Our families, our values : snapshots of queer kinship / Robert E. Goss, Amy Adams Squire Strongheart, editors.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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