{"id":265,"date":"2009-07-16T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:25:06","slug":"crisis-40-stories-revealing-personal-social-and-religious-pain-and-trauma-of-growing-up-gay-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/265","title":{"rendered":"Crisis:  40 Stories Revealing Personal, Social and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span><span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><em>Crisis:<span> <\/span>40 Stories Revealing the Personal,  Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America.<\/em><span> <\/span>Ed. Mitchell Gold with Mindy  Drucker.<span> <\/span>2008.<span> <\/span>369p.<span> <\/span>Greenleaf Book Group Press, $23.95.<span> <\/span>(978-1-929774-10-4).<span> <\/span>Gr. 11-12:<span> <\/span><br \/>\nComing-out stories from 40  Americans\u2014many of them activists and politicians\u2014show that attitude, not  homosexuality, is not the problem in our society.<span> T<\/span>he message is invaluable:<span> <\/span>no matter how much religion condemns  homosexuality, gays can live a happy, productive, and if they wish, religious  life.<span> <\/span>Reading this book can help  young people survive the pernicious approach taken by some religions as they  destroy kids\u2019 self-esteem.&#8211;Nel Ward<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America. Ed. Mitchell Gold with Mindy Drucker. 2008. 369p. Greenleaf Book Group Press, $23.95. (978-1-929774-10-4). Gr. 11-12: Coming-out stories from 40 Americans\u2014many of them activists and politicians\u2014show that attitude, not homosexuality, is not the problem in our society. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}