Coming Out Information
Dear John, I love Jane
27 essays follow, by smart, hilarious, and heroically honest writers, who, like Cynthia Nixon, Portia de Rossi, and Wanda Sykes, left heterosexual lives behind to pursue relationships with women.

Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
This book puts to rest the old "chosen lifestyle" theory of homosexuality which has done our community so much harm.

Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project
Accurate, supportive information on 'coming out' process.

Mom...Dad...I'm Gay

How our picture perfect family was torn apart by our son’s revelation. This is the story of how we put out family back together again.

PFLAG: The Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons
Promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.

Questions About Sexuality Answered by the American Psychological Association.


Story - Can Love All the Faces of God

The coming out story of an Orthodox Jew

Rituals - Shoshana Tornberg
Rituals from the Jewish faith centering around Coming Out as a LBGT person 

Rituals - Jay Michaelson
Rituals from the Jewish faith centering around Coming Out as a LBGT person

Coming Out of Homo-Sexuality: New Freedom for Men and Women
by Davies, Bob , Rentzel, Lori

The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families
by Buxton, Amity Pierce

Lesbian Epiphanies: Women Coming Out in Later Life (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
by Jensen, Karol L.

Joe Kort
Psychotherapist, coach and author Joe Kort, MA, MSW, LMSW has been in practice since 1985 specializing in Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy.


Testimonies: Lesbian and Bisexual Coming-out Stories
by Holmes, Sarah, Tust, Jennifer
 

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Counseling

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