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Tables of Contents for Our Families, Our Values
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
About the Editors
x
1
Contributors
xi
6
Preface
xvii
4
Acknowledgments
xxi
SECTION I. CHALLENGING PROCREATIVE PRIVILEGE
1
76
Chapter 1. Queering Procreative Privilege: Coming Out as Families
3
18
Robert E. Goss
Chapter 2. Queer Culture and Sexuality as a Virtue of Hospitality
21
14
Nancy L. Wilson
Chapter 3. The Concubine and the Eunuch: Queering Up the Breeder's Bible
35
16
Victoria S. Kolakowski
Chapter 4. The Book of Ruth: An Example of Procreative Strategies for Queers
51
10
Mona West
Chapter 5. Christmas, Sex, Longing, and God: Toward a Spirituality of Desire
61
16
Michael Bernard Kelly
SECTION II. FAMILIES OF CHOICE
77
174
Chapter 6. The Power to Choose: We're Here, We're Queer, and We Want to Get Hitched
79
18
Amy Adams Squire Strongheart
Chapter 7. Variety Is the Spice of Life: Doing It Our Ways
97
10
Mary E. Hunt
Chapter 8. The Transforming Power of Queer Love
107
8
Brad Wishon
Chapter 9. Together on the Path: Gay Relationships in a Buddhist Context
115
14
Michael J. Sweet
Chapter 10. "With This Ring You Are Made Holy unto Me According to the Laws of Moses": Celebrating and Sanctifying Lesbian and Gay Relationships and Families
129
8
Susan Talve
Chapter 11. A Family Friend: Paul's Letter to the Romans as a Source of Affirmation for Queers and Their Families
137
14
Thomas Hanks
Chapter 12. Dancing Bears, Performing Husbands, and the Tyranny of the Family
151
12
Eric Rofes
Chapter 13. Just a Perfect Blendship: Friendship and Sexuality
163
18
Elizabeth Stuart
Chapter 14. Making Love for the Whole World to Feel: Four Erotic Rituals for Gay Men
181
16
Joseph Kramer
Chapter 15. "Where Two or More Are Gathered": Using Gay Communities as a Model for Christian Sexual Ethics
197
20
Kathy Rudy
Chapter 16. What Will We Teach the Children?
217
10
Singing Cow
Sonia-Ivette Roman
Chapter 17. Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings
227
16
Leng Leroy Lim
Chapter 18. We Are Not Your Hope for the Future: Being an Interracial Lesbian Family Living in the Present
243
8
Mary L. Foulke
Renee L. Hill
SECTION III. RELATIONSHIPS: TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
251
36
Chapter 19. Spirituality and Gay Male Couples: Living in the Context of HIV AIDS
253
16
Richard P. Hardy
Chapter 20. Letting Go: A View of Grief in Process (Finding My Way Back to Me)
269
18
Jane Adams Spahr
Index
287