MUSCAT Plus subject search term: Gays--Legal status, laws, etc.
Highlighted Resources:
Book: The End of Straight Supremacy: Realizing Gay Liberation
Documentary: ABC News Nightline: Gay Rights, Marriage, and the Supreme Court
Online Resource: Human Rights Campaign: Map of State Laws and Policies
MUSCAT Plus subject search term: Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Highlighted Resources:
Book: Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child
Documentary: Being Gay: Coming Out in the 21st Century
Online Resource: RU Coming Out
MUSCAT Plus subject search term: Homophobia and heterosexism
Highlighted Resources:
Book: Homophobia: A History
Online Resources: The Anti-Defamation League's efforts on behalf of LGBTQ individuals
UnderstandingPrejudice.org has a number of links to other useful
resources
MUSCAT Plus subject search terms: Homosexuality and education, Gender identity in education
Highlighted Resources:
Books: Acting Out! Combating Homophobia through Teacher Activism
Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators (It may have been published in 1998, but this is one of the most comprehensive and inclusive titles in our collection.)
Documentary: From the Hallowed Halls of Ivy: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Students Speak Out About their Lives on Campus (Written, directed, and produced by a Gettysburg College faculty member!)
Online Resources: The Point Foundation
MUSCAT Plus subject search terms: Gay youth, Older sexual minorities
Highlighted Resources:
Books: Queer Youth Cultures
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging: Research and Clinical Perspectives
Documentary: Bullied: A Student, a School, and a Case that Made History
Online Resource: The Trevor Project
National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
Just for fun: Gettysburg College's very own It Gets Better video! (Created spring semester 2012 and posted by GBurg TV)
MUSCAT Plus subject search term: Same-sex marriage
Highlighted Resources:
Book: Gay Marriage: Why it is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
Documentary: Tying the Knot
Online Resource: Freedom to Marry
Just for Fun: Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall
MUSCAT Plus subject search term: Sexual minorities--Family relationships
Highlighted Resources:
Book: Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle
Documentary: This is Family
Online Resource: PFLAG
MUSCAT Plus subject search term: Gays--Employment
Highlighted Resources:
Book: Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights
Documentary: Out at Work: A Documentary
Online Resource: ACLU Map of Employment Non-Discrimination Laws
Gettysburg's Employee Standards of Conduct and commitment to a harrassment and discrimination-free workplace can be found here. (Sexual orientation and gender identity are protected categories: see Section II)
MUSCAT Plus subject search term: Gays in the military
Highlighted Resources:
Book: Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
Documentary: Ask Not
Online Resource: Military.com news articles on the topic
Just for fun: Here's what Admiral Percy Fitzwallace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs from the TV show The West Wing has to say about LGBT service in the military (starts at 1:21 and ends at 2:07). To read the quotation, go here (from the episode "Let Bartlett be Bartlett").
