Our families, our values : snapshots of queer kinship /

Our families, our values : snapshots of queer kinship / Robert E. Goss, Amy Adams Squire Strongheart, editors. - New York : Harrington Park Press, c1997. - xxi, 290 p. ; 22 cm. - Haworth gay & lesbian studies .

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. x-xvi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Queering procreative privilege: coming out as families / Queer culture and sexuality as a virtue of hospitality / The concubine and the eunuch: queering up the breeder's bible / The Book of Ruth: an example of procreative strategies for queers / Christmas, sex, longing, and God: toward a spirituality of desire / The power to choose: we're here, we're queer, and we want to get hitched / Variety is the spice of life: doing it our ways / The transforming power of queer love / Together on the path: gay relationships in a Buddhist context / "With this ring you are made holy unto me according to the laws of Moses": celebrating and sanctifying lesbian and gay relationships and families / A family friend: Paul's letter to the Romans as a source of affirmation for queers and their families / Dancing bears, performing husbands, and the tyranny of the family / Just a perfect blendship: friendship and sexuality / Making love for the whole world to feel: four erotic rituals for gay men / "Where two or more are gathered": using gay communities as a model for Christian sexual ethics / What will we teach the children? / Webs of betrayal, webs of blessing / We are not your hope for the future: being an interracial lesbian family living in the present / Spirituality and gay male couples: living in the context of HIV/AIDS / Letting go: a view of grief in process (finding my way back to me) / Robert E. Goss -- Nancy L. Wilson -- Victoria S. Kolakowski -- Mona West -- Michael Bernard Kelly -- Amy Adams Squire Strongheart -- Mary E. Hunt -- Brad Wishon -- Michael J. Sweet -- Susan Talve -- Thomas Hanks -- Eric Rofes -- Elizabeth Stuart -- Joseph Kramer -- Kathy Rudy -- Singing Cow (Sonia-Ivette Roman) -- Leng Leroy Lim -- Mary L. Foulke, Renee L. Hill -- Richard P. Hardy -- Jane Adams Spahr.

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Gay couples--United States.
Lesbian couples--United States.
Gay men--Family relationships--United States.
Lesbians--Family relationships--United States.

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