TY - BOOK AU - Goss,Robert AU - Strongheart,Amy Adams Squire TI - Our families, our values: snapshots of queer kinship SN - 0789002345 AV - HQ76.3.U5 O93 1997 U1 - 306.84/8 21 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Harrington Park Press KW - Gay couples KW - United States KW - Lesbian couples KW - Gay men KW - Family relationships KW - Lesbians N1 - 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 UR - https://archive.org/details/ourfamiliesourva0000unse ER -