian and gay students and educators to
begin or continue efforts to obtain equal status in classrooms and schools.
 It presents recent research to help gay and lesbian teachers and students
break their silence.  It promotes the development of school-based
interventions for gay, lesbian, and bisexual students.

Contents:

1. Introduction by Karen M. Harbeck

2.  Addressing the Needs of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth: The Origins
of Project 10 and School-Based Intervention by Virginia Uribe and Karen M.
Harbeck

3.  Educators, Homosexuality, and Homosexual Students: Are Personal
Feelings Related to Professional Beliefs? by James T. Sears

4.  Liberal Attitudes and Homophobic Experience in a Liberal Institution by
William P. Norris

5.  Gay and Lesbian Educators: Past History/Future Prospects by Karen M.
Harbeck

6.  Living in Two Worlds: the Identity Management Strategies Used by
Lesbian Physical Educators by Sherry E. Woods and Karen M. Harbeck.

7.  From Hiding Out to Coming Out: Empowering Lesbian and Gay Educators by
Pat Griffin

8.  Images of Gays and Lesbians in Sexuality and Health Textbooks by
Marianne H. Whatley

9.  Teaching Lesbian/Gay Development: From Oppression to Exceptionality by
Anthony R. D'Augelli

10.  Educating Mental Health Professionals About Gay and Lesbian Issues by
Bianca Cody Murphy

11.  HIV Education for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth: Personal Risk,
Personal Power, and the Community of Conscience by Kevin Cranston

Reference Notes, Index, and Table of Cases Included.

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