Gender Blending includes essays on transvestism (cross-dressing), gender heresy, androgyny, religion and the cross-dresser, transgender healthcare, free expression, sex change surgery, loving transvestites, gender blending in literature, virtual gender, counseling and treatment, the law and transsexuals, and much more.

"For every woman who burned her bra, there is a man ready to wear one," says Veronica Vera, who founded Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls in 1992 as a resource for the estimated 3 to 5 percent of the adult male population who feel the need, at least occasionally, to dress in women's clothing. . Miss V. enlightens us on topics including body hair, body building, and creating a herstory, as well as walking in high heels and taking that biggest step of all - going out in the real world, all dressed up

This volume combines interviews and photographs to document the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents and their children. It allows all of the family members to speak candidly about their lives, their relationships, and the ways in which they have dealt with the pressures of homophobia. Included in the book are people from diverse racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds, representing a wide range of family structures.

Their lives and childhood indelibly altered and colored by their "different" family structure, they are the adult children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender parents. Compelling, unusual, sometimes painful, always candid, their stories resonate. Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents is a collection of essays written by these adult children, reflections, memories, and insights into the realities of growing up with parents who broke stereotypical sexual molds.

A Psychologist's Reflections on Life among the Transgendered

Bringing together feminism, body image, and sexual orientation, Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities hopes to convince readers that society as a whole needs to redefine our concepts of body image. By looking at body image issues among lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender people and taking differences such as race or disability into consideration, this book bridges gaps left by earlier work and provides a step toward a new focus in the future.

Most of the alphabetical entries are names of deities, spirits, and other personalities from the world's mythology that are associated with minority sexuality in some way. Others include movements, classes of beings, genres of literature, artists of all kinds, and mainstream religious figures that are discussed from a queer perspective. Well cross-referenced and topically indexed. No illustrations.

Don Kulick corrects the commonly accepted view that Brazilian transvestism is primarily about gender and gender reversal. By the end of this book, one is quite convinced that the travesti option is about sexuality, an intensely dramatized notion of heightened masculine desire. Travesti will be compelling reading for anyone interested in Brazil, sexuality, and the body

For those people just embarking on college life, Out & About most likely will make enough of an emotional connection to have a positive cost/benefit ratio. At its most basic, it gives almost anyone who is feeling like a freak the knowledge that he/she is not "the only person in the world" who feels that way

This book wasn't supposed to be a history of Joan of Arc, it's a book about how both men and womyn have been cross dressing for centuries. The Portrait Gallery is by far the best part of this book. Amazing.