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Browse the categories below for bibliographies that may be of interest:
- General bibliographies
- Relationships, Intimacy, and Sexuality (references for same-sex relationships and relationships in general)
- Resolving Sexual Orientation, Religious, & Social Conflicts (includes questions regarding changing sexual orientation, integrating religion/spirituality with being LGBT, identity exploration & development, bisexuality, scientific references on nature vs. nurture, "coming out," LGBTQ youth, LGBT families, and mixed-orientation relationships; also, a link to NPR's episode from This American Life on the story of how the American Psychiatric Association resolved in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness)
- Dealing with Anti-LGBT Politics
- Health & Wellness
- Transgender & Intersex Issues
- LGBT Aging
- LGBT Movies
- Specific for Therapists
If you have any books, movies, or other resources you would like to recommend on the site, contact Lee Beckstead. If you have any concerns about any of these books, movies, and references, let Lee know.
Click here for Guild Media Activities (including the letter written to the LDS church)
General Bibliographies
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Relationships, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Resolving Sexual Orientation, Religious, & Social Conflicts
- Click here to listen to the excellent episode from The National Public Radio's This American Life on the story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness. Click here also for a short video on those historical events.
- Click here to read Robert A Rees' review of In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction. For more information, click Affirmation's site here.
- The American Psychological Association published a Resolution and comprehensive Report regarding the research on changing sexual orientation. Click here for more information, here for the Resolution and here for the full Report.
- Bibliography on Resolving Sexual Orientation, Religious, and Social Conflicts has info on if changing sexual orientation is possible, variety of ways to look at being religious/spiritual and LGBT, general references on spirituality and health, recent articles on the biological correlates of sexual orientation, parents of LGBT children, issues for LGBT and questioning youth, heterosexually married homosexuals/bisexuals, & LGBT parents and their children (updated 11/11).
- Presentation by Lee Beckstead: Resolving Sexual, Religious, & Social Conflicts (presented at the Mormon Stories/Open Stories Foundation Conference 11/05/11)
- The Human Rights Campaign has an excellent booklet on the benefits, risks, how-to, and when-to of "coming out"
- Huffington Post Article: Rev Janet Edwards responds to the top 5 questions asked by opponents of LGBT inclusion (9/11).
- Soulforce has a solid list of booklets and books about homosexuality, religion, science, and politics. For example, see What the Science Says, And Doesn't Say - About Homosexuality
- Bibliography about Managing Social Identities (includes info on identity exploration & development; ethnic/racial identities; bisexuality; other social identity conflicts; and issues of "coming out," such as managing disclosure and developing a positive sexual orientation identity) (updated 09/11)
- Resource written by LDS Reconciliation regarding What We Wish We Had Known
- The Guild's Response to LDS Leader's Fall 2010 Conference Talk
- When did you choose to be straight?
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Dealing with Anti-LGBT Politics
Three research articles from APA were published involving the emotional and mental effects of dealing with stress related to anti-LGBT marriage legislation (the articles discuss positive ways of coping):
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Health & Wellness
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Transgender & Intersex References
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Aging
- Bibliography from the American Psychological Association's Division 44 Task Force on LGBT Aging (updated 11/08)
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LGBT Movies
- LGBTQ Movies: A list of films that explore and illustrate important themes about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning individuals, their lives, and their relationships (updated 11/11).
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Specific for Therapists
- Click here for American Psychological Association's (APA) bibliography for LGBT concerns
- Check out the resources from the Association for GLB Issues in Counseling: Psychologists Affirming their LGBT Family
- References Specific for Therapists (updated 08/11)
- The Utah Pride Center is offering training to develop LGBTQ Cultural Competency. Click here for more information.
- GayLesTA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, Psychotherapists Association of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area
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The Guild, Social Activism, & Media
As part of the Guild's mission to improve LGBT mental-health services, it is dedicated to social activism and speaks out to inform the public of accurate information regarding sexual and gender minorities. This section lists the public activities and press releases it has been involved in:
- Robin Tracy, LPC, was on Radio X96's program, "Ask a..." where she skillfully and accurately answered important questions related to LGBTQ issues (1/07/10). Click here for the podcast.
- RadioActive, a program of KRCL, had BYU biology professor Bill Bradshaw and psychologist Lee Beckstead on their program (11/16/10) to discuss "Born that Gay?" Click here for the podcast.
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Therapist Guild of Utah, Salt Lake City
Page Last Modified November 20, 2011. Contact Lee Beckstead for Web comments and info.
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