Other Sheep - Multicultural Ministries with Sexual Minorities

Annotated
Bibliography

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Social/
Biological
Sciences

The Social and Biological Sciences

Ronald Bayer, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry,: The Politics of Diagnosis, New York, Basic
Books, 1981.
Bayer traces the history of the psychiatric wars over homosexual orientation within the American
Pyschiatric Association and its removal from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual).

Ralph Blair, Homosexualities: Faith, Facts, and Fairy Tales, New York, 1991.
Psychotherapist and evangelical Blair dispells a lot of false stereotypes and myths about
homosexuality.

Evelyn Blackwood (ed), The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to
Homosexual Behavior, New York, Harrington Park Press, 1986.
Anthropological cross-cultural studies of homosexuality.

Janis S. Bohan, Psychology and Sexual Orientation: New York, Routledge, 1996.
Bohan discusses the construction and social meaning of sexual orientation in lesbian, gay, and
bisexual development. He covers stigma managment, parenting, and diversity.

Phyllis Burke, Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female, New York, Anchor Books,
1994.
Burke deconstructs many myths of our rigid gender system by examing gender identity in the areas
of behavior, appearance, and science.

Chandler Burr, The Srarch for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation, Hyperion, 1996.
Burr gives a complete overview of neurobiology, endocriniology, and genetics in tracing the source
of sexual orientation and the technologies attempting to manipulate it.

Robert Cabaj & Terry S. Stein, (eds), Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health, American
Psychiatric Press, Washington D.C., 1996.
Most comprehensive book on the issue of homosexuality, mental helath, and the threapy of gays,
lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals. Excellent resource.

Louis Diamant & Richard D. McAnulty (eds), The Psychology of Sexual Orientation, Behavior, and
Identity: A Handbook, New York, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.
A comprehensive overview of empirical findings on sexual orientation and behavior.

John DeCecco & David Allen Parker (eds), Cells and Same-Sex Desire: The Biology of Sexual
Preference, New York, Harrington Park Press, 1994.
This anthology of scientists and scholars in social sciences and gay studies make accessible the
biological research on sexual preference.

Thomas Domenici, Ronnie C. Lesser, Andrienne Harris, Disorienting Sexuality: Psychoanalytical
Reappraisals of Sexual Identities, New York, Routledge, 1995.
A turn well beyond the neo-Freudian condemnations of the 1960s.

Martin B. Duberman & Jan Clausen (ed), Beyond Gay or Straight: Understanding Sexual Orientation,
New York, Chelsea House Publications, 1996.
This anthology examines various theories on sexual orientation in history and in the present.

Richard C. Friedman, Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective, New Haven,
Yale University Press, 1996.
Friedman presents up to date psychoanalytic understanding of male homosexuality.

Michael J. Garanzini, "Psychodynamic Theory and Pastoral Theology: An Integrated Model," in
Homosexuality and Religion, ed. by Richard Hasbany, New York, Harrington Park Press, 1989, pp.
175-194.
Garanzini notes that pastoral concern for gays/lesbians must be sensitive to te psychological and
social dynamics involved in their attachments, separations, and losses and that Catholic moral
theology and pastoral teaching will develop as it is tied to pastoral practice.

L. D. Garnet & D.C. Kimmel, Psychological Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Male Experience, New
York, Columbia University Press, 1993.
Good psychological work.

J. C. Gonsiorek & J. D. Weinrich, Homosexual Research Implications for Public Policy, Sage
Publications, 1991.
Good psychological and social resource for public policy discussions.

J. D. Goodchild, Psychological Perspectives on Human Diversity in America, America Psychological
Association, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Addresses the psychological issues surrounding diversity.

Dean Hamer & Peter Copeland, The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior,
Touchstone, 1995.
Hamer, who discovered the gene marker for male homosexuality, describes his research and the
implications his work has for behavior.

Bernice L. Hausman, Changing Sex: Transexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender, Durham,
Duke University Press, 1995.
Hausman deconstructs current notions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender identity by showing
how medical technology has made the emergence of new identities possible.

Ellen Herman, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Homosexuality, New York, Chelsea House, 1995.
Herman scrutinizes those who diagnose homosexuality as a disease and those who view social
hatred as the problem.

Robert H. Hopcke, Jung, Jungians & Homosexuality, Boston, Shambhala, 1989.
Hopcke offers a view of homosexuality that is archetypally profound and spritual evocative.

Robert H. Hopcke, Karen Loftus Carrington & Scott Wirth, Boston, Shambhala, 1993.
This book traces the unique journeys of gays/lesbians to psychic wholeness.

Richard A. Isay, Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance, New York, Pantheon Books, 1996.
Isay, a psychiatrist, explodes the heterosexist stereotypes and pathological perspectives of
homosexuality of the psychoanalytic profession.

Fritz Klein, Bisexual Option, (revised edition) New York, Harrington Park Press, 1993.
Klein explores bisexualitiy and deconstructs the cultural myths and stereotypes about bisexuals.

Kenneth Lewes, Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality, Jason Aronson Inc., 1995.
Lews gives an account how psychoanalysis from Freud to the neo-Freudians have distorted the
understanding of male homosexuality. He illustrates how insensitive and intolerant clinicians have
been.

Frank Lewins, Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male to Female Transsexuas, Paul &
Company, 1995.
Lewins challenges current medical and feminist critique of transsexualism. He argues for a widening
psychosexual identities.

John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation, New York, Oxford
University Press, 1988.
Money explores the historical, cultural, and physiological influences that determine sexual orientation.

Stephen F. Morin & Kenneth A. Charles, "Heterosexual Bias in Pschotherapy," in Bias in
Psychotherapy, ed. by Joan Murray & Paul Abramson, New York, Praeger, 1983, pp. 309-338.
A good critique of heterosexual bias in psychotherapy.

Charlotte Patterson & Anthony R. D'Augelli (ed), Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Identities over the
Lifespan: Psychological Perspectives, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995.
This anthology looks at the pyschological issues confronting lesbigay identities.

John A. Struzzo, "Pastoral Counseling and Homosexuality," in Homosexuality and Religion, ed. by
Richard Hasbany, Harrington Park Press, 1989, pp. 195-221.
Struzzo argues that the psychological tradition has been heterosexist and homophobic. Struzzo
maintains that a transpersonal model of pastoral counseling, integrated with creation spirituality, can
be sensistive to the specific needs of gays/lesbians.

Heather Wishik & Carol Pierce, Sexual Orientaton and Identity: Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and
Bisexual Journeys, New Dynamic Publications, 1995.
This presents the latest information about the emergence of sexual orientation, identity, and gender
and how it affects individual, organizational, and community behavior.