Northern Illinois University

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center

Recommended Reading about Coming Out

Coming Out: An Act of Love by Rob Eichberg.  (1990).

Coming Out to Parents: A Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and their Parents by Mary V. Borhek.  (1993).

Revelations: A Collection of Gay Male Coming Out Stories by Curtis Wayne and Adrien Saks.  (1994).

The Original Coming Out Stories, Revised Edition by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe. (1989).

Testimonies: Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Karen Barber. (1994).

Coming Out Every Day: A Gay, Bisexual, or Questioning Man’s Guide by Bret K. Johnson. (1997).

Is it a Choice? Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Gays and Lesbians by Eric Marcus. (1999).

Outing yourself: How to come out as lesbian or gay to your family, friends, and coworkers by Michelangelo Signorile. (1998).

GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel. (2003).

Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell their Coming Out Stories by Patrick Merla. (1996)

A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell their Coming Out Stories by Joan Larkin. (1999).

The Gay and Lesbian Self-Esteem Book: A Guide to Loving Ourselves by Kimeron N. Hardin. (1999).

Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer. (1994).

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L. Singer. (1994).

Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and their Allies by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman. (1996).

Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends by Janice E. Rench. (1992).

Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet  by Gilbert Herdt and Andrew Boxer. (1993).

Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth by Robert E. Owens. (1998).

Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the 90s by Linnea Due. (1995).

Two Teenagers in Twenty by Ann Heron. (1995).

Trans Forming Families: Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones by Mary Boenke. (1999).

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu. (1991).

Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay and Lesbian Reader by Raymond Luczak. (1993).

Companeras: Latina Lesbians by Juanita Ramos. (1994).

De los otros: Intimacy and homosexuality among Mexican men by Joseph Carrier. (1995).

Brother to Brother: Collected Writings by Black Gay Men by Essex Hemphill. (1991).

Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Lisa C. Moore. (1997).

Q & A: Queer in Asian America by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom. (1998).

Take out: Queer writing from Asian Pacific America by Quang Yanagihara Bao and Timothy Liu. (2001).

One more river to cross: Black and gay in America by Keith Boykin. (1996).

Queer Jews by David Shneer and Caryn Aviv. (2002).

Mentsh : On Being Jewish and Queer by Angela Brown. (2004).

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