Pathfinder About Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents

Pathfinder About Children of Lesbian and Gay parents

Intended Audience:

Adult or young adult children of Lesbian and Gay parents. Educators, therapists and counselors working with children of Lesbian and Gay parents. Researchers or people interested in this population. Young people who are coming out and thinking about their future families. Parents of lesbian and gay adults (or young adults) who are wondering about their kids future.

Purpose:

This list of sources is intended to jumpstart your research on the subject of children of Lesbian and Gay parents. It is not a comprehensive bibliography, nor is it all inclusive. There are many other sources of information and interest about this topic. While this pathfinder is written to work specifically in the Pioneer Valley Five College library system, citations and names, etc. may still be helpful to those using other libraries.

This topic made the lead article in the Sunday New York Times this week! See: Growing Up With Mom & Mom

URL: http://web.lexis-nexis.com. Use the Guided News Search for Lexis-Nexis

Step One: Select a news category, choose 'General News'.
Step Two: Select a news source. Choose 'major papers'.
step three: Enter Search terms 'mom & mom'.
Choose date: October 24, 2004
Step Five: Search this publication title(s): type in 'New York Times'.
The article is the second one in the list.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Use this list as a guide to locate resources on Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents.

Children of gay parents
Lesbian mothers
Gay fathers
Gay parents'
Children of Gay parents
Children of Lesbians

Google directory searches

The nice thing about Google Directory is that you can search Google more efficiently by organizing the web by topic into categories. Pages are also ranked by importance, which is especially useful.

Children of GLBT Parents Society > Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual > Family and Relationships > Children of GLBT Parents
Parenting Society > Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual > Family and Relationships > Parenting

Websites:

COLAGE.org “COLAGE is the only national and international organization in the world specifically supporting young people with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents from the COLAGE.org website statement of purpose.
Research hints from COLAGE.org

COLAGE bibliography

The National Association of School Psychologists Resources for Gay/Lesbian Parents and their children
The National Association of School Psychologists "effective partners in the commitment to help school children and youth achieve their best. In school. At home. In life."

Resources from the Four college library and the University of Massachusetts

Books:

Garner, Abigail. Families like mine: children of gay parents tell it like it is.

SC/Neilson HQ777.8 .G37 2004
AC/Main HQ777.8 .G37 2004

Casper, Virginia. Gay parents/straight schools: building communication and trust.

SC/Neilson LC5159.7.U6 C37 1999.

Kaeser, Gigi. Love makes a family : portraits of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents and their families / photographs by Gigi Kaeser.

MH/Main HQ76.13 .K34 1999
SC/Science HQ76.13 .K34 1999
AC/Main HQ76.13 .K34 1999

Saffron, Lisa. What about the Children : sons and daughters of lesbian and gay parents talk about their lives.

AC/Main HQ777.8 .S34 1996

Videos:

In the best interests of the children [videorecording]; produced by Iris Films/Iris Feminist Collective, Inc.
This video is in the catalog, but it does not have a call number. It is in the pathfinder because it is an important part of the collection.
Daughters of Dykes [videorecording] / a videotape by Amilca Palmer with Tania Kirkman ... [et al.]

SC/Neil Video HQ75.53 .D38, 1994

Our house [videorecording] : a very real documentary about kids of gay and lesbian parents / produced and directed by Meema Spadola

UM/Media V 1884 UM/Media V 2333

Articles:

Gay and Lesbian Parents by Dr. Benjamin Spock