Organizations
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Books
The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
A guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps one to clarify their values and develop mindfulness, leading to greater satisfaction in life.
On Being Gay by Brian McNaught
This is an “oldie” (originally published in 1975), but I still find it pertinent and helpful to people in their coming out process and on their road to self-acceptance.
Mating In Captivity by Esther Perel
This book helps the reader explore “the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.”
Love Between Men by Rik Isensee
“A practical, down-to-earth manual for men who live in intimate relationships and want to improve them.”
The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs, Ph.D.
“The author describes the stages of a gay man’s journey out of shame, and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior.”
The Good Book by Peter J. Gomes
Peter John Gomes was an American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard’s Memorial Church. He came out as gay in 1991. The Good Book is for readers “who want to reconcile what they know of the Bible with what they know of themselves and the world.”
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong
This engaging author “combines current biblical scholarship, modern science, and his deep love and respect for scripture to lift the Bible out of the prejudices and cultural biases of bygone eras…liberating its message for all people.”
Films
Trembling Before G-d
Latter Days